October 17, 2014 
President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Amaju Pinnick has said that Coach Stephen Keshi was sacked to safeguard him from the wrath of enraged Nigerian fans, who were on the brink of lynching him during Wednesday’s 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier with Sudan.
Pinnick and other NFF Executive Committee members watched with awe, as fans pelted Keshi with water bottles and stones as they demanded for the head of the 2013 AFCON winner at the Abuja National Stadium, venue of the match, which Nigeria won 3-1 to keep alive their hopes of qualifying for next year’s tournament in Morocco.
Chants of “Keshi must go:, “sack Keshi” and “we don’t want Keshi again” rented the air as fans went overdrive in their bid to get their voices heard by the NFF, who swiftly swung into action in the wee hours of yesterday by axing the former Togo and Mali coach.
And speaking when he paid a courtesy visit to the Minister of Sports and Chairman, National Sports Commission, Dr. Tamuno Danagogo yesterday, Pinnick explained the personal safety of Keshi was considered more important than anything else.
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Nonsense pple,let keshi go to where they value him much and nigeria wt their politics.
I dnt believe any of this pple,so the best way of saving him is by embarasing him in public right? No problem, now lets see hw the super eagles would come out from this mess wt the new sign worst coach,we nigerians are stupid we wont knw the important of coach keshi,until his bein sign a good contract by other countries.God bless keshi u have done ur best,cheer up a big contract await u out there.Nff have push the NSE from fryin pen to fire sorry to say.
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let him go and rest, we are done with him
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Its interesting how Nigerians are! After this guy got us the African Cup of Nations, is this the best way to pay him back? After getting us a win @ the Abuja Stadium, Nigerians are Ungrateful because we all need second chance in this life!