Late Keshi’s Dirty Deals Forced Us Out Of Super Eagles, Say Taiye Taiwo, Obasi ; Amokachi Calls Them Hypocrites

By Akinwale Kasali

Former Super Eagles and Olympique Marseille Football Club left back, Taiye Taiwo, has dropped a Bombshell.

He has indicted Late Super Eagles Coach, Stephen Okechukwu Keshi, as the major reason why he quit the National Team.

Taiwo alleged that the dirty deals of the late head coach of Nigeria’s senior men national team forced him to exit the squad.

The 35-year-old former Queens Park Rangers Football Club of England Player made his Super Eagles debut in 2004 and went on to play at three Africa Cup of Nations competitions and the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.

The former AC Milan and QPR defender scored five goals for Nigeria during his eight-year international career.

Taiwo’s last international outing for Nigeria was in February 2012 against Rwanda. He is of the Rovaniemen Palloseura. accused late Keshi of his early

“I am someone who don’t  want dirty glory, and in my life, I have never been involved in what is not clean, and that was why I packed my bags and left the Super Eagles,” Taiwo was quoted by Goal as saying.

“I can’t work or stay where I see that is dirty because I am serving a clean God, and if I am in an area that is not clean, I will have to leave the place.

“When they appointed Stephen Keshi as a coach, he was acting somehow in which I told myself that it was time for me to leave the Super Eagles.

“I packed my bags, and I told my wife and family that I can’t be involved in dirty deals.”

Taiwo’s declaration comes in the wake of the latest controversy in the Super Eagles after former Schalke 04 forward, Chinedu Obasi, disclosed that he was dropped from Keshi’s team for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil because he refused to pay a bribe to the Late Keshi.

Meanwhile, former Keshi’s assistant during the period, Daniel Amokachi, popularly known as ‘The Bull’ has reacted to Obasi’s claim.

Amokachi said: “Why come forward with such now when the man in charge is no longer alive to answer it?”

“Even look at it, this happened in 2014 and 6 years after, you are coming forward with such claims.

“Why wait until now? It does not make sense to bring such an issue when the head is no longer alive to respond to you?”

Amokachi stressed that it was an act of hypocrisy on the part of the players and are wrongly accusing the late Keshi.

He added why they refused to come forward since 2014 to say this, and asked: why now that he is late?