Former NFF President Alhaji Sani Lulu Abdullahi has described the death of former Super Eagles Captain and Head Coach Stephen Okechukwu Keshi as a very
rude shock and great loss to not only Nigeria, but to all Africans and black race in general.
Lulu said Keshi was one of the best things that happened to Nigeria football “it may interest us to know that the revolution that Nigeria football witnessed in the earlier 1980’s started with Stephen Keshi, when he moved to Ivory Coast and then to Belguim, which later led to other Nigerian players taking their trade to the European country, which no doubt helped the faster development of our football, that made our team very strong at that period.
When he retired and took to Coaching, he did not revolutionalize the game only in Nigeria by winning the African Nations Cup as player in 1994, and also won as a Coach in 2013, he took Togo to qualify for their first and only World cup in 2006. He also made an impact in Mali as a Coach. We also saw how he was able to manage the Super Eagles team to play up to the second round at the 2014 World cup. He is a legend of African football, and his death at this time is not what we expected, but who are we to query God. He is the omnipotent, and omnipresent. He gives and he takes when he deems fit. We should all take solace with the maximum impact that Stephen Keshi made while he lived. I mourn Stephen Keshi, and pray that God grant his soul an eternal rest” the former NFF boss concluded.