NFF president Amaju Pinnick said he desired to continue in office by reelection in order to raise the standard of the game in Nigeria and make it financially independent of the government.
Pinnick’s first tenure of four years will come to an end in September with fresh elections into the NFF executive committee in Katsina.
The NFF boss said he believes he had done enough to be elected for a second four-year tenure.
“I’m in CAF, I’m on the FIFA organising committee and will even work for FIFA in Saint Petersburg,” he said on a television interview programme monitored by SCORENigeria.
“There have been more than ten pluses for Nigeria with me in CAF, and some things are better not said.”
He also spoke on the marketing drive which he claimed has made NFF closer to being financially independent of government funding.
“We are now 60% (self-sufficient), and only 40% remains before we will tell the government to hands off financing us,” Pinnick said.
