Super Eagles interim head coach, Samson Siasia, has been finally given the mandate to lead the team to Gabon for the Nations Cup finals.

This followed a truce brokered between the Nigeria Football Federation President Amaju Pinnick and the President of Nigerian Football Coaches Association, Mr. Bitrus Bewarang.

The CAF instructor said the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) President had agreed that Siasia would lead the team to Gabon next year if he secures the ticket.

It was recalled that President of the Association, Bitrus Bewarang charged at the NFF boss, Pinnick, as not being fair to Nigerian coaches who have contributed immensely to the development of game in country. He wrote in the wake of the verbal war that “the attention of the Nigeria Football Coaches Association has been drawn to a statement credited to the NFF President Amaju Pinnick that enough is enough for Nigerian coaches in the Super Eagles. We want to say as an Association that that statement from the NFF President was the most unfortunate in the present dispensation.

This statement is coming at time when the present administration is struggling to conserve the little foreign currencies that is available, that is when the NFF leadership is thinking of embarking on a jamboree of employing a foreign coach who may not be competent as those that are based here at home. Moreover, it has become very evident that the NFF finds it very difficult to fulfil all their contractual agreements with indigenous coaches whenever they are engaged, a situation they would not be the same when they employ a foreigner.

Bewarang later disclosed that both of them have buried their hatchets and agree that the assignment would be given to Siasia if he earns the ticket. “We are now asking for the cooperation of all Nigerians, coaches and stakeholders. What that meant is to beat Egypt and qualify,” he said.

“The first statement from the NFF President we think was out of anger and we think all these has been resolved, said Bewarang.