A former member of FIFA’s technical study group and CAF technical committee, Adegboye Onigbinde, does not see an end to the problems of the Nigeria Football Federation despite the impeachment of its president, Aminu Maigari, on Thursday.

The NFF Executive Committee passed a vote of no confidence on Maigari on grounds of financial misappropriation, misapplication and maladministration, and mandated its First Vice-Chairman, Mike Umeh, to act as Chairman pending new elections.

But while Onigbinde agrees Maigari’s removal will not incur the wrath of FIFA, as it did a fortnight ago, he believes the leadership problem will rear up again in the future.

Maigari becomes the second NFF president to be impeached after Sani Lulu suffered a similar fate in 2010.

“This is not the end of the story. I foresee another ugly development in the NFF sooner or later. Removing Maigari is just a reflection of the poor structure of Nigerian football,” the former Super Eagles coach told our correspondent on the telephone on Thursday.

“The only positive thing about this is that he was removed by the NFF executives, so there’s no need to fear any backlash from FIFA. But this has shown that we’re far from getting it right with Nigerian football.”

Onigbinde said inasmuch as there was no government interference in Maigari’s removal, the government was indirectly involved because the members of the NFF board were appointees from state-owned clubs.

“The only way to ensure this kind of problem doesn’t come up again is to completely privatise the clubs; completely reduce government influence in the clubs,” he said.

“Maigari somehow encouraged the inappropriateness in the NFF. He was leading the NFF from behind. Sometimes he didn’t know what his assistants were doing.

“I remember I spoke with him during the CHAN tournament in South Africa , and I asked why the domestic leagues were suspended due to the CHAN. He told me he didn’t know the leagues were suspended, and obviously he didn’t approve it.

“He also didn’t know how the technical committee were meeting, especially when they met on several occasions without including me, who was a member, and some other members.”