RETIRED Nigeria international and 2002 World cup participant, Benedict Akwuegbu, has expressed his desire to contest for the post of the president of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF).
Current president of the Nigeria Football Federation, Amaju Pinnick, has made it clear he won't be running for the office again this year after spending 8 years has president of the Football body.
Former Nigerian players such as former Vice-President of the NFF Chief Rumson Victor Baribote, former Green Eagles Captain Segun Patrick Odegbami, former international goalkeeper, Peterside Idah and present Super Eagles coordinator, Patrick Paschal, are among candidates for the presidential position.
Akwuegbu who is currently an undergraduate at a university in the United Kingdom has a player is an AFCON silver medallist and 2002 World Cupper.
After retirement as a professional footballer, he formed Akwuegbu United in Imo State in 2003 and later also formed Mbaise United which later went on to represent Imo State in the national FA Cup alongside Heartlands FC of Owerri, the official Imo State team.
