{"id":136784,"date":"2019-07-18T19:58:36","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T18:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=136784"},"modified":"2019-07-18T19:59:36","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T18:59:36","slug":"pinnick-reacts-to-removal-as-caf-vice-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=136784","title":{"rendered":"Pinnick reacts to removal as CAF Vice President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/BREAKING-Court-orders-arrest-of-NFF-President-Amaju-Pinnick-four-others.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">President of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, Amaju Pinnick, has reacted to his removal as the Confederation of African Football, CAF, 1st Vice President.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST reports that Pinnick was removed from the position during the body\u2019s Executive Committee meeting in Cairo, Egypt, on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Pinnick, reacting said his tenure had been an excellent opportunity to serve as the number two football administrator in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>He also congratulated the new vice presidents on their assumption of their new roles, NAN reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy commitment to the game is perpetual while my support for my colleagues in the Executive Committee remains steadfast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI congratulate Omari, Lekjaa and Danny on the assumption of their new roles as 1st, 2nd and 3rd Vice CAF Presidents respectively,\u201d Pinnick said.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, Amaju Pinnick, has reacted to his removal as the Confederation of African Football, CAF, 1st Vice President. DAILY POST reports that Pinnick was removed from the position during the body\u2019s Executive Committee meeting in Cairo, Egypt, on Thursday. Pinnick, reacting said his tenure had been an excellent opportunity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":131749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[5060,8496],"class_list":["post-136784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-amaju-pinnick","tag-caf"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/131749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}