Amodu Shuaibu

The former coach of the Golden Eaglets, Godwin Izilein has described the death of the Technical Director of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amodu Shuaibu as a misery to him.

Izilein who said he was with him until at about 9pm on Friday, said they had promised to meet again by 10 Saturday morning.

Weeping, Izilein said, “I don’t just know what is happening anymore. We were together last night and he complained of nothing.

“He was hale and healthy. I got him a driver and he was happy with it. I even went with him to the commissioner of police office to sort sort out some family issues last night.

“He only said he was hungry and I told him to go home to eat while I also went home. It was then we agreed to meet again this morning with the driver I got for him.

“I was awakened this morning with a call from his brother that he didn’t know what was happening to Amodu.

“I rushed to Central Hospital and searched all the wards but found him no where only for me to be told his lifeless body was in the morgue of Stella Obasanjo Hospital.

“I am in a trance, Amodu was a great guy. Seeing his body in the mortuary is a confirmation that he is gone.

“My greatest pain or fear now is what is going to happen to the family. Amodu was more than a friend,” he cried.

Meanwhile, a cousin of the deceased who is also the commissioner of Information in Edo, Kazeem Afegbua said Amodu died in his sleep at about 4am on Saturday.

He said Amodu who led prayers before the family went to bed last night, only complained of chest pain.

He said a doctor was called to the house to check him, “he was checked and satisfied okay and they all went to bed.

“He was actually a BP patient and his BP last night when the doctor checked was 140/100. The doctor only warned him to stop fasting.

“After the prayers, he went to bed but asked that he be awakened at 4 a.m to prepare for the fast.

“It was around 4 they tried to wake him to prepare for the muslim fasting. That was all. He didn’t wake up,” he said.

Amodu will be taken for burial at Okpella this morning according to Muslim doctrine.