The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) on Thursday rejected a Confederation of African Football decision to centralise the television and marketing rights for the qualifying tournament of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, MTNFootball.com reports.
The NFF said they cannot afford to receive a paltry $500,000, same as countries like Niger and Chad.
“The position is that we refuse to associate with the laid down resolution on the centralised TV and marketing rights for the 2014 World Cup qualifiers,” read in part a September 24 letter signed by the NFF president Aminu Maigari.
“This resolution is highly unacceptable to Nigeria and we refuse to accept it in its entirety.”
Maigari argued that there was a promise by CAF during a recent meeting in Zurich that a committee would be set up to look into the misgivings of dissenting nations and this has yet to be done.
The NFF boss informed CAF that his association has subsisting marketing and television agreements.
This will include a deal with private television station Africa Independent Television (AIT), which guarantees the NFF at least N250 million a year (about $1.7m).
CAF recently ruled that the TV and marketing rights for all qualifying matches for the 2014 World Cup in the African zone will be centralised with their marketing agents and revenue from such an arrangement will be distributed to member-nations according to a sharing formula to be decided upon.