A breakdown shows that each of the 23 footballers got N1 million; the Super Eagles Chief Coach, Stephen Keshi, collected N2 million; four assistant coaches received N1 million each; while 17 officials got N.5 million each.
Announcing this on Sunday, Governor Godswill O. Akpabio further donated one three-bedroom flat to Akwa Ibom State-born and Super Eagles Captain, Vincent Enyeama, for doing the state and the nation proud during the football championship.
Akpabio congratulated the Super Eagles coaches and footballers or winning the cup.
He said: “We celebrate you.
“To you the players, you are the icons.
“For the coaches, we were praying collectively for you.
“You are the future of this country.”
Akpabio, however, condemned people who ciriticise his administration for making donations to individuals, organizations and the less privileged when such are captured as grants in the yearly budgets approved by the state House of Assembly.
He said: “At this point of our existence, what should be important to Nigerians is development, unity and security challenges and not frivolous things.”
The governor, who commended the Nigerian Football Federation, Keshi and other officials for visiting Akwa Ibom State, applauded the Super Eagles for doing the country proud.
He said: “We hardly see anything to celebrate about.
“That’s why when you did the miracle you did in South Africa, you brought back the Nigerian spirit.
“You gave even a three-year Nigerian child something to celebrate by winning the cup.”
Akpabio enjoined the footballers to learn from and emulate other footballers who have made names by shunning drug addiction and drunkenness in order to be relevant in the scheme of things in the future, adding: “Now that God has given you a coach, you have to respect him and be disciplined.
“Without discipline, you cannot be successful.”
He further enjoined the footballers: “Hold unto God and call on Him always.
“It is not a tragedy when a nonentity becomes a failure.
“But it is a tragedy when a potentially achieving, young man becomes a failure on account of character flaw.
“Your victory becomes a turning point in the nation.
“The Federal Government’s transformation policy cannot be complete if the youths are not transformed.”
The President of of the NFF, Alhaji Aminu Maigari, thanked Akpabio for always supporting the Super Eagles and advised him to continue in his good work of promoting football development in the country.
Earlier, Enyeama had thanked the governor for the show of love and generosity on them and asked him to continue as an uncommon transformer.
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