A Sunday Times report has revealed that Nigeria's representative on the World Cup hosting 24-man-strong FIFA committee, Amos Adamu, offered to sell his votes in the contest to host the 2018 World Cup.
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There are strong indications that the bribery scandal involving Amos Adamu has stalled the 2018 World Cup bid process, as the Federation of International Football Association, FIFA is set to postpone the vote fixed for 2 December this year.
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There are strong indications that the bribery scandal involving Amos Adamu has stalled the 2018 World Cup bid process, as the Federation of International Football Association, FIFA is set to postpone the vote fixed for 2 December this year.
FIFA had reacted and ordered an immediate investigation into the findings of a Sunday Times undercover team, which posed as English-based lobbyists for an American consortium wanting to take the World Cup to the USA.
A report said the undercover team secured tape and film evidence of Adamu asking for £500,000, about $800,000 to be paid to him personally, to build four football pitches in Nigeria.
The report futher said that Tahiti's Reynald Temarii, President of the Oceania Football Confederation, asked for the sum of £1.5million to finance a sports academy and also boasted that Oceania had been offered between £6m and £7.5m by supporters of two unnamed bidding countries, an allegation that FIFA is probing because of the suspicion it throws on the nations competing to host the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.
A visibly disappointed FIFA President, Joseph Sepp Blatter said in a letter sent to the 24 Executive Committee members including Adamu, that the bribery scandal had had a 'very negative impact' on the world governing body.
"I am sorry to have to inform you of a very unpleasant situation, which has developed in relation to an article published in the Sunday Times titled 'World Cup votes for sale'. The information in the article has created a very negative impact on FIFA and on the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cups. Some current and former members of the Executive Committee are mentioned in the article," Blatter said in the letter.
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