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Last year bans were handed out to two Fifa members - Amos Adamu and Reynald Temarii.
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"Everybody thinks we have good players in Europe, and don't need to prepare, " Adamu told the BBC's African sport programme Fast Track.
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Mr Adamu had been tipped to take over from its Cameroonian boss.
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However Fifa ethics committee chairman Claudio Sulser explained that the decision to provisionally suspend Adamu and Temarii was "fully justified and should not be put in question".
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At present the regional front-runners are all ex-ministers: Malam Adamu Ciroma from the north, Alex Ekwueme from the south-east, and Bola Ige and Olu Falae from the south-west.
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South Africa became the first African nation to be awarded the World Cup in 2004 but Adamu has suggested that the teams did not take advantage of the notice period.
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"The teams are so haphazardly put together, " Adamu stated.
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Two executive committee members, Amos Adamu of Nigeria and Reynald Temarii of Tahiti, face a Fifa ethics committee hearing this week into the newspaper's claims that they were willing to offer their support in return for money for football projects.
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They include Theophilus Danjuma, who was once chief of army staff and is now expected to be defence minister, Bola Ige (a former state governor), Adamu Ciroma (an ex-governor of the Central Bank) and Jerry Gana (a former information minister).
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Their candidate is Adamu Ndam Njoya.
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Last month Dein, who has a network of worldwide contacts, travelled to Nigeria for the Under-17 World Cup - a competition where six Fifa executive members were in attendance - following an invitation from Fifa and Confederation of African Football member Amos Adamu.
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