In an apparent move to reassure Nigeria's 2010 world cup bid partners Togo, Ghana and Benin of their place in the alliance, the chairman of the bid committee, Chief Segun Odegbami has declared that none of them would be left out.

Odegbami who was fielding questions yesterday in Lagos on FIFA president Sepp Blatter's comment on the country's World Cup, told Brila Sports Radio that the bid process is on track.

He wondered why Blatter should refer to Nigeria's bid as joint bid when in actual sense, it was Nigeria's bid and no other country.

"We cannot be talking about co-hosting the world cup when we have not submitted the actual bid document to FIFA"

Odegbami insisted that countries that are in alliance with Nigeria for the bid are not co-hosting with the country, but many of the strategies to actualize an Africa bid which would benefit countries in the west coast.

He stressed that Nigeria cannot drop any of its neighbours in alliance because FIFA president made a statement, adding that "no one man is capable of deciding which wins the bid except the 24 FIFA executive members"

He stressed that Nigeria is still tinkering on ways to digest the FIFA world cup bid requirement that was sent to the committee and would soon come out with ideas on how to accommodate other countries in the west coast for a real African bid.

"We want to be fully integrated with our brothers in the West Coast and this what we want to use the World cup to achieve" Odegbami said.

The bid committee boss who described Blatter's statement as misleading advised all Nigerians to support the bid as no other other country would do that for them.

He added that the foreign media that celebrated Blatter's statement has nothing at stake as the country's image abroad has suffered in the light damaging information propagated by the foreign media to suit their purpose.