Soccer and Government

If soccer has it's own governing body then why should the president of any country interfere?  this was the case with the Nigeria national soccer team. The president of Nigeria President Goodluck Jonathan suspended the Nigeria soccer team from participating in any international matches for two years because they failed to advance in the fifa world cup competition in South Africa. If you see this as a dictatorship governing, you are right, Only in Nigeria will such ridiculous thing has been happening, where any person in the positing of authority is just so hungry to give orders with little chance to understand what exactly is going on. Since the FIFA intervened the president has reversed his other to lift the ban, Imagine if fifa kept quite? how long will we watch some nations continue to do things in the wrong way by suppressing those that has no power with their power ?