A high-performance sports system is a deliberate, calculated, and scientific objective that can only be borne by a well-thought-out sports policy. Its absence captures Nigeria’s approach to international sports competition as unarguably unsystematic. Founded on the elements of agency theory, therefore, this study postulates that the inaction of successive Nigerian governments (the principal) to halt and reverse the recurrent “agency loss” of her national sports teams as led by their coaches (the agent) is tantamount to satisfaction or perception of “optimal performance”. Therefore, to lay the foundation for an evidence-based policy input, the present study is designed to investigate Stakeholders’ ideological preference as sports policy drivers to birth a highperformance sports system in Nigeria. Five hundred and twenty-eight conveniently sampled stakeholders: human kinetics/sports science lecturers, postgraduate students, coaches, sports journalists, and writers as well as sports sponsors/cooperate partners responded to a validated self-developed 10-item questionnaire with a five-options Likert format, r=.84. Result of the descriptive statistics of simple frequencies and mean revealed that stakeholders preferred the socialist/welfarist ideology will birth a high-performance sports system in Nigeria. Based on the findings and conclusion of this study, it is therefore recommended among others that a highperformance sports system will require a policy process that is all-inclusive, encompassing, and all-embracing by following procedures that are democratically legitimate, and not just technically competent; all actors should be involved. Sports should be regarded by the government as a public service requiring comprehensive attention.