₦airaland Forum

Odunayaw:
These ones are with their own hands building a case against themselves. Now they cannot claim "unforeseen circumstance" anymore

Odunayaw:
It seems you don't appraise how shitty this thing was. The delegation with the team included the NFF president and deputy governor of Edo state

JohnBullMySon:
You’re making it sound like they were kidnapped.

Anyways my point is, this is football mischief on steroids but it shouldn’t be escalated to become a sort of diplomatic row. Summoning the consulate and involving foreign affairs, isn’t good for optics, if that is something African countries even care about btw. Case closed.

JohnBullMySon:
You don’t get it. Some navigational charts have already coded them as international airports with full customs services.

When publicly available information is saying one thing and officials are saying another, in this kind of situation, it is natural to suspect foul play.

JohnBullMySon:
I think I now get where this whole animosity started from. Yes most likely they were refused any sort of clearance to fly to Uyo. Uyo airport is not an international airport so FAA won’t permit any flights from outside the country. No Customs no immigration.

If they came on a chartered plane, they could have just done the lap from port harcourt to Uyo after passing through customs.

Some of our airports erroneously labeled ‘international airport’ might have caused this problem.

daveP:
that's why the bigger blame is on them. To certify libya as safe for any other country to come go through such atmosphere is unsportsmanlike. A neutral venue wasn't even part of their deliberations before including them in the qualifiers? Mo le sepe fun Motsepe o.


On the other hand, i dunno what the score the Nigerian side on their intervention card on this matter. 17hrs of no food and water is not beans.

kennysville:
https://libyaobserver.ly/news/libyan-football-team-receives-poor-treatment-nigeria


This is the narrative being peddled in Libya. Question is who is lying? This is highly unlike Nigeria.
Why take a flight to PH for a match in UYO? What were the plans on ground to receive them? Imagine them even saying they got robbed? Useless people

lbrichman2:
They shouldn't try this please
Libya is still at war
Their citizens will just start killing our people there
The recognized Libyan government is only in charge of Benghazi and Tripoli
All the other cities are under another faction and ungoverned
If we do anyhow, they'll just kill our people straight
No be everything be joke

Odunayaw:
There you go
https://x.com/CAF_Media/status/1845834065464684613?t=_PhV9vorlW2pYIVCPOHrcQ&s=19[/quote]Hot air, I doubt anyone will be punished, I hope am proved wrong sha.

It's a highly diplomatic matter, any side that's punished will make CAF look partial and if they punish both sides, it won't make sense either as that can never be seen as a deterrent rather CAF should see it as an opportunity to strengthen its rules, especially for teams who think they can win in the boardroom and not on the pitch that's when it will make sense.

CAF should also try to monitor team arrivals at airports so as to get firsthand info themselves instead of relying on social media evidence. Africa am sorry is still backward on many matters so to assume people will always be right all the time is too much assumption. If they need to put more funds into employing people to do this monitoring they should do so for the development of the game.

lbrichman2:
Unfortunately CAF is yet to issue a statement..

M7even:
Leave all this. So when they finished the match in uyo did their plane pick them from uyo port or they still traveled back to ph. if they traveled back to ph and under what circumstances, was there proper security and logistics.

It's a case of do me I do you. But they underestimated the power of Nigerian cry. For a country that has been plagued with many years of civil war, whatever goal they have for international acceptance as a peaceful and progressive society have been scruffled by Nigeria's social media power

Kog45:
It was a very different scenario…..at home the curator forgot the shorts and compare to a place you are held hostage

Kog45:
Pls go and read about Stephen Keshi….Keshi single-handedly sacked very strong Alex Akinyemi as Sports minister….cutting tracksuits was to safe the country from CAF hammer,not that they are lily livery.

Kog45:
Thank God the boys are coming back home safely…..Ekong did yeoman job and kudos to him for leading the team very well but my man Goke7,are you saying Christian Chuckwu,Stephen Keshi and Sunday Oliseh of old eagles would have played the match and even beg NFF? capital NO…..Keshi especially always supports his colleagues in any situation and Nigeria appreciated him more for that….In this situation,I don’t see any captains that would tell his colleagues to go ahead with the game

Danielnino00:
Kenyans are saying the same thing about how we treated them in 2013...
I understand that mistakes can happen when it comes to things like this, but I doubt we ever intentionally do it..
The Libyans are doing it intentionally to prove a point..

minfelix:
wetin dey pain me pass na how SouthAfricans are happily supporting Libya🙆🏼, so SA on facebook are saying “at this point, my blood is Libyan”
they are also citing that we treated them bad when they came for WCQ…omo na wa o

Odunayaw:
So Libya counted Nigerian Super Eagles as a NPFL club to be messed with!

Woe to the ones who brought the idea, to the ones who crafted the plan, to the ones who carried it out and to the ones who supported it.

Exceeding woe to those in authority who do nothing about it

"Nigeria treated Libya badly"

But look at the Bus we gave them to transport their players. Let's talk intelligently abeg pic.twitter.com/wNEnzmUVKl

— Dami’ Adenuga (@DAMIADENUGA) October 14, 2024

M7even:
Why should they make arrangements public. Relax you really need to understand security management. That's not how things work. Recently a super sport staff was killed, and you saying logistics should be given to the public. I guess you are not experienced when it comes to such

TheSuperNerd:
I wish I could send my expression in a Voice note right now.

What you will hear it..."Abeg, when 2022 WC ticket was on the line, did we maltreat Ghana, our bitter rivals? We lost that ticket. When Afcon final in 2000 vs Cameroun happened? We hold them captive for airport say dem no go commot? So who in the bloody hell is Libya in football and what threat do they even pose to us football-wise for us to mete out, on purpose, maltreatments and unpleasant welcomes? We no do am for Ghana or Cameroun so who be Libya abeg?"

Honestly the more these questions come, the more I am baffled. The more I find it laughable to even think of a premise for us to maltreat a team dead last in our group.

ekehopp2:
CAF decision will likely be a Libya fine, maybe hosting match ban, and match reschedule at a neutral venue.
We'll now have to play 3 matches in the November FIFA window.

Sad all around.
But knocks to the NFF leadership for the poor treatment of the Libyans that warranted all this.

charlesemeka85:
even if they sanction the team frm playing in the next afcon I don’t fucking care

The can go to hell with their afcon

lbrichman2:
Shame on them
But I'm more concerned with what CAF will do
They'll reluctantly sanction Libya I know, but mostly to safe face, because of how the matter has escalated internationally

Imagine motsepe begging for us to still play the match

TheSuperNerd:
What is worse than Libya's horror show is some Nigerians taking their side in the matter saying they are justified because Nigeria treated them badly first.

I have done my checks and even the issue of Libya's arrival in PH and hide and seek games was discussed in the media by Ademola Olajire, NFF Head of Communications. Toyin Ibitoye (former Super Eagles Media Officer) anchored that News Central show.

The Libyans were being difficult and pushed a false narrative manipulatively with pictures which are actually a result of their own decisions, refusal to communicate and refusal to accept help from the NFF with respect to reaching Uyo.

semid4lyfe:
Guy, with the virality of this issue and the way the news outlets and prominent and influential peeps around the world are posting about it, the presidency is already involved.

Right now, calls are being made. Phones are being banged. People who are directly and indirectly involved are on their toes and all buttons are being pressed trying to find a resolution to this issue.

NFf
Sports Ministry
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Foreign embassies

This issue has international dimensions with our foreign-based players who are employees of foreign clubs with some being dual citizens.

A lot is going on behind the scenes., trust me.

We are "outsiders" and its unfair to assume that the presidency is not involved at this point.

TheSuperNerd:
Meanwhile reports from some higher ups are saying they are doing what they can to sanction some movements into the location of the players but their efforts are being botched by the Libyan authorities.

Humility33, perhaps you should free Gusau and Enoh on this one. They are doing all they can and some action steps are already being taken.

The NFF is incompetent in other areas, yes but not in this matter. I understand he (NFF president) is on ground with them and the head of the Nigerian community in Benghazi had to come all the way to where they are at the airport to help them with WiFi and other stuffs. Omo... it is crazy out there.

lbrichman2:
They need to be allowed to leave the airport first

JayromWrites:
E be like you never sleep for bench before. Diplomacy keh

lbrichman2:
Till now