How teams qualify for the CAF Women's Champions League.
There are 6 African sub-confederations (West Africa has been divided into 2). Each sub-confederation will provide one club and the 6 clubs are usually joined by the host and the defending champions to create an 8 team Champions League competition. TP Mazembe of DR Congo are defending champions. Algeria will host this year's competition.
The 6 sub-confederations are:
1) Union of North African Football (UNAF)
2) West African Football Union (WAFU) Zone A
3) West African Football Union (WAFU) Zone B
4) Union des Fédérations de Football d'Afrique Centrale (UNIFFAC)
5) Council for East and Central Africa Football Associations (CECAFA)
6) Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (COSAFA)
WAFU B CAF Women’s Champions League: Bayelsa Queens Crush Sam Nelly to Book Semi-Final Spot Against USFA
By Olusola Adebayo - August 30, 2025
Nigeria’s Bayelsa Queens delivered a commanding performance on Friday, thrashing Sam Nelly FC of Benin Republic 4-1 to secure a place in the semi-finals of the WAFU B CAF Women’s Champions League qualifiers.
The Prosperity Girls were ruthless in attack, with Seimeyeha Akekoromowei starring as the hero of the night.
The forward struck twice in the 14th and 59th minutes to earn the Player of the Match award.
Shakirat Moshood added her name to the scoresheet in the 35th minute, while Alaba Olabiyi sealed the win with a fine effort in the 55th minute.
Sam Nelly’s only consolation came through Kalu Favour in the 44th minute.
With the emphatic victory, Bayelsa Queens finished their group campaign with a perfect record and will now face Burkina Faso’s USFA in the semi-finals.
The stakes remain high, as only the eventual winner of the WAFU B competition will qualify for the 2025 CAF Women’s Champions League later this year.
Jeffrey Uzoma (Channels TV) : Alright Mr. Adeyanju, I'm happy you've posited that there's a sprinkle of that extremism across board. You've mentioned Buhari, you've mentioned things around the APC, you've mentioned things about Peter, but. . .
(Deji tries to interrupt him)
Comrade Deji Adeyanju: So, because we've had a sprinkle, we should continue to tolerate political extremism?
Jeffrey Uzoma (Channels TV) : Just just a moment. Just just a moment. Just a moment. No, no, no. Just a moment. I'm going I'm going somewhere political. Mr. Adeyanju, I'm going somewhere.
Everybody knows your antecedent. I don't think that that is not in public domain. So, let's speak to it. And that has to do with the fact that with the route you're going in terms of the, is it fire for fire or response for response, isn't you isn't yourself now descending to the same space or the same pedestal or the same bottom of that cliff that you're trying to say people should not descend to with the action you're taking already, if you get my drift.
Comrade Deji Adeyanju: You see if Peter does not want to be criticized he should go back to his house and be eating jollof rice. Anyone who puts himself up for public office must be criticized, must be scrutinized, must be insulted. Anybody who feels too big to be criticized or too big to be insulted, and it is his mentality that his aides and his Obidient mob. . .that is the same mentality they have that, "Oh our candidate cannot be criticized, but Tinubu can be called a drug lord, Atiku can be called a looter, a thief, but our candidate cannot be criticized". Supreme Court judges can be named and shamed, Court of Appeal judges can be intimidated and criticized and even said they should go and lynch their children. You understand? But our candidate, oh, we draw the line when our candidate is involved.
So this is the political hypocrisy of this political extremist that we must never allow in our polity. We saw it under the Buharists. They didn't want anybody to criticize or analyze their candidate. And it is the same thing. Mr. Peter was the one that put himself up to be president. If he doesn't want me to, I'm not insulting any Obidient. I'm not insulting anybody. It is the man that has put himself up for president I'm analyzing. I'm saying that, oh as governor you did this. You went around churches in this country to go and say church should take back their country. You spoke with bishop and said that the election is a religious war, therefore you are religious bigot. There's nothing I'm saying that is not in public domain. There's nothing I'm saying or there's nothing I've said or the things I've said. The only thing else that I forgot to say is that he's a political prostitute which I've now added. So, he should add it to the suit.
Kayode Okikiolu (Channels TV) : Well, Mr. Adeyanju, you are a lawyer. I know you've, if you can hear me, you are a lawyer. I know you've had to respond to people who said, "Yeah, just two years at the bar." They've called you "baby lawyer" in that sense. But hey, you've been speaking at the NBA.
(Deji interrupts)
Comrade Deji Adeyanju: And it is within their right. It is within their right to insult me and to criticize me. It is within their right, okay, because I'm in the public.
Kayode Okikiolu (Channels TV) : There you go. But that's not where I'm going to. I just want to posit that you're a lawyer and you know how weighty some of these words are. If you go to the page two of the letter written to you, you used words like fraud. You use that to describe Mr. Peter Obi. I mean you use the other. . .
(Deji interrupts again)
Comrade Deji Adeyanju: And I've repeated it here. I say it's a political fraud.
Kayode Okikiolu (Channels TV) : But I'm not done. You've used you've used terms like thief in the post on X, even scum and the rest. I mean aside the fact that you're a lawyer, a lot of people see you as a gentleman and I mean there are ways you can approach these issues without using those words. Why? On those same spaces on social media there are young Nigerians who look up to you and they say, well I want to be like Mr. Adeyanju, but when they see you using these sort of terms, I wonder, aren't there other ways to approach this without descending into the gutter as Jeffrey said, being who you are?
Comrade Deji Adeyanju: Yeah, I didn't get that last part.
Kayode Okikiolu (Channels TV) : I said, aren't there ways to approach this without simply putting. . .
[b]Comrade Deji Adeyanju:[/b]But I understand the context of your question. Don't worry, I understand the context of your question. So, simply put, very simple, every. .. everything I've said is directed at Mr. Obi, everything I've said and if you look at how the conversation started, I was not the one who initiated the criticisms. All I did was I criticized him. I said, "Why should you be in Egypt when you have an election in to win?" And and they came at me and I said I will never respond or criticize or insult any of them. I will crit. . . focus on criticizing their candidate and I have criticized their candidate to the best of my ability and everything I said about him is the truth and like I have said, I said truth and justification is a defense in the civil suit of defamation, there's nothing. . . look at there's no name that they've not called Atiku, the president and other people contesting for election so what. . . why should this case should be different? Why? There's no name they have not called judges in this country. There's no name that I have not been called by these people, by his mob. He is the leader of the mob because if he's not the leader of the mob, why are his close aids actively involved? The woman who defamed my wife works for him. The Serah Ibrahim lady, we wrote a letter for her to retract on Monday to her. We wrote a letter to her on Monday to retract and he wrote us a letter on Wednesday after she ran to him. So he. . . and this was one of the things we had wanted to prove and achieve that he's the one that sends them on this errand to attack people.
Jeffrey Uzoma (Channels TV) : Uh Mr. Adeyanju, that that would be a bit of a stretch. Sending them on errand, whether endorsing or not is a different kettle of fish. That's why we say you should be temperate with your words, now you're a lawyer. You're not just an activist. So, let's look at it broadly. . .
(Deji interrupts again)
Comrade Deji Adeyanju: Okay. Okay. Okay. when your aides attack people, especially your critics and you don't caution them. Look at what they did to Wole Soyinka.
(Jeffrey interrupts)
Jeffrey Uzoma (Channels TV) : No. No. No, I'm not debating the issues, I'm. . .
Comrade Deji Adeyanju: Ok if Bayo Onanuga insults Peter Obi, it is assumed that it is Tinubu that is doing it.
Jeffrey Uzoma (Channels TV) : I understand what you are saying.
Comrade Deji Adeyanju: Because Bayo Onanuga works for someone. This lady works with him! She's always. . .early in the morning, every time of the day she's with him.
Jeffrey Uzoma (Channels TV) : Just a moment. What's the name of the lady in question so that we are clear.
Comrade Deji Adeyanju: Serah Ibrahim!
Jeffrey Uzoma (Channels TV) : OK. So that we are clear.
But where I was going with my question, I was trying to say that you are a lawyer now, so there has to be that balance, so we are trying to check so that we don't go in excess.
You have a right to say what you want to say, but this is television, it's international, so.
Comrade Deji Adeyanju: And after all you have a right of reply. You can come and say the things I've said is not true.
Jeffrey Uzoma (Channels TV) : Mr Adeyanju, no problem. That's another kettle of fish.
Let's talk about the extremism in the political space as you've rightly posited. It's not just we've seen a situation in this country where politicians or supporters of politicians have carried a president's coffin, put his name on that coffin carried a coffin and put the president. . .
Comrade Deji Adeyanju: The Buharists, not supporters of. . .the Buharists. I've already mentioned them.
Jeffrey Uzoma (Channels TV) : Yes, I'm just giving a general context now. Because where I'm going to is, is there really a way to stop this because it looks like it takes turns for every political dispensation. Do you think this is a battle that is winnable?
Comrade Deji Adeyanju: Yes, I think it's a winnable battle and that is why some of us are now challenging them and saying no no no no we can't have this in our politics, too bad, that the political actors need to caution their supporters. You cannot just allow people to insult, even people on this channel's TV, Seun Okinbaloye and others have been bullied, called all sort of names, maybe because they asked some questions on interview sessions or they did not ask the questions the Obidient mob wanted them to ask and they are labeled APC supporters, that they are paid, they are insulted they are dehumanized, all kinds of things the Buharists, just like I said in my in my opener, that the Bubarists started this thing and that because they were not cautioned the Obidients now have taken it a step further and that is why I said that there is no way, the beauty of democracy, one of the tenets of democracy is that people have the right to support any candidate of their chosen. I voted Omoyele Sowore in the last election, how can I be termed an enemy of Nigeria because I voted for Omoyele Sowore? Why should I. . .why should Peter Obi's supporters not be allowed to vote Peter or Tinubu's supporters not be allowed to vote Tinubu or Atiku's supporters or Sowore's supporter or anybody else. Why should people be compelled, be forced that, "Oh you must only see things in my way, that if you don't see things in my way you are an enemy and we will deal with you accordingly".
These guys threatened me during the last election that they were going to beat me. There's nothing that. . .that is why I'm eagerly waiting for the courts. I can't even wait. I'm so excited to go to court.
Kayode Okikiolu (Channels TV) : Well, Mr. Adeyanju, as we wind down, I mean you mentioned Sarah Ibraim and it's only fair to even speak to some of the things she has said cuz there's been a lot of back and forth between you and her and you know she put up a post recently that you're a married man and you zoom into her picture for your screen saver and you post about her every day. She describes this as obsession. Are you obsessed with her? Just to speak to that.
Comrade Deji Adeyanju: Even if I were to ever be obsessed with anyone in this life, is it somebody that does errand girl for Peter that I. . . just imagine! Just imagine! Of all the people in Nigeria. I'm not obsessed with Nollywood actors, actresses. I'm not obsessed with Instagram baddies. Somebody that does errand girl for Peter, that works with Peter, that that insults people daily for a living.
Kayode Okikiolu (Channels TV) : Mr Adeyanju.
Jeffrey Uzoma (Channels TV) : Sorry Kayode. Mr Adeyanju, at the end of the day I'm sure that all of you will. . .we all get insulted, we all get called out. So, it's not just, uh, it's everywhere. Supporters of APC, PDP, Labor, everybody. We get all of that. It's part, perhaps it's part of what comes with the job as far as this this job is concerned. But in closing, before we let you go, Mr. Adeyanju, today if they take this case to court, are you also going to, have you instituted the suit against Serah already? I just wanted to be sure of that. So, I'll put the facts right cuz I wanted to know what happened.
Comrade Deji Adeyanju: We are filing this morning.
Jeffrey Uzoma (Channels TV) : Are you filing because she didn't apologise?
Comrade Deji Adeyanju: Yeah, we gave her a letter of retraction.
I've never known this lady, I didn't even know the lady existed until the day she called my wife a LovePeddler. I have never known the lady, there was no context whatsoever. I was just criticising her candidate.
Jeffrey Uzoma (Channels TV) : OK, we needed to put all the facts on the table and all the issues that brought this latest round of possible litigations that we may be witnessing in the coming days, but that's the much we can take with you. Kayode.
Kayode Okikiolu (Channels TV) : Oh yes, Mr Adeyanju, we have to thank you for your time.
The last page, by the way, of that document says you have seven days. The letter was written on the 26th of August, I don't know when you received it, so I'm guessing you have about four more days to retract it, else . . .
Comrade Deji Adeyanju: Oh, I'm so scared. Oh, I'm shaking in my pants.
Kayode Okikiolu (Channels TV) : So are you going to be retracting it because they said that this will include a claim for aggravated damages for defamation, an order of injunction and cost of legal proceedings.
Comrade Deji Adeyanju: I have doubled down. I have doubled down. I will never retract. That's why I posted it and doubled down.
Kayode Okikiolu (Channels TV) : So this is a case of you'll never turn back. It's already too late, I imagine.
Comrade Deji Adeyanju: Absolutely.
Kayode Okikiolu (Channels TV) : Mr Adeyanju, we have to thank you for your time on the program and we really hope that the political space both online and offline is less toxic cuz it doesn't do well for our democracy. Human rights activist and lawyer Mr. Deji Adeyanju, thank you for your time. Wish you the very best.
Comrade Deji Adeyanju: Thank you very much.
Kayode Okikiolu (Channels TV) : Well, we are sending an invite to those mentioned, Mr. Peter Obi, Serah Ibrahim as well, for right of reply if they so wish to take up that offer.
Kayode Okikiolu (Channels TV) : This is a matter that is hogging all the headlines particularly on social media. It's between Mr. Deji Adeyanju, a lawyer and activist and the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour party Mr. Peter Obi. Of course you have the Obidients as well in that corner.
We have joining us on the program today Mr. Deji Adeyanju himself, a human rights activist and lawyer, is live with us from our Abuja studio. Welcome to the program Mr. Deji Adeyanju.
Comrade Deji Adeyanju: Yes thank you for having me.
Kayode Okikiolu (Channels TV) : It was good to have you. So this letter dated August the 26th 2025 was posted by you. It was addressed to Mr. Deji Adeyanju, to you of course Deji Adeyanju and partners and it's titled, "Demand for retraction and apology for defamatory publications against His Excellency Mr. Peter Gregory Obi. It's about five pages or so long. So, I'm not going to go through all of that. . . all of the details in that document, but I'll just take a part of it.
It speaks to some of the posts that you made on X with your handle, @ Adeyanju Deji and this document says that you have repeatedly published false, malicious and grossly defamative statements concerning Mr. Peter Obi and they say it's calculated to injure his reputation before right-thinking members of the Nigerian public and the international community.
In fact, one of those posts says, "Peter Obi can only be president of the Obidients on social media. You see that my one vote, I will rather give it to Tinubu than the leader of the mob". In your words, "Political extremists who do not want Nigerians to criticize their presidential candidate have no place in our polity". As I said five pages long, lots of things said, but let's just start by saying this is not in court yet, so we can discuss this. What exactly is your grouse against Mr. Peter Obi and the Obidients?
Comrade Deji Adeyanju: Yes, so, in the wake up to the 2023 general election I was. . . because I'm not political. . . I'm just expressing my thoughts about how why the opposition should come together and unite against the criminal APC and roguish APC government that always rig elections, that if the opposition is divided that there's no way they can win.
I was just expressing my political thoughts and views. The idea of the Obi candidacy excited me and I said but that he needed a buy in of Atiku and Kwankwaso. I even urged Kwankwaso to deputize Obi. I urged Atiku to step down for Peter Obi, you know, and all that.
So in the process of that analysis, just expressing my views, I also said the fact that Atiku has been running for president in perpetuity, that he cannot continue to run. I was just expressing myself my views as a Nigerian.
So then Peter all of a sudden started trying to reach out to me to meet me but at that time I was out of the country. I think I was in Dubai somewhere, you know. So, but he was persistent in reaching out to me and I was avoiding him but you know I didn't want to see him because I didn't want it to look like oh because I've expressed my views which seems to be like almost in his favor, he now wants to see me and corner me to be one of his supporters, but I'm not going to, I don't want to support any politician because I'm not partisan, because some people had already started even resigning from activism ans joining him, you know, so I didn't want to join his bandwagon, but I was excited by the idea a of Peter, because of course South-East have not produced a president in a very long time except after post independence anyway.
So I was excited. So, subsequently I made some further views and this time around he was more persistent. So one of his aides, a journalist, reached out to me. So we subsequently met and I said yes. He first commended me for some of my views and all that and said that it will be exciting to work together. I said I'm not working with anybody.
So, but I now made some observations about the things that he has been accused of doing in the past. Corruption. Sahara Reporters reported a story where his staff was caught with money.
He tried to explain it but I was not satisfied.
Then I also raised the issue about. . .these issues of him using state resources in Anambra to invest in his family business. His explanation to me in his defense was that he had resigned from the company before he became a governor.
I was flabbergasted. I couldn't just wait to get up to leave the place. I'm like, how can a man that wants to be president of Nigeria not see the clear abuse, you understand, that he has abused his office to do such a thing . . .he was justifying it, he didn't see anything wrong in it. I was completely disgusted!
So eventually I didn't want to disrespect him, so I wanted to leave and then he got into, because we were like in the living room, it's like a suite, then he got into a room and said, oh please he's coming that he wants to go inside the room and he has something for me.
So he brought one envelope or something like that and said, no no this is just a small thing, it's just for coming blah blah.
I said. . . I laughed. . .I said that means you don't know me. I said and you are friends with Mimiko, former governor Mimiko and others. They are people that was close to you, you would have asked them about me. If we will do anything, it's because of conviction. It's even me that would bring out of my money and support you, you know.
So he kept saying that it's not like that, it's not what I'm thinking. I said God forbid and I left.
So, however, I I never revealed what happened to anyone.
So, I remember vividly he went to, was it Egypt, to inspect some power something at the peak of the Ekiti election when his candidate in the Labor Party was running. So I criticized, I said you should be in Ekiti and not in Egypt and I said, because you want to be president, you must go and campaign for your candidate and try to win. Then his aides, some of these young boys that surround him started insulting me, that the reason why I'm criticizing him now is because, that I was saying that he was okay, he was good, that the reason why I'm criticizing now is that I brought a proposal to him and I demanded, is it 200 million or something like that and that he turned me down. I said me! And these are his close aids! So, they started doing that.
So, I said, "Oh", because I had observed a pattern about about them that they terrorize people online, insult people, slander people, his mob, his his Obidient mob were practically uncontrollable during the last election.
So, I said, "Okay, so these people do not even want dissent or any kind of criticism of their candidate of any kind." I said, "Okay." I said I'm now going to even leave Tinubu alone and now face them because we cannot have a situation in our country or in our polity where political extremism becomes the order of the day and Nigerians are living witnesses to the things that eventually happened in the buildup to the last election.
We have never had this kind of toxic political experience aside the Buharists. After the Buharists, the Obidient mob is the most toxic political movement that we have ever witnessed in this country. They threatened Supreme Court judges, Court of Appeal judges, threatening artistes, threatened Professor Wole Soyinka, insulted everybody in this country because of Peter and so, what are the things I said?
Everything I said is true! In a a civil suit or criminal suit of defamation, justification, truth is a defense.
What are the things I said? I said he's a political fraud. That he's paraded himself as a messiah. Of course, he is a political fraud. Didn't he swear that he will never leave APGA? That any day he leaves APGA let some something something I won't want to say on TV. But he left APGA. The only thing that I forgot to say among the things that he should now add to his defamation suit is that he's a political prostitute, hobnobing. . . And look at what he said about the people that he wanted to defeat in the last election. He said they operate a structure of criminality, but today he's with them. He has one leg in PDP, they are discussing with him, another leg in ADC and he's still a member of Labour Party. Confused politician. So he should do his worst.
Jeffrey Uzoma (Channels TV) : Alright Deji, a lot has been said. We just allowed you to say some of the things and of course your position is well noted, but we may have to be moderate with our words, given that everybody you've mentioned, whether it's the APC, Peter and everybody, I know you speak without, you know, no matter whose ox is gored, but this is TV, so that we're within regulation.
But given what has been said, there was also another suit we understand, so that we establish this, I understand you have also filed a suit against one of his followers. Is that true?
Comrade Deji Adeyanju: It's his aide. It's one of his aides that's always with him. One Serah. In the build up to the election she called my wife a prostitute, that my wife. . .and he endorses these things because these are his aides. There is no way your personal aides will be attacking people, your critics, they'll be attacking them, insulting them, there's no name they didn't call me. They called me a terrorist. They called me a gun runner. They said I was the one that supplied. . . his aids, his close aids. . . That I was the one that supplied arms for gun running to Dino. What is my business with Dino?
They called me a mode. . . There's no name! They called me a blackmailer. Blackmailing who? This same Peter who cannot tolerate criticism today called Sowore a black mailer-in-chief because Sahara Reporters ran a story against him. He's a political fraud!
Comrade Deji Adeyanju: And look at, I called him a religious bigot. Of course on this station the former PDP chairman in Anambra, in his state, said he was the one that started. . . that divided and started the religious division in Anambra between the Anglicans and the Catholics. Look at what he did in the last election. Look at what he was discussing with my bishop Bishop, the yes daddy thing, calling the election a religious war, that he should be supported because the election is a religious war. He's a religious bigot! I said what I said he should do his worst.
Kayode Okikiolu (Channels TV) : Well, Mr. Adeyanju, because this platform is an international platform, let's measure our words. I know these issues will still be discussed in court. But for the purpose of this conversation, since he's not here to speak to those issues, we don't want to be seem to be, you know, insulting anybody's sensibilities. But those points you've made them time and time again on social media. I mean people who don't know you will probably be shocked but this is something you've done consistently. You're an activist and you don't seem to be afraid to say your mind.
But let's look through some of the other claims in that document that was addressed to you, because a lot of people are wondering why are you doing this? They see you in this sense demarketing Mr. Peter Obi in favor of the APC cuz that's that's what it is in that sense, cuz you actually said it clearly that, rather than vote for Mr. Peter Obi, on that first page, you said that you would rather give your vote to President Tinubu than to give it to Mr. Peter Obi. So a lot of people are asking, are you working with the APC? They always refer to your brother as well and say there's a certain Adeyanju working with government. So let's use this medium to speak to that. Are you defending the. . .or at least are you supporting the APC by demarketing Mr. Peter Obi?
Comrade Deji Adeyanju: Why will somebody like me, God forbid that I support APC, support APC for what?
Kayode Okikiolu (Channels TV) : But you said you'd rather give your vote to Mr. Tinubu.
Comrade Deji Adeyanju: I've said it that if the opposition presents Peter, I will vote Tinubu. I. . .without. . . because we cannot have a situation where people. . . a man who leads a mob that terrorizes people online, that cannot tolerate criticism, that call people all sort of. . . anybody that does not support their candidate is an enemy of Nigeria, anybody that does not support their candidate has been paid, has been compromised, is supporting the government, who. . .has Peter criticized this government like the way I've criticized? Does Peter Obi even know what democracy is? What sacrifices has he made for democracy?
Look, we have put our lives on the line for this country, for preservation of democracy at personal expense of prosecution. What kind of charges have we not faced in this country? They. . . at a time I was almost charged for terrorism. They've charged me for all kinds of offenses in this country. So what are we talking about? What what does this person know about democracy or preservation of democracy for God's sake?
What we are saying is that we must sanitize our polity. That we cannot have a country where people who terrorize others, who do not appreciate that people have the right. . . Look at what they did to Joke Silva during the election. They had artistes and Nollywood people supporting them. Nobody terrorized those people. But they terrorized that woman because . . .and other people because she decided to support Tinubu in the last election.
People have the right. I have the right. . . in the last . . .I have never voted a bad candidate in my opinion before. I have never voted a bad candidate before in my opinion. In 1999 I voted Obasanjo. In 2003 I abstained. In 2011 I voted Goodluck Jonathan. In 2015 I voted Goodluck Jonathan again against the so-called lovers of democracy who wanted Buhari. I said there's no way somebody like me can vote Buhari, a man who truncated democracy and his antecedent and I was vindicated. And I said Buhari's mob, they will suppress freedom of speech, freedom of expression. They will drive Nigeria into autocracy and militocracy. And that was what happened. I was vindicated. In 2019 Buhari didn't allow me to vote. He arrested me and locked me up in a prison in Kano because. . . I couldn't vote. In 2023, I voted Omoyele Sowore. So I have never voted a bad candidate before in my opinion, in my view and if the opposition makes a mistake of presenting Peter I will vote Tinubu, just to prevent Peter from emerging as president
(Jeffrey tries to interrupt him)
because we cannot have a nation where the leader of a mob will run our country.
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