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Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Yusuf Tuggar has summoned the Charge d’ Affaires of Libya to a gathering implicit the mediocre attraction meted retired to the Super Eagles squad successful the country.
DAILY POST recalls the frustrating 12-hour ordeal astatine Al Abraq International Airport successful Libya, wherever the Nigerian squad was near stranded since their accomplishment connected Sunday afternoon, condemnation has trailed the incident.
While the players complained of fatigue and frustration, the Nigerian Football Federation NFF, said its squad is backing retired of the qualifying series.
NFF successful a connection said, “Fatigued players and officials person remained nonplussed arsenic the big Libyan Football Federation failed to nonstop immoderate reception squad oregon adjacent vehicles to instrumentality the delegation members from the airdrome to their hotel, said to beryllium 3 hours distant successful Benghazi.”
But reacting to the development, Tuggar described the enactment of Libya arsenic unfortunate.
Tuggar, who was spotted astatine the Office of the Vice President, Kashim Shettima connected Monday, said, “It’s the astir unfortunate concern due to the fact that the Super Eagles flew to Libya to play a match. As you know, the Libyan squad was here, they were expected to onshore successful Uyo instead, they went and landed successful Port Harcourt, wherever they were not expected to land.
“Now our squad has gone to Libya, and someway the level gets diverted to a antithetic airport. And unfortunately, astatine that airport, determination is nary aviation fuel, due to the fact that what we person decided is they request to refuel and get out, we volition not beryllium capable to let them to continue, nary food. You know, it’s a bully happening erstwhile they landed successful Kano they really adjacent got immoderate water, immoderate cartons of h2o different adjacent h2o would person been a occupation but suffice it to accidental that we person established interaction with them. We’ve sent radical from the ngo to spell determination to correspond the mission. They are successful interaction with the delegation.
” I americium besides communicating straight with the chairman, and since past night, we’ve been connected the telephone with the chargé d’affaires due to the fact that Libya doesn’t person an Ambassador here, truthful we’re successful interaction with the chargé d’affaires, and I americium heading backmost to the Ministry now, wherever we person summoned the Libyan chargé d’affaires. This contented has to beryllium resolved arsenic rapidly arsenic possible. So we’re connected apical of the situation”.
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