Super Eagles’ maltreatment: Tinubu urges CAF to sanction Libya

President Bola Tinubu has said helium expects the Disciplinary Board of the Confederation of African Football, CAF, to behaviour a thorough probe and urge due enactment against Libya.

While welcoming the nationalist squad backmost location to Nigeria, Tinubu said the Libyan authorities wilfully violated the CAF’s statutes and regulations.

Tinubu reacted done a connection by his Special Adviser connected Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, connected Monday, a fewer hours aft the squad arrived location done Kano Airport.

Onanuga said President Tinubu, profoundly moved by the inhuman attraction endured by the Super Eagles of Nigeria astatine a Libyan airport, warmly welcomes their harmless instrumentality to Nigeria.

He confirmed that the harrowing acquisition of the nationalist shot squad astatine the hands of their hosts and the Libyan authorities prompted the Nigerian Football Federation to retreat the Super Eagles from the scheduled lucifer connected Tuesday.

“The President commends the proactive coordination betwixt the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Federal Ministry of Sports Development successful addressing the unfortunate occurrence and ensuring the harmless instrumentality of our players.

“President Tinubu applauds the players for keeping their tone live contempt the excruciating ordeal successful Libya.

“The Nigerian person recognises football’s unifying powerfulness successful bringing nations and radical unneurotic and views the attraction of our citizens arsenic unsportsmanlike and inhumane, a stark opposition to the tone of the crippled helium profoundly appreciates.

“He fervently calls connected each lovers of the round-leather crippled and administrators to unite and enactment collaboratively to forestall and flooded specified incidents successful the future,” Onanuga noted successful the statement.