The Minister of Sports Development, Senator John Enoh, has accused the Libyan Football Federation of deliberately mistreating the Super Eagles in the North African country.
Players and officials were stranded for 16 hours at a Libyan airport on Sunday and denied access to food and the internet as they prepared to honour their 2025 Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, qualifier with the Mediterranean Knights.
While responding to some allegations by the Libyan side that their players were badly treated during their first encounter in Nigeria, the minister, who was speaking on a televised programme monitored by Radio Now’s Newsdesk, said the Libyan accusation was, in his own words, a dangerous afterthought.
He also said no attention was drawn to any purported ill treatment of the Libyan team when they arrived Nigeria for the first leg of the encounter.
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Minister Enoh added that Nigeria is not in the habit of creating difficult situations for its opponents with the intention of gaining an unfair advantage. According to him, the Super Eagles would rather win fair and square on the pitch.
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