The Super Eagles of Nigeria will not honor the reverse tie of their AFCON 2025 qualifiers against Libya after the team were held hostage at the airport for 16 hours, OwnGoalNigeria.com reports.
Libya were beaten 1-0 by Nigeria in Uyo with Lazio midfielder Fisayo Dele-Bashiru getting the lone goal late into the game. The reverse tie was billed for the Libyan city of Benghazi later today.
Responding to the decision by Nigeria to withdraw from the clash citing bad treatment at the airport upon arrival. A chieftain of the Libya Football Federation said it had no effect on the Nigerian players who were partying all through the night at the airport and not feeling the stress of what they claimed made them to boycott the game.
” They (Super Eagles players) were not feeling any stress at the airport according to what we gathered from people who were there. They were playing music and dancing all through the night instead of managing the unfortunate conditions to sleep”, he was quoted as saying by the press in Libya.
” We (LFF) have the video of them not feeling the stress and will submit it to CAF to deal with them for not honoring the game. We won’t let this end this way”, he concluded.
