The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has demanded that the Super Eagles be awarded three points and three points for the abandoned AFCON 2025 qualifiers game against Libya, OwnGoalNigeria.com reports.
CAF suspended the AFCON qualifiers game between Libya and Nigeria after the Nigerian team was left stranded at the airport 16 hours upon arrival for the game, with Libyan authority instructing their flight away from it’s initial landing base to an abandoned airport, 300km away from the city of the game.
In their petition to the Confederation of African Football (CAF), Nigeria are demanding that three points and three goals be awarded to them, because it was the poor treatment from their host that made them to abandon the game.
Cameroon and Senegal are backing the claims by Nigeria, and it brought about a heated debate during the CAF 46th extra ordinary Congress that took place earlier today.
Libya on their part have threatened to drag the case to the Cour of Arbitration of Sports if Super Eagles gets three points over the abandoned game. It will see Nigeria go through while Libya’s dream of going to the next AFCON will effectively come to an end.
Super Eagles are currently top of their group with 7 points, while Libya are rock bottom without a win in the first three games of the series.
