Nigerian Govt Summons Libya’s Chargé d’Affaires Over Super Eagles’ Ordeal
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Ambassador Yusuf Tuggar, Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, has summoned the Charge d’ Affaires of Libya over the Super Eagles ordeal in their country.
The Nigerian delegation were delayed at the Al Abraq Airport for at least 15 hours.
It led to the NFF backing out of the qualifying series.
But reacting to the development, Tuggar described the action of Libya as unfortunate.
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Tuggar, who was spotted at the Office of the Vice President, Kashim Shettima on Monday, said, “It’s the most unfortunate situation because the Super Eagles flew to Libya to play a match. As you know, the Libyan team was here, they were supposed to land in Uyo instead, they went and landed in Port Harcourt, where they were not supposed to land.
“Now our team has gone to Libya, and somehow the plane gets diverted to a different airport. And unfortunately, at that airport, there is no aviation fuel, because what we have decided is they need to refuel and get out, we will not be able to allow them to continue, no food. You know, it’s a good thing when they landed in Kano they actually even got some water, some cartons of water otherwise even water would have been a problem but suffice it to say that we have established contact with them. We’ve sent people from the mission to go there to represent the mission. They are in touch with the delegation.
” I am also communicating directly with the chairman, and since last night, we’ve been on the phone with the chargé d’affaires because Libya doesn’t have an Ambassador here, so we’re in touch with the chargé d’affaires, and I am heading back to the Ministry now, where we have summoned the Libyan chargé d’affaires. This issue has to be resolved as quickly as possible. So we’re on top of the situation”.
