It will be recalled that the Confederation of African Football, 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.
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 on Tuesday, 22nd October, 2024.
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.