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EJIDIKE CHARGES SUPER EAGLES TO PICK AFCON TICKET IN SOUTH AFRICA

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BY AKEEM BUSARI.

Popular sports enthusiast, Chief Donatus Agu- Ejidike, has charged the Nigerian national football team, the Super Eagles to go for victory in Saturday’s all-important Africa Cup of Nations qualifying match against the Bafana Bafana of South Africa in Johannesburg.

In a release made available to the press by the Office of the Nigeria Pillar of Sports, Chief Ejidike stated that only a win against the South Africans would be good enough to restore Nigeria’s envied superiority over their opponents.

“I understand that a draw could be enough to qualify our boys for the championship next year, however, I want to implore our boys to go for total victory on Saturday.

“It is painful that we lost to South Africa on home soil in the first leg. Let our boys reassert our superiority over them with a resounding victory,” he remarked.

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Ejidike, who is also a board member of the Nigeria Karate Federation went on to praised  the NFF for ensuring that the team is well prepared for the clash.

Kunle Solaja is the author of landmark books on sports and journalism as well as being a multiple award-winning journalist and editor of long standing. He is easily Nigeria’s foremost soccer diarist and Africa's most capped FIFA World Cup journalist, having attended all FIFA World Cup finals from Italia ’90 to Qatar 2022. He was honoured at the Qatar 2022 World Cup by FIFA and AIPS.

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