How Super Eagles Escaped Death At The Airport After Their Return From Zambia

What could have been a major disaster was prevented at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, yesterday, when a plain cloth Police man trying to arrest Chairman of the League Management Committee, Shehu Dikko dispersed the crowd that came to welcome the Super Eagles from their victorious outing from Ndola, Zambia.

 Gunshots were fired into the air at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja, on Monday on the arrival of the Super Eagles from Zambia. Dikko, who arrived with the Nigeria delegation from Zambia after their 2018 World Cup qualifying win, was accosted at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport by two men with neither IDs nor warrants, who claimed he had been invited to meet the Abuja police commissioner. NFF executive committee members, club officials and media resisted the attempt to abduct the LMC chairman, demanding to see a warrant and IDs.

 Both men failed to produce either, and when journalists started taking photographs, one of the men drew his firearm and pointed it at LMC’s Kelvin Omuojine before discharging the weapon in the air.

This forced officials to scramble the Super Eagles into their team bus and hurriedly driven away to safety.

The abduction attempt appears to stem from a contempt of court order issued by Justice I Kundah of the Jos High Court which the LMC has successfully appealed against and received a stay of execution order from the higher Court of Appeal.