It’s idiotic, imbecilic to say Buhari’s call is responsible for Nigeria’s exit from AFCON – Femi Adesina

Presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, has described as ‘idiotic,’ feedback made by Nigerians that President Muhammadu Buhari’s telephone name to the Nigerian nationwide soccer workforce made them lose their match towards Tunisia, resulting in them crashing out of the 2021 African Cup of Nations.

Recall that on Sunday, January 23, the president held a video convention name with the Tremendous Eagles, the place he wished them properly.

“You’ve been doing Nigeria proud. You’ve been profitable. Please carry on profitable. The Federal Authorities is supporting you, and I say thanks to all of the technical crew and the gamers. Please maintain doing the nation proud,” he instructed the workforce.

Nonetheless, as quickly as the sport led to a loss for the Tremendous Eagles, many Nigerians took to social media responsible the President for the defeat.

Reacting in a publish titled, ‘Dropping Is Half Of The Sport,’ Adesina berated these behind the social media publish.

Based on him, the identical folks would have come out to sentence Buhari if the Tremendous Eagles had gone into the sport with out encouragement from him.

He wrote partially; “I’ve learn many foolish, idiotic and imbecilic feedback, attempting to hyperlink the loss to the video convention the President had with the gamers on Sunday morning. Witless. Inconsiderate. And by the way, if the Tremendous Eagles had gone into the match with out encouragement from their President, the identical folks would have come out to sentence the chief of the nation for being taciturn and insensitive. Head or tail, you by no means win with some Nigerians.

There are nations, and soccer groups, who’ve established a practice for being excellent in soccer. However such groups and nations have misplaced scandalously earlier than, underscoring the reality that shedding is a part of the sport.”