A member of the Govt Board of the Confederation of African Soccer (CAF), Abdelhakim Shalmani, has described as ‘false’ the testimony of the Tunisian pilot who flew the ValueJet Plane that was diverted from touchdown on the Benina worldwide airport to Al Albraq, which the Nigeria Soccer Federation introduced in its defence of the botched 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying recreation between Libya and Nigeria.
Shalmani, in keeping with experiences within the Libyan media, says ‘the pilot of the aircraft gave testimony that served his private pursuits quite than committing to diplomatic relations between neighbouring Libya and Tunisia.
“This false testimony won’t cross with out authorized follow-up, as an official memorandum of grievance will likely be filed towards the Tunisian pilot who violated the principles of integrity and honesty,” he stated.
The Libyan CAF member additionally identified that the Nigerian workforce took benefit of the celebrity of its skilled gamers in worldwide leagues particularly in Europe to create the impression that they’re victims of Libyan assaults or plots.
Shalmani insists the info on the bottom are fully completely different from people who the Nigerian workforce is attempting to current. “What Nigerians try to painting as oppression on our half is definitely an try to obscure the reality, because the testimony introduced was fully false,” he informed Libyan each day newspaper, Libya Akhbar.
Shalmani, who revealed that Nigeria was represented within the case by greater than 20 individuals, together with the Minister of Sports activities, members of the Nigerian parliament and different outstanding figures, expressed his dissatisfaction with the absence of any official Libyan assist, as he discovered himself alone in representing Libya on this challenge, which he described as “nationalism’.
