The Super Eagles captain, Ahmed Musa, has urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to come and cheer the team to victory in Ivory Coast.
Musa, who spoke on behalf of the Super Eagles players, said this during the team’s Zoom meeting with the Minister of Sports Development, Sen. John Owan Enoh, on Wednesday.
The former Leicester City forward also appreciated Enoh for his words of encouragement to the Super Eagles as they prepare to tackle Cameroon in the AFCON Round of 16 on Saturday night at the Houphouet Boigny stadium, Abidjan.
“We have a message that we are going to send to you [Enoh] to the President.
“We don’t want him to watch the game on TV anymore, we want him over here [Ivory Coast] to come and cheer us together. So this is our own message to the President,” he said.
In his response, Enoh assured the team that the President will visit the team at a particular point of the tournament.
“The president will come. I can assure you the president will come. He has told me when he wants to come and my prayer is that gradually we are going to get to the point where the President can come. He will come. I will bring the president, he will come,” he assured.
Meanwhile, it has been reported that Cameroon’s captain, Vincent Aboubakar, has recovered from injury and is now available for selection ahead of Saturday’s game.
Aboubakar did not feature for Cameroon throughout their group games due to an injury he picked during training just a few days before the start of the tournament.
If selected, Saturday’s clash will be Aboubakar’s third appearance against the Eagles, after facing them in 2015 and 2017.
His first encounter with the Eagles was in a friendly game in 2015 which Cameroon lost 3-0. Aboubakar was top scorer at the AFCON 2021 held in Cameroon with eight goals.
