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Nigeria/Lesotho: Warri Council to Airlift Eagles
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This Day (Lagos)
6 September 2007
Posted to the web 6 September 2007
Lagos
As the zero hour to Saturday's African Nations Cup qualifier between Nigeria and Lesotho approaches, the Chairman of Warri South Local Government Council, Mr Peter Agiri, has offered to airlift the Super Eagles to Warri for the match.
Though the match is more of a formality contest to the Nigerian team, which is already through to next year's tournament in Ghana, but the passion that the host state, Delta, attaches to the tie, has certainly to some extent, enlivened the atmosphere, ahead of what promises to be explosive celebration of culture, tourism and peace.
These three key variables are what the government of Emmanuel Uduaghan intends to use as selling points in wooing propective investors waiting in the wings to exploit the richness of the Delta region, which prides itself as the oil bastion of the Nigerian state.
And in an apparent bid to latch unto the scene, the Chairman of the city where the Eagles match takes place, Peter Agiri told of his preparedness to pay for a chartered aircraft to airlift the coach Berti Vogts-tinkered Eagles from Abuja to his city.
Agiri said he was excited that Warri would be playing host to the final Nations Cup Group match of the Super Eagles during his tenure, promising to do all within his power to ensure the massive success of the occasion.
"I feel elated that Delta State will be playing host to the cream of the Super Eagles team and I promise to pay for the airlifting of the team on a chartered flight and to also accord them king-size treatment that only stars deserve.
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"There is something historical that I attach to this match and it informs my decision to host the team because I am proud of this looming occasion," Agiri said.
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