Flamingos: NSC counters Obi’s claim of being stopped from meeting players

The National Sports Commission (NSC) has disputed Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential candidate Peter Obi’s account of being prevented from meeting Nigeria’s U-17 women’s football team, the Flamingos, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja.
Obi had alleged that he was stopped from celebrating with the players after officials reportedly warned his protocol team that they could lose their jobs if they allowed him to approach the team.
However, the NSC chairman, Shehu Dikko, said officials of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) who received the team at the airport gave a different account of the incident.
In a statement on Monday, Dikko said the officials r...