Author: Stephen

Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress in the forthcoming 2027 election, has alleged toxic politics made officials of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to bar him from greeting the Flamingos, Nigeria’s U-17 women’s team, at the Abuja airport on Monday. The former Anambra governor said he had spotted the players and officials, who beat Japan in Saturday’s final to win the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup in Rabat, Morocco, when they arrived. He said his request to greet them had been turned down by officials of the NFF for fear of losing their jobs. Obi said this…