Narrating the incident of when the Libyan team came to Nigeria, Enoh said, “In terms of the Libyan case, the Libyan national team, by the time they were leaving Libya for Nigeria, first they left ahead of schedule. They informed nobody. It was after they were airborne that NFF’s attention was brought to the fact that they were airborne and the fact that they were no longer landing in Uyo, they were landing in Port Harcourt. In spite of that, NFF made frantic efforts to be able to provide the logistic support they needed on landing in Port Harcourt. When they landed in Port Harcourt, NFF informed the delegation that they have cleared Uyo airport for them to take off from Port Harcourt and land in Uyo and the legal delegation told them that the arrangement they had with whoever brought them was to stop in Port Harcourt and they were going to go by road. NFF had to advise them that it was late, they should wait and go by road the next day. They insisted they would go by road that night. NFF provided transportation and security. They didn’t want to use the transportation organised by the NFF but the security was still available for them. They went to Uyo, they were accommodated in a 5-star hotel, they were supposed to train for just one moment but NFF allowed them to train in the field about twice. Even after the match when they said they were going to be done on Sunday, NFF allowed them access to the training pitch on Saturday, before they left on Sunday. Everything was provided and available.”
Speaking on the South African experience, he said, “In a conversation I had yesterday with the Confederation of African Football (CAF) president, I called attention to a similar situation that came up in June involving South Africa. Because the senior team’s national matches take place in the country in Uyo, anytime any of those matches is going to take place, the NFF has always advised the country that is coming for that match that look, this match is taking place in this venue in Uyo, there is an airport, therefore, fly to Uyo. And each of those times, the NFF has worked with Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) and the Ministry of Aviation to make sure that Uyo airport is cleared for activity, landing and all of that. In the case of South Africa, South Africa themselves elected and preferred to land in Port Harcourt.”
