Spiritual myth of Moshood Abiola stadium impacting on Nigeria home games
Nigeria’s homes games since turning to the Moshood Abiola stadium has not been good with their poor results attributing to spiritual curse on the newly constructed stadium.
In an interesting turn of events in Nigeria following their failure to qualify for the 2022 World Cup, it has been disclosed that the Moshood Abiola stadium has been cursed.
According to previous inhabitants of that Abuja environs, they were forced out of the place as they rained curses on that location.
Nigeria have struggled in matches played at the Moshood Abiola stadium.
According to Lazarus Nyaholo, Secretary Garki Chiefdom in the FCT, quoted by Daily Post, “If they like let them play 10 matches on that pitch, they will never emerge victorious because the original inhabitants that were in that location were chased out unceremoniously without compensation and they laid a curse on that land.”
He made the revelation on Wednesday while speaking at a town hall meeting on Mining Community Development Agreements CDAs and Inauguration of Community Cultural Ambassadors organised by the Centre for Transparency Advocacy (CTA).
“There is no aspect of human endeavour that the original inhabitants of the Federal Capital Territory are not affected negatively. When you talk of politics you can see the ratio of our representation in the National Assembly only two House of Representatives member and one Senator against what you have three in other states and more than five in the case of the House of Representatives.
”The decision body of the Federal Government of Nigeria, the original inhabitants of FCT are not participants, so whatever decision is taken there, people of the FCT are not taken into consideration because we have no voice there.
“Economically we have been reduced to paupers because our land which is our source of livelihood, you know before the creation of FCT, we were predominantly farmers, now there is no land to farm and each land taken away is not being replaced or compensated for, most times our people are compensated just for the economic trees on the land, but for the landed property itself nobody has ever been compensated and our worries are that the FCT is just about 8000 square kilometres and when its fully developed there will be no farmland in the entire FCT,” the Garki Chiefdom Secretary lamented.
Renaming of Abuja National Stadium as Moshood Abiola Stadium
On June 2019, Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari announced the renaming of the Abuja National Stadium to Moshood Abiola National Stadium in recognition of the late Nigerian politician Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola.
The announcement came on Nigeria’s Democratic Day celebration in Lagos the 12th Day of June with President-General of Nigeria Football Supporters Club (NFSC) Rafiu Oladipo hailing the renaming activity.
Oladipo said that President Buhari’s pronouncement at the Democracy Day celebration at the Eagle Square in Abuja was a very noble decision.
He said the late Moshood Abiola contributed meaningfully to Nigeria’s sports development, particularly in the football sector, and really deserved the national recognition and honour by President Buhari.
President Buhari had on Wednesday announced the change of the name of Abuja National Stadium to Moshood Abiola National Stadium, in honour of the acclaimed winner of the 1993 General Elections.
“President Buhari has taken a noble decision today by renaming the Abuja National Stadium after the late M.K.O. Abiola, and this has made this year’s Democracy Day significant and I am impressed with the development.
“M.K.O. Abiola did so much for sports development in Nigeria. He was a key supporter of NFSC in our activities and he gave us a bus which made our movements easy,” Oladipo said.
The NFSC President-General said he would help to publicise the pronouncement of the renaming across the world, adding that the late M.K.O. Abiola merited the recognition by President Buhari.
“The renaming of Abuja National Stadium after the late M.K.O. Abiola was indeed a well deserved honour and a commendable resolution in the right direction by President Buhari.
“I am going to take this news round the world because the late M.K.O. Abiola in 1982 won the Sports Ambassador award in Senegal, and I was there to witness it,” he said.
MKO Abiola who died on July 7 in 1998 was on June 6 in 2018 awarded posthumously the national honor of Grand Commander of the Federal Republic (GCFR) by President Buhari. (NAN).
Moshood Abiola Stadium bad omen continues after Ghana draw
The Moshood Abiola Stadium bad name continues after Nigeria World Cup playoff draw against Ghana in Abuja. Caf official was killed in huge pitch invasion by Green Eagles fan after the games’ final whistle.
Zambian medical practitioner and Caf doping officer Dr Joseph Kabungo lost consciousness after being attacked and trodden on as spectators rushed to flee the stadium owing to a stampede.
He was the CAF’s designated Doping Officer for the tense World Cup playoff tie second leg encounter on Tuesday.
After a 0-0 draw in the first leg in Kumasi, Ghana held Nigeria to a 1-1 draw in Abuja, with Thomas Partey’s powerful drive proving crucial as Black Stars qualified on the away goals rule.
Fans at the stadium reacted angrily at the outcome, hurling objects at both the small group of visiting fans and the Ghana players.
Local security was reluctant to respond to the violence, which included a pitch invasion, and the Ghana players were left to fend for themselves on their way to the tunnel.
Unfortunately, one person, Kabungo has been confirmed dead, which will most certainly infuriate the Confederation of African Football and FIFA.
If football authorities investigate and determine that he died as a result of the violence, Nigeria might face a stadium ban.
