Supporters Club will not be in AFCON to Cheer Eagles –IMC

Supporters Club will not be in AFCON to Cheer Eagles –IMC

Rising from an emergency meeting held yesterday by the Unified Nigeria Supporters Club, the group has announced that the Super Eagles will miss their usual support, as the 2025 AFCON that will be played in Morocco from December 21, 2025, to January 18, 2026, will commence in a few days.

The development, according to the secretary of IMC, Hon. Sunny Gullong, arose from the inability of the National Sports Commission to support the trip of the IMC to the 2025 AFCON at the last minute.

The IMC Scribe further explained that NSC, who had harmonized the six major supporter groups together, always wants them to wear the same uniform anytime they are out to support the national team, with the belief that they will be supporting IMC, especially in airlifting some important members such as the instrumentalists that will play drums and trumpets.

“The unification has made most of us drop our individual sponsors because we are using one uniform in all of our outings, and we have dropped our uniforms that carry the logo of our sponsors.

Now that the NSC has come out to inform us that they cannot support our trip to the AFCON at the last minute, that means Eagles will miss our services during their matches,” said Hon. Gullong.

He added that “We are saying this to the public so as to know why we’re not cheering that national team at the AFCON. We can’t come up with the resources to airlift the instrumentalists to Morocco at these last minutes.”

Nigeria will open its campaign at the championship with a first Group C game against the Taifa Stars of Tanzania before taking on Tunisia’s Carthage Eagles on December 27 and Uganda’s Cranes on December 30.