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The Nigeria Football Federation has urged the public to disregard report in some media that the Interim Head Coach of the Super Eagles, Augustine Eguavoen dropped Leceister FC forward Ademol Lookman from the final squard of the of the Eagles to the 2021 AFCON tournament in Cameroon.
In a terse statement from the NFF, the football body explain that Lookman is yet to be eligible to play for the Super Eagles because the process of his switch is ongoing.
Ademola Lookman had played for England U19, U20 and U21 before he decided to play for his fatherland.
The statement reads:
@thenffofficial has stated categorically that Ademola Lookman of Leicester City FC OF England has not yet been cleared by World Football body, FIFA to represent Nigeria at International level. The process for his switch is ongoing.
It is therefore incorrect for any medium to claim that interim Head Coach Augustine Eguavoen is the one who axed the player from Nigeria’s final list of 28 for the Africa Cup of Nations Cameroon 2021.
However, his name was included in the initial provisional list with the believe that the process would have been completed before the commencement of Afcon.
