Sports Minister Under Fire Over “United States Of Nigeria” Gaffe

[caption id="attachment_10533" align="alignnone" width="600"]Solomon Dalung, Minister of Sports [/caption]

Following the controversy surrounding the Nigeria U-23 departure to Brazil for the Rio Olympic Games, Minister of Sports Solomon Dalung made a blunder while briefing the press on the situation.

The minister, who was trying to distance the sports ministry from the predicament facing the Dream Team VI, refereed to the U.S as “The United States of Nigeria”.

Dalung said,” Our U-23 team are suffering in the United States of Nigeria. “Who took them there? What are there for?

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“Because they are U-23 and they went to US and they are having problems, does that become our business?”

This didn’t go down well with Nigerians, who took to twitter to lash out on the minister, with some going ahead to blame President Muhammadu Buhari for appointing Dalung in his cabinet.

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Meanwhile, Samson Siasia and his boys took off from the United States early Thursday and are set to arrive Brazil later in the evening in preparation for their opening game against Japan by 2am on Friday morning.

See their reactions below:

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