Air Peace boss Allen Onyema promises Super Eagles N20 million gift for Cape Verde win

The Chairman of Air Peace, Allen Onyema, has promised Super Eagles N20 million if they defeat Cape Verde in their 2022 World Cup qualifier on Tuesday.

 

This is coming after the airline sealed a partnership agreement with the Nigerian national teams.

 

In a video posted on the official Facebook page of Super Eagles, Onyema said, “If you win this match, I am going to give the team N20 million on arrival. I’ll bring the cash and hand it over.

 

“This will serve as a stepping stone in unifying our Nation. Go there and die for the country.

 

“You won your first match resoundingly, and we expect that the one happening in Cape Verde in 24hours time will not be different.

 

“You’re carrying on your young shoulders the aspirations and the hopes of a Nation. You must help us in restoring hope to this country.

 

“Nigeria is a great country with so much potentials to achieve. We are yet to get there. We may have our differences but we love ourselves

 

Gentlemen, why I decided to come to the airport at this time of the night by 2am to address you is because of this, you are not just going to play a football match, you’re going to carry on your young shoulders the aspirations and the hope of a nation almost in distress.

 

A lot of people expect that this is the beginning of the peace and the unity and oneness we want in our nation Nigeria. We don’t have any other nation. The international community is envious of our nation. I want you to, please, go out there and shine for your nation.

 

“When you were playing on Friday, everybody jettisoned their ethnicity. The people in the South-East were clapping, the people in the North were clapping, the South-South also were clapping. I almost shed tears when Ahmed Musa was called in during the second half. Majority of the spectators at the Stadium were southern Nigerians but when the name of Ahmed Musa came up, a Kano indigene, the stadium roared up for joy, people were hailing, Nigerians stood up for him.

 

“Nigerians were expecting that you players should win for the nation, nobody remembered their ethnicity. Nobody remembered that they were Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Fulani or whatever”.

 

The airline boss, who promised to splash 20 million naira on the players if they win their Cape Verde match, emphasized that qualifying for the World Cup would open another opportunity for unifying Nigeria, adding that ‘I want that nationalistic zeal to burn in all of you and in all you do. Go out there and shine for your nation’.

 

“So, you are going out there not just to win a match but to win souls, to encourage the nation to be together. We need unity now more than ever”, the patriot asserted.

 

Acknowledging our differences as a people, Onyema said Nigeria is a great country with so much potential, and with oneness and love, Nigerians can surmount all challenges facing the nation.

 

“Yes, there may be injustice all over the place but these things could be addressed. They can be solved, addressed in love and with love”, the Nonviolence proponent said.