The Super Eagles of Nigeria is out of the African Cup of Nations (AFCON) League after securing a loss of one goal to nothing to the Tunisia national team which is known as the The Eagles of Carthage of Tunisia, on Sunday, 23rd of January, 2022.
The loss of the Nigerian National football team is unexpected as the team has been doing pretty amazingly well in the African Cup of Nation (AFCON) league, having won previous matches before meeting the Tunis team.
This loss has been attributed to the call made to the team by president Buhari who decided to call the team to charge them and motivate the players to keep up playing good games and if possible bring the cup home.
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Immediately the call was made, many social media users and some prominent Nigerians took to their social media pages to pray for the Super Eagle team claiming that the call President Buhari just made to the team will definitely lead to their failure.
Some of the users including Mr. Omoyele Sowore, the revolution now activist and former presidential aspirant took to his social media pages to post: “Just heard Muhammadu Buhari just passed his bad luck to Nigeria’s Super Eagles! We are working hard to neutralize it! #RevolutionNow”. Mr. Reno Omokri, the media aide of former president, Goodluck Jonathan also predicted that the Super Eagles will lose the match, that they should not have taken a call from the Mr President.
What seem to be funny social media banters of people claiming that inasmuch as President Buhari have called the super eagle team they will definitely lose the match became a sad reality when the team lost the match and lost out of the AFCON cup.
Conspiracy theorists have also traced past calls made by the Mr. president to other sportsmen who coincidentally lost their matches after the “Buhari call”. People like Anthony Joshua lost his fight after he visited president Buhari.
The social media have gone agog with memes captions like, “May Buhari never call you, Run whenever you see a call from Buhari” and other similar posts all claiming that a call from the president is a bringer of ill luck.
The superstition surrounding the president Buhari call effect should be investigated and studied by scientists to know if it is all coincidences or there is more to it than meets the eyes.
