Former presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore has criticised the reward received by the Super Falcons from President Bola Tinubu for winning the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations, WAFCON, 2025.

The Super Falcons won the cup by coming from two goals down to defeat the host country, Morocco, on Sunday.

On arriving in Abuja, Tinubu bestowed national honours of the Order of the Niger, OON, on the players, allocated three-bedroom apartments and cash prizes of $100,000 (approximately N153m) to each of the players.

However, this didn't sit well with Sowore, who, last week, staged a protest with some retired police officers over discrepancies in their pension.

In a post on X, Sowore compared the reward received by the Falcons to what the retired police officers got for serving Nigeria for 35 years.

He wrote, "Life is brutally unfair to the Nigeria Police Force officers! Super Falcons won WAFCON, trained for one year, played for one month, were rewarded with $100,000 (N150 million) each and houses!

"Police officers protected them for decades, worked 35 years, retired with $1,500 (N2million as gratuity), no houses, no medicals, and a little pension!

"The President or the Governor who handed the awards? $1 BILLION in gratuity, lifetime pension, homes everywhere, full medicals!"

Meanwhile, presidential spokesperson, Bayo Onanuga, has slammed those criticising President Tinubu's reward to the Falcons.

Onanuga shared on X, "When you remember that Multichoice, the organiser of the BBNaija reality show, is offering the winner ₦150 million grand prize, you wonder why some Nigerians are unappreciative of President Tinubu’s rewards to the Super Falcons. President Tinubu has rewarded excellence, creativity, hard work, soccer artistry and the undying Nigerian spirit."

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