All football matches in Argentina were suspended on Friday after an assassination attempt on the country’s vice president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.

The Argentinian Football Association (AFA) made the announcement on Thursday night after the attack, which took place in Buenos Aires.


Fernandez de Kirchner was arriving at her home in the Recoleta neighbourhood when a man emerged from a crowd and pointed a gun at her head from close range.

The pistol — which was loaded with five bullets — was triggered but did not fire correctly. A 35-year-old man has been arrested.

Friday Sept. 2 was declared a national holiday by president Alberto Fernandez and the AFA said that all footballing activity due to take place had been suspended.

The AFA said in a statement:

"The Argentinian Football Association expresses its strongest repudiation of what happened with vice president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.

"We call on society as a whole, warning that violence of any kind is never the solution."

https://www.goalgist.com/argentina-games-off-after-vice-president-assassination-attempt/

If that assassin were to be a Nigerian, with his reason for trying to assassinate the VP, Nigeria would have had only one man running for the presidency. That man would have been Peter Obi.

No urchin should try quoting me because thunder is standing by.