Lorient’s Innocent Bonke has been called up to the senior national team of Nigeria for the 2002 World Cup playoff games against Ghana, OwnGoalNigeria.com can exclusively reveal.
As at yesterday we reported that interim coach of the Nigerian team Austine Eguavoen has opened talks with the 26 year old defensive midfielder on filing the void created by the injury enforced absence of Wilfred Ndidi.
Ndidi is likely out of both games but instead of reaching out to Ogenyi Onazi who was the place on the standby list. The technical crew decided to go for Bonke who has excelled since joining Lorient from Swedish side Malmö.
Bonke will arrive camp next week ahead of the first leg of the playoff on the 25th in Kumasi. He won’t be the only player added to the squad with Chidozie Awaziem also set to take the place of Kenneth Omeruo who is also out injured.
We exclusively gathered that even Leicester City Ademola Lookman is a huge doubt for the game as he was named in their squad for the English Premier League game against Brentford.
