Gabon Opposition Party Blasts Lionel Messi #NekxFresh

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Gabon’s opposition party has accused Barcelona
star Lionel Messi of showing “a lack of respect for
standards and principles” after the footballer
met the President Ali Bongo wearing denim
shorts and a T-shirt.

Lionel Messi and President Ali Bongo
The Guardian reports that the Union du Peuple
Gabonais party issued a statement that read:

“The messiah of football arrived in Gabon like he
were going to a zoo: dirty, unshaven and his hands in
his pockets, looking for peanuts to throw to them!

“When you’re called Lionel Messi and you’re a multi-
billionaire, you don’t have the right to present
yourself to officials of a republic, even a banana one,
with your hands in the pockets of a ripped, tattered
pair of shorts.

“Gabon isn’t a zoo. We don’t know what the Argentine
came to Gabon for, but we at least have the right to
denounce his negligence and his lack of respect for
standards and principles. We are uneasy with Messi’s
attitude and his attire. Only for these reasons, linked
to respect for the host country, do we condemn the
footballer’s indelicateness, to say the least!”

It would be recalled that the Argentinian striker was
invited to Gabon to lay the first stone at a future
African Cup of Nations’ stadium
.

President Bongo himself drove Messi through the
streets of the Gabonese capital, Libreville, in a jeep
before the footballer took part in an official
ceremony.

France Football had earlier reported that Messi was
paid €3.5 million for his brief visit to the African
country, however, the Gabonese government denied
the claim.