‘They never Cedis coming’ — Nigerians mock Ghana over potential AFCON exit

On Monday, Ghana surrendered a two-goal lead to get a 2-2 draw against Mozambique in their final Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) group match. 

Two Jordan Ayew’s penalties were cancelled by two late Mozambique goals in added time, and the result condemned the Black Stars to just two points from three games.

Ghana are third on the Group B log, which has Cape Verde in first place and Egypt in second. The Ghanaians are on the brink of elimination from AFCON, except the results in other group matches favour them.

The predicament of the Ghanaian national team has dominated discourse among Nigerians on X, formerly Twitter. Many Nigerians have taken to social media to crack one or two jokes at the expense of their West African arch-rivals.

Asisat Oshoala, Super Falcons striker, led the banter after posting an artificial intelligence-generated painting of a woman cooking food and captioned it with: “Food is ready…. let’s have it. God of banter did it again”.

Food is readyyyy ….lets have it. God of banter did it again 😎😎 #Ghana #AFCON2023 pic.twitter.com/NwQUqdjBCj

— ASISAT M.O.N (@AsisatOshoala) January 22, 2024

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Hydra of Bitmama, an X user, said it is Ghana’s failure “more important” to him than the Super Eagles succeeding at AFCON.

For me, It is more important for Ghana’s national team to fail than for Super Eagles to succeed. https://t.co/5o3FtVeNAE

— $Hydra (@XBrianDennis) January 23, 2024

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Below are more banters from Twitter:

Ghana did not cedis coming and now dey ACCRAing any ways they Ghana go home with Ghana must go 🤣🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/kD4fqjxEjz

— Ocornel (@officialdmj_) January 23, 2024

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Nigeria; Draw
Ghana; Lose

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Nigeria; Win
Ghana; Draw

Nigeria; Win
Ghana; must go. pic.twitter.com/6kZnpkOsT3

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— SMALLIE (@the_smallie) January 22, 2024

https://twitter.com/venusakingba/status/1749715811646705956

You get 24hrs electricity but you no fit power yourself to the next round of AFCON 😂😂

— LERRY (@_AsiwajuLerry) January 22, 2024

You get 24hrs electricity but you no fit power yourself to the next round of AFCON 😂😂

— LERRY (@_AsiwajuLerry) January 22, 2024

89 minutes:
Ghana 2 – 0 Mozambique

90+2 minutes:
Ghana 2 – 2 Mozambique

Biggest bottlers at the AFCON😂 pic.twitter.com/Eeg8SvNiNa

— MBAH (@Mbahdeyforyou) January 22, 2024