Nigeria Olympic team first choice goalkeeper, Dele Ajiboye has owned up to the 2-1 defeat to Senegal at the maiden Caf Under-23 championship in Morocco.

The team arrived Lagos aboard Royal Air Maroc on Tuesday after a botched attempt to clinch the London 2012 Olympic Games ticket.

Ajiboye told SuperSport.com that he takes more blame for the pool A match day two loss to Senegal in Tangiers.

“I take more blame for letting in two goals into my net in the match against Senegal.

“I can’t explain what happened but I want to take responsibility and ask Nigerians to forgive me.

“I also want to plead with Nigerians to forgive us for failing to pick the Olympics ticket.

“We did our best but sadly our best was not good enough.”

Ajiboye admitted that they woke up very late against the Algerian side.

“The win over Algeria was a kind of consolation but too late to qualify us for the Olympics. We are happy recording at least a win in the championship,” he said.

There was no officials of the NFF at the airport to receive the team neither was there bus designated to convey the team to anywhere.

The players who arrived the country in the early hours of Tuesday disappeared into the waiting hands of a handful family members who took them to their individual destinations.

The usual crowd that troop out to receive successful team was conspicuously absence