Saadi Gadhafi, one of the sons of Libya's slain dictator Moammar Gadhafi, said a nationwide rebellion was brewing against the country's new rulers and vowed to return to his homeland.
"I will return to Libya at any time," Saadi Gadhafi told Al-Arabiya television by telephone from Niger where he took refuge after the fall of Tripoli which ended his father's 42-year iron-fisted rule.
"Seventy percent of Libyans are not satisfied with the current situation," he said in an interview Friday, adding that "the Libyan people are ruled by gangs."
Gadhafi said that "there is a rebellion that is going on day after day, and there will be a rebellion in the entire country."
Asked about the ruling National Transitional Council, which took over after his father's overthrow last year, Gadhafi said: "There will come a day when the Libyan people will be capable of wiping out these gangs."
When he returned, "I will try to make sure that there are no reprisals or revenge operations," he promised.
The NTC responded with a renewed call to the Niger authorities to deliver Saadi Gadhafi to its custody.
"The NTC requests to the government of Niger to immediately hand over Saadi and other fugitives to the Libyan authorities to maintain its interests and relations with the Libyan people," spokesman Mohamed Nasr al-Harizi said in a statement, AFP reported.
Saadi, 38, took refuge in Niger last August. The African country has refused to extradite him despite repeated requests from the new Libyan authorities.
They accuse him of having "taken goods by force and intimidation when he led the Libyan football federation," according to international police organization Interpol, which issued a "red notice" for his arrest.
