Athletics Crisis: Federation Rejects Noc’s Panel, Insist On Probe Of Suspended President - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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December 13, 2019
A Board member of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria, AFN, Brown Ebewele says the Nigeria Olympics Committee, NOC lacks the power to set up a committee to look into a perceived crisis in the federation.
The Committee, at its board meeting in Abuja, said it hadset up a four-man investigative panel to mediate in the crisis rocking theFederation.
Ebewele, who queried NOC’s motive behind the investigativepanel, said the federation for the avoidance of doubt, is only answerable toits parent body, World Athletics, formerly the International Association ofAthletics Federations, which is aware of developments in the federation.
He insisted that the Board has set up a Fact-finding Panelto look into the infractions committed by the suspended President of thefederation, Shehu Ibrahim Gusau, and that there is no going back, recalling asimilar ploy employed by the NOC in June this year.
Ebewele said all ten Board members who attended the meetingand the NOC President, Habu Gumel, and the Federal Ministry of Youth and SportsDevelopment’s Permanent Secretary, Olusade Adesola, signed the June agreement.