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January 13, 2020
The Nigeria Olympics Committee, NOChas indicted the Suspended President of the Athletics Federation of NigeriaAFN, Ibrahim Gusau.
The panel said his declaration ofAFN’s autonomy from the Ministry of Youth and Sports Development was out oforder and impossible, because the Ministry will always supervise National SportFederations.
The committee also approved thesacking of erstwhile AFN Technical Director, Sunday Adeleye, saying that hestands removed.
The panel, headed by NOC’s secondvice-president, Francis Orbih presented its report on the Federation’ssituation to the Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare at alow-key event last Friday.
It said that it learnt that theleadership tussle in the Federation had been developing since the last nationalFederation’s elections in June 2017 and worsened before the 12 All-AfricanGames in Morocco in August 2019, when some Board members asked Gusau to stepaside as president and be investigated.