By Daily Sports on January 23, 2020

The sports ministry yesterday confirmed the nomination of Ahmed Ahidjo Isa Kaita as replacement for Solomon Ogba, who resigned from the board of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) in December last year.

Ogba, who is the Chairman of the Delta State Athletics Association, decided to step down from the AFN board due to what he termed ‘undue interference’ in the activities of the federation. He was the immediate past president of the AFN.

In a letter made available to The Guardian yesterday signed by a Permanent Secretary in the sports ministry, Gabriel Tanimu Aduda, titled Re: Nomination as the ministry’s representative on the board of Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) reads: “I am directed to refer you to the above named subject matter and to convey the approval of your nomination as a representative of the Ministry on the board of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN). Your nomination is with immediate effect and you are to replace Chief Solomon Ogba on the board.”

Kaita, a sports philanthropist, has taken the slot of Philanthropist/Ex-Officio hitherto occupied by Ogba.Ogba had complained that he was not comfortable with the ‘dirty politicking’ that had taken over the AFN, and that informed his decision to quit the board.

Among other things, Ogba had stated in his letter of resignation signed by Olukayode Thomas that: “As an elder statesman in sports and athletics, in particular, I cannot sit and continue to watch things done wrongly. Though I have withdrawn from the AFN board, I will continue giving his support to athletics in Delta State and Nigeria as a whole.”

Meanwhile, the Minister for Youth and Sports Development has fulfilled his promise to pay Nigeria’s youth and junior athletes to the CAA U-18/U-20 championships in Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire last April allowances owed them by the AFN under the leadership of the now suspended president Shehu Ibrahim Gusau. (The Guardian)

•PHOTO: Solomon Ogba

Source Daily Sports

Posted January 23, 2020

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