Sports entrepreneur and Gombe State Athletics Association chairman Hon. Ahmed Shuaib Gara-Gombe has called on President Bola Tinubu to sack Sports Minister Sen. John Enoh over the exclusion of top athlete Favour Ofili from the 100m event at the Paris Olympic Games, describing it as National embarrassment.
Gombe in a Press statement suggested that President Tinubu should impose a serious sanctions on the Sports Minister Sen.John Enoh, President, Nigeria Olympic Committee Habu Gumel (NOC) and Athletics Federation of Nigeria president (AFN)Tonobok Okowa as deterant for future abuse.
According to Gombe, “Favour Ofili not being listed for the 100m event at Olympics is most unfortunate and serious embarrassment to our nation.”
He stated that he was aware of the initial reactions from the Minister of Sports and also have read statement and reactions on his X handle, insisting that he did not expect such statements from a Minister.
“The Negligence, Inefficiency, the Corruption that has eaten deeply into Nigerian Sports are the root cause of this”
“The sports Minister unfortunately, has promoted corruption in the sports sector that’s why we find ourselves in this mess in AFN.
“Since the Minister took office, he has refused to listen to those who would tell him the truth and the true situations in Nigeria Sports.”
Gombe wondered why the Sports Minister is pushing the blame to AFN, NOC. “Yes! these Federations should take the blame, but as the number one sports administrator in the Country, he should take all the blame. I put the blame entirely on the door steps of the Minister.
Consequently, in a sener clime, by now, “The Minister Sen. John Enoh, NOC President, Habu Gumel and of course, AFN president Tonobok Okowa should have resigned but because they have no shame, under normal circumstances, they should have resigned immediately they were allegedly found gullible”
Mr. Present Bola Ahmed Tinubu has done everything possible in providing the funds for the Olympics, every Kobo we asked in sports has been provided though the Minister has failed to account for it when we asked. This is one scandal too many. one negligence, inefficiency too many.
The former Gombe United Football Club Chairman avarred that ” Should the minister fail to resign, Mr. President should Sack him immediately.
And if Mr.president is not ready to sack him, then, we would go to court and request that the minister be sacked. I don’t care about NOC or AFN, I’m concerned about the Sports Minister because he is the architect of this Problem.
