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In the past one week, there has been serious ‘katakata’ in AFN. Two different elections were held with two different delegations of stakeholders in Nigeria’s Track and Field Athletics. The second election took place in Abuja, in the head office of the AFN, inside the MKO Abiola stadium complex. The elections were monitored and supervised by the Ministry of Youth and Sports. A delegation of 46 stakeholders elected a new President for the association, Chief Tonobok Okowa, whose only credential in Athletics is a political appointment as Chairman of the Delta State Sports Commission, made possible because he is the younger brother to the governor of Delta State.
Investigations have since revealed that he wanted to be a contestant in the Abuja elections, but needed to emerge from the South-West zonal election to determine the delegates from that part of the country. He lost the zonal elections, blamed the Sports Ministry for not backing him, turned his back against them in anger, and did not show up for the Congress he called.
There are stories that this ‘move’ is a mere ruse, a ploy to twist the arm of government with the threat of grave consequences for breaching sections of the agreement in the contract if the team does not wear the kits. His claim is easily dismissed. There are subsisting grave allegations, under investigation by the anti fraud agency, the EFCC, that he may have soiled his hands in the contract with PUMA. The Sports Ministry has decided to distance itself from the PUMA kits ‘wahala’.
As Nigerian athletes prepare to go to the Olympics, it is becoming clearer that in developing countries, particularly in Africa, the independence of national sports federations is predicated on their ability to fund all their activities. ‘He who pays the piper dictates the tunes’.
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