Nimrod, Agara, Igali, others re-elected as sports federation presidents
The wait is over as elections into some of the sports federations were held yesterday with the newly elected leaders expected to be inaugurated by the Minister of Sports, Sunday Dare. As at the time of press on Thursday, 17 sports federations out of 33 had concluded their elections which held at the MKO Abiola […]
Nimrod, Agara, Igali, others re-elected as sports federation presidents
The wait is over as elections into some of the sports federations were held yesterday with the newly elected leaders expected to be inaugurated by the Minister of Sports, Sunday Dare.
As at the time of press on Thursday, 17 sports federations out of 33 had concluded their elections which held at the MKO Abiola national stadium in Abuja.
Most of the presidents were given fresh mandates to lead their respective federations. The Secretary General of Confederation of African Volleyball (CAVB) Zone 3, Engineer Musa Nimrod was re-elected as president of the Volleyball Federation same as former Nasarawa State Deputy Governor, Hon. Silas Agara who returned as president of Karate federation.
It was the same success story for Samuel Ocheho, Engineer Ishaku Tikon, Hon. Daniel Igali, Dayo Akindoju and Boye Oyerinde who were re-elected as presidents of handball, cycling, table tennis, wrestling, lawn tennis and squash racket federation respectively.
In other elections, Mr. Uyiosa Akpata emerged as the president of Nigeria Cricket Federation, the Director-General of the National council for Arts and culture, Otunba Olusegun Runsewe was elected as president of Nigeria Golf Federation while a former director of Grassroots sports development, federal Ministry of youth and Sports Development, Dr. Ademola Are is now Rugby federation president.
Similarly, Dr. Ibrahim Abdul emerged as weightlifting federation president while Abdullahi Saidu was elected as the new president of Nigeria Taekwondo Federation.
Simon Nkom has equally emerged as the Nigeria Hockey Federation (NHF) as he polled maximum 11 votes to emerge the President, former Vice-president of Nigeria Judo Federation (NJF), Musa Oshodi, has emerged as president of the federation just as Kelvin Ehizigie got elected as the president of the Gymnastics Federation of Nigeria,
A former Chief of Army Staff, Gen Kenneth Miminah (rtd) also won his election as president of the boxing federation.
Even as a free for all ensued before the elections into the board of the table tennis federation, others held their elections peacefully.
Meanwhile, elections were not held in badminton and Nigeria Basketball Federation following unresolved issues.