Accept defeat in good faith — Dalung

Minister of Sports and Youth Development, Barrister Solomon Dalung has debunked claims by NAWIS representative on the Board of the Athletic Federation of Nigeria, Rosa Collins that she was robbed of her presidential mandate describing it as falsehood and a ploy to mask her inability to emerge as president of the federation. This followed accusations in the media that the Minister cancelled the bye elections as decided by the Electoral Appeals Committee into the Athletics Federation just to favor some unnamed groups.

“I do not wish to join issues with aggrieved persons over their defeat in the just concluded National Sports Federations elections, but I need to clear the air on some presumed falsehood about decisions taken by the Appeals Committee. “The Appeals Committee entertained petitions from aggrieved persons after the elections and took decisions based on the facts available to them.” Barrister Dalung explained that in view of additional information provided by those affected by committee’s decisions which showed clear evidence that the Appeals Committee was misguided, some decisions were upheld while others were dismissed.

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