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Many Nigerian sports lovers have expressed anger and disappointment over the disqualification of 10 Nigerian athletes at the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympics.governing National Anti-Doping Federation.
While some of them called for the sacking of the Minister of Sports, Sunday Dare, others asked him to resign.sacked a former Technical Director of Athletics Federation of Nigeria, Sunday Adeleye, for registering two Nigerian top athletes, Blessing Okagbare and Divine Oduduru,During the championships, Okagbare and Oduduru faced disqualification scare for not partaking in the men’s and women’s 100m race.
Some of the fans, who called on the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari , described the disqualification of Nigerian athletes as embarrassing. Abiola Fakoyede said, “No thanks to our Minister of sports and his ministry. Next time appoint professionals to manage our sports ministries and not politicians who are good at not following rules.”Tunde Stephen also said, “Their handlers and the Minister of Sports should have done the needful by now and that is to resign.”
Ajanson Peter lamented that “We should not have wasted our time to go in the first place. This is a total disgrace, I am shocked that simple testing requirement, we couldn’t meet up to.
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