Administrative-wise, it is a disastrous outing for Team Nigeria at the ongoing 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. That 10 athletes were disqualified in silly circumstances is reminiscent of serial maladministration of the country.
The latest gaffe exposes the current crop of sports’ handlers as the same old square pegs in round holes. And in saner climes that do not share in our misfortune of inept leadership, a payback should be waiting for the Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, and his Cowboys, for the fiasco that is tantamount to perfidy.
It is for such cherry-picking that some have said the outing wasn’t so bad for the Nigerian contingent, and summarily exonerated the minister from blame. That sounds like a ‘half-bread is better than none’ or ‘at-all at-all na hin spoil market’ type of self-consoling worldview. But such a mediocre thought process has lost its purchase in modern societies. That it has endured around here explains why public officeholders get away with malfeasance and Nigeria keeps going backwards rudderless.
More outspoken athletes have blamed the Athletics Federation of Nigeria led by Tonobok Okowa, and Nigeria Olympics Committee for the negligence and poor job in housekeeping. AFN has the responsibility to produce our best athletes, while NOC owns Team Nigeria at the Games, and their interface with the governing rules.
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