Minister of Sports and Youth Development, Solomon
Dalung has described Nigeria’s participation in the 2018
World Cup qualifiers as a ‘waste of money’.
He said Nigeria does not need to participate in the World
Cup if the nation cannot win the tournament.
The Sports Minister said this on Friday in an interview with
Voice of America.
According to him, Nigeria should only participate in
competitions like the African Nations Cup and the
Commonwealth games they are guaranteed of winning.
Dalung said, “The cup that we can win is the African Cup of
Nations.
“There is nothing again that will take us to another man’s
balcony in the name of the World Cup. We already have the
Commonwealth Games and the Olympics. For these, we
can attend such meets.
“But I am opposed to the World Cup. We don’t agree to it.
Conspiracy in the World Cup is too much.
“We are here suffering from hunger and we don’t have
money for such things.
“There is the issue of bribery and favouritism, there is also
the issue of corruption before you are even given the
hosting rights.
“That is why, even if we try many times, once it gets into the
politics of the game, we can never win.
“That was why this year, we had to tackle him (FIFA
President, Ginani Infantino) and we said, ‘you , Infantino, if
you win this election, you have to give us a position.
“If not, we shall not agree.’ And you see, by the grace of
God, he even picked an African as his Secretary-General,
that means one day, we shall get to really lick the honey,
that also means he has started taking honey and rubbing
on our lips,” he added

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OK

Lol, diz red beret lawyer again

Hahaha. This man has to be the most controversial minister in 2016. Was he not the one that said athletes don't need preparation to win medals?

Buhari really goofed in picking you up from wherever you were. What am I even saying? Buhari is a goof himself.

how this ediot became minister in the first place,beats my imagination..

I honestly do not want to believe he said that.... I don't.

Nigeria is full of dunces.

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smh, its obvious that this man doesn't know much about sport before he became a minister

Intreasting how we ended with such a sport loving minister

come una wan lift the world cup b4? weda wen Chicken go grow teeth nd Ogunfe shave en bia-bia wid Shaving stick sha

Quite funny tho.... Seems like he has no idea about the monetary value of participating .... Cos I know participating teams get paid On every stage they qualify for ..... 4rm the group-stage to the final .......
Last time we reached the knock-out.... N yeah Fifa paid nigeria .... N such helps the team a lot , that dude needs to be fired ..... He's a dumbskull.

Like employer like employee
And it took bubu in his mighty dunceness to choose an eternally condemned dunce
I thought GeJ was clueless never knew he has oga

If only he can tell his children dat if dey can't graduate with first class,no need of going to school.......red beret mumu man