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ABUJA—GOVERNOR Mohammed Bello of Niger State, yesterday, said those pushing the former vice president and presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in February 23 election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, to challenge the outcome of the election in court could be doing so to get money from him.

According to him, with his victory, people of the state should be assured that his administration was committed to providing dividends of democracy to them and to complete ongoing projects it started, adding that the new ones to be embarked on would be of benefit to the general public.

On Atiku’s claim that he won the election, Bello said: “It is not unusual, when you lose elections, you go to court for so many reasons. It could be that you think you won or it could be that someone is telling you that you have won or it could be that someone is telling you some miracles can happen. “It could also be that someone wants to get money off you. So there is no reason why after free and fair elections had been conducted and it is clear in the eyes of the world, one still believes that there are shoddy dealings.

“Anyone who feels dissatisfied is free to approach a court of law. It is a free world, everyone is entitled to his opinion. But honestly, from what I saw in Niger, this election has been the fairest election we have conducted so far.” Despite the declaration of election inconclusive in some states by Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, the governor said that election was the fairest election so far conducted in the country. He said: “I think INEC did extremely well, the security agencies did very well as well. It is not unusual when you hold elections in a country like Nigeria where you have so many units to have issues with one or two units.”

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The Minister of Youths and Sports Development, Solomon Dalung, says the Federal Government will no longer fund the excesses of the sports federation in its bid to reposition sports. Dalung Dalung made the assertion at the 25th anniversary and the 7th convocation of the Nigeria Institute of Sports, National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos. He said that it was imperative for the ministry to channel the funding of the various sports in the country directly to those that were concerned which included the athletes and the coaches.

“In order to refocus sports in Nigeria, government will no more invest in the excesses of the federations. Our investment will now be going directly to the welfare of the athletes and coaches. “In sports development, the welfare of the athletes is sacrosanct, so the administration will now focus more on the welfare of the players, athletes and coaches. “What I am saying is part of the democratisation of the sports federations which includes the federations drafting their constitution, endorsed by their congresses and also registering with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC).

“The aspect of the rule that says once the federations are registered, government can no longer fund them is not true. There is nowhere in the world that sports is not funded by the government. “In developed countries like the U.K., U.S., they still give grants to develop sports; what we are saying is that, for them to enjoy the support of the private sector, they need to be incorporated,” he said. Dalung said that if the sports federations were registered, it would give the private sector confidence to invest in sports which would complement the efforts of government. “Once a federation is incorporated, it will enjoy the private sector support because their books will be open to the public for scrutiny and this will give confidence to the investors. Nigeria, India to enhance bilateral relations “Government will continue to provide grants to the sports federation to run their programmes because if government will not provide funds, who runs the grassroots development aspect of sports. “If government refuses funding, that means that we would have to reduce sports to the elites, which should not happen, we will continue to be partners in progress. “Another contentious issue is about the position of the Secretary General of the federation which should be appointed by the government. The federation cannot withhold the position from the government,” he said. Dalung said that the current state of the national stadium was appalling, adding that the federal government would do all within its power to resuscitate the abandoned sports infrastructure in the country. “I want to emphasise that we must keep sustaining some of the laudable sports tradition we inherited. As I look at the National Stadium here in Surulere, my eyes are already generating tears.

“I remembered around 1982 when I had the opportunity to participate in one of the Games here, and today, coming as the sports minister and watching the same in this state cannot be something of joy. Infrastructural upgrade tops sports ministry’s 2019 to do list “It is a mixed feeling of both joy and sadness. I think we should start to revive all these traditions and also rehabilitate all moribund structures in Nigeria. “It will be painful to our legends to see where they have made great achievements abandoned. The present state of these facilities is worrisome,” he said. NAN reports that the NIS graduated over 1,500 students in Diploma and Higher Diploma in Sports Management, Stadium Management, Coaching and Training among others. (NAN)

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/03/govt-will-no-longer-invest-in-excesses-of-sports-federations-minister-2/

Keep a lawyer were he should be and an Eng where he should but na compensation we want

Her Wahala

Good for him

i love her Kind of music. She is second to my female favorite ASA

That lady should sue them to court straight up.

Are they still giving out legal fire arms? coz i need one

Illiterates.... so you don't know what can kill someone abi...... rot in jail

Weldone

Baba has spoken

If the police always did their job, there will be no Mob action

No big deal. The removal of that judge was because of the elections. They had to replace him with a Judge from the other side.

If the electoral laws were amended good for Atiku

Eiyaaaa

If the man is suffering from depression is it your business? The man has a lot to prove and they are there wailing.....initially they were advising him not to challenge..... Smh

This is an old news I guess

They are just trying to disgrace this man for reasons best known to them. 400 million for publicity is not much money.