Following the sudden
appearance of Sports Minister Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi and Director of
Sports
Bolaji Ojo-Oba in the weekly training meeting of Mega Handball Veterans
in
Abuja today to broker peace in the prevailing crisis rocking Handball
Federation
of Nigeria, the Handball Veterans have vowed to fight on.
Rising from a caucus
meeting earlier today, the executive members of the organization queried
the
rationale behind National Sports Commission going contrary to the
Election
Guidelines they brought out only for them to call for negotiation after
the
election.
In a six point communiqué
release after the meeting, they agreed to fight on in order to restore
handball
to its desired position in the perking order of sports in the country.
The communiqué further
shows that the veterans have hired the services of some Senior Advocates
of
Nigeria to prosecute the case they have brought before Federal High
Court Abuja
and have also contributed funds worth millions of Naira for the project
they
said it’s meant to restructure handball in Nigeria and place it to its
envious position.
Speaking to
journalist immediately after the meeting, an executive member of
Handball Veterans,
Jonathan Elendu said that decries the impunity with which public office
holders
go against the rules they are expected to protect saying that he
expected the
National Sports Commission to immediately cancel the process and follow
the guidelines
religiously to its logical conclusion.
“We are not asking
for anything extra- ordinary. We just want the right thing to be done”,
he
concluded.
The National
Coordinator of Mega Handball Veterans further advised the National
Sports
Commission to listen to the voice of reason so that the game of handball
will develop
in the country.
The court case
between the two bodies is expected to come up on Thursday next week in
Federal
High Court Abuja.
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