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[00:01:08] understanding, so that's it on the aspect, so bring everybody around the table,
[00:01:11] regardless color, racist, tribalism or religions, we are one
[00:01:15] family, basketball unite us, so we used to be a great family before,
[00:01:19] a but now when all this atrocity, selfishness,
[00:01:23] ego,
[00:01:24] of non-inclusiveness started happening, so we can do this for sure,
[00:01:28] it start from
[00:01:29] of where, from lead? he start from leadership, he start from leadership and he
[00:01:33] start from the president, so how you bring yourself to everybody
[00:01:37] or you want to be truthful, you want to be honest, that is extremely
[00:01:40] important, then what,
[00:01:43] so if you start from there, the rest one is going to be secondary,
[00:01:47] now for to answer the question quickly that he asked
[00:01:51] me, yes i've been involved in
[00:01:52] of nigerian basketball, was a member of
[00:01:55] of the board right now, but do i have function, no, you are
[00:01:59] allowed to do an' to be done?
[00:02:01] of no, so and and if you i'm rather than see
[00:02:04] me as an asset and see other people as an asset and see other board
[00:02:08] members as an asset, because as a leader, mean if you don't if you don't want to
[00:02:12] be challenged as a
[00:02:15] of leader, nobody is following you, you
[00:02:19] are not leading, you're taking a
[00:02:21] me wall, but at the same time i know
[00:02:23] of every leader want to be successful, so maybe my contribution might not be
[00:02:27] needed, other might not be needed, but the most important thing is: for us to get
[00:02:30] a result and to but
[00:02:32] what i could
[00:02:32] what i did and
[00:02:33] what i control is
[00:02:34] what i could control, i control
[00:02:35] what i could do in the southwest and make sure we have secondary school basketball
[00:02:39] tournament, we have under 13 basketball tournament can be verified, we
[00:02:43] have under 13 boys
[00:02:44] of and girls under 17, we had the collegiate with that within within my
[00:02:48] southwest where i represent on the board i make sure the
[00:02:51] basketball was progressive, you see that was the first time we
[00:02:55] won uh in the youth games all southwest came first and second good boys and
[00:02:59] girls indeed so that's what we are and I will continue to
[00:03:02] move uh like I said that's what I have passion to do
[00:03:06] put smile on the young boys and girls faces and continue to represent the country okay
[00:03:09] let
[00:03:13] go me ask you there this uh point you blank you
[00:03:14] Thursday to on contest for the president of
[00:03:17] MBBF do you believe you
[00:03:21] can win do you believe you have the support
[00:03:24] of of the electorate you to win this
[00:03:27] election.
[00:03:31] uh, well if you has
[00:03:32] me this question sometimes ago, I would say yes, but right now I can tell you
[00:03:35] categorically we
[00:03:37] definitely
[00:03:41] we're going to have people just come out here just uh just do swing
[00:03:45] in because um the election I can guarantee you will
[00:03:49] be fair I sorry the election will be free but election will not be
[00:03:53] fair because I'm not the only one complaining we have other people complaining you
[00:03:57] see how the you see all the chair most chairman have been changed, the
[00:04:01] one have not been changed, they have been just been uh replaced,
[00:04:05] the one has not replaced, they put them at the back, they bring people
[00:04:08] who doesn't understand basketball to go and represent them, and the fact is there and I
[00:04:12] can be quoted and anybody can quote me for content, I bring
[00:04:15] evidences and I can tell you for example state
[00:04:19] was changed, gombe was changed, the
[00:04:23] relegated the chairman, the say he couldn't go for congress, he was
[00:04:26] changed for somebody else to go, because the... because they
[00:04:30] promise what they supposed to give for free, which was ethical,
[00:04:34] mean the same thing we talking about, you talking about niger was changed, you talking
[00:04:38] about um, you're talking
[00:04:41] of about, i could just remember, i can't remember at least
[00:04:44] about seven, eight to 10 states was changed, mean i
[00:04:47] of already mentioned that gombe, so i was talking about on state where
[00:04:51] was also even my state where i came from where the the young
[00:04:55] man weaber weber eng who has been
[00:04:58] supporting basketball over there for the last
[00:05:01] me si years was asked
[00:05:02] me to step aside because we got directive for
[00:05:07] a the deputy governor so that to go somebody else over
[00:05:10] a there so we have many people like do i want to talk about
[00:05:12] all all other states where a lot of people have been replaced so and lot of
[00:05:16] things are happened that shows that this election definitely not
[00:05:20] fair and lot of manipulation, lot of intimidation, you're going
[00:05:24] to see people sending name the delegates to the federation
[00:05:28] within the next day after the two hours, they were calling the commissioner, they were
[00:05:31] calling people to intimidate them to just
[00:05:34] say they should change the candidate, are
[00:05:35] you do you want to talk about b where the deputy
[00:05:39] governor call sorry? god he
[00:05:43] got a man, yes, the son the soil that they have to remove his
[00:05:46] name as delegate, because they promised them
[00:05:50] solar light, mean they're going to pass to solar light, so how can
[00:05:54] you be doing that, but you go do this in the us or the part the
[00:05:58] world the country, that is definitely that's the problem, that's so
[00:06:02] ethical, so if you know that you so popular, if you know
[00:06:06] you really want to do this, you do not need to do, not to
[00:06:09] intimidate people for them to also remove. ava as
[00:06:13] delegate from benway who was so because they said there's
[00:06:17] a lot of things that kind of just going on there's
[00:06:19] a manipulation there intimidation so this this election is definitely
[00:06:23] not fair so everything already been can you look at the
[00:06:27] situation we have never seen any
[00:06:29] of my world where you have a contestant
[00:06:32] candidate put the poster right in the gym writing
[00:06:36] in the MBBF tournaments and you say
[00:06:40] that you said that we're going for or we say we're going people is going to say
[00:06:44] uh that's a policy, but that's not quality, because you're working for government, because
[00:06:48] you're using
[00:06:50] that one, are using that that situation to oppress people, the
[00:06:54] people you want to lead, are the one you removing, they are the one you oppressing, mean
[00:06:58] how possible that one is, because you work for government, you are making
[00:07:01] a a governor instant east part
[00:07:05] the
[00:07:05] country,
[00:07:10] definitely intimidation because you you have a
[00:07:14] portfolio that has to do with all nation with the party drop
[00:07:17] to you using this one to call other party members to call the
[00:07:21] governors to remove them
[00:07:23] come on do you
[00:07:25] have do you have do you have do you have the evidence do you have
[00:07:28] evidence of what you are saying let
[00:07:32] me let me also ask let me let ask you this you did say one the
[00:07:35] candidates
[00:07:36] are pictures you know was used in in the tournament did they stop other
[00:07:40] candidates from doing it mean was there look is only this candidate they
[00:07:44] are going to put his pictures right there in the national tournament and you
[00:07:47] other people are contesting they didn't put yours
[00:07:51] no that's that's ethical that is not allowed okay that is not
[00:07:55] allowed okay that is that is that is not allowed in
[00:07:58] the federation okay okay now so okay
[00:08:02] now okay mean you were talking about fifa right now so
[00:08:06] do you see infant fino or any other poster
[00:08:10] in the work cup put it in the d tell me so what do you think is going to
[00:08:14] happen? tell me about that please? i don't
[00:08:16] know, probably the probably they would have said the
[00:08:20] venue, the venue would have been an opportunity for you guys to
[00:08:23] showcase you by whatever your adv your your campaigning
[00:08:27] materials to come and put there uh so that that is how i am seeing
[00:08:31] that is why i'm asking the question that was it put that anybody who wants to do that can
[00:08:35] come and do it or you guys just so it as a surprise that somebody's you know
[00:08:39] poster was put you know uh within and and mbbf
[00:08:43] tournament, mean uh uh sorry, mean
[00:08:47] i'm very surprised that me becoming defending lawyer right
[00:08:50] now,
[00:08:52] i'm asking the question because i do not i
[00:08:56] do not have the question, yes yes i don't have the f, mean i'm
[00:09:00] ask, i'm just asking you the same question, that is that is
[00:09:04] completely, that's completely on, that's complete ethical, that's
[00:09:08] complete, mean it should, it shouldn't be
[00:09:11] done, that shouldn't be done and this is a
[00:09:15] unfortunately uh we just uh lot of lot of
[00:09:19] things already happened and what i only want
[00:09:21] to say that god say nigerian basketball because we say we want peace must you impress
[00:09:25] the people that you wants to that must you impress the people that you want to
[00:09:29] lead before you leading them must you displace them from their
[00:09:32] position so mean what kind of mean what kind of leader you want to be
[00:09:36] now we all want to say after we get all this we're going to
[00:09:40] uh bring on bring family on we say we want 'oh, how can we have a
[00:09:43] single? I'm just, it's completely not right. I mean, I'm not
[00:09:47] the one only one complaining, I'm not the only one seeing God say the same
[00:09:51] thing, and every single thing I'm saying about removing name the people, whatever can
[00:09:55] be back off, anybody can show me, I'm a national tv, you what I'm saying is
[00:09:59] wrong, I challenge everyone to come out there and say this is what I'm
[00:10:02] saying is wrong, and I'm just the only thing that I can say this is,
[00:10:06] okay, go ahead please,
[00:10:08] who are who are the eligible voters, I mean, is it voter from a state?'
[00:10:12] just the just the uh
[00:10:14] uh state president or you know you have about two or three you know
[00:10:18] uh eligible voters from each state or what what what are the constituents
[00:10:21] in that are there eligible total number of voters?
[00:10:25] expecting you uh on on on
[00:10:27] Thursday - we we we
[00:10:31] expecting about few we are expecting about the 50 about 50
[00:10:34] delegates uh 50 votes for the president and
[00:10:37] the vice president we have about 37
[00:10:41] still including FCT we have six from the zone uh that's
[00:10:45] a 43 we
[00:10:46] have the napad SDs we have
[00:10:49] a 4 we have uh nawis we have a international rap that's
[00:10:53] a plus uh night we have a technical rep
[00:10:57] uh we have a players ref and then we also have
[00:11:00] um our sponsor so those are the 50
[00:11:04] delegates all right the
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[00:14:00] Okay, are you welcome back,
[00:14:02] it is the channel sport on Sunday of course we have uh, olumide
[00:14:05] Oyedeji, the president of Nigerian Olympic
[00:14:09] Association, Vice President
[00:14:11] IoC, uh, when we started this,
[00:14:15] it is long, NOC, of NOC, he's been part of
[00:14:19] fiber and everything, basketball development, and he says it's time for
[00:14:23] him to contest and be
[00:14:26] uh uh the image, the the number one man who wants to
[00:14:30] you know push get you clear a path for the progress of nigerian
[00:14:34] basketball, but he's saying it is going to be free, but it
[00:14:37] is not going to be fair, he did say it is going to be a
[00:14:40] coronation uh, so those words are
[00:14:44] waiting, but like ask him do you have the evidence and he said yes, he said you want to
[00:14:48] you want to take me on, i'm saying this national television, this not just national
[00:14:52] television, this is an international uh uh
[00:14:57] that he is here uh speaking, but before we go back into speak
[00:15:01] with ulumide uh on the elections coming up we have jella in
[00:15:05] the house, you welcome to the show, thanks again for having me and uh for
[00:15:09] bringing to the attention of nigerians, the trouble child of nigerian
[00:15:13] sports, other sports will struggle to qualify for the world
[00:15:16] cup, but in the case of basketball we qualify and boycotted the world
[00:15:20] cup,
[00:15:23] so just said something, let ask, let
[00:15:27] ask, luminate, lumi, where are you, let me ask
[00:15:31] e
[00:15:35] was
[00:15:35] where was in australia or where did that uh
[00:15:37] that was on
[00:15:38] the dog
[00:15:46] look said will
[00:15:49] not go to the world cup back back other boy try to qualify but basketball
[00:15:53] that you guys qualified for the you qualify for the world cup and your board
[00:15:57] you're part of that board you guys qualify for the world cup how come you did
[00:16:01] not go what what really happened nige to do we talk about the
[00:16:04] election i can try to
[00:16:07] yeah,
[00:16:13] mean, mean but point we of correction, we did not
[00:16:17] did but boycots,
[00:16:18] not, it what was, i we were withdrew,
[00:16:21] we we were withdrew by the honorable minister back then,
[00:16:25] because he believed that the the honor, the house was not in
[00:16:28] order, he believed he wanted to put the house in order, so
[00:16:32] maybe that might be part the measure he wants to use to put the house in
[00:16:36] order, so federation at the particular time
[00:16:39] where was not voluntarily removed or
[00:16:43] just come
[00:16:45] so we all wanted to go to work so every player want
[00:16:47] to go to work the nigerian story the nigerian
[00:16:51] story from all
[00:16:55] faces story where you want to tell it is
[00:16:58] there how many of you are contesting for the presidency the mf
[00:17:02] so far we have about five we have
[00:17:06] about five we have for my national team player which was
[00:17:09] extremely cool for me to shows that we all want to be
[00:17:13] part of it and that we all want to make progress I'm happy I'm
[00:17:16] excited uh that all this everybody wants to put the hands on the neck
[00:17:20] is like a wake up call for us uh before i you never see any
[00:17:24] national team player contesting for the for the federation president in
[00:17:28] basketball but for three of us at the same time that mean
[00:17:31] yes we believe the time is now and also we have
[00:17:35] go down those three myself um, two them are actually my
[00:17:39] teammates, we play, we actually won the first
[00:17:42] gold medal or gold car for nigerian basketball,
[00:17:46] i'm talking alongside with the Stanley Gums and
[00:17:49] also my member the
[00:17:53] other Olympics and 2012 Olympics that we went to Kacas
[00:17:56] together, also we have
[00:17:59] a igoche Matt, he was being around basketball for a long
[00:18:03] time with the honor of ball and also
[00:18:06] M. that did very well injurant league back then yeah
[00:18:10] and we have Dr. Mustafa
[00:18:13] abdul also to be so I
[00:18:16] believe those are the five that we uh
[00:18:20] fighting for the position the president okay
[00:18:24] you
[00:18:24] you you've talked about your fears in on on even terrain
[00:18:28] that you guys want to face on Thursday i have you guys is there
[00:18:32] a uh uh you know
[00:18:34] an avenue that you guys will use or there you body that you and complaint
[00:18:38] to to load your your complaints that probably this is not
[00:18:42] in a level playing field and you you are some
[00:18:46] other guys some other contestants also saying the same thing have you guys sm
[00:18:50] and look at your position and look how do we get this thing rectified how do
[00:18:54] we get you know uh fair and not just a free but a
[00:18:57] free and fair election on
[00:19:00] thursday um like i said
[00:19:04] quote mean and quote mean and quote me said it three times
[00:19:08] "we're going to have free election, but election will never be
[00:19:12] fair, so like I said, they just come to
[00:19:14] ordain anointing candidate already, that's
[00:19:18] it, also you don't going to see anything different with what I said,
[00:19:22] if you see anything different with what I'm saying now, even as I'm talking to you right now,
[00:19:26] they'll still try to remove me, and we have somebody who has been there for
[00:19:30] over two decades, with nothing to show, nothing to do, they still
[00:19:34] wants to continue to be part of, just want to kind of just continue."
[00:19:37] occupy space so how you want to be
[00:19:40] to be to to be fair, but we already have this one to
[00:19:43] notify of fiber yeah for for this and all this things
[00:19:47] happening, we already notify the NOC, i believe they good the already got the
[00:19:51] letter and uh all the other bodies NOC
[00:19:54] we got the letter as well for sure and
[00:19:58] um definitely i'm just using this opportunity uh to
[00:20:02] to just take to the national sports commission who w in charge of
[00:20:06] this uh uh this situation to look at it
[00:20:09] critically and I must give cudos
[00:20:11] to uh because he
[00:20:15] has tried to fix one or two things for sure a giving and
[00:20:19] what i try to say the most important thing is just apply to
[00:20:23] our father who is the head the crew and also every single one of
[00:20:27] those to look into this deeply because lot of things have been
[00:20:31] used lot of names have been trying around or here and
[00:20:35] there this and these i really wanted to look at into this that for this
[00:20:39] family to be together, for everybody to have a free and fear,
[00:20:42] even for us to
[00:20:43] say we want renew Nigerian basketball, we can have
[00:20:47] renew Nigerian basketball family. because lot of
[00:20:51] things have been abused, lot of position, I mean position have been
[00:20:55] abused, position have been used ethical just empower
[00:20:58] themselves, rather empower the nation, use it
[00:21:02] empower themselves, but hopefully this will be looked into
[00:21:05] and uh just I'm calling on our our
[00:21:09] president, calling on the national sports commission and every single
[00:21:12] NOC to look into this critically if they really want the
[00:21:16] progress of Nigerian basketball, not not the... on
[00:21:20] people, not removing people, not try to displace people,
[00:21:24] because the people that you displacing now are the people that you still want to
[00:21:28] work with, how can there be peace, how can there be
[00:21:31] togetherness, the young innocent children they are
[00:21:34] suffering for this for these situation, i play bad
[00:21:38] with myself, if nigerian basketball was like this when i was growing up,
[00:21:42] maybe i would never be who i am today, because we already
[00:21:46] wasted one generation talent, do you want to continue for another?
[00:21:50] is do not win to win nigerian basketball or federation election
[00:21:54] before i contribute my own culture, whoever win let them
[00:21:57] win with free and fear do not
[00:22:00] intimidate and like i said again i do not have to win is
[00:22:04] i want
[00:22:05] to i can do with all the thing like i've been doing my foundation so the lastly i'm
[00:22:09] appealing to our father
[00:22:13] asudable and every other one involved to look
[00:22:16] into this deeply and if i'm wrong "i
[00:22:20] will come out there publicly and apologize, okay, i was wrong,
[00:22:24] but i'm not the only one that was wrong, you can bring other countries
[00:22:28] and to on tv show, they will see the same
[00:22:31] thing that i'm saying, even including the board members were
[00:22:35] disfranchised, the w the move them away, lot of things have been happening,
[00:22:39] because for us to keep quiet that doesn't mean we
[00:22:42] are foolish, all what we wanted, we wanted peace, we
[00:22:46] wanted to get in this, we wanted the Nigerian basketball to grow." but some
[00:22:50] people have taken this basketball, this this our
[00:22:53] humility, our stupidity, lot of slender,
[00:22:57] lot of character assassination. i challenge my fellow board
[00:23:01] member on the congress, why he say the board member
[00:23:05] or they were writing to the sponsor, not to be, not to sponsor the basketball
[00:23:08] league, not to have the sponsor, and rose up in the congress, i said,
[00:23:12] i challenge you to produce the letter that you said you
[00:23:16] saw that the board members wrote, not sponsor. is
[00:23:20] if you don't do this, you own this congress and
[00:23:23] apology, nothing was said about it,
[00:23:26] okay, you have, you have,
[00:23:30] you have,
[00:23:30] you have, you have 60 seconds to talk to your constituency before the elections, because
[00:23:34] we're running out of time, 60 seconds, tell them why they should support
[00:23:37] you, um, I don't need to
[00:23:41] support me, I don't need to support Nagerian basketball, I want Nigerian basketball to be
[00:23:45] great, it doesn't not need to be alluminate, I wanted to really look at it
[00:23:49] who's gna change it was who can who can do the best for
[00:23:52] Nigerian basketball? I believe I have to choose, but is a choice
[00:23:56] to decide, they should not be intimidated, they shouldn't use a director
[00:24:00] of sport, they should not use commission, they should not use lot of
[00:24:04] violation as already happening, please let's choose wisely, let's look for the progress
[00:24:08] of Nigerian basketball, don't take 100 thous, don't take 2 million, the
[00:24:12] million and fell the right and the future the younger one, because
[00:24:16] if you do that, whatever money you get, I do not know how you're going to use the money.
[00:24:20] but let's do wisely and let's our account thank you very much let's
[00:24:23] make nigerian basketball great let's united the game sorry
[00:24:27] united nation and let's elevate again thank
[00:24:46] yeah that's that is i think is
[00:24:50] quite shameful that this 2026 and uh we have
[00:24:53] not still been able to fix issue of election right in this
[00:24:56] country uh I think the first elective position Nigeria was
[00:25:00] under
[00:25:01] the uh Clifford Constitution of 1922 and I could remember uh
[00:25:05] we have 36 state governors in the Nigerian Governor's
[00:25:08] forum and they are problem conducting the election with amongst the six
[00:25:12] people and when you keep hearing this kind of issues
[00:25:15] and uh I don't think is something uh that Glad is
[00:25:19] one out. so i think she starts the
[00:26:14] uh march 18th FIFA presidency elections of course by
[00:26:18] November by November 18th uh this thing would have been uh nominations
[00:26:21] will have coming and you need about just five members to support you for you to be on the
[00:26:25] ballot yeah how well Wenga will uh
[00:26:29] perform as a FIFA president is something I don't understand because uh
[00:26:33] he had this tendency of not carrying others along with so many of his
[00:26:36] proposals to the uh changing of
[00:26:40] football globally so i think he has been
[00:26:42] the chief global consultant for fifa when it comes to football
[00:26:45] development but doubt if he's a team player
[00:27:15] basketball uh like said they've always been the shining light day
[00:27:19] and the super falcons have been the two teams that you can rely on when they
[00:27:23] go let us make sure that you that which we have we don't destroy with our
[00:27:26] hands wish everybody best of luck as they go there on Thursday
[00:27:30] to pick the next president
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[00:30:21] people in the news. I am Bukola Coka, standing in for
[00:30:25] your regular anchor, Kayla McGuar. Last week we brought
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[00:30:33] pro-democracy activist
[00:30:36] drawing our conversation from renewed calls for
[00:30:40] national conversation among Nigeria's constituent
[00:30:44] ethnic nationalities. the lawyer and
[00:30:46] octogenarian argued vehemently that the military should
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