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00:01:08understanding, so that's it on the aspect, so bring everybody around the table,
00:01:11regardless color, racist, tribalism or religions, we are one
00:01:15family, basketball unite us, so we used to be a great family before,
00:01:19a but now when all this atrocity, selfishness,
00:01:23ego,
00:01:24of non-inclusiveness started happening, so we can do this for sure,
00:01:28it start from
00:01:29of where, from lead? he start from leadership, he start from leadership and he
00:01:33start from the president, so how you bring yourself to everybody
00:01:37or you want to be truthful, you want to be honest, that is extremely
00:01:40important, then what,
00:01:43so if you start from there, the rest one is going to be secondary,
00:01:47now for to answer the question quickly that he asked
00:01:51me, yes i've been involved in
00:01:52of nigerian basketball, was a member of
00:01:55of the board right now, but do i have function, no, you are
00:01:59allowed to do an' to be done?
00:02:01of no, so and and if you i'm rather than see
00:02:04me as an asset and see other people as an asset and see other board
00:02:08members as an asset, because as a leader, mean if you don't if you don't want to
00:02:12be challenged as a
00:02:15of leader, nobody is following you, you
00:02:19are not leading, you're taking a
00:02:21me wall, but at the same time i know
00:02:23of every leader want to be successful, so maybe my contribution might not be
00:02:27needed, other might not be needed, but the most important thing is: for us to get
00:02:30a result and to but
00:02:32what i could
00:02:32what i did and
00:02:33what i control is
00:02:34what i could control, i control
00:02:35what i could do in the southwest and make sure we have secondary school basketball
00:02:39tournament, we have under 13 basketball tournament can be verified, we
00:02:43have under 13 boys
00:02:44of and girls under 17, we had the collegiate with that within within my
00:02:48southwest where i represent on the board i make sure the
00:02:51basketball was progressive, you see that was the first time we
00:02:55won uh in the youth games all southwest came first and second good boys and
00:02:59girls indeed so that's what we are and I will continue to
00:03:02move uh like I said that's what I have passion to do
00:03:06put smile on the young boys and girls faces and continue to represent the country okay
00:03:09let
00:03:13go me ask you there this uh point you blank you
00:03:14Thursday to on contest for the president of
00:03:17MBBF do you believe you
00:03:21can win do you believe you have the support
00:03:24of of the electorate you to win this
00:03:27election.
00:03:31uh, well if you has
00:03:32me this question sometimes ago, I would say yes, but right now I can tell you
00:03:35categorically we
00:03:37definitely
00:03:41we're going to have people just come out here just uh just do swing
00:03:45in because um the election I can guarantee you will
00:03:49be fair I sorry the election will be free but election will not be
00:03:53fair because I'm not the only one complaining we have other people complaining you
00:03:57see how the you see all the chair most chairman have been changed, the
00:04:01one have not been changed, they have been just been uh replaced,
00:04:05the one has not replaced, they put them at the back, they bring people
00:04:08who doesn't understand basketball to go and represent them, and the fact is there and I
00:04:12can be quoted and anybody can quote me for content, I bring
00:04:15evidences and I can tell you for example state
00:04:19was changed, gombe was changed, the
00:04:23relegated the chairman, the say he couldn't go for congress, he was
00:04:26changed for somebody else to go, because the... because they
00:04:30promise what they supposed to give for free, which was ethical,
00:04:34mean the same thing we talking about, you talking about niger was changed, you talking
00:04:38about um, you're talking
00:04:41of about, i could just remember, i can't remember at least
00:04:44about seven, eight to 10 states was changed, mean i
00:04:47of already mentioned that gombe, so i was talking about on state where
00:04:51was also even my state where i came from where the the young
00:04:55man weaber weber eng who has been
00:04:58supporting basketball over there for the last
00:05:01me si years was asked
00:05:02me to step aside because we got directive for
00:05:07a the deputy governor so that to go somebody else over
00:05:10a there so we have many people like do i want to talk about
00:05:12all all other states where a lot of people have been replaced so and lot of
00:05:16things are happened that shows that this election definitely not
00:05:20fair and lot of manipulation, lot of intimidation, you're going
00:05:24to see people sending name the delegates to the federation
00:05:28within the next day after the two hours, they were calling the commissioner, they were
00:05:31calling people to intimidate them to just
00:05:34say they should change the candidate, are
00:05:35you do you want to talk about b where the deputy
00:05:39governor call sorry? god he
00:05:43got a man, yes, the son the soil that they have to remove his
00:05:46name as delegate, because they promised them
00:05:50solar light, mean they're going to pass to solar light, so how can
00:05:54you be doing that, but you go do this in the us or the part the
00:05:58world the country, that is definitely that's the problem, that's so
00:06:02ethical, so if you know that you so popular, if you know
00:06:06you really want to do this, you do not need to do, not to
00:06:09intimidate people for them to also remove. ava as
00:06:13delegate from benway who was so because they said there's
00:06:17a lot of things that kind of just going on there's
00:06:19a manipulation there intimidation so this this election is definitely
00:06:23not fair so everything already been can you look at the
00:06:27situation we have never seen any
00:06:29of my world where you have a contestant
00:06:32candidate put the poster right in the gym writing
00:06:36in the MBBF tournaments and you say
00:06:40that you said that we're going for or we say we're going people is going to say
00:06:44uh that's a policy, but that's not quality, because you're working for government, because
00:06:48you're using
00:06:50that one, are using that that situation to oppress people, the
00:06:54people you want to lead, are the one you removing, they are the one you oppressing, mean
00:06:58how possible that one is, because you work for government, you are making
00:07:01a a governor instant east part
00:07:05the
00:07:05country,
00:07:10definitely intimidation because you you have a
00:07:14portfolio that has to do with all nation with the party drop
00:07:17to you using this one to call other party members to call the
00:07:21governors to remove them
00:07:23come on do you
00:07:25have do you have do you have do you have the evidence do you have
00:07:28evidence of what you are saying let
00:07:32me let me also ask let me let ask you this you did say one the
00:07:35candidates
00:07:36are pictures you know was used in in the tournament did they stop other
00:07:40candidates from doing it mean was there look is only this candidate they
00:07:44are going to put his pictures right there in the national tournament and you
00:07:47other people are contesting they didn't put yours
00:07:51no that's that's ethical that is not allowed okay that is not
00:07:55allowed okay that is that is that is not allowed in
00:07:58the federation okay okay now so okay
00:08:02now okay mean you were talking about fifa right now so
00:08:06do you see infant fino or any other poster
00:08:10in the work cup put it in the d tell me so what do you think is going to
00:08:14happen? tell me about that please? i don't
00:08:16know, probably the probably they would have said the
00:08:20venue, the venue would have been an opportunity for you guys to
00:08:23showcase you by whatever your adv your your campaigning
00:08:27materials to come and put there uh so that that is how i am seeing
00:08:31that is why i'm asking the question that was it put that anybody who wants to do that can
00:08:35come and do it or you guys just so it as a surprise that somebody's you know
00:08:39poster was put you know uh within and and mbbf
00:08:43tournament, mean uh uh sorry, mean
00:08:47i'm very surprised that me becoming defending lawyer right
00:08:50now,
00:08:52i'm asking the question because i do not i
00:08:56do not have the question, yes yes i don't have the f, mean i'm
00:09:00ask, i'm just asking you the same question, that is that is
00:09:04completely, that's completely on, that's complete ethical, that's
00:09:08complete, mean it should, it shouldn't be
00:09:11done, that shouldn't be done and this is a
00:09:15unfortunately uh we just uh lot of lot of
00:09:19things already happened and what i only want
00:09:21to say that god say nigerian basketball because we say we want peace must you impress
00:09:25the people that you wants to that must you impress the people that you want to
00:09:29lead before you leading them must you displace them from their
00:09:32position so mean what kind of mean what kind of leader you want to be
00:09:36now we all want to say after we get all this we're going to
00:09:40uh bring on bring family on we say we want 'oh, how can we have a
00:09:43single? I'm just, it's completely not right. I mean, I'm not
00:09:47the one only one complaining, I'm not the only one seeing God say the same
00:09:51thing, and every single thing I'm saying about removing name the people, whatever can
00:09:55be back off, anybody can show me, I'm a national tv, you what I'm saying is
00:09:59wrong, I challenge everyone to come out there and say this is what I'm
00:10:02saying is wrong, and I'm just the only thing that I can say this is,
00:10:06okay, go ahead please,
00:10:08who are who are the eligible voters, I mean, is it voter from a state?'
00:10:12just the just the uh
00:10:14uh state president or you know you have about two or three you know
00:10:18uh eligible voters from each state or what what what are the constituents
00:10:21in that are there eligible total number of voters?
00:10:25expecting you uh on on on
00:10:27Thursday - we we we
00:10:31expecting about few we are expecting about the 50 about 50
00:10:34delegates uh 50 votes for the president and
00:10:37the vice president we have about 37
00:10:41still including FCT we have six from the zone uh that's
00:10:45a 43 we
00:10:46have the napad SDs we have
00:10:49a 4 we have uh nawis we have a international rap that's
00:10:53a plus uh night we have a technical rep
00:10:57uh we have a players ref and then we also have
00:11:00um our sponsor so those are the 50
00:11:04delegates all right the
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00:13:30youbukatus.
00:14:00Okay, are you welcome back,
00:14:02it is the channel sport on Sunday of course we have uh, olumide
00:14:05Oyedeji, the president of Nigerian Olympic
00:14:09Association, Vice President
00:14:11IoC, uh, when we started this,
00:14:15it is long, NOC, of NOC, he's been part of
00:14:19fiber and everything, basketball development, and he says it's time for
00:14:23him to contest and be
00:14:26uh uh the image, the the number one man who wants to
00:14:30you know push get you clear a path for the progress of nigerian
00:14:34basketball, but he's saying it is going to be free, but it
00:14:37is not going to be fair, he did say it is going to be a
00:14:40coronation uh, so those words are
00:14:44waiting, but like ask him do you have the evidence and he said yes, he said you want to
00:14:48you want to take me on, i'm saying this national television, this not just national
00:14:52television, this is an international uh uh
00:14:57that he is here uh speaking, but before we go back into speak
00:15:01with ulumide uh on the elections coming up we have jella in
00:15:05the house, you welcome to the show, thanks again for having me and uh for
00:15:09bringing to the attention of nigerians, the trouble child of nigerian
00:15:13sports, other sports will struggle to qualify for the world
00:15:16cup, but in the case of basketball we qualify and boycotted the world
00:15:20cup,
00:15:23so just said something, let ask, let
00:15:27ask, luminate, lumi, where are you, let me ask
00:15:31e
00:15:35was
00:15:35where was in australia or where did that uh
00:15:37that was on
00:15:38the dog
00:15:46look said will
00:15:49not go to the world cup back back other boy try to qualify but basketball
00:15:53that you guys qualified for the you qualify for the world cup and your board
00:15:57you're part of that board you guys qualify for the world cup how come you did
00:16:01not go what what really happened nige to do we talk about the
00:16:04election i can try to
00:16:07yeah,
00:16:13mean, mean but point we of correction, we did not
00:16:17did but boycots,
00:16:18not, it what was, i we were withdrew,
00:16:21we we were withdrew by the honorable minister back then,
00:16:25because he believed that the the honor, the house was not in
00:16:28order, he believed he wanted to put the house in order, so
00:16:32maybe that might be part the measure he wants to use to put the house in
00:16:36order, so federation at the particular time
00:16:39where was not voluntarily removed or
00:16:43just come
00:16:45so we all wanted to go to work so every player want
00:16:47to go to work the nigerian story the nigerian
00:16:51story from all
00:16:55faces story where you want to tell it is
00:16:58there how many of you are contesting for the presidency the mf
00:17:02so far we have about five we have
00:17:06about five we have for my national team player which was
00:17:09extremely cool for me to shows that we all want to be
00:17:13part of it and that we all want to make progress I'm happy I'm
00:17:16excited uh that all this everybody wants to put the hands on the neck
00:17:20is like a wake up call for us uh before i you never see any
00:17:24national team player contesting for the for the federation president in
00:17:28basketball but for three of us at the same time that mean
00:17:31yes we believe the time is now and also we have
00:17:35go down those three myself um, two them are actually my
00:17:39teammates, we play, we actually won the first
00:17:42gold medal or gold car for nigerian basketball,
00:17:46i'm talking alongside with the Stanley Gums and
00:17:49also my member the
00:17:53other Olympics and 2012 Olympics that we went to Kacas
00:17:56together, also we have
00:17:59a igoche Matt, he was being around basketball for a long
00:18:03time with the honor of ball and also
00:18:06M. that did very well injurant league back then yeah
00:18:10and we have Dr. Mustafa
00:18:13abdul also to be so I
00:18:16believe those are the five that we uh
00:18:20fighting for the position the president okay
00:18:24you
00:18:24you you've talked about your fears in on on even terrain
00:18:28that you guys want to face on Thursday i have you guys is there
00:18:32a uh uh you know
00:18:34an avenue that you guys will use or there you body that you and complaint
00:18:38to to load your your complaints that probably this is not
00:18:42in a level playing field and you you are some
00:18:46other guys some other contestants also saying the same thing have you guys sm
00:18:50and look at your position and look how do we get this thing rectified how do
00:18:54we get you know uh fair and not just a free but a
00:18:57free and fair election on
00:19:00thursday um like i said
00:19:04quote 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
00:19:12fair, so like I said, they just come to
00:19:14ordain anointing candidate already, that's
00:19:18it, also you don't going to see anything different with what I said,
00:19:22if you see anything different with what I'm saying now, even as I'm talking to you right now,
00:19:26they'll still try to remove me, and we have somebody who has been there for
00:19:30over two decades, with nothing to show, nothing to do, they still
00:19:34wants to continue to be part of, just want to kind of just continue."
00:19:37occupy space so how you want to be
00:19:40to be to to be fair, but we already have this one to
00:19:43notify of fiber yeah for for this and all this things
00:19:47happening, we already notify the NOC, i believe they good the already got the
00:19:51letter and uh all the other bodies NOC
00:19:54we got the letter as well for sure and
00:19:58um definitely i'm just using this opportunity uh to
00:20:02to just take to the national sports commission who w in charge of
00:20:06this uh uh this situation to look at it
00:20:09critically and I must give cudos
00:20:11to uh because he
00:20:15has tried to fix one or two things for sure a giving and
00:20:19what i try to say the most important thing is just apply to
00:20:23our father who is the head the crew and also every single one of
00:20:27those to look into this deeply because lot of things have been
00:20:31used lot of names have been trying around or here and
00:20:35there this and these i really wanted to look at into this that for this
00:20:39family to be together, for everybody to have a free and fear,
00:20:42even for us to
00:20:43say we want renew Nigerian basketball, we can have
00:20:47renew Nigerian basketball family. because lot of
00:20:51things have been abused, lot of position, I mean position have been
00:20:55abused, position have been used ethical just empower
00:20:58themselves, rather empower the nation, use it
00:21:02empower themselves, but hopefully this will be looked into
00:21:05and uh just I'm calling on our our
00:21:09president, calling on the national sports commission and every single
00:21:12NOC to look into this critically if they really want the
00:21:16progress of Nigerian basketball, not not the... on
00:21:20people, not removing people, not try to displace people,
00:21:24because the people that you displacing now are the people that you still want to
00:21:28work with, how can there be peace, how can there be
00:21:31togetherness, the young innocent children they are
00:21:34suffering for this for these situation, i play bad
00:21:38with myself, if nigerian basketball was like this when i was growing up,
00:21:42maybe i would never be who i am today, because we already
00:21:46wasted one generation talent, do you want to continue for another?
00:21:50is do not win to win nigerian basketball or federation election
00:21:54before i contribute my own culture, whoever win let them
00:21:57win with free and fear do not
00:22:00intimidate and like i said again i do not have to win is
00:22:04i want
00:22:05to i can do with all the thing like i've been doing my foundation so the lastly i'm
00:22:09appealing to our father
00:22:13asudable and every other one involved to look
00:22:16into this deeply and if i'm wrong "i
00:22:20will come out there publicly and apologize, okay, i was wrong,
00:22:24but i'm not the only one that was wrong, you can bring other countries
00:22:28and to on tv show, they will see the same
00:22:31thing that i'm saying, even including the board members were
00:22:35disfranchised, the w the move them away, lot of things have been happening,
00:22:39because for us to keep quiet that doesn't mean we
00:22:42are foolish, all what we wanted, we wanted peace, we
00:22:46wanted to get in this, we wanted the Nigerian basketball to grow." but some
00:22:50people have taken this basketball, this this our
00:22:53humility, our stupidity, lot of slender,
00:22:57lot of character assassination. i challenge my fellow board
00:23:01member on the congress, why he say the board member
00:23:05or they were writing to the sponsor, not to be, not to sponsor the basketball
00:23:08league, not to have the sponsor, and rose up in the congress, i said,
00:23:12i challenge you to produce the letter that you said you
00:23:16saw that the board members wrote, not sponsor. is
00:23:20if you don't do this, you own this congress and
00:23:23apology, nothing was said about it,
00:23:26okay, you have, you have,
00:23:30you have,
00:23:30you have, you have 60 seconds to talk to your constituency before the elections, because
00:23:34we're running out of time, 60 seconds, tell them why they should support
00:23:37you, um, I don't need to
00:23:41support me, I don't need to support Nagerian basketball, I want Nigerian basketball to be
00:23:45great, it doesn't not need to be alluminate, I wanted to really look at it
00:23:49who's gna change it was who can who can do the best for
00:23:52Nigerian basketball? I believe I have to choose, but is a choice
00:23:56to decide, they should not be intimidated, they shouldn't use a director
00:24:00of sport, they should not use commission, they should not use lot of
00:24:04violation as already happening, please let's choose wisely, let's look for the progress
00:24:08of Nigerian basketball, don't take 100 thous, don't take 2 million, the
00:24:12million and fell the right and the future the younger one, because
00:24:16if you do that, whatever money you get, I do not know how you're going to use the money.
00:24:20but let's do wisely and let's our account thank you very much let's
00:24:23make nigerian basketball great let's united the game sorry
00:24:27united nation and let's elevate again thank
00:24:46yeah that's that is i think is
00:24:50quite shameful that this 2026 and uh we have
00:24:53not still been able to fix issue of election right in this
00:24:56country uh I think the first elective position Nigeria was
00:25:00under
00:25:01the uh Clifford Constitution of 1922 and I could remember uh
00:25:05we have 36 state governors in the Nigerian Governor's
00:25:08forum and they are problem conducting the election with amongst the six
00:25:12people and when you keep hearing this kind of issues
00:25:15and uh I don't think is something uh that Glad is
00:25:19one out. so i think she starts the
00:26:14uh march 18th FIFA presidency elections of course by
00:26:18November by November 18th uh this thing would have been uh nominations
00:26:21will have coming and you need about just five members to support you for you to be on the
00:26:25ballot yeah how well Wenga will uh
00:26:29perform as a FIFA president is something I don't understand because uh
00:26:33he had this tendency of not carrying others along with so many of his
00:26:36proposals to the uh changing of
00:26:40football globally so i think he has been
00:26:42the chief global consultant for fifa when it comes to football
00:26:45development but doubt if he's a team player
00:27:15basketball uh like said they've always been the shining light day
00:27:19and the super falcons have been the two teams that you can rely on when they
00:27:23go let us make sure that you that which we have we don't destroy with our
00:27:26hands wish everybody best of luck as they go there on Thursday
00:27:30to pick the next president
00:30:14Hello and welcome, this is hardcopy on channel's
00:30:17television, the program that brings you frank conversations with the
00:30:21people in the news. I am Bukola Coka, standing in for
00:30:25your regular anchor, Kayla McGuar. Last week we brought
00:30:29to you our special independence interview edition. with
00:30:33pro-democracy activist
00:30:36drawing our conversation from renewed calls for
00:30:40national conversation among Nigeria's constituent
00:30:44ethnic nationalities. the lawyer and
00:30:46octogenarian argued vehemently that the military should
00:30:50also take responsibility for Nigeria's defective
00:30:54199.