President of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria, Solomon Ogba has been taken to the cleaners by Julius Ogunro, the former aide of Ex-Sports Minister, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi… “It was obvious that Ogba never wanted the high performance Centre to succeed probably because he was getting grants from the IAAF to build a high performance centre in Port Harcourt. Perhaps, reason why he conspired to work against the HPC initiated by ministry of sports.”

“Abdullahi’s first choice for the position of technical director for the centre was Mike Afilaka, a Nigerian coach who was with the UK athletics team. It was Ogba who insisted that he preferred Americans for the job and was part of the team from Nigeria that interviewed various applicants for the position. Now he has made a volte-face. He really does not have any business running Nigerian athletics. He should not only resign but apologize to Nigerians for his incompetence which has caused us two disastrous outings at the Olympics in London 2012 and in Rio, Brazil.”