By Joe Apu
Former Athletics Federation of Nigeria, AFN technical director, Brown Ebewele has fired the electoral committee that supervised Tuesday’s election into the board of the federation describing the members as unserious even as he is set to file an appeal today to the appeals committee.
Reacting to the incident that led to his disqualification and that of Rosa Collins and Charity Opara, the former Edo State commissioner for sports said that he was shocked to the bones that having emerged a board member on May 23 during the election of technical representative, he does not understand why he would be disqualified on election day.
“You won’t believe there was no reason given for the action and the electoral committee had nothing to say than to ask those disqualified to head to the appeals committee if they feel unjust.
“We have documents to show that the list of delegates from the ministry had our names but it was manipulated between the ministry and the national stadium. Whoever is responsible for that action must be brought to book.
If there is a need, I will even to go to court because you can’t be killing me and you tell me not to go to court. It’s unfair,” he stated.
Ebewele further explained that he does not understand the rationale for using Gad Onwuebulam that stepped down during the polls for technical representative on election day, yet the election was supervised by three ministry officials.