• Explains the document being branded as constitution was never endorsed by the NBBF congress
Former board member of the Engr Musa Kida led Nigeria Basketball Federation, Osita Nwachukwu, has revealed that the federation has no legal document called the constitution.
Nwachukwu, who emerged as NBBF Vice President in the Abuja election on January 31, 2022, made the revelation on Tuesday in a chat with journalists in Abuja.
According to him, the document being branded as constitution was never endorsed by the NBBF congress.
“Let me state clearly here, the NBBF never had a constitution. What we have before was the Tijani Umar’s constitution that was never accepted. The claim that NBBF congress endorsed a constitution on April 13, 2019 is false and a big lie. What happened on that said day was only a stakeholders meeting; of which I was part of. Also, if the NBBF had endorsed that consistution, the desolution of the NBBF board in May 2021, would have been resisted by the whole basketball family, including Kida himself. Having accepted the position of a caretaker chairman, Engr Musa Kida lacks the power to act under what he called constitution,” Nwachukwu stated.
The NBBF Vice President explains that the Abuja January 31, 2022 election was the authentic one, stating that the Abuja election followed the ministry’s guidelines and instructions.
“Our election is the authentic one, because we followed the ministry’s order. Remember, we started with the Players’ Rep and Technical Rep conducted by the Ministry in which Kida was part of, and also, the ministry ordered that the election must hold on January 31, 2022 at the Moshood Abiola National Stadium, Abuja. Tell me, do you change the rule of a game in the middle of the game?” he queried.
