Rep Nawis: Nawis praises the role of supervision of NSC while Yusuf-Olukoju wins the elections on the AFN Board of Directors

Rep Nawis: Nawis praises the role of supervision of NSC while Yusuf-Olukoju wins the elections on the AFN Board of Directors

Abuja (basic reporter) The National Association of Women in Sports (Nawis) praised the leadership role of the National Sports Commission (NSC) following the election of the former Nigerian athlete, Fatima Yusuf- Olukoju as Nawis representative on the board of directors of the Nigera Federation of Nigera, AFN.

After the conduct of the Nawis elections that took place in Abuja on Monday, the general manager of the NSC, the Hon. Bukola Olopade, held a reconciliation meeting with the association and the main competitors in the polls, Fatima Yusuf-Olukoju and the veteran sports journalist Nneka Anibeze to iron the gray areas that must be born from the result of the elections.

The elections conducted by Nawis saw Yusuf-Olukoju beat anibaze in the polls, but both have now decided to forge a common front and work together for the overall interest of the girl and women empowerment in the Nigerian sports.

A happy Fatima Yusuf-Olukoju declared after the meeting, which is overwhelmed by the type of detailed attention that the current NSC leadership is giving to Nigerian and Nawis sports is very proud of the current reinguishering ongoing on Nigerian sports.

“The DG is a person who can bring everyone to a table and make us talk, which is what we need in our sports, so Nigerian sports are proud to have someone like him and the president, Mallam Shehu Dikko who guides our sports”.

We are all familiar and how they fight the family, but the goal is to modify and go on because we all have a common goal that is seeing that AFN is successful “.

“No hard feeling between me and Nneka because I won the Nawis race. He loves athletics and was with athletics for a long time. He even covered me as an athlete, so I consider it Ambassador of Afn. We will collaborate and will go on the Federation,” he concluded.

Nneka Anibeze for his part also praised the role that the general manager of the NSC played for post-electoral tensions in order not to intensify.

“I thank the DG for coming and for interrupting peace because in reality it would not have been fine. He called myself and everyone, and we all agreed to accept Fatima.

It is an icon of athletics and someone who also has its plans for women and girls who is similar to the one I had plans for. We also share the same passion and with the help of the DG, now we have agreed to work together for the same goal and believe that the best things are ahead “.