Nigerians are not happy with the Sports Minister Solomon Dalung. They have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to remove him and save the sector from total collapse.
Wonder they say will never end, this is what played out during a live interview with the Nigerian minister of Sports, Solomon Dalung.
When Nigerians were finding it so difficult to solve the simplest mathematics given to them by the Nigerian minister of finance Kemi Adeosun, who gave them 16+6 as a home work to solve. While most of Nigerians got the answer as 16+6 = 22, but the minister got hers as 16+6 = 24.
Now another buffoon called Solomon Dalung who is currently the minister of Sport in Nigeria has called United States Of America (USA) as United States Of Nigerian (USN).
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These are the clowns Muhammadu Buhari wasted over 6 months to screen and appointed as his minister of Youth and Sports Development Minister, Solomon Dalung and minister of Finance Kemi Adeosun.
Solomon Dalung came under severe attack from the public for a blunder he made while addressing the press about Nigeria’s U-23 team been stranded at the airport in Atlanta few hours to the kick off of their first match against Japan.
He referred to USA as the ‘United States of Nigeria’, sparking series of reactions on social media.
Dalung reportedly said:
“Our U-23 team are suffering in the United States of NIGERIA. Who took them there? What are THERE for? “Because they are U-23 and they went to US and they are having problems, does that become our business?”
A video of him making the blunder was shared on social media and the minister has become the butt of online jokes. Trust Nigerians not to miss an opportunity to entertain themselves.
Meanwhile, the Olympic soccer team preparing for the Rio Games say they will not be discouraged by the comments of Sports Minister Solomon Dalung even as they expressed their disappointment.
The coach Samson Siasia-led team are in Atlanta preparing for the Games with a private sponsor shouldering their bills for only ten days that will run out next week. There were fears that the team would be stranded if the Federal Government did not respond to them.
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Dalung was reported to have said that he was not aware that the Nigerian team was in Atlanta. His comment shocked the team but the players and officials have said that what mattered to them was their spirit to put up a good performance in Rio and not the “minister’s comment.” Two of them said “We will be in Rio to compete for Nigeria and we will not be discouraged by what is going on.”
Siasia, afraid that Nigerian authorities might disappoint them and scuttle their preparation had gone ahead to seek other sponsors who could pay their bills in the later part of their camping. Their pitiful condition compelled him to shoulder other roles other than coaching the team only.
“The minister said that he was not aware of our camping here in Atlanta. He said he didn’t know we are in the US,” one of the team officials said during the week, confirming media reports in Nigeria that the minister said that he was not aware of the preparation camp of the Olympic soccer team.
A top football source said the Nigeria Football Federation submitted their Olympic Games preparation programme about two months ago and that even one top member of the sports ministry “made a case for the inclusion of one person in the team.” “We’ll see what we can do to hang in here and complete our training,”
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one official said, implying that Siasia must have succeeded in securing further sponsorship. “We are also exploring the possibility of sending them some money if we succeed in sourcing it,” one football federation official said last night. The cash crunch in the country following the poor state of the economy has subjected athletes to severe hardship and made preparation for the Olympics Nigeria’s worse in recent years.
“We have never had it so bad,” veteran athletics coach Seigha Porbeni said yesterday.
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