The aggrieved athletes vowed that the trials would not hold until their previous allowances were paid. Other tournaments that they claimed they haven’t been paid for are the ECOWAS U-20 Athletics Championships in Cape Coast, Ghana, African Championships and World Relays. We don’t want him.”“I won’t say much now until we get to Abuja (venue of Tuesday’s national trials). Some people will tell us that ministry did not release money, others will say the money is with AFN,” another athlete added. Some of the athletes also expressed worries over the embarrassment caused Nigerian athletics over the missing $135,000 IAAF fund.

Source: Punch June 24, 2019 00:11 UTC