Deaf Athletes Plan another Protest on Monday 26 October

Captain of Nigeria Deaf Athletes Badmus Nurudeen, said the Deaf Athletes have concluded plans to stage another Protest on Monday 26 October 2026 following the non fulfilment of promise made to them by SSA to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Monday.

Addressing his members at the National Stadium on Friday after waiting for Hon Anthony Adeyinka Adebayo for hours, Badmus expressed great anger over the disappoint and hinted that the protest will continue on Monday.

He stressed that his members will not back out until the demand for deaf sport to be included in the sports festival are met

Badmus insists that deaf Athletes must not be treated as second class citizens in Nigeria neither should they be discriminated against on issues that has to do with National matters.

He said deaf Athletes are very peaceful, humble, loyal and accommodating, but people must not take their loyalty for stupidity or foolishness arguing that what is worth doing, must be done well.

According to him, deaf Athletes stay from January to December every year without having a single tournament , and they are also denied participation in the festival which comes once in every two years.

This means they want us to be stealing to feed our families.
Many of us are married with children and our only means of livelihood is sports.

I have told our members not to take laws into their hands nor resolve to violence. That’s why we are embarking on peace protests.

Also speaking is Emmanuel Audu Assistant technical Director /Acting Chief coach of the National Deaf football team complained that deaf Athletes are being neglected in this country and wants Nigerians to change their attitude towards deaf Athletes.

According to coach Emmanuel, serious countries don’t neglect their deaf Athletes the way Nigeria is doing