Musa Kida reelected as NBBF President

Photo: The newly elected board members in a group photograph.

By George Aluo in Benin

Engr Musa Kida has been re elected as the President of Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF).

Kida was given the fresh four-year nod at the Elective Congress of the Basketball Federation which was held today, January 31st in Benin City, the Edo state capital.

Though he was unopposed, the Electoral Committee Chairman Dr Lanre Glover called for the vote confirmation from the delegates as prescribed by the Constitution.
Kida got 37 of 37 votes cast by the elective delegates.

It was not a coast free run for the position of the vice president as Babs Ogunade faced a former D’Tigers captain Olumide Oyedeji.

Ogunade who served as the vice president in the last NBBF board retained his position with 30 votes to 6. Just one vote was voided.

Oyedeji, however got on the board of the NBBF as the South West zone representative. Ogunade had earlier on stepped down for him for that position. Ogunade was both the South West zone representative and vice president in the last board.

Ahmed el-lharari from Egypt represented world basketball governing body, FIBA in the event held at Royal Marble Hotel in GRA.

The Edo Deputy Governor Philip Shuaibu who declared the Congress open was represented by his Senior Special Assistant on Sports, Mrs Sabina Chikere.

The new NBBF has additional vibrant young and enterprising men in the fold with the Chief Executive Officer of AFA Sports, Ugo Udezue voted in.
The former D’Tigers power forward is the Chairman of the Anambra State Basketball Association and the representative of the South East zone. AFA Sports was Nigeria’s official uniform partner to the Tokyo Olympics last year.