Basketball: NBBF insists on Benin, writes FIBA

By George Aluo

The elective congress of the nation’s basketball governing body, NBBF billed for January 31 may run into fresh murky waters over venue.

While the sports ministry prefers the Congress holding in Abuja, the Musa Kida led NBBF leadership is insisting on the initial venue of Benin, the Edo state capital.

A competent NBBF source disclosed that a letter has been dispatched to the world body, FIBA urging it to endorse Benin as venue of the elective congress instead of Abuja.

“We are waiting to hear from FIBA over the venue. NBBF Congress in line with the constitution settled for Benin as venue of its elective Congress, so for anybody to unilaterally shift the venue is unacceptable. This is why we have written FIBA to intimate them that on Benin we stand,” our source disclosed.

It would be noted that the NBBF elective Congress which was initially billed to hold October last year was stopped no thanks to the crisis rocking the sport.