Mixing sports administration with politics has been a dangerous development which has always reversed negatively with sports development.
Last week’s sack of former sports minister, Mallam Bolaji Absulahi remains a big shock and sad commentary on Nigerian sports development.
The removal of the Minister from office has been traced to his failure to openly associate with the political interests of the President in Kwara State.
Abudulahi, a close ally and former commissioner to former Governor of Kwara State, Senator Bukola Saraki may also have been dropped for his failure to openly disavow Saraki’s leadership of the state.
It was revealed that Bolaji Abdulahi had refused to openly associate with the new leadership of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, after Saraki and his followers defeated from the party to the All Progressive Congress, APC.
He was absent at the stakeholders’ meeting summoned by the state PDP Caretaker Committee, drawing insinuations of double loyalty from some political stakeholders in Kwara State.
His failure to address the crowd at the recent PDP rally in Ilorin to re-affirm his loyalty to the PDP government was perhaps the final straw.
