Former Sports Minister Bolaji Abdulahi commends Oduduru, Ogba and Delta
Former Sports Minister and Chairman National Sports Commission (NSC) Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi has commended new sprint sensation Divine Oduduru on his impressive performances at the Michael Johnson Invitational, where a he ran a 9.94 secs in the men 100m - Nigeria’s fastest since 2006 when Olusoji Fasuba ran a time of 9.85 secs to set a new African record. At the same meet, Oduduru also ran 19.76 sec in the 200m to erase the former national record of 19.84 secs set by Francis Obikwelu in 1999 at the World Championships in Seville Spain. Mallam Abdullahi who was Minister of Sports and Chairman of NSC when Oduduru was discovered at the 2013 African Youth Championships in Warri, Delta State said he followed Oduduru progress since then and he was not surprised by his feats over the weekend. “I was not surprised by his achievements, I never for a moment stopped following since we discovered him at the Warri 2013 AYAC which we hosted, I knew he was a world beater in waiting”. A...