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Oladipupo told Journalist in Abuja that he received a letter from the ministry of Youths and Sports disqualifying\u00a0 him the right to vote at the Federation president election on Thursday.<\/p>\n
According to him, the letter said : I\u2019m disqualified because I did not participate in two international tournament, \nsaying that the ministry has anointed his\u00a0 opponent Grace Gabriel who he defeated early to represent\u00a0 the athletes during the election.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cI am the elected player representative for coming election into the\u00a0 badminton federation and I am eligible to vote in coming election into the board because the players voted for me as their representative.<\/div>\n
\u201d I played for Nigeria going to two international tournament and\u00a0 two major tournament and two continental mixed team,\u00a0 I have also played in all Africa games in mixed tournament in South Africa.<\/div>\n
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\u201d I was told that I was banned and suspended from participating in the elections.
\n\u201cI was never banned nor suspended as an individual because it was players association that was suspended and I have never been suspended as an individual,\u201d he reacted.<\/div>\n
He added that the ministry ask him to pay 500, 000 for the appeal.<\/div>\n
\u201d I made my\u00a0 request known to the ministry to do the right thing but I was ask to pay the sum of 500,000.<\/div>\n
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\u201cAs a player were will I get such amount to appeal to the ministry when am representing the players,\u201d he said angrily,<\/div>\n
It will be recalled that Abdulfatai Oladipupo, edged out Grace Gabriel, who polled 23 votes as against his 34 votes, to emerge winner as athletes representative into the board of the Badminton federation.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By Olayinka Elebute And Oluwole Francis Abdulfatai Oladipupo a former Badminton player, have been banned and suspended from representing\u00a0 the players who voted for him to represent them at forthcoming election for Nigeria Badminton federation elections. Oladipupo told Journalist in Abuja that he received a letter from the ministry of Youths …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001015,"featured_media":16641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"\n
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