International Withdrawal: Threats Not Enough To Change Decision - FG Warns Kida, FIBA

International Withdrawal: Threats Not Enough To Change Decision - FG Warns Kida, FIBA

By Our Reporter

The World basketball body (FIBA) in a letter has issued Nigeria an ultimatum to suspend its International withdrawal or risk getting additional years of wilderness.

The incumbent NBBF President, Engr. Musa Kida was reported to be fingered in the circle of events as a recipient, as the country sits out of international basketball as put out by the Federal Government of Nigeria.

The Government had called for Nigeria's withdrawal as a result of in-fightings amongst stakeholders, lack of a functional league and a stall in the growth of the game at home. It said this measure will allow the country take a deep breathe, reconcile grey areas, re-strategize and get better as a basketball nation, instead of the cosmetic outward appearance of beauty but inner state of rancour and disunity.

In reaction, sources postulated that "Nigeria is a sovereign nation and will not be blackmailed carelessly. Nigeria bigger than kidda and his cohorts".

"Moreso, it's understood that FIBA allegedly wrote Kida alone. The body has not written the Federal Government.  

The Ministry has received no communication to that effect. Kida is not the Federal Government of Nigeria.