Handball Federation Polls: Scramble For Board Positions Intensifies As Zonal Elections Hold Today

The aboriginal creation of the Handball Federation of Nigeria (HFN) Board is acceptable to go clearer pursuing this weekend’s polls, which volition find the six zonal representatives today, September 27.

During the tenure of outgoing President Mr. Samuel Ocheho, the HFN has been among the fewer sporting federations to marque a important impact, contempt facing challenges owed to a deficiency of authorities funding.

The elections for the sixteen-member Board of the caller HFN commenced earlier this period with the positions for Technical and Players’ representatives.

These elections took spot astatine the Velodrome successful Package A of the MKO Abiola National Stadium, Abuja, and adhered strictly to the HFN’s rules and regulations, arsenic good arsenic the guidelines acceptable distant by the National Sports Commission (NSC).

Former planetary caput manager of the FRSC Safety Shooters and Safety Babes, Bala Mohammed, successfully retained his presumption connected the Board arsenic Technical representative, defeating Kogi-based IHF/CHAB Referee Moses Balogun with a decisive people of 53 to 17.

This resounding triumph suggests a displacement successful enactment wrong the federation, arsenic Bala is simply a adjacent state of Jinrin Saidu, who is vying for the Presidency aft narrowly losing the past predetermination to Mr. Ocheho by conscionable 1 vote.

In the predetermination for the presumption of Players’ representative, Talle Dada Aliyu from Niger United Handball Club of Minna scored a landslide victory, securing 27 votes against incumbent Joseph Update of NSCDC De Defenders HC, who received a specified 8 votes.

It is noteworthy that Udale’s predetermination arsenic Players’ typical 4 years agone was fiercely contested and was aboriginal annulled by an Abuja High Court.

Although Mr. Sam Ocheho is not contesting successful these elections, it is believed that helium is supporting different campaigner for the Presidency, alternatively than Mallam Jibrin.