The Facts About Puma: How Gusau, Adeleye Swindled AFN.

The Facts About Puma: Find out about how Gusau, Adeleye Swindled AFN. 



-The attention of the AFN has been drawn to a media statement signed by Shehu Ibrahim Gusau alleging sportswear and equipment company, PUMA has terminated a contract it purportedly signed with the AFN in 2019.        



 The AFN wishes to state unequivocally that it is not aware of any contract as there was no document in the Secretariat of the federation pertaining to any contractual agreement with PUMA. Gusau had claimed the last board he was president of signed the deal with PUMA but majority of the board members some of whom are in the new board had denied any knowledge of the contract.            

Following media reports of the said contract especially in the lead up to the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympics, the Secretary General of the AFN, Prince Adeniyi Adisa Beyioku, appointed pursuant to article 8.7.2 of the federation's constitution (2017) and recognised by World Athletics had in a letter dated July 19, 2021 requested Mr Gusau to avail the AFN of the contract details and return whatever had been collected from PUMA to the Secretariat of the federation at the Moshood Abiola stadium Abuja recognised by World Athletics.                    

 Mr Gusau refused to heed the advice and acted as if only two people constituted the former board of the AFN and who must be the only ones allowed to know details of the contract, citing a non-disclosure agreement . Yet Mr Gusau and Sunday Adeleye reportedly negotiated the deal on behalf of the same board.                          

 The AFN also wishes to state that the constitution of the federation states in article 8.7.2, sections 4.4.1 and 4.4.2 that the Secretary General must not only be privy to all decsions, contractual or otherwise entered into as its chief financial and administrative officer but must also be the custodian of such documents, records and properties. The AFN wishes to put on record that the new board did not see any documents indicating there was an agreement with PUMA and noted that majority members of the previous board, acting on newspaper reports wrote PUMA through its lawyer, Oluwole Afolabi that they were not aware of the said contract but PUMA insisted it signed an agreement with the AFN despite glaring constitutional breaches which invalidated the said contract.                         

The board members further wrote on January 30, 2020 to put PUMA on notice of renunciation of business relationship. We are saddened that two people have allowed their selfish interest to override their sense of patriotism and deprived hard working Nigerian athletes of the financial benefits in the said contract following the revelation that $15,000, $5,000, and $3000 will be earned by gold, silver and bronze medal winners respectively at the ongoing Olympics. From the media release signed by Mr Gusau, we know such a bonus structure would have been available at the 2019 World Athletics Championship and we want to ask why Ese Brume who won a bronze medal at the event has not only been paid but she is actually owed part of her allowances as a member of the contingent to Doha, Qatar for the championship.                     

 With the reported termination, more revelations will come to the fore about other financial benefits to the team and Nigerians will be left to decide how sincere Mr Gusau and Mr Adeleye whose company, Dynamic Sporting Solutions was used to warehouse the money meant for the federation in the purported contracted.                                

The AFN wishes to make clear that it will see to its logical conclusion the criminal case arising from the PUMA deal the Inspector General of Police instituted against the Mr Gusau and Mr Adeleye who are clinching to a letter written by a non juristic body, DSS absolving it of any cruminality in a case there is an establishment of conflict of interest which is an offence in both the Nigeria penal code and that of World Athletics Integrity Code of Ethics.

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