Buhari tasks Team Nigeria on Drug Free Medals

President Muhammadu Buhari has charged Nigeria’s Olympic team to the Rio 2016 Olympics to go and bring the country glory but warned, “I don’t want medals tainted with drugs.”

Mr President while speaking at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa during the official handing over of Team Nigeria to the Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC), President Buhari said, “I am asking you to go for gold. But it is better to come back home clean without medals than return with a bagful of medals tainted with drugs.”

Vanguard reports that the president, in his no-nonsense style, warned that anybody who has no business going to Brazil should stay back. “If you don’t have any role to play at the Olympics please, you better stay home and watch the Games on television. But if you are going on your own, I wish you good luck.”

President Buhari ordered the immediate release of funds for the Olympic team, a development which drew a resounding applause from the audience, before the President of the Nigeria Olympic Committee Engr. Habu Gumel carried out an investiture on President Buhari as their Grand Patron.

Minister of Sports, Barr Solomon Dalung said the President’s gesture was a demonstration of his love for sports, adding that the N2.9 billion was meant for the All Africa Games and for the Olympic preparations.

Dalung promised that Team Nigeria will do well at the Games, although he didn’t clear the air on the controversy trailing the disbursement of the N2.9 billion as the NOC has been forced to go through the International Olympic Committee Solidarity Fund and Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa to seek additional funds for the games.