Bash Ali In Public Letter, Wants Sunday Dare To Resign As Nigeria’s Sports Minister

Posted on June 3, 2021
Sports Minister Sunday Dare

In a letter copied President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Chief of Staff Prof Ibrahim Gambari, EFCC, ICPC, Minister of Information, Special Adviser on Media to the Sports Minister, Special Adviser on Sports to the President, World Press, International Boxing Union and World Boxing Federation, African Boxing Ambassador, Bashiru Lawrence Ali (OON) has alleged that Sunday Dare is sabotaging the organization of the Guinness World Record Boxing Championship in Nigeria at the expense of personal gains.

The letter dated 31 May, 2021 with the titled “RE: Guinness World Record Boxing Championship Fight Versus Corruption and Bad Administration in Nigeria” was one of several communications the World Boxing Federation (WBF) champion would be written to the Minister since he assumed office because of the official delay in putting in motion all machinery of the federal government of Nigeria to organize the historic Guinness World Record Boxing Championship which will see Bash Ali becoming the oldest boxer to have stepped on boxing ring at 65 years and if he win, he will also break the record as the oldest boxer on earth to win a world title.

“Sport is one of the biggest industries in the world and if well organized in Nigeria will earn big time money for the government,” Ali said in the letter which has since gone viral on the social media.

“I am the only boxer in the world to win a world boxing championship without first boxing as an amateur. I am the most qualified boxer to earn a place in the Guinness World Record (GWR) as the oldest to fight and win a world boxing title. No 2 is Evander Holyfield of the United States of America (USA). No 3 is Mike Tyson, USA and no 4 is Roy Jones Jr, USA. Simply put, I am the best boxer in the world. In America, these American boxers are celebrated like Gods but unfortunately, I am a Nigerian in Nigeria, a country where criminals are celebrated and heroes are relegated to the back burners,” he said.

Bash Ali alleged in the letter that Minister of Sports extorted the sum of N13 million from in the name of President Muhammadu Buhari.

He wrote: “Despite the two inaugurations of the above Local Organizing Committee (LOC) on November 9, 2006 and January 7, 2014 by the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN), despite this Project being the first Project approved by my no nonsense zero tolerance for CORRUPTION & BAD ADMINISTRATION President Buhari on assumption of office, despite letters from the FGN through your Ministry to the International Boxing Union that Nigeria is a safe country to host this historic event and that your Ministry will facilitate the quick release of the Fight money, despite a third inauguration (May 21, 2019) of the above LOC by the FGN, despite President Buhari’s October 15, 2019 directive to you to meet with me, despite meeting with me on November 4, 2019 where you begged me to settle out of Court the N28M awarded to me against former Minister Solomon Dalung so you can call for a meeting with the members of the above LOC to discuss how to successfully host in Nigeria the historic Fight, despite extorting N13M from me to settle out of Court, you now made a 360 degrees turn to say the FGN is not and has never been involved in the hosting of this historic event because I turned down your request to share with you and your cohorts 50/50 the Pay Per View Television (PPVTV) Revenue instead of the money going to the FGN.”

The boxer claimed in the letter that he had reported Sunday Dare to senior government officials in Buhari’s administration and one of the governors in the country so that he Sports Ministry could do the needful on the proposed fight.

“I have met and reported you to the following people in the FGN; Attorney General of the Federation and the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, the Chief of Staff to President Buhari, Prof Ibrahim Gambari and the Executive Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai who, because of his love for a better Nigeria through sports, wrote to you a letter that was acknowledged in your Ministry on March 1, 2021 asking you to do the right thing by calling for a meeting with the members of the above LOC as promised. Despite his intervention, you have refused to do the right thing unless you get your 50/50 PPVTV revenue demand.”

While concluding the letter, Bash Ali demanded that the minister should “refund with interest the N13M you extorted from me in the name of President Muhammadu Buhari, obey President Buhari’s October 15, 2019 directive, keep your November 4, 2019 promise to me, apologize to me for the defamation of character and then resign your position because you are the worst public servant ever. Failure of you to do these within 14 days from the date of the receipt of this letter will result in me shutting down your ministry. This is not a threat but a promise.

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