In his remarks yesterday, President of the African Sports Journalists Union (ASJU), Mitchel Obi captured Buhari’s appointment as ‘going forward in the reverse’.
He said, “the president has made his choice of minister  and we are only but  spectators. If they allow us to watch fine and if they don’t allow us fine, but this game belongs to us . We will be watching to see whether they will be playing well or not. If they score we applaud them and if they fail we boo them or wait for another opportunity to make a change.
So I was not in any way surprised. Even those who had sports background did they deliver? The so called economic experts have they changed the fortune of this country for the better?  The experts in the power sector have not guaranteed steady supply of light in the country. So we are just going forward in the reverse”.
Also in his reaction, the former Commissioner for Sports in Bauchi state, Alhaji Sani Ahmed Toro described him as a patriotic Nigerian who does not believe in doing his job on sentiments
“Dalong is a youngman, a Lawyer and he is somebody who is learned and will not find it difficult carrying out any assignment. Sports is a complex sector, I told him, but I know if he can use the technocrats there definitely he will learn very fast’ , he said.
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To be sincere, even as someone who supports this administration, i also have mixed feeling about this particular sector. Sports has been one sector that had never recieved the required support from the previous administrations and appointing someone that has no antecedent in sports(according to his CV) is somehow unconvincing. Anyway, let us wait and see what happens. One thing i know for sure is that you mess up baba sacks you.