The Nigeria Basketball Federation president, Musa Ahmadu-Kida, has explained the association’s decision to replace the FIBA AfroBasket winning coach William Voigt with Alex Nwora.

On Wednesday the association through its Twitter handle announced the appointment of Alex Nwora as the coach of the national men’s team D’Tigers ahead of the 2017 FIBA Africa Basketball Championship in Tunisia and Senegal.

D’Tigers who are the reigning champions of the Afrobasket will be defending their title without the man who led the country to her first ever African championship title and the president gave reasons to why he was replaced.

In a statement, NBBF president, Musa Ahmadu-Kida, said the federation appointed the Erie Community College Basketball team coach Nwora because he is qualified for the post.

He said, “We started this project with D’Tigress with the appointment of Sam Vincent, Mfon Udoka, Peter Ahmedu and Okworogun Ochuko.

“There is no point giving out national team jobs to expatriates when we have Nigerians all over the world, who are duly qualified to get the job done.”

The federation said Nwora would be assisted by coaches Aderemi Adewunmi of Kwara Falcons and Abdulrahman Mohammed of Gombe Bulls. The two coaches guided their teams to the top of the Atlantic and Savannah Conferences of the Kwese Premier Basketball League.

Nwora who guided Cape Verde to the 2013 Afrobasket where they defeated Nigeria 79-76 in the fifth-place playoffs will now guide Nigeria at the 2017 edition which will start from September 8 to 16.
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