The Court
of Arbitration for Sports CAS has thrown out an Appeals suit filed by
North West Zone aspirant to the board of the Athletics Federation of
Nigeria Charles Musa Yayock against...
the Minister of Youth and Sports
Development Barrister Solomon Dalung, declaring Mr Ibrahim Gusau
President-elect of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria.
Yayock had gone to CAS to contest his
loss into the AFN board in the Ministry of Youth and Sports organized
National Sports Federations elections in May this year.
In his ruling dated September 14, 2017,
the President of the CAS Appeals Arbitration Division Corine
Schmidhauser stated that the suit with registration number CAS
2017/A/5293 between Charles Musa Yayock and the Minister of Youth and
Sports Development had been terminated and removed from the CAS roll.
According to the CAS President, in the
absence of any agreement from the Respondent to continue the present
procedure and considering that no proof of timely filing of the appeal
brief was submitted by the appellant, Yayock’s request for
reconsideration was rejected as it was deemed withdrawn in accordance
with article R51 of the Code
Yayock filed a statement of appeal with
the Court of Arbitration for Sport against the Minister of Youth and
Sports in respect of the Electoral Committee’s announcement on June 13,
2017 at the main bowl of the National Stadium Abuja declaring Alhaji
Ibrahim Gusau President elect of the AFN.
CAS invited the appellant to complete his
statement in accordance with article R 51 of the Code of Sports-
related Arbitration within a deadline of two days which he failed to
provide proof of timely filing of his appeal brief .
Consequently, his appeal was deemed withdrawn.
This puts to rest the controversy on the
election of the President of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria Ibrahim
Shehu Gusau’s who emerged from the North west zone
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