The President of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria Tonobok Okowa has revealed the reason they parted ways with the Kit manufacturer Nike.
The US-based kit manufacturer has not been kitting Nigeria in the last 2 years and has not included Nigerian athletes in its production for the Olympics.
Okowo while speaking to the Punch Correspondent lamented how Nike has been treating Nigeria athletes and furthest said they are working to get another manufacturing company.
“We have been doing our own thing, I don’t know who is going to kit Team Nigeria, because they will be going there under the Nigeria Olympic Committee.
But when it comes to the athletes, we are working on another company.
“Nike has not treated us well. We used them in Oregon and we also used them at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.
And the kind of kits they gave us at the World Championships in Budapest wasn’t encouraging and we are not going to keep running after them if they are not ready, after all, there is no cash backing in it”, he said.
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