Former D’Tigers coach Ayodele Bakare has raised fresh questions over the legality and constitutional basis of the Nigeria Basketball Federation's (NBBF) extraordinary congress held in Yola, Adamawa State last weekend.
Bakare, who attended as a delegate, set out his observations in the second extract of his personal account titled "The Memoirs of a Delegate to the 2026 NBBF Extraordinary Congress." The Yola meeting approved October 15, 2026, as the date for the elective congress in Abuja and constituted a seven-member Electoral Committee and a three-member Elections Appeals Committee. The federation said 39 of its 44 delegates attended the meeting.
Bakare argued that the FIBA communication setting the electoral timeline had been received on March 16, 2026, giving enough time to organise a congress in line with the NBBF Constitution, which provides for 50 congress delegates. He said NBBF President Ahmadu Musa Kida proposed that Congress vote to waive any constitutional anomalies, but delegates rejected both suspending the relevant provisions and amending the constitution to remove objections.
"No vote was eventually taken to waive or suspend the constitutional provisions," Bakare stated. He also questioned why, in his interpretation, the federation had not held the required annual ordinary congress during the current board's four-year tenure, citing Article 20.2, which provides for an ordinary congress each year, with every fourth serving as an elective congress.
Bakare is also the President of Comets Basketball Club of Lagos.
