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Charles Yayock Loses CAS Suit against Dalung

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The Court of Arbitration for Sports CAS has thrown out an appeals suit filed by Charles Musa Yayock, against the Nigerian sports minister, Solomon Dalung.

Yayock was a North West Zone aspirant to the board of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria.  He had filed the suit against the Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Solomon Dalung whose office had declared Ibrahim Gusau President-elect of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria.

Yayock went to CAS to contest his loss in elections held on June 13 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of the appeal brief was submitted by the appellant, Yayock’s request for reconsideration was rejected as it was deemed withdrawn in accordance with article R51 of the Code

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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 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Consequently, his appeal was deemed withdrawn.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.

Kunle Solaja is the author of landmark books on sports and journalism as well as being a multiple award-winning journalist and editor of long standing. He is easily Nigeria’s foremost soccer diarist and Africa's most capped FIFA World Cup journalist, having attended all FIFA World Cup finals from Italia ’90 to Qatar 2022. He was honoured at the Qatar 2022 World Cup by FIFA and AIPS.

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