Nigerian Basketball team, Olumide Oyedeji, went on a
Twitter rant about not getting any support from the Nigerian
High Commission for his charity basketball clinic for kids in
London.
The guy he accused of telling him to go to another country's
embassy for support, Mr T.G Adeniyi has released a
statement telling his own side of the story. He claims that
Olumide still wrote to them seeking for support after his
twitter rants. Interesting. Lol. See his statement after the cut...
My attention has just been drawn to the above stated story
and I feel it is only tidy and proper to put the distorted story in
its true picture for posterity. Mr. Oyedeji had first visited my
office in company of his staff and we exchanged pleasantries.
He introduced while he was in my office the idea of his
Foundation to me. I saluted and congratulated him for his
laurels as a professional basketballer and I assured him of our
Mission's support. We exchanged complementary cards I
similarly advised him on the procedure to follow for him to
pay courtesy call on the High Commissioner. He thanked me
and excited by his towering height I requested for a
photograph with him and he graciously agreed for a pose.
Before he left my office that day I told him of the High
Commissioner's crowded programme since the beginning of
November, to wit; Commonwealth Summit in Colombo,
Srilanka , Mr President's visit and the Assembly of
International Maritime Organization etc. He thereafter took
leave of my office.
A few days afterwards, He called and I told him his
excellency was still attending the IMO meeting and will only
available as from 2nd December. But in Mr Oyedeji's wisdom
he decided to come to the office and I spoke with him after he
had spoken with the Head of Chancery. I repeated to him that
the High commissioner was still engaged at the IMO at that
was on the 28th of November. He explained to me his effort
in the past year to make his presentation to HC. I replied that I
was not aware of his initial move to which he told me he was
then talking to a different person. I assured him that with a
little more patience everything will be fine. Surprisingly , he
changed the pitch of his tone and stated he wanted his
Foundation to be launched at the Mission without further
delay and indeed that was the reason why he came
impromptu. At that point I advised him to consider during the
launching in our Embassy in the country of his residence as he
had told me during our first meeting that he was not a regular
resident in the U.K since time was of essence. He paused and
hanged his phone.
You may wish to note that Mr Oyedeji has again written to
the Mission after posting his story to Twitter seeking audience
after the attempted cheap and unnecessary blackmail. I
decided to send this mail upon receipt of his letter. I will not
make any analysis of his act but I request that this
correspondence be published as you have treated his.
Thank You,
TG Adeniyi
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