The Nigeria Judo Federation has re-elected Musa Oshodi as president for a second term.
Oshodi was returned unopposed on Thursday at the federation’s 2025 Elective Congress in Abuja after securing the 31 votes up for grabs.
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He told newsmen after his election that his new administration would concentrate more on organising constant grassroots competitions.
He said, “We need to elevate, build, and nurture our young upcoming athletes for future international encounters.
“In my last administration, we organised junior and cadet competitions; we will organise more competitions to discover raw, talented athletes.”
The re-elected president said his target would be to significantly improve the individual ranking of our athletes and expose a greater number of them to international competitions.
According to him, the federation is committed to working more closely with the National Sports Commission and the Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) as the parent body of all sports in Nigeria.
“We need the support of the media to help publicise and advertise our events; we want to make judo more marketable so that it will attract more investors, which will help develop the game in the country.
“We need to make a strategic partnership with corporate sports, and we must go back to the grassroots so that we can build athletes who can represent the country and give us good results at international competitions.
“We need support from the federal government and private organisations to organise continental championships,” he said.
The president added that he had personally sponsored some of the athletes to five different international championships.
Salisu Muhammed emerged as the 1st Vice-President, unopposed, while Lawrence Ezeudu was elected as the 2nd Vice-President.
Jude Atoe was elected unopposed as the General-Secretary with 34 votes, while Amos Aliya clinched the Technical Director position unopposed with 26 votes.
Franca Audu was elected unopposed as the Athletes’ Representative with 26 votes.
In the zonal representative election, Salisu Mohammed was elected unopposed as the zonal representative of North West, and Ado Gambon took charge of the North East, while Daniel Suleiman was elected for the North Central.
South West has Musa Oshodi as its elected zonal representative, while Lawrence Ezeudu was elected to represent the South East, and Joy Franck for the South South, after defeating her opponent Jude Atoe with just one vote.
29 states out of 36 states, including FCT, participated in the elective congress held at the Pope John Paul II Catholic Pastoral Centre in Wuse 2, Abuja.
The states on the board include Kano, Nasarawa, Kogi, Edo, Anambra, Osun, Ekiti, Ondo, Lagos, Ogun, Kwara, Oyo, Sokoto, Ebonyi, Katsina, Adamawa, Kebbi, Gombe, and the host FCT, among others.