Sunday Dare says Big Chuk embarrassed Nigeria after complaining about Olympic kit

Minister of Sports, Sunday Dare has accused Nigerian athlete, Chukwuebuka Enekwechi of tarnishing the country's image at the Olympic games.

Chukwuebuka Enekwechi, the representative at the Shot Put event complained he was given only one kit for the games.

This follows a trendy Tik Tok video of the athlete fondly called Big Chuk washing his only kit after he had qualified for the finals.

“When you made the Olympic Finals but you only have one jersey,” he wrote on the video, which caused an uproar on social media.

In a post in a National Daily, Dare said that every Team Nigeria athlete was given a nine-item backpack for the Games and that Big Chuck did the video to embarrass Nigeria.

“The Tik Tok video on the issue was an attempt to create a media frenzy to embarrass Nigeria,” he said.

In his 25-point list, the minister gave his side of the story concerning some controversial moments in the Olympics for Team Nigeria.

About the 10 Nigerian athletes who were suspended from the Games for not undergoing enough testing for the Olympics, the minister said they tried to appeal without success.

He accepted some responsibility for that mishap and said he has apologised to the athletes and ordered a full investigation.

The minister, however, refused to go into details about the failed Puma kit deal but said he had demanded a proper investigation into the matter.