Nigeria’s Wahid Enitan Oshodi has been elected as the Executive Vice President of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) held on Wednesday November 24 in Houston, Texas, in the United States.
From the 136 votes casted, Oshodi polled 116 which is the 85.29% of the total vote to emerge top among the 14 candidates that vie for the office of the Executive Vice Presidents.
Oshodi is the second Nigerian to be elected to the table tennis world body after Segun George and will serve along with seven other elected Executive Vice Presidents.
Earlier this year, he was elected as the Deputy President of the African Table Tennis Federation (ATTF).
Oshodi served as the Commissioner for sports in Lagos State under Babatunde Raji Fashola’s Government from 2011-2015. The former chairman of the Lagos State Table Tennis Association also served as the President of the Nigeria Table Tennis Federation (NTTF) from 2013-2017 before being appointed as the Chairman of the Nomination Committee for ITTF.
This is the first time Africa will have two representatives in the ITTF executive committee as Egypt’s Alaa Meshref was re-elected.
Sweden’s Petra Sörling becomes the first woman to be elected today as the eighth President of the International Table Tennis Federation.
Having been nominated by the Swedish Table Tennis Association and accepted by all the 226 member associations across the world, Petra clinched the office of the 95-year-old International Federation unopposed. Along with the eight elected Vice Presidents, she will join the ITTF athletes commission chair, Zoran Primorac of Croatia and IOC member, Ryu Seungmin of Korea Republic to complete the ITTF executive committee board.
The ITTF Executive committee members will serve for a period of four years.
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