A Nigerian website reports that five months to the closing of submissions of bids for the 2014 Commonwealth Games the bid committee has not yet put a bid package in place.
According to Vanguard, a “dependable” source said that an Australian consultant who was expected to package Nigeria’s dossier has since dropped the idea as his demands were not met. The source said other countries bidding to host the 2014 Commonwealth Games – Canada and Scotland – have already completed their bid dossiers and sent them to the Commonwealth Games Committee.
The source added that the foot-dragging of bid committee members was responsible for its inability to contract the packaging of the bid dossier, which is to be submitted in May. “From the way the bid committee is going about the bid, I have the fear that the country would run into a ditch” said the source.
