ENITAN Oshodi has been elected as an Executive Vice-President of the International Table Tennis Federation.
The Nigerian was elected at the Annual General Meeting of the global body held on Wednesday in Houston, Texas, United States of America.
Oshodi received 116 of the 136 votes to emerge on top among the 14 candidates vying for Executive Vice President positions.
The former Nigeria Table Tennis Federation boss is the second Nigerian to be elected to the ITTF after Segun George and he will serve along seven other Executive Vice-Presidents elected at the AGM.
Having won the most votes among the Vice-Presidents, Oshodi will be elevated to the position of Deputy President.
Also on Wednesday night, Sweden’s Petra Sorling made history as she became the first woman to be elected as President of ITTF in the organisation’s 95-year history.
She was returned unopposed having been nominated by the Swedish Table Tennis Association and accepted by all the 226 member associations across the world.
Egypt’s Alaa Meshref was reelected into the Executive Committee of the ITTF.
It is the first time Africa will have two representatives in the EC.
The other elected Vice-Presidents are Graham Symons (Australia), Alaor Azevedo (Brazil), Liu Guoliang (China), Roland Natran (Hungary), Masahiro Maehara (Japan) and Khalil Al-Mohannadi (Qatar).
The new President of the ITTF and the eight elected Vice-Presidents will join the ITTF Athletes Commission Chair Zoran Primorac of Croatia and International Olympic Committee member Ryu Seungmin of Korea Republic to form the complete ITTF Executive Committee.
Oshodi was Chairman, Lagos State Table Tennis Association and rose to become the Commissioner for Sports in Lagos State under Governor Babatunde Fashola (2011 to 2015).
He also served as the President of the Nigeria Table Tennis Federation from 2013 to 2017 and was later appointed as the Chairman of the Nomination Committee of ITTF.
Earlier this year, Oshodi was elected as the Deputy President of African Table Tennis Federation.
Three other Nigerians were nominated and elected into the various Commissions of the International ITTF at the AGM.
They are Anderson Bankole (Para-Table Tennis Commission member), Ishaku Tikon (Veterans Commission member) and Chief Banji Oladapo (Board of Directors member).
