The 27-year-old arrived on the Gold Coast as part of the Nigerian team but is ineligible to compete because he represented Britain at the European Junior Championships in 2009.
Edwards, who was born in Manchester but has a Nigerian mother and citizenship, has protested against his situation with a home-made sign in the athletes' village.
"It was nine years ago - it is a worse sentence that a drug cheat gets," he told BBC Sport.
"I am walking around the village with my Nigerian kit and unsure if I can even walk in the stadium and represent.
