Nigeria international Sone Aluko has committed his future to Hull City after putting pen to paper on a fresh two - and - a - half year contract with the English Premier League side on Friday. <br /><br />The new deal will see the 24 - year - old winger cum striker remain with the Tigers until the summer of 2016.<br /><br />In his first words after appending his signature on the new contract, Aluko says he is delighted to finally end speculation surrounding his future.<br /><br />&ldquo;I&rsquo;m happy to extend my stay here.<br /><br />&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve said right from the beginning, when talk about a new deal first came about, that I was happy here. <br /><br />&ldquo;I also said that it might take time for the deal to happen and that is how it turned out.<br /><br />&ldquo; Because it took a while, people started making a story out of it and were saying that I was going to this place or that place. <br /><br />&ldquo;That was always irrelevant,&rdquo;Sone Aluko said to the official website, hullcitytigers.com<br /><br />An Achilles injury has kept Sone Aluko on the sidelines since October 2013. <br /><br />Photo Credit: hullcityafc.net<br />