Sports, If Properly Used Can Curb Insurgency In Nigeria

Sport has been described as a tool that is functional enough to suppress the youth restiveness and insurgency ravaging our society if properly used by the authorities saddled to manage our sports.<br /><br />Saying this was an Ibadan based industrialist, Hon. Oluwametomi Adetokunbo while addressing participants at the recently concluded National Under-15 Oduduwa Soccer Championship which was instituted by Organisation for Grassroots Sports Development (OGSD) to celebrate the Yoruba progenitor.<br /><br />The youthful politician who is aspiring to represent Akinyele/Lagelu Federal Constituency under the flagship of Accord Party decried how our youths are being misguided and hereby involving in insurgency and other social menaces.<br /><br />She however, pledged to promulgate a bill that will promote the grassroots football and development of sports when voted into the lower chamber of Nigerian parliament.<br /><br />Meanwhile, team from Plateau State emerged winner of the maiden tourney after defeated Niger State by 3-1 in a cup final played inside the main-bowl of Obafemi Awolowo Stadium Ibadan over the weekend.<br /><br />Among dignitaries the witnessed the closing event was the national leader of Odua People&rsquo;s Congress (OPC) Dr. Fredrick Fasheun who said the event has a significant connotation to the ideals of the OPC hence deserved the support of the socio cultural body, while pledging his total support for the subsequent editions of the tourney.<br /><br />Dr. Fasheun, also expressed his disappointment on the crisis rocking the Nigerian Football Federation saying the episode is a reflection of the extent at which greed has eaten deep into the fabrics of our society.<br /><br />He however, urged all the gladiators jostling for the plum NFF job to embrace peace and stop the madness which has made our football administration&rsquo;s top office a subject of ridicule before the football world.
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