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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Among dignitaries the witnessed the closing event was the national leader of Odua People’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.

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.

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’s top office a subject of ridicule before the football world.