President Goodluck
Jonathan has unveiled the trophy of the first Nigeria Local Government Sports
Festival, assuring that the Federal Government would provide both technical and
logistics support to ensure its success.
Acccording
to Daily Independent reports, Jonathan who stated this while receiving the
National Organising Committee (NOC) of the first Nigeria Local Government
Sports testival in Abuja, said the Federal Government would liaise with all
agencies, especially the Federal Ministry of Sports to provide the needed support
for the festival.
The
President
represented by the Minister of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental
Affairs, Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, used the occasion to condemn the attitude
of politicians who use the security situation in the country as a means to
score cheap political point rather than supporting the government in its
efforts to curb the activities of the insurgents in the country.
The chairman of the
NOC, Solomon Gbenga, said the proposed Sports Festival, otherwise known as Goodluck
Ebele Jonathan Unity Sports Carnivalí was being organised, in recognition of
the efforts of government in the Transformation of the Nigerian economy and
also to lend the support of the committee to the Transformation Agenda of
this administration.
Solomon
stated further that his committee was a group of young patriotic
Nigerians who want to partner with government to contribute their own quota to
the national development, peace, security and youth re-orientation in the
country.
He
stressed that the idea of the carnival was anchored on the wordings of the
second stanza of the Nigerian National Anthem.
Developing sports from the grassroot... Once well managed, I see Nigeria as world Champions!
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