Abayomi Ogunjimi, President of Authentic Nigeria Football supporters club has joined the wagon of well-wishers to celebrate Alhaji Sani Lulu has he celebrates his 62nd birthday while also revealing the motive behind the club’s establishment and operation.
“The former NFF president added another year to his age today, his contribution to the growth of Football in the country is acknowledged by Authentic Nigeria Football Supporters Club and we celebrate him”, the club authorized management statement read.
On the reason behind the club birth, the ANFSC president said, “Passion, vision and hard work solely prompted this fan’s club, he revealed while fielding questions from Journalists on Let’s Gist Naija.
“I have been a member of the supporters club from the grassroots, I love supporters club and I have passion for it, I thought it was high time we went digital and put more ideas into it and get better, that was why we thought of creating one that is going to be unique and represent the image of Nigerians home and abroad and to cheer various Nigerian National teams to Victory and it came as the Authentic Nigerian Football Supporters Club”
On why he decided to go with the name Authentic, he said: “We need to distinguish ourselves, we needed to make a difference, Authentic is quite unique and we are not talking about any bad blood with any other, we wanted to be different and we do our things a different way with more of a foreign standard, Authentic is just kind of a symbol to differentiate us from the rest”.
