Obinna Ogba, the Chairman of Senate’s Committee on Youths and Sports Development, on Monday said the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin has none comparable to it in the country presently.
Ogba gave the assessment shortly after he was conducted round several of the facilities put in place for the 20thNational Sports Festival (NSF) tagged “Edo 2020’’.
“I am highly impressed with what I have seen so far. In fact, since I have been visiting stadiums, I have not seen this type before in the country.
“I don’t have much to say rather than to thank Gov. Godwin Obaseki and his deputy, Philip Shaibu. Edo have really written their name in gold.
“By the time this stadium is open to the public and the youths see what their governor has done with tax-payers money, they will never forget him.
“At all the facilities we have visited, they have done very well, particularly what they are doing at the University of Benin. The whole hostel is wearing a new look.
“I have charged the Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Youths and Sports Development to take all the things we have seen here to the Moshood Abiola National Stadium in Abuja,’’ he said.
