The General Manager of Kwara United FC Mallam Bashir Badawiy has said that the club’s victory at the just concluded Governor Ifeanyi Okowa pre-season tournament in Asaba, Delta State, is just the beginning of the journey for the Ilorin based club.
Speaking at the end of the tournament, Bashir Badawiy congratulated the entire people of Kwara State especially the Executive Governor Alhaji AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq who he said has been of great support to the Club.
Speaking on the secret behind the Club’s success in the tournament, he said, “we have an Executive Governor who happens to be a football-loving governor. He is ready to do anything for us as far as we can deliver. We also have a gigantic chairman in the person of honourable Kumbi Titiloye who is a workaholic Chairman and who is here fighting tooth-and-nail to take care of the packages for the footballers.”
Responding to the assertion that Kwara United FC has been drawn in a deadly group for the new season in the NNL, he said, “there’s nothing like deadly in football. Football is football. They have two legs, our players have two legs. I must take you back when I was in Rivers United, people said our group was a group of death and we ended up playing in the semi-final after eliminating the likes of Akwa United, Lobi Stars and the rest. So we are not scared of any group. We’ll play football, they’ll play football and at the end of the day, football will win”.
He further called for the cooperation of the people of Kwara State and said that by the grace of God, the team would make them proud.
He dedicated the victory to the Governor of Kwara Alhaji Abdulrazaq. “this is a one-step forward by the grace of God. Victory and promotion to the Premier League will be ours Insha Allah”, he concluded.
