Lagos and Oyo states have confirmed their readiness to take part in the forthcoming U-13 and U-15 Sunday Dare Athletics Championship sheduled for Lagos.
This was confirmed by the chairman main organising Committee,Otunba Samuel Adeleye in a chat with our correspondent early today in lagos.
Adeleye said the chairman of Oyo State Athletics Association,Dr Isaac Friday Ogada was excited about the tourney and promised to send their best athletes that would represent Oyo state when the championship begins immediately government has lifted lockdown on sport activities in Lagos and Nigeria at large.
“Let me officially announced that I spoke with Chairman Oyo State Athletics Association,Dr Ogada some days ago and he was excited about the tourney and promised us to lead Oyo state delegates to take part in the tournament.We can assure you that Lagos is ready because we just finished the preliminary stage recently in Lagos before the lockdown where we have more than fourty secondary schools in attendance.So far so good the two states have confirmed their readiness for the tourney,”he said.
Technical Director of the tournament, Bright Yekini said there is no cause for alarm in area of technicalities of the event saying that he had contacted the service of National Athletics Technical Officials NATO,Agbado-Oke Odo zone to be on ground when the event commences.
“There is no problem in area of officiating.I belong to NATO and the participating states should be rest assured that the event would be error free and the best officiating would be displayed throughout the one week event,”he concluded.
Commenting why the tourney named after sport minister,Sunday Dare,Adeleye said the tourney was named after the sport minister because of his immense contribution to sports development in Nigeria.He said since Mr Dare became sport minister,there are a lot of changes in area of sport Industry noted that such person deserves to be honoured.
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