The meet Director of the just concluded Zaria Athletics Grand Prix held at the Ahmadu Bello stadium Mr Sunday Adeleye as said that they intend to support Nigeria economy with more of such competition and thus will be looking for more sponsors and partnership to support the nigeria economy through sport tourism.
In his words ,”we want to tell the world it is not as bad as they say we are, from here, come next week, there will be an athletics event in kaduna and we also still have the garden City international grand pix, which will be coming up soon, in which we have the license to organize and it is the mother of all grand Prix in Nigeria, because to qualify to be among contestant, you must be among the first ten in the world.
According to him,the Zaria Athletics Grand Prix was electrifying with great performance by some of the athlete as it as prepared them for coming up competitions, ” we saw coming up athlete like Hajara Haruna,Ayenuro Taiye, in 100 metres women, oshiokpu grace and fejiro in women triple jump , sustenance of performance by oche Emmanuel in 100metres, ogazi Samuel in 200 metres and salisu Ibrahim in 5000m, who got a good challenge from Williams Sunday.
He said for the zaia Athletics Grand Prix, Ahmadu bello Zaria is home for the competition and it will continue to be a yearly thing where home athlete and more international once will be converging.
