Cross Rivers State
Governor, Senator Liyel Imoke has promised that Nigeria will benefit
immensely from the grassroots programmes the state has undertaken in
recent years.
Imoke, who recently bagged the football-friendly
Governor award and was also a nominee for the Sports-loving governor of
the year at the Nigerian Sports award, advised that Nigeria needs to
invest in grassroots programmes if it want to be among the top-ranked
nations in sports.Imoke, who was was represented by one of his
media assistants, Christian Ita said “The rest of the country is yet to
come to grasp with what the current government of Cross River is doing
regarding the development of sports through a comprehensive grassroots
programmes. Right now, the governor is already building two stadia one
each in Ogoja and Ikom areas of the state.
“The governor boasted that it has the best
comprehensive grassroots sports programme in the country today where we
have a catch them young policy which has seen our kids dominating the
school sports in the last two years”.
The School Sports Festival in Ilorin is dominated by Cross River which is a reflection of our grassroots programmes.
And
next year, when we will be hosting the National Sports Festival, it is
this kids that we will parade against all the other states. Nobody will
be poached to come and represent Cross River State”, he concluded
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