President of Nigeria
Football Federation, Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau has warmly congratulated the
newly-appointed Chairman of the National Sports Commission, Mallam Shehu Dikko,
saying he has no doubt that the latter’s vast experience in football administration
as a marketing expert, Chairman of Nigeria’s elite League, foremost
international match commissioner, vice president of the Nigeria Football
Federation and membership of FIFA and CAF Committees, has prepared him
adequately to make a success of the big job.
President Bola Ahmed
Tinubu, GCFR on Wednesday named Dikko, who served close to eight years as
Chairman of the Nigeria Professional Football League (now Nigeria Premier
Football League) and second Vice President of the NFF, as Chairman of the
reintroduced National Sports Commission, throwing overboard the Federal
Ministry of Sports Development.
“On behalf of the NFF
and the entire Nigeria football fraternity, I warmly and heartily congratulate
Mallam Shehu Dikko on this huge national assignment that has been presented to
him. I have no doubt that he has the knowledge, skill, experience, steadfastness,
temperament, diligence and intelligence to make a success of the National
Sports Commission.
“We served together on
the same NFF Board for close to eight years, and I can attest to his enterprise
and resourcefulness. He is a man full of meaningful and positive ideas, and the
Nigeria Football Federation will surely work together with him to take our
football to new heights of excellence.”
Dikko served as
chairman of various committees in the NFF, including marketing and sponsorship,
and was a member of the CAF Inter-Clubs Committee. He is still a member of the
FIFA Football Stakeholders Committee.
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