The Director General of the National Sports
Commission, NSC, Hon Bukola Olopade, has charged the Country’s Invited Junior
Athletes ( IJA), contingents to see their participation at the forthcoming 22nd
National Sports Festival in Ogun State as a bold step towards their Sporting
Greatness.
The DG gave the charge when he visited the Athletes in
their training camp in Abuja on Wednesday, where he held an exciting
interactive discussion with them to boost their morals ahead of the Games.
Nigeria Sports is currently receiving a breath of
fresh air with the IJA concept where the very best of the Country’s young
athletes across multiple Sports have been selected to feature as the 38th State
at the Sports Festival.
The NSC DG reminded the athletes that they are the
future of the country’s Sports and that is why Mr President, President Bola
Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, backed the Commission to create the IJA concept into the
Sports festival, starting with the
” This is the first time Nigeria is having this sort
of arrangement. That means for those of you who finally makes it to Abeokuta,
your names would have been written in the history book forever. So work very
hard to qualify to go to Abeokuta”.
” We created the Invited Junior Athletes concept
because we believe in the talents of young people that are bound in this
country. If you have gone to the Youth Games and you are champion, let us then
see how you grow into the elite cadre. And the only way you can grow into that
cadre is by competing and beating the Elite Athletes”.
“I want to assure you all that if you win 10 Gold
medals at the Festival in Ogun State, you have a big gift from the chairman,
Mallam Shehu Dikkko”.
” Once again I have come to say thank you for your
service to the nation, thank you for loving what you know how to do best and
above all to charge you that this thing that you have started, May God lead and
guide you all to greater heights”.
The IJA will compete in about nine Sports at the
Gateway Games which including; Athletics, Badminton, Football, Para Athletics,
Swimming, Table tennis, tennis, Wrestling and weightlifting.
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