The Chairman, Anambra State Sports Development Commission, Chief Patrick-Estate Onyedum has urged the new sports minister Sen. John Ewan-Enoh to pay special attention to grassroots sports development and not pursue immediate glory which often led to respiration.
Chief Onyedum while speaking in Awka, Anambra state capital recently projected better days for Nigerian sports sector under president Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration.
While congratulating Sen. John Ewan-Enoh on his swearing in as the new minister of Sports Development, Onyedum, an athlete turned administrator assured that Anambra is willing to partner his ministry and promised to enable him succeed in the interest of teeming Nigerian youths.
He called on Ewan-Enoh to continue the sports industry policy of the previous minister to enhance the economic empowerment potentials of the sector and make it the leading youth development sector in Nigeria.
Onyedum said the minister should hit the ground running by ensuring that the National Youth Games billed for Asaba, Delta State turned out the best in the history of the competition.
In his words “On behalf of the governor of Anambra state, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, I want to congratulate the newly sworn in ministers and in a specially way, Sen. John Ewan-Enoh, the new minister of sports.
“I believe in his capacity to impact positively on Nigeria’s sports sector, and I want to assure him that as a State, Anambra is ready to work with him.
” I encourage him to grow the sports by continuing the policy of his predecessor which seeks to run the sector as an industry. He should also give priority to grassroots sports development, ”
