Gov Mbah: We will deliver a brand-new Games Village for the 23rd National Sports Festival in 2026

Enugu State Governor Peter Mbah says the state will build a new Games Village for the 23rd National Sports Festival which the state will be hosting in 2026.

Governor Mbah said this after receiving the award letter for the hosting of the competition and thanked the National Sports Commission and other sports stakeholders for the confidence reposed in the state and his administration to stage the event, assuring that it would discharge its hosting responsibilities in a way that would leave a lifelong memory and experience on the athletes and all lovers of sports in Nigeria and beyond.

‘We also appreciate the value and significance of this award. I want to commend the commission for finding Enugu worthy of being the next host of the 23rd National Sports Festival. We are going to discharge ourselves creditably.

‘As you know, we like to be a role model as a state that gained preeminence over 115 years ago. We will not want to let our forebears down. We will live up to that standard.

‘We have already set forth at dawn. Immediately that announcement was made, we mobilised our team. We are already working on revamping the Awgu Games Village and a whole lot. We have decided to deliver a brand-new Games Village. We are also completely renovating the stadium to brand new.

‘We are making sure that by the time you come here by the end of this year, you are going to be highly impressed. It is not revamping, rebranding or re-equipping, but we are also going to build additional facilities to the existing one.

‘We are looking forward to having a word-class experience befitting the sports men and women, making our hosting a lifelong memory and experience,’ he stated.