‘It will be a miracle if 22nd National Sports Festival holds in January 2025,’ Says Odegbami
Former Nigeria international football star, Chief (Dr) Olusegun Odegbami does not see the 22nd National Sports festival holding in January 2025 in Ogun state and says it will be ‘the greatest miracle since the conversion of water to wine in the holy books should the festival hold next January’.
The Nigerian National Sports Festival is Africa’s biggest, single domestic multi-sports event. It is designed to feed Nigerian sports with the best budding talents in all sports. It is also the biggest program of the Federal Ministry of Sports development.
It used to be a biennial multi-sport event first started in 1973 and originally conceived as a “unifying tool” with the main purpose of promoting peace and cross-cultural affiliation in Nigeria after the Nigerian Civil War in 1970.
Odegbami, writing in his column in The Guardian and Complete Sports says there is no visible signs on the ground that suggests the once postponed competition will hold on the new dates.
He wrote: ‘The next edition is scheduled to take place in about 6 months’ time in Ogun State. With the developments on ground now, it will be the greatest miracle since the conversion of water to wine in the holy books should the festival hold next January.
‘Why? The answer is blowing in the wind. Nigerians are, however, waiting and watching to see what will happen.’
