Two years after, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Nyesom Ezenwo Wike accepted of plan to reward athletes who did the FCT proud in the course of the 2022 Nationwide Sports Competition.
Opposite to their expectations, the earlier FCT Administration did not reward the athletes for motive not identified to this medium.
Nevertheless, a two-year wait, the Wike-led administration graciously agreed to reward the athletes for his or her effort.
A press release issued Tuesday by the Director of FCT Sports Division, Mr Luka Istifanus, revealed that the minister, in his magnanimity, mentioned rewarding athletes is what they deserve as they’ve labored exhausting to symbolize the FCT.
“FCT in 2022 hit a milestone like by no means earlier than after they emerged ninth place which has by no means been carried out by the FCT group previously Nationwide Sports Festivals.
“Athletes are elated to have a sports loving Minister like His Excellency Nyesom Ezenwo Wike who rewards exhausting work and excellence.
“Now we have loved good consideration from the Minister since he assumed workplace, he understands that Sports is a key issue within the FCT and the nation, he’s at all times involved concerning the welfare of the athletes, that’s the reason he accepted this reward for them to maintain representing the FCT with a profitable mentality,” the assertion mentioned.
He additionally highlighted that the FCT was making ready rather well for the 2024 Gateway Video games going down in Ogun state in January 2025.
Nevertheless, the award ceremony is scheduled for a while in December 2024.
However, the athletes additionally appealed to the ‘individuals’s minister’ to additionally lengthen the gesture accorded the senior elite athletes of the Nationwide Sports Competition, to the U-15 counterparts that represented the FCT on the Nationwide Youth Video games in 2023 and 2024 as they got here seventh and ninth on the desk respectively.