Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Lagos State, Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu has made a grave promise to go the additional mile in returning the lost brilliance of games in the Center of Excellence.
While taking with individuals from the Sports Writers Association of Nigeria, Lagos State part at the Sports City yesterday, Sanwo-Olu, who reviewed what sports used to resemble in past times worth remembering, where any semblance of Stationary Stores, ACB and Leventis United ruled the games scene in the land, said it was deplorable that Lagos was never again an apiary of brandishing exercises.
Showing his profound enthusiasm for games, Sanwo-Olu said that sports advancement was attached to the arrangement of offices, specialized limit and a practical reward framework, promising to move for the recovery of already sports grounds presently swung to lodging condos and malls, cautioning that such deviation from the end-all strategy was upsetting the improvement of games abilities in Lagos State.
Noticing that the Surulere region was going to fill in as the pilot plan of the undertaking if elected in the March 2 gubernatorial election, Sanwo-Olu said that “without these sports centres in our city, our plan to make Lagos reclaim its lost glory in sports would remain a pipe-dream, that is why we must liaise with the House of Assembly to enact a law that will make it compulsory for developers to make provisions for sports grounds in their future land development”.
On wanting to obtain the National Stadium from the government, Sanwo-Olu said that it was pitiable that what used to be the greatest brandishing structure in the nation was currently a sad remnant of its once heavenly self, spoiling ceaselessly, making a joke of the explanation behind its development during the 1970s.
Taking note of that it was high time the government descended from its lofty self esteem by giving it over to the Lagos State government, who might thus make it a bee sanctuary of national, mainland and universal games rivalries, Sanwo-Olu, who was a former Commissioner amid the governorship residency of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, guaranteed to investigate authoritative choices if the central government stayed stubborn in giving over the Sports City to the state government.
Sanwo-Olu said, “We would explore all options. The Lagos State government has been engaging the federal government through the means of dialogue on the issue of the National Stadium but the efforts have not yielded the desired change of ownership. We cannot allow such a monumental sports edifice to remain fallow because talents are being wasted and resources are being lost. We will also look at the legislation, through our members in the House of Representatives and Senate, so that a lasting solution can be reached”.