The formal special adviser to the immediate past governor of Kwara State on political matter, Sulyman Toyin Olokoba has charged corporate bodies and individuals in the state not to leave sports development in the hands of government alone.
Olokoba stated this yesterday during the unveiling of Ratcom Football Club, held at the Conference Hall of Kwara State stadium complex.
The ex-governor aide who is the proprietor of Ratcom Academy which metamorphose to a football club said soccer developments is all encompassing, and should not be jettison to the government.
According to him, the development of football can’t be left into the hands of the government alone, thus charging individuals to invest heavily in sports.
“I believe we have lots of talents roaming around that I believes we can support. Government alone cannot do it.
“We had to do something to support the government in achieving a desire goal. That formed the basis for my coming out with a football club,” he said.
Continuing, ‘though we started from academy, its metamorphose into a proper football team where we got a slot to play amateur 3.
He further stressed the need for the government to be up and doing in the area of sports so as to get it right.
Olokoba who was a runner up during the last FA chairmanship elections promised to work in synergy with the leadership of Kwara FA in the interest of football development of the state.
He added that the motive for staging an U-18 football competition tagged ‘Unity Cup’ is to perhaps mend fences arises from the last FA elections.
Earlier, the director of sports, Kwara state sports council, Mall. Tunde Kazeem laud the Chairman of Ratcom Football Club, Sulyman Olokoba for the ingenuity behind the initiative.
He however urged well-meaning individual in the state to emulate this gesture so as to add cohesion and growth to Kwara football.
