Sports, Only Sector That Unites Nigeria, Says Iwuanyanwu
From JOHNKENNEDY UZOMA, Owerri
A sports philantropist and owner of former Iwuanyanwu National Fc. Owerri, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu has identified sports as the only sector that has holds Nigeria together.
He declared that other sectors that are supposed to do the same have all failed except sports which has remained very important to human development in terms of national image and character.
Addressing members of Sports Writers Association of Nigeria SWAN, Imo State Chapter in his office during their courtesy visit, the business mogul added that sports has actually made the nation great.
Engr.Iwuanyanwu pointed out that his story cannot be complete without dedicating it to sports, while assuring his assistance to the association.
He said that Nigeria has remained a great nation because of the way the fathers have kept it, stressing the need for youths to rise up to their challenges in order to salvage the nation.
He described it as unfortunate that the nation has youths who are into 419, Yahoo yahoo, drop outs among others resulting from lack of care by leaders.
According to the BOT member of the Peoples Democratic Party, Nigeria youths may not be bad, but regretted their abandonment by some leaders of the country.
He decried a situation where some youths after spending time in school do not have a job.
Earlier in his speach, the chairman Imo State Chapter of Sports Writers Association of Nigeria SWAN, Comrade Everest Ezihe commended Engr.Iwuanyanwu describing him as a pillar of sports nationally and internationally.
He said that Chief Iwuanyanwu who happened to be a patron of SWAN largely invested in sports development both in the state and in the country adding that through it, he had also invested in human capacity.
The chairman used the visit to intimate Engr.Iwuanyanwu of the plans by the national body of SWAN to honour him as an icon of sports in the country
He said that the sports writers feel highly honoured to be associated with a leader like Engr.Iwuanyanwu, adding that their visit was to give honour to whom it’s due.
