The former secretary general of the Nigeria Football Association (NFA) Ambassador Fanny Amun, has appealed to stakeholders in Nigeria’s sports industry to rally around the newly appointed chairman of the National Sports Commission (NSC), Mallam Shehu Dikko, to ensure a rapid sports development in the country. Amun made the appeal in an interview with some sports journalists in Abuja yesterday, urging aggrieved stakeholders in the sports circle to sheathe their sword and join hands with the new NSC leadership for all round sports development. According to him, since the announcement of Shehu Dikko as NSC chairman, the nation’s sports stakeholders have been praising president Bola Ahmed Tinubu for choosing one of them and saddled him with the responsibility of overseeing the country’s sports and wants all hands to be on deck to fashion a way forward to deal precisely with the differences and actors taking for the entire sports to benefit in the long run.
He particularly appealed to the Harrison Jalla-led group to change their narrative and support the move to restore Nigeria’s sports to its former glory. Part of the group’s claims, he said, was that the NSC boss Shehu Dikko has a court case and is not qualified to be appointed the NSC boss. “His appointment may not have been expected as a choice but the book keepers led by my very humble self can affirm that Mallam Shehu Dikko remain one of the best hands that was ready for the job and his choice has come to stay fo.