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Newly appointed Chairman of the National Sports Commission NSC, Mallam Shehu Dikko says the Country’s journey towards a sustainable Sports Economy has begun.
Mallam Dikko stated this on Wednesday when the former Minister of Sports, Senator, John Enoh officially handed over the affairs of the Country’s Sports to him in a brief ceremony in Abuja.
“History has a way of coming full circle because in 2008 I was a consultant to the House of Representatives and was responsible for the drafting of the National Sports Commission Bill, a job I did pro-bono and about 16 years down the line I have here with the assignment to implement the work I assisted to put together”.
” The objective of Mr President is to harness the full potentials of the Sports Economy in Nigeria”.
“And we have to first change our mindset from the fixation of just competitions and winning medals and come back and fix our Domestic Sports Development”.
“When we set the foundation right the results and the winning of medals will naturally come in a sustainable manner and that should be the new mindset”.
“We cannot continue to run in cycles so we need to have a different approach from day one because in my view and indeed the firm view of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, competitions is what we call “Consumption” because we just take scarce resources and burn out abroad without any impact on the domestic sports development ecosystem and the Nigerian Economy.
