Udeagbala heads maiden Abia State football festival’s organising committee

Jul 7, 2025 - 05:30
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Udeagbala heads maiden Abia State football festival’s organising committee

The Abia Inform authorities has inaugurated a 33-man Native Organising Committee (LOC) to spearhead its maiden soccer pageant, with the previous Mayor of Aba North Council, Ide John Udeagbala as its chairman.   Also in the committee are Captain Eric Asomugha (vice chairman) and the Everlasting Secretary of the Ministry of Native Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Lady Oge Maduka, who's to support as the secretary among other contributors.   Inaugurating the committee contributors in his self-discipline of industrial in Umuahia, the Commissioner for Native Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Prince Uzor Nwachukwu, said that the tournament, christened Abia First Soccer, in collaboration with his ministry and the Ministry of Youths and Sports actions Pattern, is concentrating on stuffed with life participation of soccer golf equipment all the contrivance in which through the 184 wards in the train.   He said that contributors would compete favourably at the grassroots to local council ranges, with the particular group given the ticket to bid the train at national competitions.

Prince Uzor Nwachukwu said that the groups “we've got got in each community will be given alternatives to compete amongst themselves, from the attach the ward, will make its group to play with other wards.”   Whereas assuring that mobilisation would be performed from the grassroots to the train stage, Nwachukwu told the mayors to fully participate to be obvious each community is represented in the competition.   He also enjoined the committee contributors to work as a bunch to realise the train authorities’s desires for initiating the tournament and expressed self belief that the committee would be ready to power the course of as envisioned by Governor Alex Oti.   Also speaking at the inauguration, the Commissioner for Sports actions and Formative years Pattern, Sir Nwaobilor Ananaba, said that the essence of the inauguration is to set a bunch together that might maybe well maybe power this grassroots initiative of discovering soccer abilities.   He disclosed that the train authorities plans to space up a building to nurture emerging abilities from the competition to be obvious they change into unbelievable athletes who would bid Abia Inform in future national and global championships.    Responding on behalf of the Committee contributors, the LOC chairman, Udeagbala thanked Governor Otti for locating them right to support in that capacity and guaranteed that they would possibly define the boldness reposed in them.