Wike Revives FCT Inter-School Sports Festival

By: Wisdom Acka

25 years after, the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, has Revived Inter-School Sports Festival in the Federal Capital Territory. 

Speaking at the grand finale of the festival on Thursday at the Moshood Abiola Stadium, Abuja, the Minister disclosed that the sports festival would be an annual event, which would be used to harvest young talents from the various schools. 

The Minister, who was represented by the Secretary, FCT Social Development Secretariat, Aminu Ibrahim, called on lovers of sports and other stakeholders to partner in development of sports sector in Territory. 

He said: “The Barrister Nyesom Ezenwo Wike FCT School Sports Festival has come to stay annually in FCT.  We expect the support and partnership of our beloved parents and sponsors both nationally and internationally to make sports festival in FCT a tourist attraction.”

Also, the Secretary,  FCT Education Secretariat, Dr. Danlami Hayyo, stated that the Minister was intentional with the commitment to reviving the abandoned sports festival. 

Hayyo noted that the festival, which started at differrent eight zones, has revealed that FCT has the capacity to become a hub for producing athletes for the country. 

He pledged that the Administration would give sports development all that was needed to make it interesting and motivating to both pupils and students. 

The Education Secretary noted that his Secretariat was taking sports development seriously, because it promotes integration and unity, while building friendship among the young people.

“We call on all sports lovers to partner with the FCT,  to make the Minister’s school sport festival, a point of tourism for sport grassroots development.

“We want the world to see the FCT as a safe heaven to harness talents for sport in Nigeria and the world. Minister of the FCT is a sport loving father and we trust grassroots sports will flourish during his tenure and we believe he will continue to support FCT in all areas of sports for success to be attained”, he said. 

The highlights of the festival was the presentation of trophies and medals to the individual athletes and schools for excellent performance. 

On the Primary school category, LEA Primary School, Kpadna, emerged the overall winner with seven golds. 

While in the Junior Secondary School category,  JSS Gwako came first with 4 golds, while the Government Secondary school,  Karu came first with 9 golds in the SSS category. 

Abuja Digest reports that the sports festival is named “Nyesom Ezenwo Wike FCT School Sports Festival.”