Former Wimbledon FC of England striker, John Fashanu has charged Nigeria sports men and women to give their maximum support to the in-coming Nigerian president, General Mohammadu Buhari just as they did to the out-going president, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.
Fashanu, who was a strong supporter of President Jonathan, said he does not regret supporting him stressing that as a sport person he was particularly pleased with the support Jonathan gave to sports which made Nigeria excel at the several international competitions.
“The fact is that I am a sports person and I am always interested in any person who shows so much interest to sports and President Jonathan did that which led to the numerous achievements we achieved under his tenure. This was the reason I supported him with everything I had,” he said.
Ambassador Fashanu maintained that it was against this backdrop that he was calling on Nigerian sports men and women to support the newly elected president noting that it is through this that they will get the him to pay more attention to them.
“I want to congratulate General Buhari for emerging winner of the presidential election and I want to use this opportunity to advise him to be a good sports man. I want to also advise him that the best way to get to the heart of the youth of Nigerians is to invest greatly in sports and by so doing he would have succeeded in touching the lives of millions of Nigerians.
“Some of us may not have supported him but I want to believe that he understands the reason we did that, and I want to assure him that we would also accord him the same support when we are needed,” Fashanu stressed.
The former board member of the Nigeria football Federation expressed confidence that Nigerian sports will continue to strive under the new government saying that with the caliber of people in the now ruling party they would not want to lower the standard set by their predecessor.
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