5th November, 2012
Director of Sports of Ondo State, Mrs Idowu Akinbulumo said Team Ondo will give other states a run for their money in some of the events of the 18th Lagos 2012 National Sports Festival tagged ‘Eko 2012’ scheduled to begin on 27 November.
She said Team Ondo are preparing hard to surpass their fourth position at the last National Sports Festival held in Port Harcourt. Having satisfied with the team’s preparation, Akinbulumo is confident that her state will emerge as overall winners on rhe medals table.
“Of course we are preparing and our expectation will not be anything other than doing better than the 4th position we finished at the last edition. Our target really is to win the competition. I think we have what it takes to achieve that and we don’t intend to relent on our oars,” she said.
Akinbulumo said the state does not dump her athletes like other states do, and that that has been responsible for the level of consistency the state has enjoyed in terms of athletes’ performance in recent times.
“Our athletes are intact and rearing to go. They know what is expected of them and we do our best to make them feel superior and respected in Lagos. We are looking forward to a remarkable Sports Festival and we hope to have the best of everything, accommodation, transportation, and others. We had a great time in Rivers State and I hope Lagos will do better,” she said.
—Sunday Akintoye