NATIONAL SPORTS FESTIVAL: ‘Team Edo Set For Games’

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Godwin Okute, the Director of Sports of the Edo State Sports Council, has said that the state’s athletes would perform well at the forthcoming 18th National Sports Festival in Lagos.

Okute told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the athletes have been thoroughly grilled for better performance at the sports fiesta.

“There is no problem whatsoever with our athletes in camp and I believe they are fully prepared for the Games,” he said.

The director, however, shied from predicting the number of medals Team Edo would like garner from the NSF.

“In events of this nature you cannot make an outright prediction on the outcome of events.

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“But I know that we will do our best and make our presence felt at the NSF,’’Okute said.

Okute commended the organisers of the sports festival for adopting the Delegates Registration Meeting (DRM) approach; which he said would curb the incidence of double registration.

“The adoption of the DRM approach will address the excesses usually engaged in by some state,’’ he said.

NAN reports that the adoption of the DRM mechanism was the first of its kind and the exercise which took place in Abuja, held from 2-13 November.

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