BUHARI DECLARES 21ST NATIONAL SPORTS FESTIVAL OPEN

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By Terseer Jackson 

President Muhammadu Buhari  declared the 21st National Sports Festival tagged "Delta 2022" open with a charge to all participating athletes to compete fairly, shun all forms of anti-social behaviour and the use of performance-enhancing substances so as to come out magnanimous in victory and gracious in defeat.

According to the press statement by the Director, Press and Public Relations  the President gave the charge yesterday at the Stephen Keshi Stadium Asaba, Delta State, disclosed that the ceremony, is  another landmark achievement of his administration in the area of sports development in the country. 

The President was represented by the Honourable Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Mr Sunday Dare, commended all the Stakeholders and Delta State Government in particular, for working assiduously to deliver a successful Festival that the nation can be proud of, calling on other States to emulate them.

He explained that  the National Sports Festival  since its inception in 1973,  was one of the measures that the Federal Government introduced in the aftermath of the civil war to renew the fabric of our social cohesion and to promote our common destiny as a people, stressing that the architects of the Festival recognized the unifying power of sports and sought to create a platform that would bring young Nigerians together in an edifying contest of wits, will and skill.

He affirmed  that the cardinal objective of his administration is the pursuit of youth development through initiatives that empower and create jobs as a lynchpin of our national development goals which is why the National Sports Industry Policy was approved by the Federal Executive Council. 

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