The Chairman Gombe State Athletics Association, Ahmed Shuaibu Gara Gombe has expressed sadness over the death of Kano State Sports contingents.
The contingents died in an auto crash while returning from the National Sports Festival in Ogun State on Saturday, May 31. They were less than 60 kilometres to arrive their destination when their bus skidded off a flyover bridge and plunged aground.
Gombe, in a statement said: “I would like to use this opportunity to express my deepest sympathy to the Kano State Sports Contingent that lost their lives while returning from the 22 National Sports Festival held in Ogun State.
“This tragic incident calls for national mourning not only for Kano State. However, I would also like to extend my heartfelt condolences to the people and government of Kano State, a place where I served as special adviser to the former Governor of Kano State.
“I know many of the athletes we lost in the tragic incident. It took me this long to issue this statement because I was speechless and in tears. However, we came form God and to him we would return.
“God may have decreed they would never pass the bridge. That’s one thing we would understand and from what I know, that bridge has been notorious in claiming lives over the years. Accidents on that bridge has been so mysterious.
“The bridge was well constructed with good pavements, I can’t understand the bus skidding off the bridge to plunge under.
“This is what I can’t explain and no one can. Only God himself. We take it as it is.
Again, on behalf of Gombe Athletics Association, Gombe Athletics Academy and Chairman CEO, Green White Green Sports Center Ltd, I the Chairman, Proprietor and Chief Executive Officer wish to extend his condolences to the departed. Sadly, I don’t think this is the appropriate time for the Athletics Federation of Nigeria AFN to hold an election, a period of National mourning?
“If the elections were postponed owing to the National Sports Festival, why is it cogent and proper not to shift the election further after 22 lives perished? It is curious that some insensitive individuals are still thinking about elections which is illegal.
“Since the AFN is myopic not to shift the elections, the National Sports Commission should intervene again in postponing the election during this time of national mourning,” said Gombe
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