The Director-General of Lagos State Sports Commission, Gafar Oluwatoyin, says athletes from the state were ready to break Delta State’s record of winning the third and fourth edition of the National Youth Games .Oluwatoyin told the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday during the athletes’ screening for the fifth edition that Lagos was ready to give Delta and other participating states a good fight in all the events they would participate in.
”Delta state has participated in all five editions; this is our second time after we made our debut last year and Lagos placed second.”The state believes so much in grassroots development in conjunction with the mission and vision of the campaign promises of Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu that sports should be taken to the primary schools.He added that he was confident of success for the athletes as none of them had been screened out and were highly motivated.
”Our target is to give the competition the best shot; we have done our homework and the governor has really assisted us in a very good manner.
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