By Paul Erewuba
A Presidential candidate for the Nigeria Cricket Federation, Emeka Onyeama, has appealed to all stakeholders vying for elective positions ahead of the June 13th Zonal, Vice Presidential and Presidential elections to shun destructive politicking, saying “it is a dry wind that does no one any good.”
Onyeama who expressed shock at the campaign of calumny against him over his ambition to seek for re-election, wondered why elections into the cricket federation had become a do-or-die affair.
Stating why he is canvassing for a 2nd term in office, Onyeama said with the successes recorded by the federation, there was a need to consolidate on what is already on ground.
“We have managed to reinstate cricket in the National School Sports curriculum which has seen students participating in the last three editions of the event.
“We also got cricket back into NUGA which is another platform we are holding strongly after we rejuvenated it and it is now waxing stronger.”
Shun destructive politicking, Onyeama urges stakeholders
In this photo taken Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012, Kwesi Sagoe, Nigeria cricket federation president, speaks with Associated Press during an interview in Lagos, Nigeria. Near the parade ground that Queen Elizabeth II once toured when this nation still was under British rule, the sharp crack of a ball against a bat marks the rebirth of a colonial sport now finding a second life. Cricket, once the preserve of Nigerias educated elite, is finding favor in schools for poor children and in the streets of some of the nations most violence-torn cities. Yet cricket has a long history in the country. British colonialists introduced the game to boarders in Nigerias top secondary schools in the 19th century. Nigeria played its first recorded international game in 1904 against present-day Ghana, local cricket officials say. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)