Following the urgency for effective management and development of the two state-owned football clubs, the Executive Chairman of Edo State Sports Commission (ESC), Hon. Desmond Amadin Enabulele, has continued in the same footprints on strategic reforms, thereby dissolving all Sports Associations’ Boards with the exemption of the Football Association.
The Chairman Sports Commission, in a meeting with the Associations’ Chairmen and Secretaries, pronounced the dissolution of the affected boards on Friday, January 10, at the Media Centre of Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium, Benin City.
Hon. Enabulele, amidst the overhauling, applauded the chairmen and members for their due contributions while indulging each wing to elect a representative to fortify the Sports Commission Board as stipulated in the statute that established the Edo State Sports Commission.
“We decided to dissolve the existing boards of various sports associations except the Edo State Football Association which statutorily we cannot dissolve.”
He disclosed that the commission under his leadership is in haste to make an impact in the pursuit of the agenda for speedy development laid down by Governor Monday Okpebholo’s administration.
“Our decision to dissolve the affected Sports Associations is not political but born out of our genuine desire to have effective and result-oriented board chairmen who can deliver. Some of them are not even in the country and are not in touch with the association.
“We actually need men and women who are committed to sports development to be our chairmen. We have discovered that some of our former chairmen were far from the associations they represented.”
In other words, only those who have done well and are productive will be considered by merit to retain office while others who failed to be efficient will be replaced with immediate effect as he does not encourage mediocrity.
“It can’t be business as usual. However, we have considered that those who have been effective should return as chairmen while the poorly performed ones will be replaced. We want the best for ourselves.
“We hope to reconstitute new boards with chairmen within a week and those coming must be experienced sportsmen who have passion and the drive to attract sponsorship and support for the associations to succeed,” he overemphasized.