Papillo, congratulations. Yes, Abia State government has confirmed Kanu Nwankwo as Enyimba’s new chairman. With this, the ex-Arsenal striker will replace the most successful chairman in the Nigerian football club history. Felix Anyansi-Agwu served Enyimba for 24 years and won a record 9 league trophies and Nigeria’s only African Champion League hardware (twice).
More so, Kanu is coming after the People’s Elephant won the 2022/2023 league. Anyansi-Agwu won everything in Africa’s club competition including the League, Champions League and Federation Cup. Yet, Enyimba needs another Champions league since 2003. With Kanu as Chairman, Finidi George as coach, both prodigies out of Ajax’s Louis van Gaal 1995 European Champion League winners, Abia expects more success at the continental level.
As that happens, Enyimba FC must make Aba a better economic city and that one goes to His Excellency, Dr Alex Otti. We want to win the Cups and also win the bank alerts with more economic opportunities in the Enyimba City.
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Good Luck Kanu and take Enyimba to the next level. We love football in Abia. I was never good at any sports, but I was a really good commentator in secondary school.
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I am Sausa, former Football & Sports Strategist; Secondary Technical School Ovim Abia State.
Prof Ndubuisi Ekekwe, Member of Abia State Economic Advisory Council
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Comment 1:Good morning prof. Don’t you think Enyimba should be sold 80% to good private hands so they can run it better?
My Response: Enyimba is already doing great on the pitch. We want it to help Aba economically. If you have investors who can tap into the history of Enyimba to have a mega sports city around Aba, let me know. Sports is business and we have an anchor in Enyimba to leverage.
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Enyimba to the world. Create entertainment around the stadium, food (don’t forget abacha section, ugba section, etc), drinks (including palm wine section), live bands; have a carnival-like atmosphere in the build-up to each home match. Then keep the tickets cheap, having plenty people at the stands is good for the cameras.
These things don’t cost fortunes, but we make them look as though only the Europeans know how to build businesses around sports.
Once you have a thriving sports industry, you don’t need anyone to tell you that you need to upgrade your infrastructures, and tourism numbers will go up. You must market things aggressively, else nobody will know about their existence.
Build it and create great stories around it, and people will come.
Papillo, over to you.