The interest being picked up by Local Government Chairmen in the State is something worth commendation.
This assertion was made by the Chairman, Plateau State Football Association,PFA, Hon Dr Suleiman Yahaya Kwande at the opening ceremony of the 2025 Plateau State Governor’s Cup tagged Mutfwang Soladirity Cup, which kicked off at the Government Secondary School,Federe Angware,Jos East Local Government.
Hon Kwande who was so elated with the presence of many Local Government Chairmen and especially that of Riyom LG whose wife came before him.
He said ‘we feel elated to see that many of the Local Government chairmen, infact the Riyom Local Government Chairman’s wife came before him, its good they’re picking up tremendous interest and as we said this years tournament will be different from the last one’.
The Chairman stated that Junior coaches of both Plateau United and Mighty Jets have been engaged to pick players that will form the proposed Association of Local Government of Nigeria,ALGON,that will be registered for the Challenge Cup.
‘we have engaged Junior coaches of Plateau Utd and Mighty Jets to pick players for the ALGON team which will play a mini tournament with both teams after the Governor’s Cup and we’ll register them for the President Federation cup (Challenge Cup)’.
The opening game of the tournament between Jos South Vs Riyom Local Government, saw Riyom getting the maximum points by winning 1-0 from Issac Innocent’s freekick.
Credit: Nathaniel Mobolade, SSI Media, Federe,Angware,Jos East.
