Charges Club To Promote Unity, Development
Enugu State Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, yesterday, inaugurated the 2023/2024 Executive Committee of Enugu Sports Club under the chairmanship of Sir Nnanna Victor Atuonwu, urging the club’s new leadership to continue to expand the frontiers of unity, peace and development through offering support and wise counsel to the incoming administration of Dr. Peter Ndubuisi Mbah.
Ugwuanyi, who congratulated the chairman and members of the new executive committee on their emergence, charged them to re-dedicate themselves to the fulfillment of the club’s founding objectives of providing top-notch sporting and recreational facilities.
Describing the event as “a solemn one for me” the governor disclosed that it was the last inauguration of the Executive Committee of the club he performed as the club’s president within the extant rules of the club and provisions of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended).
Ugwuanyi thanked members of the Enugu Sports Club for the fidelity of their support, partnership and solidarity over the years, adding that their contributions to the leadership dialogue and agenda setting for good governance in Enugu State were impactful and cherished.
The governor assured them of his abiding love and friendship, acknowledging the outstanding accomplishments of the immediate past executive committee of the club led by Barr. John Henry Chinyelu Nwosu, and other past executive committees.
He pointed out that the premier sports club has continued to grow in the quality of its sporting and recreational infrastructure as well as governance processes.
In his inaugural speech, the Chairman of Enugu Sports Club, Atuonwu welcomed all the distinguished guests to the event including Ugwuanyi, his predecessor, Sullivan Chime and the incoming governor, Mbah, who was represented by the Director General of the State Campaign Council of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Ikeje Asogwa.
The new chairman disclosed that the inauguration was remarkable in the sense that it was the first time a sitting governor, his predecessor and the incoming governor attended the event.
