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- Osun State Deputy Governor Adekola Adewusi entertained spectators during an accumulation array tennis lucifer held successful Otan Ayegbaju, Boluwaduro Local Government Area, connected Monday, April 28
- The lucifer featured Adewusi facing disconnected against erstwhile African champion and existent authorities coach, Saka Suraju
- The accumulation was portion of the 2025 National Table Tennis Championship, which has attracted implicit 50 teams to the state, sponsored by the Michael and Felicia Alabi Foundation
Deputy Governor of Osun State, Adekola Adewusi, defeated Coach Saka Suraju successful an accumulation lucifer to footwear disconnected the 2025 National Table Tennis Championship successful Otan Ayegbaju connected Monday, April 28.
Adewusi officially declared the tourney unfastened successful the beingness of apical dignitaries and implicit 30 participating teams and clubs.
The title features apical talents, including Africa Men's Doubles Champion Abdulbasit Abdulfatai, 2023 African Games bronze medallist Matthew Kuti, and Amadi Omeh successful the men’s category, per NTTF.
In the women’s category, defending champion Sukurat Aiyelabegan is acceptable to look beardown contention from apical contenders specified arsenic Hope Udoka, Aminat Fashola, and Bisola Asaju.
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A full prize excavation of N11.5 cardinal volition beryllium awarded crossed assorted categories, including elder (men and women), U-15 (boys and girls), arsenic good arsenic events for deaf and para-athletes.
Deputy Governor hails organisers
Adekola Adewusi has commended the organisers of the National Table Tennis Championship for their imaginativeness successful nurturing talents successful the country.
According to Punch, Adewusi urged participants to grounds a precocious level of sportsmanship during the tournament. He said:
“I privation the players to spot this tourney arsenic an accidental to show their talent. I privation to complaint the pistillate players to spot this arsenic a level to merchantability themselves to clubs extracurricular the state and get selected into the nationalist team.
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Aiyelageban speaks
Technical Director of the Nigeria Table Tennis Federation, Kehinde Aiyelabegan, said the Deputy Governor of Osun State added glamour to the nationalist title with his outstanding performance.
Speaking successful an exclusive interrogation with Legit.ng, Aiyelabegan revealed that the players are anxious to execute and are determined to upset the defending champions successful each categories. He said:
“We are blessed that the fig 2 national of Osun State is present for the tournament. As you tin see, the Deputy Governor played against Saka Suraju, a erstwhile African champion.“The players connected the crushed are bare for glory, and I judge we mightiness witnesser an upset successful this tournament. We person existent and erstwhile nationalist champions who volition thrill the spectators.""I privation to accidental a large convey you to the sponsors of this tourney for their consistency successful ensuring it takes spot yearly since it made it's debut 5 years ago."Alake of Egbaland takes connected Akarigbo of Remoland
Legit.ng earlier reported that 2 first-class traditional rulers from Ogun state, Adedotun Aremu Gbadebo III, the Alake of Egbaland and Babatunde Adéwálé Àjàyí, the Akarigbo of Remoland, person stirred reactions from Nigerians connected societal media aft being caught showing their array tennis skills.
In the trending video, the 2 monarchs were playing the athletics with their Agbada, a Yoruba attire associated with the civilization and radical of southwest Nigeria.
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