The House of Representative Committee on Sports has felicitated with Mallam Shehu Dikko over his appointment as the Chairman of the newly reconstituted National Sports Commission (NSC).
The President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Wednesday, October 23, 2024, announced the scrapping of the Ministry of Sports Development and replacing it with the National Sports Commission.
And the announcement was immediately followed by the appointment of Shehu Dikko as the Chairman of the new Sports Commission.
According to the Chairman of the House Committee on Sports, Honourable Kabiru Ahmadu, the appointment of Dikko was in order and Mr President has chosen the right man for the Job.
” Both the establishment of the Sports Commission and the appointment of Dikko are totally inline with the Blueprint of the House Committee on Sports to have Technocrats manning the affairs of Nigeria Sports”.
” Therefore from the House of Representatives, we see this as a big step in the right direction to get our sports where it rightly belongs among the Sporting Countries of the World”.
” Mallam Dikko is a thoroughbred Sports Professional whose qualities in the area of Sports cannot be questioned and we believe he is more than capable of taking Nigeria Sports to the next level “, he said.
The Lawmaker who represents Gusau/Tsafe Federal constituency in the House of Representatives further said the new appointment is a call to duty and charges the new NSC to deploy all his Sporting experience to revamp Nigerian Sports.