President Of Africano FC Hails SSA Adeboye At 60

By Akeem Busari

President of Africano football club, Ambassador (Rev). Samuel Ikpea has joined millions of Nigerians to celebrate the Senior Special Assistant on Grassroots Sports Development to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Hon. Anthony Adeyinka Adeboye on his 60th birthday anniversary.

Ikpea, who is the African representative of the famous Santos football club of Brazil, in his special message described Adeboye as a very special and important sports personality.

“Today, I join millions of Nigerians home and diaspora to celebrate my brother and friend, on his special occasion.

“I want to also specially commend him for his decades long contributions to the development of sports in Nigeria. We must also appreciate President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for appointing this very experienced and great Nigerian patriot to help develop our sports.

“On behalf of all the good people of this world, we celebrate and also pray that God continue to bless and protect Hon. Adeboye, to the benefits of Nigerian sports,” the awards-winning businessman and football investor added that the entire Nigerian sports community is agog with songs and dances in celebrations as the SSA to President Bola Tinubu on Grassroots Sports Development, Hon. Anthony Adeyinka Adeboye marks his 60th birthday, today. When it rains, it pours. And it has been waves and continued outpourings of praises and prayers for with Renowned for the highly regarded and multiple awards winning sports administrator, who is renowned for his resourcefulness, experience and astuteness.

Hon. Adeboye, also fondly called Tripple Authority or Zulu, by friends and admirers, has been variously described as a blessing to grassroots sports development in Nigeria, as well as being a major player in the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to use sports, as a veritable tool for youth engagement and empowerment for the socio-economic betterment of Nigeria.

National Coordinator of Friends Of Nigeria Sports (FNS), Chief Diprieye Thompson, was full of praises and prayers for Hon. Adeboye, who he called the ‘Grandmaster’, of grassroots sports in Nigeria.

He went ahead to pray that God continue to bless and protect him, for the benefits of Nigeria and humanity. Ambassador (Rev). Samuel Ikpea thanked God for the life of Adeboye, saying the celebrated sports administrator is a blessing to sports in Nigeria.

Ikpea, who is the National Chairman of Nigeria Football Supporters Club, prayed that God in His infinite mercies continue to guard, guide and bless Adeboye, in all his doings.