The much awaited National Sports festival in Edo State: South South Nigeria has been postponed due to the widespread of #Coronavirus according to information reaching us at this moment.
In series of tweets from the official handle of the Minister of Youth and Sports Development: Mr Sunday Dare, a meeting was held with the Ministry of health concerning the potential postponement of the festival with the state of the Corona Virus and President Muhammadu Buhari was also briefed about the meeting.
Mr Sunday Dare officially announced that President Buhari has officially approved the postponement of the festival to a later date:
A meeting between the Ministers of Health, myself and a few other experts just concluded now at the Health Ministry to review the COVID-19 situation vis-a-vis Edo 2020 Sports festival towards making decision on the postponement. A final decision will be communicated shortly.
— Sunday Dare (@SundayDareSD) March 17, 2020
President Mohammadu Buhari approves the postponement of the National Sports Festival Edo 2020 as a precautionary move against COVID-19 spread
— Sunday Dare (@SundayDareSD) March 17, 2020
Following the briefing of Mr. President from myself and the Minister of State for Health on COVID 19, Mr. President approved the immediate postponement of Edo Sports festival to a future date
— Sunday Dare (@SundayDareSD) March 17, 2020
In as much as the Corona Virus has been successfully tackled in the country, there has been a public outcry for the Sports Festival to be cancelled due to the spread of Corona Virus and many have given Kudos to the two Ministries as well as the Federal Government for doing the needful as regards the festival.
The mascot’s dotted costume looks like ‘Amotekun’… lol Good decision!