President Bola Tinubu has urged athletes to compete with integrity and fairness at the 2024 National Sports Festival.

Represented by Vice President, Kashim Shettima, at the opening ceremony of the 22nd edition at the MKO Abiola Sports Arena on Sunday, Tinubu said that sports remains one of the forces for national cohesion.

He said: “We want it to thrive, autonomous, innovative, and focussed because we recognised it critical role in making the nation healthier, stronger and more united Nigeria.

“Indeed, nothing has brought the nation together like sport, whether on the pitch, in the court, or on the track. I urge you all to compete with fairness and integrity.

“We are reminded daily that we’re not strangers to one another, we are compatriots drawn from different roots however drinking from the same well of national pride.”

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Meanwhile, some dignitaries such as  former president Olusegun Obasanjo, Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, Governors of Anambra, Charles Soludo, Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, and Ekiti State Governor, Abiodun Oyebanji, attended the ceremony.

The festival is believed to have attracted over 10,000 athletes will run from May 16 to May 30, 2025.

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