By Obasi Emeka
Tackling defender Bright Omokaro started as an offensive midfielder. In 1973, he was confronted by AbdulRahman Abdulrazaq who today sits in Ilorin as governor of Kwara State, Nigeria.
Abdulrazaq represented Kwara State Junior Football team at the First National Sports Festival, Lagos ’73. Omokaro played for Mid-Western State. The Kwara team camped at Igbobi College alongside their Benue Plateau counterparts.
AbdulRahman, born in Zaria had relocated to Demonstration Primary School, Ilorin , just behind Baboko, another school. Dad, Alhaji Abdul Ganiyu Folorunsho AbdulRazaq, the first Northern Nigerian lawyer, was also a first republic minister.
In the field of play, he was as rugged as Omokaro and not many knew that a big man’s son could be so tough. Also in the Kwara Junior Team (Under 13) team to the Sports Festival were Gbadebo Bukoye, Toyin Adisa, Kayode Abdulwahab-Omotose and Sule Ibrahim Gegele.
Others included Musa Alaro, Moshood Omolomo, Jimoh Kesington, Segun Adetoye, Adisa Lokeloke, Lanre Durisinlorun, Wahab Centre-Igboro, Baba Ijebba, Lateef and Rasheed.
0 Comments