Kaduna Club honours Omoluwa

Fate played out well at the Kaduna Golf Club last Sunday. The man who spent his entire youth to build the Club founded in 1921, Sir Lucky Omoluwa was finally honored in such grand style.

The entire club with close to 2,000 members was just rising from its 96th Annual General Meeting which returned Colonel Ibrahim Biu as Captain when curtains were drawn from a huge plaque. When the crowd came out of the mist, the plaque had said it all… the vast hall of the club had been named after Omoluwa.

Sir Omoluwa, a member of the Board of Trustees of both IBB Golf Club and the Kaduna Golf Club, savored what he saw. Eyes closed, face serene, calm and guarded, the big man who sits atop Pinnacle Communications was already blinking back tears of joy. But in truth, the whole moment counted for such joy, and tears of joy.

The huge effort started sometime last year when the Executive Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai hosted investors in Kaduna. To make the event laudable, Sir Omoluwa’s Pinnacle hosted a befitting KADINVEST Golf Open. During the closing ceremony of that golf event, Governor El-Rufai preached that he would make Kaduna great again through the new investors he brought to town. It was at this point Omoluwa equally promised he would make Kaduna Golf Club great again. Since then, he has not looked back.

And just recently, Omoluwa moved to change the face of the dilapidating Clubhouse of the aging Club that will reach centenary in three years time to one covered with enervating luxuries. Today, everywhere you move around the course, you will see such glory that will leave you speechless… then turn you into a story teller. Stories about how Omoluwa offered a lifetime to better the Kaduna Golf Club.

A member of the Club and indeed the Head, Legal Desk of the Nigeria Television Authority, Femi Okeowo had this to say about honor done Omoluwa: “I witnessed most of the things he did to bring life into this Club. At a time people were not coming to play the course, Sir Omoluwa moved around communities, especially the Military, to cajole people to play. Some who could not even afford to buy equipment to play, Sir Omoluwa offered equipment to them free of any charge. I must say the honor our Club has done him is overdue. Every member is happy about him and things he has done”.