FCT plans to revive traditional sports

olusola @jide_ The chairman of the FCT Association of Traditional Sports, Apostle Collins Ebubechukwu has expressed his desire to use the occasion of the forthcoming National Sports Festival to revive traditional sports which have been in the doldrums for years.

In a chat with Daily Trust, Ebubechukwu said “we want to develop our local sports like Ayo so that our children can know what we inherited from our parents so it doesn’t go extinct.”

Ayo is a traditional game played on a carved wooden board usually played between two persons, and the objects of play being Ayo seeds. The game is very common in Nigeria and some countries in North Africa.

According to him, the traditional sports are for the future and the newly elected board is determined to put the sports in the limelight.

“We will go to schools to organise local competitions so that they would have the foundation from there the world will have to know about such sports,” he noted.

On the forthcoming National Sports Festival, billed for Abuja from December 6th -16th, 2018, Ebubechukwu said he was optimistic the 19th edition of the games will be better than previous editions, and looks forward using it to project some of the traditional sports like ayo, abula, traditional boxing, traditional wrestling and Langa. West and