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Remo Stars Ochowechi Clinches VAT Wonder Goal

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Remo Stars’ Salefu Ochowechi’s 19th minute free kick goal against Gombe United on Match Day 22 turned out the most popular for the fans who participated in the voting for Match Day 22 VAT Wonder Goal selection.

Ochowechi was shortlisted alongside Mohammed Mohammed of ABS and Festua Umanah of Wikki Tourists.

The three players had scored fantastic goals but Ochowechi’s free kick from over 30 yards and which ended Remo Stars six match winless streak picked more votes from fans who voted on the website to edge out Mohammed who was twitter voting fans’ favourite.

Ochowechi picked up 80.6 percent of the320 votes on the website, translating to 257 votes while Mohammed had 2.2 percent, just seven votes with Umanah securing 17.2 percent, 55 votes.

But 45 percent of voters on the twitter handle preferred Mohammed’s goal for ABS against Niger Tornadoes, given him a total of 89 of the 198 votes while Ochowechi got 32 percent of the votes, 63 votes and Umanah had the remaining 23 percent of the votes, amounting to 45 votes.

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After the collation, Ochowechi secured a total of 320 votes and was followed by Umanah who polled a total of 100 votes while Mohammed’s tally was 96 votes.

Ochowechi thus becomes the third winner of the VAT Wonder Goal which commenced from Match Day 20. He will receive prize money of N150, 000, half of which is to be donated to a Charity of his choice within the state where the club is domiciled.

Previous winners are Rivers United Ayo Saka and Akwa United’s Ubong Friday.

 

 

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Kunle Solaja is the author of landmark books on sports and journalism as well as being a multiple award-winning journalist and editor of long standing. He is easily Nigeria’s foremost soccer diarist and Africa's most capped FIFA World Cup journalist, having attended all FIFA World Cup finals from Italia ’90 to Qatar 2022. He was honoured at the Qatar 2022 World Cup by FIFA and AIPS.

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