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ABIA WARRIORS’ CHAIRMAN, INYAMA GOES INTO POLITICS

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The chairman of Nigeria Professional Football League side, Chief Emeka Inyama has thrown his hat into the political ring.

In a message to www.sportsvillagesquare.com, he informed that he is joining the race into the Federal House of Representatives on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP.

The journalist turned sports administrator said he has declared to run for the Ikwuano/Umuahia Federal Constituency.

Since leaving active journalism some years ago, Inyama had been a sports marketer, a role he performed with the organising body of the 2003 All Africa Games in Abuja.

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He was also a former commissioner for Sports in Abia State before heading the organisers of Nigeria’s second tier football league – a platform he used to become a member of the Nigeria Football Federation.

 

 

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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