The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has congratulated the new Minister of Sports Development, Senator John Owan Enoh on his appointment, saying the nation’s supreme football-governing body is “willing and fully ready to cooperate and collaborate meaningfully and positively with you to harness the potentials locked in Nigeria Football to take it to a whole new level of a thriving industry, capable of employing millions of people and contributing significantly to the nation’s Gross Domestic Product”.
In a letter signed by its president, Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau, the football body noted: “Having been availed of Your Distinguished’s political, entrepreneurial and philanthropic trajectory over the years, we are in no doubt that you possess the wisdom, knowledge and understanding to justify the confidence reposed in you by His Excellency, by growing Nigeria Football, nay Sports, exponentially to fulfil its huge potential”.
On Wednesday, President Bola Tinubu named Enoh as Minister of Sports Development while announcing his 45-member cabinet to be inaugurated on Monday.
Enoh is a two-term member of the House of Representatives and was also at the Senate for a term. He is to replace Hon. Sunday Dare, who was Nigeria’s Minister of Youth and Sports Development between 2019-2023.
