FG Shelves Edo 2020 National Sports Festival
Towing the line of current world order, the Federal Government has postponed the 2020 edition of the National Sports Festival earlier scheduled to hold in Benin, Edo State from Sunday, March 22.
The decision to shelve the sporting carnival, tagged “Edo 2020”, was taken after a meeting involving the Minister of Sports, Mr Sunday Dare, his health counterpart, Dr Osagie Ehanire and some other experts as well as stakeholders at the Health Ministry in Abuja on Tuesday.
The meeting reviewed the COVID-19 situation globally vis-a-vis Edo 2020 Sports festival towards making its decision to postpone the event indefinitely.
Minister of Sports, Dare later made the announcement in a series of tweets released on his official Twitter handle.
He tweeted: “A meeting between the Ministers of Health, myself and a few other experts just concluded now at the Health Ministry to review the COVID-19 situation vis-a-vis Edo 2020 Sports festival towards making decision on the postponement. A final decision will be communicated shortly.
“President Muhammadu Buhari approves the postponement of the National Sports Festival Edo 2020 as a precautionary move against COVID-19 spread.
“Following the briefing of Mr President from myself and the Minister of State for Health on COVID 19, Mr. President approved the immediate postponement of Edo Sports festival to a future date”.
The games were earlier slated to hold between March 22 and April 1, 2020 in Benin, the Edo State capital.
