Contrary to insinuations that the 19th National Sports Festival earlier scheduled to hold in Calabar, Cross River State later this month was postponed because of impending political campaigns, Director General of the National Sports Commission, Hon. Gbenga Elegbeleye has said that the non-readiness of most of the states informed the postponemenrt

According to the Director General, even if the facilities were all in place for the biennial festival, most of the states were not ready as they had not even registered their athletes by numbers, while the National Sports Commission, on its own, was also not prepared following the loaded programmes it was involved in during the year.
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