Kwara Utd GM lauds NFF’s Ibitoye appointment

The General Manager of Kwara United FC of Ilorin, Alhaji Haruna Maigidansanma, has lauded Nigeria Football Federation’s appointment of Toyin Ibitoye as the Media Officer of the Super Eagles.
The Kwara United Manager, in a statement by the club’s Secretary, Elder Dele Oguntokun, on Wednesday in Ilorin, said the appointment was putting a round peg in a round hole.
The statement said Ibitoye has demonstrated long ago he is a top class journalist with high bias for the development of sports at the grassroots.
Maigidansanma said he is sure the new Media Officer of the senior national team would bring his wealth of experience to bear in discharge of his duties and project the image of the team to the world over positively.
It would be recalled that the Nigeria Football Federation on Tuesday confirmed the appointments of Mr. Pascal Patrick (MON) and Ibitoye into the backroom crew of the Senior National Football Team, Super Eagles.
Patrick, a former Nigeria international player, was appointed Team Coordinator, while Ibitoye, a frontline broadcast journalist, becomes the team’s Media Officer, with immediate effect.
Patrick, who is also vice chairman of the Bauchi State Football Association, replaces Emmanuel Attah, while Ibitoye, who has a postgraduate diploma in sports management from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, replaces Benjamin Alaiya, who has held the position since December 2011.