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Adekoyejo Adegbesan, the newly sworn-in Chairman of the Ogun Scrabble Association<\/strong><\/a>, says his appointment is a call to duty and his mission will be to revamp the mind game.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n
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Adegbesan said this on Wednesday in Abeokuta, when the seven-member board of the Ogun Scrabble Association was sworn-in by the state government along with the boards of 35 other sports.<\/p>\n

He said the desire to discover more talents and bring them into national limelight made it imperative for him to take up the assignment.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a great opportunity to finally get to this point where the new boards of various sport associations are inaugurated in the state.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a call to duty and we will take it firmly. It is our earnest desire to succeed and we will definitely succeed with the aid of well-meaning individuals and sponsors.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe catchy thing about Scrabble is the World Scrabble Championship.<\/p>\n

\u201cNigeria has consistently been the best performing country in the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cScrabble is played in many countries and a lot of people play the sport in their homes. So, it has garnered listening ears already.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just need to put in some more work to make it a more spectator-friendly sports.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re hopeful as everything points to the fact that Scrabble will get to the position where football is in this nation,\u201d Adegbesan said.<\/p>\n

He said part of the board\u2019s plan was to make the various zones in the state active, while competitions would be organised among schools.<\/p>\n

He also revealed that the association would seek ways of engaging individuals who are out of school.<\/p>\n

Also, the Permanent Secretary, Ogun Ministry of Sports, Mr Olayiwola Abiodun, called for cooperation between the sport associations and the ministry.<\/p>\n

Abiodun, who was represented by Iyabode Rotimi, the ministry\u2019s Director of Sport, added that cooperation was necessary for the state to have a good showing at the 2022 National Sports Festival in Delta in November.<\/p>\n

After the swearing-in ceremony, members of the board took a walk around the Scrabble Section of the Abeokuta Sports Club where they discussed on how to move the mind game to a higher level.<\/p>\n

Earlier, the board had inspected the Playing Hall at the Ogun State Sports Centre with a view to making it more conducive for use.<\/p>\n

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Adegbesan will run the affairs of Scrabble in the state with Lukman Owolabi as the Vice-Chairman.<\/p>\n

Other members are Bimbo Okusanya, Bukunmi Afolayan and Lawrence Adesola, while Tayo Ogunseye will serve as the Media Officer with Kehinde Osho as the Secretary.<\/p>\n

Scrabble was introduced in Ogun in 2002 by the state government.<\/p>\n

The government said that it desired to widen the scope of the much-loved mind game in the country, and turn it into a sport of international repute in the state.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Adekoyejo Adegbesan, the newly sworn-in Chairman of the Ogun Scrabble Association, says his appointment is a call to duty and his mission will be to revamp the mind game. 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