…Pip Ogunjimi Babes By A Lone Goal
The football competition commemorating the Polytechnic, Ibadan branch of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU, Week 2022, was concluded on Tuesday, November 22, with Team Ojetola emerging winners.
The football competition was named after the National Secretary of NASU, Prince Peters Adeyemi.
In the final match, played at the football pitch of the North Campus of the Polytechnic, Ibadan, Team Ojetola beat Ogunjimi Babes by one goal to nil.
Team Ojetola and Ogunjimi Babes had emerged winners of the preliminary stages of the competition, played last week Wednesday and Thursday.
Team Ojetola had defeated Team Adebayo with a lone goal in a two-legged preliminary matches, while Ogunjimi Babes also ran away with a lone goal victory over Team Adebiyi in the preliminaries.
The traditional kick off for the finals of the competition was taken by Mr. Remi Olalere of Arts and Design Department.
The final match started at exactly 17:26. And nine minutes after, Team Ojetola scored the only goal of the match through Lanre Fawole.
Dignatories at the finals include: the Polytechnic, Ibadan council member, Alhaji Bola Akinyemi; Mr. Remi Olalere, the chairman of the occasion; Mogaji Nurudeen Akinade; Alhaji Suleiman Muritala; the representative of the NASU national headquarters, Comrade Bayo Opasina; Wale Ogunmola; M.O. Amzat; acting Bursar, David Taiwo Olukola; Mr. Bayo Fasina, Alhaji M.O. Tiamiyu; former cooperative Chairman, Alhaji Taiwo Yusuf, Kehinde Giwa and Mrs Toyosi Adewole, Mama NASU.
Others are: Ayo Lawal; Mr. Okemakin from the Department of Biology and the NASU branch chairman, Comrade Ibrahim Adekunle Akande
Halfway into the finals, during the interval, the second runners-up in the competition, Team Adebayo, were presented with the bronze medal by Bola Akinyemi.
Hon Akinyemi said that the Polytechnic Ibadan is lucky to have the kind of unions it has on campus, insisting that the unions have been friendly with the governing council but not friends with the council.
He said the Polytechnic Ibadan is the only school in Oyo State to weather the storm when no convention was coming from government.
He gave kudos to the unions in the school, especially against the background that only the Polytechnic, Ibadan did not go on strike in the last two years.
The first runners-up got the silver medal, while the win ers ran away with the gold medal and the trophy.
