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Camping
By Olayinka Owolewa
Ilorin, Nov. 24, 2016 (NAN) Abubakar Bukola Saraki (ABS) FC of Ilorin FC will camp in Lokoja, Kogi ahead of the 2016/2017 Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL).
The team’s Director of Football, Alloy Chukwuemeka, made the disclosure while addressing players after their training on Thursday in Ilorin.
Chukwuemeka thanked the players for their effort to get the club back to the apex league.
He assured them that their welfare would be top priority as always, adding that the club’s Proprietor, Dr Bukola Saraki, was happy with them for making him proud.
Chukwuemeka explained that the team would stay one week in Ilorin to look at new players and move to closed camping in Lokoja.
The ABS director of football said the club’s chairman, Seni Saraki, had taken over the team’s welfare to make it top priority.
He said that the league would not be an exception but would bring more goodies.
Chukwuemeka reminded the players of the team’s sojourn in its first appearance in the Premier League few years ago which earned it the title, “giant killers’’.
“We must be ready to take the league by storm again.
`We were once nicknamed “Giant Killers’’ because we always give our opponents a run for their money.
“I believe in you guys and if you want to make a name for yourself, the time is now.
“You will now rub shoulders with the big boys, so you must be ready to behave like one,’’ Chukwuemeka said.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that ABS whipped Gateway United FC of Abeokuta 4-1 on the final day of the Nigeria National League (NNL) season to secure a Premier League place. (NAN)
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(Edited by Dorcas Jonah/Peter Ejiofor)