General J.S Bindawa, a renowned golf enthusiast, said it is about time the nation reposition its sporting priorities, adding golf must command resources just as football and athletics.
“They said golf has its own federation but I can’t see it,” Bindawa, a former Defence Attaché to the Nigerian Embassy in Islamabad (Pakistan), explained.
The former member of Nigeria Golf Federation continued: “And we are now talking about golf that has overflow of talented youths in every corridor of the nation; you will not even believe it that the government is not doing anything to harness the talents of these youths. This is grossly unfair.
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“I recall how I put the lots of the youths on my hands alone for years. I selected great talents from across all regions of this country and was taking them to youth tournaments across the world at my own expense. I was doing this with the belief that the federal sports ministry would lend a helping hand at some point, but all this to no avail.
“What I cannot even understand is that rather than the government give to golf which is the next big thing in the world, funds are mostly devoted to football and athletics.
“Even football did not make it to the Olympics despite the huge funds spent on it. And if we are thinking Athletics would come to the fore to bring us glory at the Olympics, then we are getting things wrong. Golf is the right path I see at the moment,” he noted.
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