The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) has postponed this weekend’s All-Comers competition as a mark of honour for the late Brown Ebewele.
The competition, scheduled for Asaba coincides with the burial of its former technical director, Ebewele who will be committed to mother earth on Friday in Uromi, Esan North East Local Government, Edo State.
In a statement signed by AFN Secretary-General, Adeniyi Adisa Beyioku, the postponement became necessary because of the former Nigeria decathlon king’s burial programme which begins with a vigil mass tomorrow at his Benin City residence.
Ebewele died on December 31, 2021, after a brief illness and his burial will start with the vigil mass tomorrow while there will be a lying-in-state at the Samuel Ogbemudia stadium in Benin City on Friday.
The remains of the late ‘Juju man’, as he was fondly called will be moved to Uromi for a funeral mass before he would be committed to mother earth later that day.