Dr Kachi Nwoga has joined well-meaning Nigerians to celebrate the most successful tennis league in the country, East of the Niger Inter Club Tennis League, ENIC, on its 25th Anniversary, Silvernews.com.ng reports.
Nwoga said the ENIC tennis league which was started in the South-East principally by a South Westerner Mr. Agbaje, remains the only unifying tournament that holds the South-East and South-South together.
He hailed the tremendous impacts of the tennis tournament over the years while calling for improvements in areas where necessary.
He went further to task them to rekindle what they did in previous years by investing their time and resources into the league and tap the potentials for the growth of ENIC.
His words: “25 years of ENIC makes another milestone for the most successful and oldest regional club tennis tournament in Nigeria. I’m not surprised because ENIC is a very interesting tournament that involves the Tennis Clubs in the 9 States east of the River Niger – Abia, Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Bayelsa, Cross River, Ebonyi, Enugu, Imo and Rivers.
“The only tournament that holds South-East and South-South together. That’s unique. It is going to be another great event. This year’s edition is happening at Nnewi. When tennis players from South-East and South-South come together, you will always enjoy the atmosphere.
“Part of what we should do in this 25th Anniversary is to rekindle the corporate presence, because Enugu took us high, Calabar took us even higher. We didn’t build from our gains in Calabar. We need corporate interest and without that, we can’t have proper sponsorship.
“We need to go back, find a way to invest our time into that and bring the game to where we had in mind. We have work to do. Nnewi will be the beginning of the celebration of 25 years and not the end.
“ENIC has great potentials and we must remain ever grateful to Cutix PLC. The real deal is the corporate interest. I think ENIC has done very well both in the sports development (with the Youth tournament) as well as the Clubs tournament proper . We should simply add more to the economics of it and devise some extra social programmes that can keep us going even beyond the tournament.” says Dr Kachi Nwoga, who to his credit initiated the Super 4 Finals model and turned the ENIC tournament into a media event.
