DNA(ed) championship and trophy specialist, coach Edwin Okon has successfully taken back Akwa Ibom state mainstreams, Ibom Angels to the topflight, NWFL Premiership in his first stint in the dugout at the conclusion of the 2023/2024 NWFL Championship promotion playoffs in Calabar, Cross River state.
You achieved the humble feat in grand and stellar style making it a wholly hundred percent performance winning all the matches with the fewest and meanest of goals conceded to the opponents.
The two unanswered goals victory in the promotion playoffs game against an evenly matched opposite, Osun Babes was almost a fait accompli and foreclosed especially to millions who understand your deep knowledge of the game and intimidating profile, and mostly when it comes to nitty-gritty of wrapping things up, you have always been a standout specialist.
How you do it even at times bemuse your worst critics to the extent that in confusion your doubters have even gone ahead to ease you out of the way and your crime in the circumstance is the flair with which you win games with amazing and confounding ease.
When you were recalled home at your lowest ebb to pick up the pieces that was Ibom Angels, I’m sure not many people in their widest dreams believe that what you achieved today with a modest players was achievable and doable but after the nineteensters eight-day keen contest you are on song shaking the podium once again as the unarguable master of the game.
Congratulations to the entire modest players that you used to achieve this laudable and milestone performance, and congratulations to the government and the good people of Akwa Ibom state who saw the sterling qualities in you and beckoned on you to come to take up the arduous and demanding job.
The sweet story of today’s NWFL Championship promotion playoffs victory is a rehash of what you have done severally at the nation’s most decorated club side, Rivers Angels, the senior national team, Super Falcons and the U20 team, Falconets.
At this point, permit me to ask, what exactly do we as a nation want for the mainstreams, Super Falcons at continent and globe, vis-a-vis, the dreamed coach we want for the side, and how long will we continue to be bemused by the inferiorities and complexity of colour pigmentations.
Okon, you are heartily welcomed back to the familiar turf this time around with Ibom Angels and may your reigns in the topflight be predictably successful.
