By Ado Salisu
The former head coach of National basketball team and Team Manager of Kano Pillars basketball, Coach Sani Ahmad has dedicated their victory against City Chiefs of Abuja in the ongoing Nigerian Premier league basketball second phase to Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf .
Coach Sani Ahmad stated this while speaking with newsmen shortly after the Pyramids City boys recorded their fourth victory in Minna, the Niger state capital.
The tournament, was organized by the Nigerian Basketball Federation NBBF Premier league basketball second phase currently taking place in two centre Minna and Enugu state.
He said that Kano Pillars had won four of it’s matches so far in the league against Bauchi Nets, Gombe Bull, Niger Potters and City Chiefs of Abuja which he described as sign of mak8ng it to the final 8 scheduled to hold later in the year.
The Team Manager further explained that despite the financial challenge facing the team, the players put that behind to continue projecting the good image of present administration of Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf as far as sports was concerned in the country.
He appealed to the state government as a matter of urgency, to bail out Kano Pillars from its current predicament in order to achieve it set objectives.
While commending the players for their commitment and sacrifice, he urged them to sustain the tempo and remain focus with a view to emerge the overall winners at the end of the tournament.
Kano Pillars will tomorrow Thursday confront Nike University in their fifth match.
