After the maiden edition held in 2017,organizers of Amuwo Games in conjunction with Amuwo Odofin Local Government are set to host the 2nd edition of Amuwo Games set to hold from the 2nd of November to 24th of November 2019.
Speaking on what to expect at Amuwo Games, Seun Ayeni, the founder of the sports festival revealed that the games will run every weekend in November for residents of the community and that cycling and video games were added to further engage the youths.
“Amuwo Games is a festival that will run throughout the month of November and we carefully selected weekends so that we will have people from all walks of life participating, so long as you a resident.
Amuwo Games is for residents of Amuwo Odofin LGA. The games we will be having are the common ones like football, volleyball, basketball , tennis and table tennis. For athletics , we have 100m men and women and the marathon, “, he said.
He continued:”For the board games we have chess and scrabble. Draft was brought in this year so that the aged can participate.
Another sports we introduced this year is cycling because we were approached last year by the Cyclofest team who promised to help us organize it.
We will also have video games as part of the games this year. The overall objective is to empower the youths”