Speaking during the official signing ceremony in Enugu on Tuesday, the Group Managing Director of Afrinvest, Prince Ike Chioke, said that the journey to sponsor Rangers started six years ago.
According to Chioke, “the partnership with Rangers is an opportunity to improve the future of football talents in the country and particularly in Enugu State and these talents will touch and impact other people’s lives in the near future.
“In Afrinvest, we believe that when we uplift the lives of young people through Rangers, they will later contribute to the overall development of the state, the country and humanity in general.
“We want to use Rangers as a case study; we will polish the club, raise its publicity and public respectability and make it an envy and pride of all Nigerians, not just the people in the South-East but all over the World,” he said.
On his part, the General Manager of Rangers, Amobi Ezeaku, thanked Afrinvest and the state government for believing in the club and investing in it for the club to make the difference.
“Rangers will press on with its vision and mission to dominate the World through Africa by this visionary investment of Afrinvest,” he said.
The State Governor, Peter Mbah, who was represented by the Secretary to the State Government, Chidiebere Onyia, said that the signing was his vision to catalyze private sector investment and bring about the needed financial flow into the state.
The signing was witnessed by Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) and Nigerian Professional Football League (NPFL) officials as well as ex-national and ex-Rangers players including: Christain Chukwu, Emmanuel Okala and Davidson Owumi.
Comment here