Buhari To Redeem Pledge Made To 1985 U-17 Champions

President Muhammadu Buhari has guaranteed the bunch of Nigeria's Golden Eaglets who first won the Under-17 World Cup in 1985, that his organization will satisfy the

The guarantees were made amid a gathering held at Dodan Barracks with the players, in festivity of their exceptional triumph.

In an announcement on Tuesday by a representative to the President, Mr Garba Shehu, Buhari said it had been conveyed to his consideration that a mandate which he provided for the state governments at the time had not been conformed to.

"It is a compassion that those guarantees were never satisfied," he said.

"It is awful that our players, who did us pleased on the world stage went unrewarded for their endeavors, notwithstanding a presidential order to the state executives that they be respected in their home states."

The announcement noticed that, of the different guarantees made to the players at the time, just the Federal Government satisfied its own particular responsibility by supporting the players on an outing to watch the 1986 World Cup, which occurred in Mexico.

The houses, grants and naming of boulevards after every player should have been provided food for by the states.

The announcement noticed that not long after the dedication was given, the Military organization under General Muhammadu Buhari was supplanted and that notwithstanding rehashed representations made to succeeding governments by the players and their authorities, the guarantees made were left unfulfilled.

"I apologize for whatever humiliation and disappointment in your nation these raised and after that dashed trusts may have brought about you.

"My administration will do all inside of its energy to cure the circumstance," the President said.