Rio: Gov Ortom hails dream team despite losing to Germany at semi-finals

Despite their 2-0 loss to the German side at the ongoing Olympic Games in Rio, Brazil on Wednesday, governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has hailed the boys for scaling through the semi finals.



Ortom who spoke to State House Correspondents after a private meeting with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo yesterday stated that with more technical skills, the team would improve.

He said that his government had articulated a sport Programme to help develop the sporting potential in Benue youth.

“It is unfortunate that we lost that match. But I can say that for Benue state, we are doing a programme to catch them young.

“All the local governments are going to be mobilized to ensure that we bring out the youths from their youthful age.

“We will groom them up to where they can be of benefit to Benue state and Nigeria. I believe that we have the talent. We saw how they played yesterday. With little, additional technical skills, I think they will do better.

“I think we are on path, we are on track and for coming to semifinal, it was a thing of joy to some of us and I think we will do better next time”, he said.

On his mission to the State House, the governor said he was there to brief the presidency on the security issues in the state.

He also added that the government had launched a programme known as go-back-to farm where Fridays had been declared a public holiday to enable workers go to farm.

He noted it was part of the government’s initiatives to diversify the economy of the state.