Kwankwaso Comes To The Rescue Of Football

The Kano state governor, Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso, yesterday paid a visit to three football players at the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital.

The three players were victims of an attack by ​armed robbers in Abaji, Abuja on the Kano Pillars team coach.

Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso of Kano State.

The team were travelling to Owerri, Imo state for a game against Heartland FC.

The three players, Adamu Murtala, Gambo Muhammad and Otakpa Oneji were shot during the attack, and had the bullets removed at the hospital.

Kwankwaso prayed for the victims and said that the attack was barbaric.
He told the players not to worry about the hospital bills, that the government would take care of it.

He then prayed for the players’ quick recovery and proceeded to conduct a quick excursion of the hospital alongside the state commissioner of health, Abubakar Yusuf, in the company of officials of Kano Pillars FC and senior staff of the hospital​.​


The Kano Pillars team were attacked last week by armed robbers as they were on their way to play their NPL first game.