posted August 19, 2023
…Provides Free Transportation to Stadium
The Edo State Government, on Friday, canvassed football lovers and other residents in a roadshow through major streets within the Benin metropolis to rally support for Bendel Insurance ahead of Saturday’s CAF Confederation encounter with ASO Chlef FC of Algeria, at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium, Benin City.
The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Edo City Transport Limited, Mrs. Hauwa Dupe Ohikhuai, who led the roadshow, said the campaign was to mobilize Edo people to come out in great numbers today, to cheer the State’s football team to victory.
According to her, they embarked on the road walk yesterday, to create awareness and enable people to come out en masse to the stadium today to cheer the State’s darling club. the Bendel Insurance team to victory, saying “It is a very important match for us because for more than three decades, we have not had this kind of match. Now that we are going to be having it here, we want to use it properly to our own advantage.”
“The governor has ordered that we provide all our buses to offer free rides to people so that we can all be at the stadium to cheer our Bendel Insurance team to victory. We need to be there for them, to cheer and encourage them to victory. “We are having a road show to create awareness.
Ohikhuai further noted, “By 12 pm on Saturday, all the locations that we have been announcing including Ugbowo, Siluko, Airport Road, Mission Road, New Benin, Sakponba Road, Aduwawa/ Eyan, Sapele Road, and Ekenwan Road, buses will be made available to pick everybody.”
She added, “As you enter the bus, free tickets will be given to you to go into the Stadium and watch the match peacefully. There will be free jerseys and other gift items for the first 100 people. We are also to pick them back to the destinations where we picked them from. We are encouraging Edo people to come out to cheer Bendel Insurance to victory. We want the stadium to be filled so that we can give them moral support.”
The roadshow kicked off from Agbor Road through Akpakpava, Kings Square, and Ekenwan Road to Stadium Road, among others.