The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) has postponed this weekend’s All-Comers competition as a mark of honour for late Brown Ebewele.
The competition, scheduled for Asaba, clashes with the funeral rite for its former technical director, Ebewele who will be committed to mother earth on Friday in Uromi, Esan North East Local Government, Edo State. In a statement signed by Prince Adeniyi Adisa Beyioku, the AFN Secretary General, the postponement became necessary because of the former Nigeria decathlon king’s burial programme which begins with a vigil mass on Thursday at his Benin city residence.
“The postponement of the AFN All-Comers competition is in honour of our departed hero, Brown Ebewele, whose burial ceremony is scheduled to hold from January 27 to 30, 2022,” read the statement.
Ebewele died on December 31, 2021 after a brief illness and his funeral rites will start with the vigil mass on Thursday while there will be a lying-in-state at the Samuel Ogbemudia stadium in Benin City on Friday morning.
The body of the late ‘Juju man’, as he was fondly called will moved to Uromi for a funeral mass before he would be committed to mother earth later that day.
Meanwhile, friends of the late former Edo State Commissioner of Sports, Brown Ebewele, have raised over N3m to support his family at the forthcoming burial in Uromi, Edo State.
According to social media postings by Alhaji Gara Gombe, the friends of the late sports icon numbering 132 were able to pool their widow’s mite together to ensure that Ebewele, also known as Jujuman, was given a befitting burial.
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