By Mike Oboh
Africa footballer of the year award winner and former super Eagles captain Nwankwo Kanu has described the upgraded Memorandum of Understanding signed between the League Management Company and IPRO Sports as a win win bargain.
Kanu made the declaration at the signing of the MOU in Abuja.
According to him, the Nigeria premier league stands to gain more from the agreement as it will help boost the financial standing of the league.
Kanu noted that unlike other sponsorship, the league will benefit more from this partnership as the league hold the patient right for the sale of IPRO Sports product in the country.
Also speaking the chairman of LMC, Mallam Shehu Dikko said the deal to seal the partnership began in 2015 and the league will appoint distributors for the product to properly monitor the income that will be gotten.
Dikko explained that league has a percentage from every of the product which is branded with logo of the league.
The Managing Director of IPRO Sports Nigeria limited, Hermamt Patel, on his part, said with the involvement of Kanu in the deal based on his humanitarian services through the Kanu Heart Foundation, the company was hopeful that the best of the partnership will benefit both parties.
Patel who said it has been a long journey noted that the partnership was a strategic and amazing one.
The former chairman of Sunshine Stars football club of Akure, Prince Dapo Ajibade said the transparency exhibited by the leadership of the league by not making it their personal business was worth commending.
Ajibade said this legacy will stand to benefit sportsmen and women and the league in particular aa it was not an easy task to get this type of partnership.
