Handball Stakeholders Nominate Mark Jacob As Next HFN President

As the next Sports Associations’ election draws closer, the fight for the new president of Handball Federation of Nigeria seems to be a settled matter weeks before the main contest.

Rising from their meeting over the weekend, the Handball Stakeholders of Nigeria approved the candidature of Hon. Mark Jacob to be next president of HFN.

Mark Jacob who was the former Vice President of the federation few weeks ago indicated interest for the position the position of president with the sole ambition of restoring the game of handball to its former prime position in the perking order of sports in the country.

The stakeholders after assessing the credentials of other candidates which included the incumbent president Alhaji Yusuf Dauda, called on them to step down their ambition and throw their weight behind the chosen candidate pleading with them that they should be looking at the bigger picture which is the development of handball in Nigeria.

Investigation shows that as at press time, all the candidates have officially endorsed the candidature of Barr. Mark Jacob who was former Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice Kaduna State and later became the National Legal Adviser of People Democratic Party.

 Though Mark Jacob was not present in the meeting, but his official spokesman Mr. Saidu Jibril told newsmen that he felt honoured on the opportunity given to Mark Jacob promising that the Kaduna State born sports administrator will not let the larger handball family down.

 “I believe that the nod given to my boss today is a well deserved one and am promising the handball family that they have made the right choice”

“I can tell you that handball is a familiar terrain for Mark Jacob and not only that he played the game up to national team, he also administered the game and won laurels for Nigeria.

 I am quite convinced that by the next four years, the story of handball will bot be the same again in the country” he concluded.