Sokoya Prmises To Organise Regular Table Tennis Championships.

Chairman of Lagos State Table Tennis Association, Architect Femi Sokoya, has vowed to continue sponsoring and creating an enabling environment for regular competitions for the state's table tennis players to excel.

While speaking with sports journalists, Sokoya noted that the association's players won the five gold medals at stake at the last National Sports Festival tagged Eko 2012 Games because the players were exposed to both local and international competitions and the association would not relent in its efforts to sustain the feat ahead of future competitions.

He said the association had begun intensive training ahead of the next National Sports Festival in Cross River State which is opened to Nigeria's elite athletes, stressing that the participation of the elite athletes would not distrupt the association's focus in building athletes who would challenge and defeat the elite ping pongers.

Sokoya, who noted the chairman's Rumble International table tennis competition was to honor the commissioner for sports, Waheed Enitan Oshodi, who is now the President of Nigeria Table Tennis Federation, adding that the competition is geared at exposing newly discovered athletes to a competitive championship.

According to him, the association has concluded plans to organise age-grade competitions to build their confidence since they are the future of Nigerian sports, adding that the association would soon begin aggressive grassroot developmental program to popularize the sport.