The Rashidi Yekini Foundation has lauded the League Management Company (LMC) for naming the Highest Goal Scorer Award for the Nigeria Professional Football League after the late Super Eagles’ legend, the Rashidi Yekini. The foundation thanked the LMC for adopting and accepting to immortalise the player who scored a total of 37 goals in 58 appearances for Nigeria. Counsel to the late Yekini, Barrister Jubril Olanrewaju Mohammed who also double as the spokesperson of the foundation told newsmen in Ibadan that though he received the news with mixed feelings, he was grateful for the initiative of the LMC.
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“The main objective of the foundation is to etch the name ‘Yekini’ in the sand of times, because we have come to realise that it won’t be easy organizing memorial event for him annually, but instituting an award in our league where my late client had recorded highest goals severally and also with the national team would be more logical.
“Hence our letter to the LMC on June 1, informing them of our proposal to have the Highest Goal Scorer Award in the Nigerian League with the cash of N100,000 for the eventual winner. The scribe of LMC replied us on June 14, 2015, where he acknowledged receipt of the proposal and pledged to get back to us. I was only reading it on the pages of newspapers, just like everybody did, that the LMC would soon unveil an award for Rashidi Yekini. I’m very happy, because our objectives and ideals for the foundation have been achieved, although I would have expected the LMC to inform us that they have adopted and expanded the idea,”Olanrewaju said.
“The foundation is ready to collaborate with the LMC to make the award glamorous as we have in mind, because the plan is to have the two daughters of the late striker in attendance any time the award would take place and probably having honour of presenting the award to the eventual winner,” he added.
