Enugu State FA director, Chidi Offor-Okenwa, 50, kicks the bucket after fight with Leukemia

Chidi Offor-Okenwa, the director of the Enugu State Football Association, has kicked the bucket after a fight with Leukemia. He was 50.

Mr. Okenwa, who was additionally a Member of the Executive Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation and Chairman of the Nigeria National League kicked the bucket on Tuesday morning, May 5, 2020.

As indicated by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Okenwa had been analyzed as having leukemia, and was said to have been anxious for the duration of the prior night he drooped in the early hours. He was raced to a private clinic in Enugu, where he was affirmed dead.

Leader of the Nigeria Football Federation, Mr. Amaju Melvin Pinnick paid sparkling tributes to Okenwa, who was a piece of a gathering of the NFF Executive Committee held by means of video conferencing penultimate Friday. It was that equivalent day that Okenwa praised his 50th birthday celebration.

He stated: "This is a tremendous stun. Each and everybody of us on the NFF Board is in supreme pain. Chidi (Okenwa) was a dedicated officer of Nigeria Football and was a main individual from our scholarly wing. This is a horrendous blow.

He was limited you can generally depend on to offer open guidance. We skiped thoughts off him routinely and got his input on numerous issues on account of his wide information and many years of involvement with football organization. We will woefully miss him.

Splendid, unassuming, articulate, clever, exhaustive and focused on the improvement of Nigeria Football at all levels, Hon. Okenwa displayed limit, enthusiasm, and intensity, and gave his everything for the great closure of any task or task wherein he got himself......