Plot to stop Lagos’ takeover of National Stadium on

A legal obstacle to stop Lagos State’s plan to save the National Stadium is being planned, The Nation has learnt.

A motion to stop the takeover of the troubled national edifice in Surulere, Lagos mainland by the state government may be moved at the House of Representatives today, sources said.

Some “powerful interests” are believed to have lobbied National Assembly members to abort the Federal Government’s plan to hand over the stadium to Lagos.

A source said: “The same people worked against the Lagos State Government when it initiated the plan to take over the Tafawa Balewa Square (TBS) under the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Had it been TBS was handed over to Lagos, the square would have been given total transformation.”

The source regretted that those working against the takeover by Lagos State do not have a better plan to transform the stadium.”

“They are only targeting the parcels of land within and around the National Stadium complex. They do not have any plan to really redevelop the facility which has been completely abandoned and become dilapidated,” the source added.

Minister of Youth and Sports Solomon Dalung, who inspected the stadium along with Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, may be invited by the lawmakers to explain the planned handover— all in a bid to to stop the state government from taking over the facility”.

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