President Bola Tinubu has congratulated Nigerian-born record-breaking self-professed Ikorodu Boy Tunde Onakoya, for his new world chess record.
Writing on behalf of his principal, the President’s spokesman Ajuri Ngelale had tweeted via the Presidency Nigeria X handle @NGRPresident:
President Bola Tinubu congratulates Mr. Tunde Onakoya on setting a new world chess record
and sounding the gong of Nigeria’s resilience, self-belief, and ingenuity at the square of global
acclaim.
Mr. Onakoya broke the Guinness World Record for the longest chess marathon on Saturday,
after playing for over 58 hours and winning every match in tow.
President Tinubu celebrates the Nigerian Chess Champion and founder of Chess in Slums
Africa for the rare feat, but especially for the reason driving this compelling demonstration of
character, which is raising funds for African children to learn and find opportunity through
chess.
The President states Mr. Onakoya has shown a streak customary among Nigeria’s youth
population, the audacity to make good change happen; to baffle impossibility, and propel
innovations and solutions to the nation’s challenges, even from corners of disadvantage.
The President affirms that Nigeria’s youths have demonstrated in all fields, including
Afrobeats, Nollywood, the pulsating skit-making enterprise, education, science, and
technology, that great exploits can truly come from small quarters.
President Tinubu commends the inclination of Nigerians – across artificial partitions – for unity,
once again exemplified through their undiluted support for this epoch-making endeavour.
The President assures all citizens that his administration remains strongly committed to
creating and expanding opportunities for the youth to explore and exercise their abilities and
become the symbols of greatness our nation represents into the future.
