AITEO LAUNCHES SPONSORSHIP FOR NIGERIAN FA CUP

Months after signing the sponsorship deal worth billions of Naira with the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) for 5 years in collaboration with the country's biggest game, the prestigious gas firm, AITEO GROUP has launched another sponsorship deal to sponsor the Nigerian FA cup for the next five years.

Hence, the nomenclature of the FA Cup will take new form: 'the #AiteoCup'. 

During the unveiling of the partnership, NFF President, Amaju Melvin Pinnick expressed his excitement on the new sponsorship deal in a press conference.

"We want to celebrate and thank Aiteo" for signing of Aiteo Cup agreement. "I promise you, we will not only qualify for AFCON but we will beat South Africa in SA" , he added.

Chairman of the League Management Company (LMC) Shehu Dikko who was present at the presser said: "Only we, Nigerians are able to develop Nigeria".

However, details of the sponsorship was revealed but the fee involved wasn't made public.

"We worked the NFF to where granular impact, grassroot support will be felt"- Andrew Onyearu

 "I am very excited that the women (women's FA Cup) have been taken care of" - Aisha Falode 

 "We actually have things to do with this money like give our Shareholders but we are doing this for Nigeria" added Francis Peters, DMD Aiteo

 "We didn't have a company that had Nigeria in mind until Aiteo came in" - Dare Esan

Aiteo are now officially sponsoring the @thenff Nigerian FA Cup as #AiteoCup for the next 5 years #LocalContent #AiteoGroup

— Aiteo Group (@aiteogrp) June 28, 2017

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Tags: Nigerian football, NFF, AITEO, LMC

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