AHEAD OF ENYIMBA' CLASH: Kano Pillars to fly Apex Airline to Calabar on Saturday

By Taofeek Babalola

Players and officials of Kano Pillars will travel by air to Calabar on Saturday for their matchday 32 of the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) encounter with Enyimba on Sunday, Sportinglens.blogspot.com can report.

The club’s media officer Rilwanu Idris Malikawa told Sportinglens.blogspot.com that the team left Kano on Friday to Kaduna before joining Apex Airline on Saturday morning at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja to Calabar.

Malikawa said the management of the club under the chairmanship of Alhaji Tukur Babangida decided to airlift the players to relieve them from the hardship of traveling by road to Calabar.

“The management wants the players to be focused on the match that is why it would not relent in its efforts by providing comfort for them and hope they would come back home with good result. We know the match will not be easy but with spirit and current form of the players nothing is impossible to achieve in the match,” Malikawa said to Sportinglens.blogspot.com.

Malikawa explained further that Sai Masu Gida is targeting to pick one of the continental tickets at the end of the season which he said is achievable with grace of God grace.

He added that the players will return back to Abuja by air on Monday and move straight to Kano the same day to allow them prepare well for their rescheduled match with Rivers United on Wednesday at the Sani Abacha Stadium Kofar Mata, Kano.

However, Malikawa said players, management, fans and entire people of Kano are solidly behind the home base Eagles and will do everything humanly possible to ensure that they get good result in their qualifying match against Benin Republic next month.