The Rangers International Football Club of Enugu has secured a one-year official football jersey sponsorship agreement with Afrinvest Limited for a whopping N50 million per football season.
The agreement allows for a renewal clause for the next two football seasons after the current season, making it a total of three consecutive seasons if the current initial season runs through.
The signing of the agreement took place in Enugu on Tuesday, and the State Governor, Peter Mbah, expressed his excitement, saying that the signing was his vision to catalyse private sector investments and bring about the required financial flow into the state.
He went on to state that the government was optimistic that Rangers would soon be a highly-rated and competitive club in Nigeria and Africa.
Afrinvest’s Group Managing Director, Prince Ike Chioke, said that the journey to sponsor Rangers started six years ago, and the partnership was an opportunity to improve the future of football talents in the country, particularly in Enugu State.
Chioke believes that uplifting the lives of young people through Rangers will later contribute to the overall development of the state, the country, and humanity in general.
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The sponsorship deal is expected to polish the club, raise its publicity and public respectability, and make it an envy and pride of all Nigerians, not just the people in the South-East but all over the world.
According to Chioke, this partnership with Rangers will impact other people’s lives in the near future, and he lauded Amobi Ezeaku, Rangers FC General Manager, and his management team for pressing hard for the sponsorship within the last six years.
The state Commissioner for Youths and Sports, Lloyd Ekweremadu, said that with the sponsorship, Afrinvest had given the state government the challenge to do more, not just for Rangers but sports in general.
He expressed optimism that Rangers would soon achieve unprecedented heights, while the trophies and accolades would be coming soon.
In attendance at the signing of the deal were representatives of the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) and Nigerian Professional Football League (NPFL) as well as ex-national and ex-Rangers players, which included: Christain Chukwu, Emmanuel Okala, Davidson Owumi, among others.
