Speaking to journalists on Sunday In Abuja, the Paralympics
Captain, Lucy Ejike said, “we have been training seriously to make sure we meet
up with the standard we set at previous games. Everything is going on well. We
are confident we will bring glory to Nigeria. We have world records, so we hope
to maintain the records and create new ones”.
Speaking in a similar vein, Para Powerlifter, Nnamdi
Innocent, expressed appreciation to the Sports Minister for motivating the
team.
“We are grateful to the Minister for his support and
encouragement, what he did for us during the lockdown will motivate us to excel
in Tokyo. We have many world records and our target is to go there and make
Nigeria proud,” he said.
The Tokyo 2020 Paralympics games will be Nigeria’s 8th
consecutive appearance since her maiden appearance at Barcelona 1992.
Nigeria had her most successful outing at Rio 2016,
finishing as Africa’s best team and 17th overall in the world on the medals
table with eight gold, two silver and two bronze medals.
Nigeria will participate in four events at the Tokyo 2020
Paralympics viz; Powerlifting, Para-Athletics, Para-Table Tennis and
Para-Rowing.
The team is expected to depart for Japan this week.