The new president of Pan-African Scrabble Association (PANASA), Haruna Adamu, has acquired a helpful reel of skilled ideas from specialists of the sport on how to achieve the publish he not too long ago attained.
Sports247 stories that the line-up of sensible counsel coming Adamu’s manner is being led by PANASA’s rapid previous president, Engineer Toke Aka, who can also be a number one administrator of the game in Nigeria.
While affirming whole assist for the brand new president, who hails from Ghana, Aka urged Adamu to prioritise engagement with nationwide federations, whereas strengthening PANASA’s secretariat and increasing the affect of Scrabble throughout Africa.
Aka, who can also be a founding member and govt official of World English Scrabble Players Association (WESPA), added that Adamu should establish varied challenges which might be going through nationwide our bodies and assist them develop methods to extend participation in competitions.
The rapid previous president of Nigeria Scrabble Federation (NSF) declared: “I want him effectively, and I need to inform him that it’s what he goals and that may work. He is main, and he should be the one to say or ask round to have the ability to say that this must be.
“If he does not take a step, nothing is going to happen. Nobody is going to push him. So all I say to him is that, as much as I have, I got in the position, he should also strive to take us beyond where we are.”
Aka additional confused what he described as a tradition of timidity and restricted engagement amongst some Scrabble directors throughout Africa as an impediment to the game’s progress, then urged Adamu to notice that challenges going through every nation could be addressed via higher planning, early preparation and assist from PANASA, quite than be handled as enormous obstacles.
“I don’t see them as issues. I simply see them as dangerous planning. One man can’t do it alone. You want a crew. So as soon as your secretariat is up and doing, then what do you do for growth? You have interaction, you ask, you speak.
“Even in countries where they don’t have, talk with the leadership in sports in such countries,” Aka asserted, whereas advocating persuasion, engagement and correct growth efforts as methods that may assist PANASA face challenges going through completely different international locations and supply options.
Aka posited that Adamu will succeed via efficient management, a proactive secretariat and serving to nationwide associations overcome their challenges, whereas constructing on progress already made and lengthening Scrabble’s attain to extra African international locations.
