While the name Sharks football club will be no more in existence forever in the football circle, investors are scrabbling to buy the slot of Sharks in the Nigeria football pro division one league.
Hon. Boma Iyaye, commissioner for Sports, Rivers State disclosed this while unveiling the new born Rivers United football team to sports journalists at the sports ministry conference hall on the 19th of February, 2016.
According to him, though the name Sharks may no longer be in existence, it place is still valued hence investors are in talk with the Rivers state government to buy off Sharks slot in the Nigeria Professional Football Division One League.
It would be recalled that Sharks which was campaigning in the elite league was relegated to play in he lower league this football season before it extinction to oblivion.
Who the investors are was not disclosed by the commissioner for Sports; the question The Newswriter sports is asking is, where are these investors when Sharks was struggling to have a sponsor to foot her bills to help the state government concentrate only on Dolphins, Dolphins is better of Sharks, which had never won a major trophy for the state, despite the state huge investment on the club? Only time will tell what becomes of the deal the state government is into with the name sharks football of Port Harcourt, formerly. ###
