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The same thing Shooting Stars did in terms of making available a plan for them to train.

on a grass pitch since the stadium in fact is a grass pitch you know they already made a plan for it before they're reaching out to CX Farsen you know saying that they wanted they need a grass pitch and they were only given match day minus one for the main pitch meanwhile when the team were here they trained on the pitch in Abeokuta for three days all the time they spent here you know so and they tried to beg and say give us we'll pay for it give us another pitch that's grass you know they are training facilities there according to the sporting director you know and they said they refused to give them they give them an official pitch that's part of the plan So, on the other hand, for sure, that's a good plan for them to have made preparation to stay in another city where there's grass pitch, you know.

There's possibility that those North American side might have spoken to all the teams that have proper grass pitches in that city of fax and said nobody must rent it out to social team, you know.

It's possible.

Right

... for our people that gives us leverage, right? So from that perspective, can you speak to that a little bit? 'Cause obviously we're both from Abeokuta.

Mm-hmm.

We know how many of us have sent money back home to build our village house.

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[laughs] It happened [laughs] in one hotel.

One of the meetings we had in Abeokuta, the same thing happened.

So in the room where I was staying, Pastor Desola and her husband came.

Well, they were staying in another, so they came upstairs.

She was still in UI.

So imagine I to Ojodu Berga.

I was trying to take a bus to Ibadan, to Abeokuta, to Ojodu here.

She was coming out to River Valley Estate also with her friend.

Calling your name.

In the city where I grew up in Abeokuta, one pastor, he was about 57 or so, the wife 52, when they gave birth, even Muslims in the city went to greet them.

Even the governor.

Non-Christians were going to the house to greet them that this day they, they will enter and say that only God can do this.

I was there.

If you ask my brother and all my friends who were there, that was what started giving us audacity against jinx and judo and all those, uh, fetish stuff which some Christians still fear.

When Pastor T.B. Joshua came to Abeokuta, the crusade was right at the Oba's palace.

There's presence of everything.

Please, if you're going to Lagos this morning, you can do yourself a favor by taking the alternative route.

That is going through the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway rather than the Lagos-Ibadu Expressway.

The traffic there was indeed very terrible yesterday and it does not look as if they're done with the construction work.

It's just to repair the expansion joints on the bridge, the Cara Bridge.

I think the only person I'm having a fear of for now is Rangers International for shooting.

I believe anything that comes out of that game, The fans will take it because what they saw at Abeokuta is highly impressive and if Houston Stars makes it to that stage again by next season, I believe it's just going to be more improvements.

That's enough to write the club off.

Like I said, I have high hopes for that game and I believe that something positive will come out of it.

It might even be a draw.

Now for Rangers, the performance I saw at Abeokuta on Sunday was...

so disappointing.

I don't even have the words for it.