By Ebube Dike

Former Super Eagles players including Kanu Nwankwo, Austin (Jay Jay) Okocha, Pastor Taribo West, Victor Ikpeba, Uche Okechukwu, Ike Shorunmu, among others, will feature in Ahemd Tinubu @70 Birthday Novelty match in Lagos, www.bestchoicesports.com.ng can report.

Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State, will mark his 70 years on March 29, however, the novelty match will hold on next week Sunday, March 20 in Lagos, South West Nigeria.

According to the Punch, the novelty football match between the ex-Eagles Internationals and the Team Asiwaju would take place at Onikan Stadium in Lagos on Sunday.

Disclosing this to newsmen on Monday, Director-General of Tinubu Support Group, Umar Ibrahim, listed the former Super Eagles players set to play in the novelty match to include Kanu Nwankwo, Jay Jay Okocha, Peter Rufai, Tijani Babangida, Mutiu Adepoju, Garba Lawal, Julius Aghahowa and Victor Ikpeba.

Others are: Uche Okechukwu, Ifeanyi Udeze, Taribo West, Victor Agali, Ike Shorunmu, Victor Ezeji, Obafemi Abiodun, Dosu Joseph, amongst others.

He stressed that the match was organised by the pro-Tinubu group in collaboration with the Lagos State Government, while special prayers would hold simultaneously across the six geo-political zones of the country.

Ibrahim said the 13th Bola Tinubu Colloquium, an annual high-powered policy roundtable, would follow the novelty match and it would attract prominent Nigerians from all walks of life.

Tinubu, who was Lagos State governor from 1999 to 2007, in January 2022 declared intention to run for the 2023 Presidency ahead of his 70th birthday on March 29, 2022.