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Veep describes Aliu Mahama as a sports icon

By Mutala Yakubu
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The Tamale Sports Stadium has been named after Alhaji Aliu Mahama
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Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has described late Vice president Aliu Mahama as a national hero and a sports icon.

He praised the late veep for his contribution to sports development to Ghana. It was revealed that Aliu Mahama had an influence in the construction of the Tamale Sports Stadium.

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“He was immensely influential in lifting Abedi Pele and many other sportsmen and women from obscurity to limelight.

“His achievements and deeds transcend space and time, his name is therefore immortalized by naming the Tamale Sports Stadium which after all he was instrumental in building it.

“It is only fair and just Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will name this stadium for him”, he disclosed at the renaming of the Tamale Sports Stadium after him on Sunday.

The change of name of the Tamale Sports Stadium was effected on Sunday after a football match between the Southern sector and the Northern sector commemorated the event.The Southern sector won 2-1.