UNR Isoko Unity Cup football Competition: It Was About Promoting Unity in Isokoland—Ogorugba

The chairman of Isoko North Local Government Area of Delta State, Godwin Ogorugba has said the 2025 Isoko Unity Cup football competition, organized by the popular Isoko Facebook group “Umeh Need Road (UNR),” was about promoting unity, peace, and love among Isoko people.

In an interview with journalists shortly after the football competition between the female and male teams of Isoko South and Isoko North, held last week Sunday at the Igbide Secondary School field, Ogorugba expressed excitement over the sporting exercise, saying it brings more unity to the Isoko people.
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Ogorugba who led Isoko North contingents to the Isoko Unity Cup tournament, commended the State government under the leadership of Governor Sheriff Oborewvori for the sportsmanship, love, and kindness towards the people of Isoko.

The chairman described the event as an atmosphere of intense passion and national unity where ethnic divides disappeared, creating a powerful sense of togetherness, hope, and shared identity at the 2025 Isoko Unity Cup competition.

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The state governor, Sheriff Oborewvori, represented by the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), while kickstarting the event, noted that the tournament was a great sign of unity that’s embedded within the Isoko people, emphasising the need for the Isoko people to continue in oneness, love and unity for the overall development of the ethnic nationality.

‎”Today’s event is a unified sport put in place to bring out the unity rooted in us as a people, this event has been put together to showcase and remind us of our shared vision and unity. ‎It creates opportunities for us to harness the love that binds us as a people and as well to catch the young ones through the event by imbibing in them the unity that’s rooted in us, There’s no division nor segregation as Isoko North and Isoko South are one, I urge the good people of Isoko nation to always hold on to the unity as it will make us more stronger”, Oborevwori admonished.
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Though the tournament wasn’t for the sole aim of winning prizes, as it was being competitive between the contingents of Isoko North and Isoko South, it was for the sole aim of building a stronger and more formidable force of unity, love and oneness that keeps the ethnic nationality together in promoting the course of development across Isoko nation.