SPORTS:Baseball: I stepped down as president To Allow new ideas, by Gen. Williams

Founding president of Nigeria baseball and Softball Association, Major General Ishola Williams (rtd), has said it was imperative that he gave way for another to have a go at running baseball and Softball in the country because the sport needed new ideas and innovations.
Speaking in an interview in Lagos Gen. Williams said he stepped down to allow a new leadership for the association so as to bring in new ideas and direction.
He had no kind words for the National Sports Commission and Sports Ministry. Stake-holders agree he is a man who has made his mark and retired with his head held high.
 “Over the years, sponsors were not forth-coming. We tried as much as we could to manage things with little resources available to us. You very well know that we got no assistance from the Sports Ministry and National Sports Commission because they don’t like my face. I am not the type that agrees to share resources for sports development. I am not the man that agrees to deals. So they frustrated our efforts to make the sport grow,” he said.
Just as he did in Nigeria, Gen. Williams, who had also doubled as president of the African Baseball and Softball Association, said he has equally given up that portfolio “I had to step down to  let others take over and see what could be done to lift baseball. It is my sincere hope that the new executive would tackle the issue of sponsorship with vigor, organize more competitions especially at under 12 and under 14 levels because therein lies a way forward,” he stated Prior to starting baseball, he had started handball in Nigeria, then quit after nurturing it to a credible body. The Nigerian female handball team qualified and participated in the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona.