Between Gov. Aregbesola and Kanu Nwankwo

Despite the strong rivalries between fans at local and national levels, football still unites people irrespective of your status and tribes.

The passion, emotion and excitement between countries in the way fans express their feelings and behaviour revealed we all speak one language which is the language of football. This belief is what best described what happened between the executive governor of Osun State, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola and one of the top most striker, Kanu Nwankwo when the two big horn met.

Many people would have thought the governor who is devoted Muslim doesn’t socialized until the diehard Arsenal fan met one of the club legendary player. The excitement was also overwhelming that the governor posted the picture on his Instagram page expressing our it feels for a stun Arsenal fan meeting one of the club fineness saying “Football is a love language spoken worldwide. A true Arsenal fan meets a legendary arsenal player.”

Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola remains the incumbent governor of the state of Osun while Kanu is a retired Nigerian footballer who once played for Arsenal football club as a forward. He was a member of the Nigerian national team and later captained the Eagles for 16 years from 1994 until 2010.

Isaac Oguntoye