The Sunshine Stars Football Club and Sunshine Queens Football Club, both owned by Ondo State, are being considered for sale.

At the Nigeria Women Professional Football League and Nigeria Professional Football League, respectively, both teams are currently competing.

During a personality interview on Crest FM in Akure, the state capital, Mr. Bamidele Ologunloluwa, the Youths and Sports Development Commissioner, made this statement.

Ologunloluwa said the state-claimed football crews were open available to be purchased or privatized to the right financial backers toward the finish of the continuous 2022/2023 association season.

As indicated by him, the clubs should have been privatized for legitimate organization, a circumstance which might prompt the public authority to give up the clubs totally or cooperate with financial backers.

The commissioner said that the club would be sold right away if a larger organization expressed an interest in purchasing it.

“The government is saying we need the club privatized, that way the government may be funding the club, but it’s not going to be one 100%. Then the private organisations can come in and partner with the club.

“If a club like Manchester United for example says there is a club in Ondo State called Sunshine Stars and we want to have them as our feeder’s team, are you saying we are not going to sell? We will sell immediately.

“Not because we didn’t like Sunshine Stars, because it is even good for us as a state, it is good for the boys, for sports development, because the government has no business in business.”

Ologunloluwa declared that the club would be sold to any company or individual with a good track record.

He, however, said that no one had shown interest currently and that the club was not in the market for now in order not to distract it from the ongoing NPFL.

“We just registered a company now; Ondo Sports Limited, Sunshine Stars FC, Sunshine Queens, Risings Stars put together.

“At the end of the season, we are going into full-fledged privatisation. It is better for us as a state, but some people don’t understand this. Once it happens, they will thank Mr. Governor.

The commissioner declared that “people need to understand that if the right company takes over Sunshine Stars, there will be more jobs, nothing like losing a job.

“It has to be in the MoU (Memorandum of Understanding), they must have their offices in the three senatorial districts, they must have their ministry in the districts to harvest legs, ” he submitted.