Lagos — Under-performing Lagos at the ongoing 16th National Sports Festival yesterday brought into the Ahmadu Bello Stadium, Kaduna a column of some of the most beautiful girls they could find in town to campaign for a hosting rights of the next edition of the Festival, which by the standard progression, should come up next year.

The Kada 2009 edition should have taken place last year, but did not after it suffered a number of postponements.

The state has been pulling all the stops to ensure that they are given the rights for the next edition although they are divided inside as to whether hosting is the right thing for a state that has been in sporting wilderness since the current political republic was ushered in 1999, with former governor, Bola Ahmed Tinubu leading the team of undertakers of the state in sport.

Yesterday, the ones fronting for the state in the campaign to give it the hosting rights came to display plenty of beautiful faces at the office of the Director General, Patrick Ekeji.

Although the state does not look sportingly and economically ready, but the ones secretly backing it are the powerful ones of the ministry. And considering the fact that the best hosting option as at now is Rivers, a place most people in the sporting community are having second thoughts about visiting, the Lagos campaign seems to have few antagonists. And those that are against it are elements from the state itself.