Enugu Rangers as the leading Nigerian clubside in their more than four decades of golden run have won the cup twice since 1976 and lost in the finals couple of times. Unlike the Rangers, the Kano Pillars do not carry on their necks the intimidating diadems and records splashed by the Rangers International. With nothing to protect or lose, the Pillars are dangerous any day they collide with the Rangers.
I remember in those days when Jim Nwobodo was the governor at Enugu and the not-very-educated Governor Barkin Zuwo was the governor in Kano. It was a Division 1 match and the Rangers had arrived Kano to play the Pillars in 1983. From nowhere, the hosts scored before half time.
At the blast of the second half, the governor had phoned P.O.C Achebe, Enugu Rangers’ secretary, “You must win that match, or don’t come back to Enugu!”
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