By Eddie Akalonu
Brigadier—General Gregory Adebiyi (rtd), the man who recruited Olympian Olusegun Ajose into the  Nigeria Army sports team, then as director of Physical and Health Education has advised the boxer to come back home and seek spiritual  rebirth by focusing on his his family background if he must make hay in the professional ranks.

He spoke in Lagos in the aftermath of  Ajose’s  recent loss to Lucas Matthysse of Argentina in a WBC interim light welterweight title fight in the United States, September 8.

“That he lost goes beyond what the eye can see and I think Ajose must return home to seek answers by focusing on family background.

He needs divine intervention in order to make progress because that loss is replete with some non- technical undertones which only himself would have to take measures to correct for  his future in the ring,” the retired General said.

Adebiyi, a former national table tennis champion said, “ he is a good boxer no doubt. He has potentials to become a world champion because he has always shown promises from the early days and it emerged he was the only one among the boxers recruited into the force who won gold medal at the 7th All Africa Games in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1999. It is also my belief that he has a long career  ahead of him  in the ring.

Like I said, he needs to return to his family roots to seek answers and that’s how, in my view, he could right the wrongs hindering his progress as a professional boxer.”