Yoruba Tennis Club inducts Lagos Governorship aspirant

Lagos governorship aspirant under the All Progressive Congress, Akinwunmi Ambode has been inducted into the highbrow society club, Yoruba Tennis Club.

Ambode was inducted into the club by the members and administrative arm of the club which is situated at Onikan area of Lagos Island, Lagos State.

The ceremony held on Wednesday, March 25, 2015 inside the premises of the club with the club president, Babaseyi Joseph amongst several dignitaries in attendance.

In the early twenties in Lagos, the Europeans had formed an exclusive Tennis Club, situated at the present site of the Lagos Lawn Tennis Club, to which even the most enthusiastic Nigerian players of the game were not admitted. It was therefore, as an understandable reaction to this discrimination and more positively, to promote the spirit of brotherhood, fellowship and the healthy development of the mind and body, in a congenial social setting and through the playing of games especially that of Lawn Tennis, (which at that time was second in popularity to the game of football), that the idea of forming an indigenous Club was conceived.