“Olukoya is not your run-of-the-mill human being” – Godwin Enakhena

Those who know D. K. Olukoya attest to his personable personality. He is a thoroughbred Christian both in words and in deed. He has an open door policy which enables him to listen to people with complete attention and total empathy. One of his assistants, famous Nigerian Sportscaster, Mr Godwin Enakhena described him thus in a recent interview.

“My perception of him is that Dr. D.K Olukoya is not your run-of-the-mill human being. I pray all the time and I always say to him that” “Sir, may God bless Nigeria and the world with more Dr. Olukoyas”.

Let me give you an insight into the kind of person he is. I told him that: “Sir, running the female league (basketball) is money consuming, what do we do? We need to bring it down”. He said: “Brother Godwin, do not sack anybody, make sure everybody stays, retain everybody”. I said the girls are coming to Lagos and do not have accommodation, but before the girls arrived, the GO had already provided accommodation at Prayer City, sent a woman to set up the place, bought cooking gas, deep freezers, furnished the place,it was home away from home. I took them to GO and said these are the girls and he prayed for them and said it would be well with them. He then counted 2,000dollars as gift for them. I tried telling him that the MFM FC does not have a vehicle, and before I knew it the accountant called me and said the GO has just bought a brand new bus worth N16million for the MFM FC.

“In 2006, Fidelis Ulechukwu had an injury while playing in the MFM Football Competition, the GO sent him to NIS, Unbelievable! Our coach, Fidelis Ulechukwu was sent to NIS including all the coaches. We have about 15 of the players that the GO sent to Yabatech and UNILAG to school and he paid their tuition. The GO pays the house rent of the players, pays their mothers, fathers and still pays them their salary. He pays the house rents of the coaches also. When they are sick, he takes care of them, he sends them abroad, flies them outside Lagos for competitions.