Jighere Wellington of Nigeria emerges world scrabble champion
Mr Jighere Wellington of Nigeria on Sunday
morning emerged the new Scrabble champion
of the world after defeating Lewis Mackay 4-0
in a Best of Seven series in Perth Australia.
The duel which was monitored online by
the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) kicked
off at 2 a.m. Nigerian time with the
winner set to emerge after coming tops
in seven games.
But Wellington, who had already
finished first in a 32-Game Scrabble
marathon to qualify for the two-man
finals and defeated his English opponent
in just four games and thus becomes the
new World Scrabble Champion.
NAN recalls that Wellington also placed
3rd at the World Scrabble Championship
in 2007.
Nigeria also emerged as the best team of
the championship as five of its six
representatives finished in top 50
players of the tournament with Ayorinde
Saidu and Emmanuel Umujose placing
16th and 17th, respectively.
With this victory Nigeria will gain more
slots in terms of representations at
subsequent world tournaments.
The President of the Nigeria Scrabble
Federation (NSF), Suleiman Garba, in a
phone interview with NAN, attributed
the victory to hard work and dedication.
It is a testimony of the potential of
Nigeria as a country and the sacrifice
and hard work of the board under my
leadership.
We started preparation about a year ago
with seven camps which we christened
Scrabble Meets to put our team in shape
for the world championship and it has
paid off.
I am very proud of the Nigerian team
and very proud to be Nigerian.
I hope this victory will be made complete
when our Golden Eaglets wins the World
Cup later today,’’ he said. (NAN)
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