 The Ocpecpe Road race has resumed after two years of the suspension of the event. Due to the COVID-19 restrictions, the organiser of the race, Mike Itemuagbo, said all is now set to hold the eighth edition of the contest. On his path, the deputy governor of the state, Philip Shibu, reiterated the commitment of the state government in supporting the event, adding that plans are run the ground to make making the competition an IAAF platinum label. We agree that we have to institutionalise this race and the process of doing that is already being put in place. Government support, we continue to come, we continue to support the race and the other areas that we have agreed to partner to make sure that this race is successful. We also want to, I also want to join to apologise to our athletes. It's not our fault, pandemic came, stroke and we don't actually, we have to follow international back practice because the game is not a local game, it's an international race. For us, we are struggling hard and putting everything in place to make sure that we quickly get our gold label and possibly after that our target is to be a platinum race.