by Eze Eluchie
About this time every year,
our local media is awash with 'Man/Woman of the Year' bestowals on people who
have moved the society forward. Considering the sorry state of affairs in
Nigeria, one can appreciate the skepticism with which the people view the
awardees of such 'honors' who, in most cases, turn out to be discredited
politicians who surreptitiously paid for such bestowals.
In my opinion, our failure
to properly identify and acknowledge those who have contributed towards keeping
us where we are whilst the rest of the world continue to advance, partially
contributes to the decadence in our system.
It is with a view to
setting the records straight that the major identifiable sources of our
problems will, for once now be highlighted in the hope that those identified
will have a rethink and better their ways in future and encourage those towing
their paths of infamy to retrace such naughty steps for the betterment of the
polity.
The 'Worst Awards for the
Year 2013' will be in 4 categories, to wit: The Worst Corporate Entity, The
Worst Governor/State Agency, The Worst Federal Minister/Federal Agency and The Worst Nigerian.
The Worst Corporate Entity
For continuing in the
dubious vocation of selling death and disease to millions of Nigerians,
ensuring that the farmers involved in tobacco plant cultivation remain in
abject poverty and their soil poisoned, and expending the enormous resources at
their disposal to ensure that Nigerian authorities remain unable to join the
rest of the international community in eradicating tobacco product related
harm, multinational tobacco conglomerates operating in Nigeria, particularly
British American Tobacco Plc, is hereby awarded The Worst Corporate
Entity for Year 2013.
The Worst Governor/State
Agency
Spirited last minute efforts of Yobe State Governor, Mr. Ibrahim Gaidam, to edge out all others to claim this dishonor by evacuating his entire family and ruling Yobe State from the safe distance of Abuja, far removed from the daily attacks of Boko Haram terrorists which has decimated Yobe, whilst collecting pocketing and sharing all Federal budgetary allocations due to the State and at the same time pretending to conduct local council elections with ‘large voter turnout’, proved insufficient to unseat yet another State Governor whose penchant for deceit and maladministration is legendary.
For crafting a government
rooted in mass deception, amongst other ploys: promising not to collect
official salaries/allowances whilst in reality not bothering to govern the
State with a Budget; promising ‘free education from primary to tertiary levels’
to all in his State without meaning any word of it; Spuriously executing fictional
massive projects and creating equally fictional thousands of jobs (all in the
pages of paid news-media; stage-managing the impeachment of the State’s Deputy
Governor; jumping from one political party to another faster than the tempo of
Samba dance; the initial award for Worst Governor of Year 2013 goes to the
Governor of Imo State, Mr. Rochas Okorocha.
The Worst Federal Minister/Federal
Agency
During a year when citizens
of Nigeria were incredulously deported within Nigeria, by some rascal State
Governments; When elected representatives/politicians defected with impunity, from
the party platforms upon which they were elected, in clear violation of the
Nigerian Constitution and without the constitutionally stipulated consequences
been effected; When virtually all the States in the Nigerian contraption
violated, with impunity and no fear whatsoever of consequences, explicit
constitutional provisions for Local Government Councils to be headed by elected
officials; When, by its actions and utterances, it appeared there was no mind
knowledgeable about domestic and international laws within a hundred miles
radius of the Presidency of the Federal Republic; the Justice sector suffered
untold harm and damages as a result of a gaping hole in leadership pat the
Federal level.
For reneging from his
responsibilities and not having the guts to throw in the towel, thus creating
the impression that Nigeria is a contraption devoid of laws, the current
Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Adoke
goes home with the dubious distinction as the Worst Minister for Year 2013.
The Worst Nigerian
The winner of this ignoble
award does not really require much attention as his antics has long been known
to Nigerians and the international community. A former military dictator who
was sentenced to death for Treasonable felony charges and thereafter foisted on
the Nigerian contraption as an ‘(s)elected’ President, this character was once
accused, by his own son, in sworn depositions before a Superior Court of Record
of having had incestuous copulations with his daughter-in-law, and recently had
one of his daughters publicly disparage and expose him as an unfit and improper
character. A tyrant who desperately sought to alter the Nigerian constitution
to perpetuate his strangle hold on governance and did not even have the guts to
own up to the scam; a man who presided over Nigeria in an era when political
assassinations and deployment of State security apparatus to witch-hunt real
and imagined adversaries was the order of the day; a brute who flittered away most
of what was left of Nigeria’s esteem and respect in the comity of nations by
The pitiably pedestrian efforts
at orchestrating national instability as exemplified by his instigation of
crisis within the ruling political party and in his treasonable correspondence
with the President of the Federal Republic, coupled with the gravely negative
impact of the several policies enunciated during his reign of evil (May 29th 1999 - May 28th 2007) continues to have on the
Nigerian polity of Olusegun Obasanjo, makes this former despot the unequivocal recipient
of this inaugural The Worst Nigerian for Year 2013.
This Awards will be
bequeathed annually. I assure all that the nomination process for subsequent
years will be made known to all for inputs as efforts are converged towards
societal advancement.
Picture: The 'Baddie' trophy filled with victims blood.
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