Nigeria: Man Of The Year!

Written By: Ashimole Felix

The GOLD MEDAL GOES TO Professor Maurice Iwu

The year 2007 started in Nigeria with a lot of anxiety. This uncertainty exhumed from the failed attempt at constitutional adulteration to midwife tenure extension for the Obasanjo administration.
People were skeptical if the Obasanjo administration will hand over come May 2007. On the shoulders of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) rested the fate of the Nation.

Ever since the infamous April 2007, INEC and the loquacious Frankenstein Maurice Iwu have dominated the news in Nigeria. The election tribunals/courts are reversing the results from Sokoto to Kogi, through Adamawa to Rivers State. In Imo State, the Prof’s state, the fate of his kinsman (Both are from Mbano) Governor Ohakim, is on an unequal balance. President Yar’Adu’s presidency is still uncertain and may snowball into a record in Nigerian political history, if the tribunal has the balls.
Without losing steam, Maurice Iwu is still the dominant news person of the year 2007. When Nigerians thought that the upper-cut given to Iwu both by the international and local observers have floored him, he bounced back and insisted that the fraud of April 2007 was better organized than the landmark June 12, 1993.

In considering Iwu as man of the year, some other contenders were eliminated. The first being President Yar’Adua.
Yar’Adua’s claim to fame is the half honest declaration that the April election was not the best Nigeria could offer. Secondly, like a striker introduced into the dying minute of a football march, Yar’Adua he has spent the last couple of day in office undoing most of the works of his predecessor. Obasanjo may have been a democratic tyrant, with little appetite for due process and uncontrollable avarice for corruption, but who is Yar’Adua?
The SILVER MEDAL GOES TO THE GSM OPERATORS

This category was keenly contested. From the comatose government controlled MTEL to the Afro-imperialist owned South African MTN and the constantly in search of identity CELTEL it was a photo finish. Through out the year, drop calls, diverted calls, inability to recharge, ruled the air waves. The best leeway for debtors is to claim that network couldn’t allow him reach his creditor when he had the money to pay. Many business appointments were not met and many multi-million businesses lost.
Once it rained, connectivity is zero and all the networks are guilty even the self acclaimed indigenous first pay per second company. Obviously, they did not glow this year. Most of you will receive your Xmas SMS wish in January and the prayers for a New Year in Feb, if at all the SMS gets to you, anyway.

THE BROZE MEDAL GOES TO MR.CORRUPTION

This hydra-headed amoebic Mr. Corruption was at the lips of every Nigerian through out the year. That the GSM services are poor that Power Holding Company is shading light, that water board is not pumping treated water, that there is not Oxygen mask at Abuja National Hospital, that there is scarcity of infusion drip, is blamed on Mr. Corruption. Every Nigerian sees corruption in other people’s activity but his. The civil servant who tells you “Oga, there is no file”, “Oga anything for the boys” does not see himself as a corrupt person. Until Nigerians, especially, the civil servants, stand before the mirror and take a step to remove the iota of corruption in him, Mr. Corruption will remain among the top 5 men of the Year in Nigeria, year in year out.

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