THISDAY newspaper has announced it will be inviting former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and former U.S secretary of state Condoleezza Rice to celebrate Nigeria’s 50th independence anniversary, referring to them as “rightly honourable” and “honourable” respectively. The event will be the 15th annual THISDAY awards taking place on February 21st, 2010, which would be broadcast live on TV and on the web. As a side note, for those of you not Nigerian, Nigeria’s independence actually takes place on October 1st, but this is somewhat of a pre-celebration tagged by THISDAY as “Nigeria at 50”.
I don’t think I need to tell you who these two individuals are or even yet what crimes they have committed against humanity. If this is how THISDAY CEO, Ndukka wishes to spend his company’s money in celebrating our independence, he might as well have invited African war criminals like Charles Taylor instead of spending money on these two. Or why not invite controversial African leaders like Robert Mugabe or Omar Al-Bashir or the ones we even have at home, at least they’re Nigerians. Why reach out to the West? Why pay for their accommodation? What have they done for us? Why is Condoleezza planning to visit a country that has been put on her nation’s terror list? I guess terrorist know each other. That might explain why Blair is coming too. It all makes sense now.
It’s a good thing THISDAY has so far made no mention of where the awards shall take place, perhaps in fear of rightly angered Nigerians bum-rushing the event. We are terrorists after all, isn’t that what we’ve been labeled recently? Even worse than the invitation of the disastrous two, is the omission of General Murtala Mohammed in the “Visionary Leaders and Fighters” section of THISDAY’S names of Nigerians to be awarded. How do Ibrahim Babangida, Muhammadu Buhari, Yakubu Gowon and Olusegun Obasanjo get honoured, while a man who was killed for his country is being left out? These four are still alive more or less playing politics with no concrete results. What is wrong with Ndukka’s THSIDAY? PLEASE!
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