Date Published: 02/28/10

Dear Editor,

Thisday Award was an exciting moment for some

I neither was in the hall nor had any opportunity watching the This Day newspaper’s Award Ceremony which took place in Abuja on Sunday February 21, 2010 in honour of 50 personalities that the media outfit adjudged made a difference in the last 50 years. But reading through the front page of This Day of Monday February 22, 2010, I came to understand that Mike Adenuga Jnr of the Globacom defeated the lot of Aliko Dangote, Olorogun Michael Ibru, Ernest Shonekan, Pascal Dozie, Jim Ovia, Aminu Dantata and others to emerge the winner in the category of ‘Business Leaders, Enterpreneurs and Corportate Champions’.

After reading the spate of full page pictorial splash advertisement in almost all the national daily on February 23 & 24, 2010 of Godswill Akpabio I then assumed that he was the winner of the ‘Emerging Tiger’ category, which had as contenders, Adamu Aliero, Donald Duke, Babatunde Fashola, David Mark, Ken Nnamani, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Adams Oshionmole, Nuhu ribadu, Sanusi Lamido, Bukola Saraki, Chukwuma Soludo, Bola Tinubu, Udo Udoma and Emmanuel Uduaghan. Out of the 50 personalities that featured in various categories, Akpabio’s media noise-making looked extraordinary as he felt so exciting.

His action might sound very fraudulent if actually he was not the only one that won the This Day award, and so also for applying public fund in the noise-making jamboree.  

Biodun Bashiru Lati,

Solomon Lar Way,