Nyesom Nwike is At Best a Thug, Not a Commissioner

Of particular emphasis is what a certain Barr. Nyesom Nwike, the Supervising minister of Education and incumbent minister of State for Education even though we know the man’s appointment amount to putting a square in a round hole as the man is by far, more acquainted with the goings-on in the Rivers state government house and Rivers state entirely more than he knows what has been the case with the seething problem involving the leadership of ASUU and the Federal Government (FG)- the two parties which he is meant to bring on the same page. A man who whether he likes it or not, has to go down as the most erratic minister of Education to oversee that gracious ministry. A man who visibly is best suited to be a Labour leader by virtue of his “agbero-like” mien and wont to aggressiveness. And so when with his latest outburst to the striking lecturers asking them to return to classes or risk losing their jobs in an uncivilly manner he was branded a thug, I couldn’t help but be in agreement with his new earned sobriquet as nothing else could have captured what he exhibited last Thursday as I watched the press conference from my 14” black and white television.

Dear Nyesom wike, we have passed that era where labour disputes are resolved in that manner with threats of disengagement in order to browbeat the warring lecturers back to class. Even Mr. President whom I’ve always held in high esteem, much to my consternation gave his blessing to this undemocratic and ‘gestapoic’ conduct so much that I am tempted to join ranks with those who’ve labeled him a clueless president.

No, and for emphasis purposes I must repeat, No, we have gone past that era and we cannot recede back into such inglorious efforts at resolving dispute that will only score us lower in the result sheet of Democratic nations whose leaders have led in consonance or in faith with the tenets of democracy thereby, further reducing GEJ’s chances of clinching the Mo-Ibrahim price for African Leadership which has become a taboo for African leaders to clinch in recent times, no thanks to their own unique but unconventional style of leadership that is in constant conflict with democracy canons and last to none.

Nkannebe Raymond (barristar in equity, reporting)