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Methinks when people
don’t have balls, they still reserve the rights to have shame. When journalists
sell their conscience for the lucre, the nation will reel in massive trouble.
Of all the genres of journalism in Nigeria, I want to state without mincing words
that the most intellectually deficient is the sports sector. No wonder the
quality of decrepit reportage and untoward sense of not directing the kind of
reform required therein.
Therefore, to lay the
blame of the type of servitude and intellectual backwardness of some of the
sports writing practitioners, no one is surprised that when a sports
administrator wants to succeed in th media even without a success in
administering the sport, all he needs do is get some cheap Editors with big fat
stomach, bespectacled like the popular Papa Ajasco without neck.
They have forgotten
that opinions are personal to the individual. The media of expression is not
the control of the pages they edit which sometimes makes one feel so ashamed
that they will go online copy internet materials and paste for their reading
audience who also would have read the same materials they are pasting on their
sports pages.
They know all the
foreign teams and players without knowing the club that exists at the tip of
their noses. They can only report footbrawl, not even football, unlike any
other sport. They got into journalism because there was no other job for them
not because they wanted to excel in journalism so when they see someone do the
job the way they do not understand, they feel bad and very uncomfortable. No
wonder, one of them naively expressed his misgiving.
Please follow the
thread:
Erudite and respected
Patrick Omorodio wrote:
Hello friends and colleagues, I wish to inform you all that I have
decided to join the race for the National SWAN election holding soon after the
Nations Cup. I'm running for the post of National Deputy Chairman of our
cherished association. You will all agree with me that all has not been too
well with our once vibrant association for one reason or the other. The
incumbent national officers have been doing their best but they still feel much
could be done if new ideas are brought to bear on the association. I believe I
have some ideas which could be useful in reviving the association. It is not
enough to stay out and criticise hence I'm throwing in my hat to be counted as
one of those who helped to resuscitate the National SWAN. My modest
achievements at the State level in Lagos with the likes of Toni Ubani, Adeniyi
Adesina, Okey Onwuchekwa, Simon Ekpe, John Akpodovhan, Femi Solaja and a host
of others can attest to this. I am therefore appealing to you all to support me
in cash and kind as I begin my campaign for the election which has been
tentatively fixed for Makurdi. God will reward you all abundantly if you
support me to succeed. God bless you all. Long Live SWAN, Long Live Nigeria.
Out of respect knowing
what he has done for SWAN, I replied, in my personal opinion:
I stand by
my position on what SWAN has degenerated to become. If that makes you think I
insult your benefactors who are the corrupt, brazen thieves who are stealing
and killing our sports is your anger, please nurture it to stardom. I have no
single regrets. SWAN, I insist is not what it is supposed to be as it is.
Sincerely
speaking, I will again and again insult those who do not do what they have
chosen to be elected to do. If some of them are your friends and that is what
pains you, I will mass up sympathy for you. I have chosen my words carefully in
what you are complaining about and I have taken my position. I have a right to
my opinion like I will also respect your rights to your opinion. How I choose
to express myself does not guarantee you a right to measure how I do it. Please
do yours.
Thanks for your insulting and
uncouth use of langue.
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