On the withdrawal of Ngige from the presidential race

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Dr. Chris Ngige

By Okechukwu Nwafor

Instead of his hideous gamble with an unrealizable presidential ambition, Chris Ngige should have seen the directive of the president to resign as a timely opportunity to vacate honourably on the basis of his abysmally awful performance in the ministry.

It is possible that Emeka Nwajiuba, the minister of state for Education, deployed similar awkward subterfuge to resign his ministerial appointment, although he attributed his resignation to the funny guise of contesting for Nigeria’s president. Assuming it wasn’t, I personally welcome Nwajiuba’s resignation and attribute it to a clever ploy to bow out of a failed ministerial position.

Ngige and other presidential appointees frolicking with the funny aspiration of becoming Nigeria’s next president should have bowed (dis)honourably from their respective appointments. They should have seen the president’s directive as an escape route from an entirely crumbling, underperforming governmental structure.

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But why should one be surprised that these men are even declaring interest to contest for president even while still currently constituting the presidential cabinet of one of the most underachieved governments in Nigeria’s history? Why should one be surprised that the two key appointees overseeing the devastation in Nigeria’s educational system even declared interest to contest for the presidency in the first place? The answer is not far-fetched: Nigeria is a country where the presidential ticket is reserved for individuals drifting aimlessly on the brink of failure. Once you have a clear vision of how to fix the country you would be sent farther away from the presidential dream. Nigeria’s presidency is reserved for the undeniably clueless, the utterly misguided and the irredeemably corrupt.

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Little wonder these men are determined to ruin every facet of the nation’s economy and still warm up to mount the presidential podium. No surprises if one of them emerges the next Nigeria’s president.

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