EZE SIR INNOCENT NWAIGWE’S BIRTHDAY: WHEN ADVERTORIALS ON MEDIA HOUSES ARE NOT ENOUGH
Come Sunday, April 21, 2024, HRM Eze Sir Innocent Adiele Nwaigwe, the Chairman Umuahia North Council of traditional rulers shall turn 70 Years of age. 70 years on earth is worth celebrating by the rolling out of sticks and drums, the setting up of parties, the deployment of advertised goodwill messages on radio stations and social media platforms, the cutting of cakes and all night groove. But will onye Eze have any of these? No, he says!
Gwurugwuru is a man blessed by God, with the capacity to single handedly make his 70th birthday as loud as possible if he so wishes, by sending men of the Fourth Estate of the Realm to amplify it across the leaps and bounds of the country. Again, this is not the way he wants his big day celebrated. For Chairman Ndi Eze Umuahia North LGA, he does not see the sense in spending millions of Naira to book the pages of newspapers in outright celebration of his nativity.
Consequently, he has directed everyone, through a special press release by his media aide on Wednesday April 17, 2024, to celebrate his birthday with orphans and the vulnerable as that would in turn become his best birthday gifts. As captured in that press release, the revered traditional ruler said: “The best birthday gifts you may give me would be a visit to the orphanages, and homes of the vulnerable with food items or any other items that may make their lives more meaningful. You should take pictures with them and give them good cheers, then forward the pictures to me. These pictures would be made Birthday Album and would be better appreciated by me, than newspaper advertorials.”
HRM Eze Sir Innocent Adiele Nwaigwe is a great man. True greatness is not demonstrated by the wealth one is able to acquire in life, but by the wealth one is able to share to the neediest and the vulnerable in the society. Judging from the traditional ruler’s intervention and life touching programmes since his assumption of office as chairman Umuahia North Council of traditional rulers.
