The Pope is Celebrating
It’s the Popes birthday
Mike Onah is a Good Man
He could say anything about me
He knows me
He read in Mary knoll College
He read in Rimax Lagos
He read in ABU Zaria
He read in BSU Makurdi
I remember visiting Mike at ABU Zaria
I also visited some in other Schools for Aluta or Nuga reasons being very active in both
But visiting you in school does not mean you graduated
Mike Graduated unlike most
Uniport is one school most Cross River indigenes attended but never graduated Pastor Lash our main man graduated
Mike has a masters unlike them
Mike has a Doctorate Degree unlike them
When I was in the finals of the John Players National Disco Championship
Mike was one of those who visited me then at the Federal Palace Hotel and watched me live at the National theatre dance as a celebrated dancer
Some got to lagos as prisoners and had neighbors in Kirikiri not Akoka
Mike never kept criminal friends
Mike never stole
Mike never drops names
Mike was never in prison
Mike never did drugs
Mike is my friend
Mike never says he took me and introduced to a Governor 25 years after we founded the PDP
Mike won’t say he raised my hands and told a Governor whom I introduced to John and Donald on the 15th of September, 2001 at the UJ Esuene’s lodge that he told him to help me
Mike won’t say I have been calling him to beg for appointment for crying out loud I have access, Haba!
Mike knows my fathers house at no 18 Lagos’ street Igoli where he taught me how to dance
Mike never stole from Justice Nnang’s house
Mike has never said he is a High Chief and would never because Mike Onah is a brand , he doesn’t need titles,fake,real or emphasized
The Old Ogoja Nation did not confer High Chief on any one apart from Uti Jedy Agba to Buturu Peter Abue to Ntol Gregory Adima or Chief Ogbudu Ori
Paul and Peter know they are not High Chiefs
Yala does not confer high chief.
Ogoja does not confer high chief
Mike and I are late former Minister John Odey’s friends
John was in APP i was in PDP
I introduced Gabe Onah,Larry Odey and John Odey to John & Donald and ofcourse the PDP
John gave me a job in NESREA he was a good man bless his soul Amen
We all kept faith at his funeral and were not struggling to take people to our homes to show off our village houses when people where mourning the death of a good man (that’s being cheap)
I am grateful to God
And to God be the Glory
I come from a home with so many professionals
My father never taught us how to beg or lie
Marc and Emma Enamhe are celebrated lawyers today
Somehow i may struggle to remain modest and live a simple life but God has blessed me exceedingly with good friends like Mike Onah and you reading
I may not have so much but somehow luckily I do not pay rent to any one be it in Gakem,Igoli,Calabar or Abuja and I can’t thank God enough
I love celebrating my friends
I love celebrating my schoolmates
I love celebrating obudu boys
I love celebrating my yala friends
I love celebrating my Bekwarra brothers
But for Igoli boys they are the best , I love them
I love celebrating people we grew up together (and I have pictures and videos to show)
Somehow I am one of the few with the highest number of Schoolmates and acquaintances in this part of the world because from failing and repeating my classmates and school mates increased
So you can’t say we grew up together and we don’t have pictures together
If we danced together where are our pictures
Prince Akwase ,Sunny Omagu , DD Onah, Dr Ipoule DJ, Barr Luke Ohieoro, Sam George , Dave Ukpo and ofcourse Mac Dave Okache rocked with me from Bravo hotel to Ugaga primary school to Okpoma primary school for our regular disco parties or our classy parties in metro Ogoja,
Alada Guest House, Mary Land Hotel , Rendezvous Hotel, Ejinison Hotel, Savanah Guest House or the Super Gigs at perseverance house in Okpoma
Where were you ?
Mike and I were there
You been be bush man
Peter you lied
Peter you are not my friend
Peter we didn’t grow up together
Peter you have no certificate not even YASCO has your records
Moving forward it’s WORLD MIKE ONAH’s DAY
You know Mike and I are Sociologist
Happy Birthday to the Great Mike Onah (A Guy with a Good Heart)
I can tell you for free, growing up back in the day, we met different people
Even way back in MARY KNOLL we had Abakpa and Igoli boys (the difference was clear) today Urban Ward 1 and urban ward 2 boys
Hotels were not affordable then so after all those mid night parties back then, they only home to sleep was the home of the Onah’s in Abakpa Because Chief Onah and his beautiful wife were enlightened and accommodating
Mike Onah stood out very early as a leader, slim handsome and chocolate brown with an infectious smile that is still his brand gift style till now
I love Pawpaw
I love crazy papaw
His football skills were unimaginable, you know Mary knoll was football and football was Mary knoll
His dribbling skills was breathtaking especially for the mosquitoe team
His control of the ping pong in table tennis was something else, that was another place in Mary knoll that class didn’t matter (we were on thesame team for the state finals and mike was so hot, Hope Waddel guys won’t forget in a hurry mikes top spins)
Then came the break dance era
Mike and Chris Okey (bless his soul) were something else on the dance floor the first time I watched mike do the back slide dance move at Itek Hotels, I taught he had tyres under his foot (OMG)
And in all of this I was prefect and Mike was my junior
I wanted to learn how to dance and if I must learn,it must not be from a junior student but Mike was handsome and the talk of Mt Carmel girls.
So I followed up and took dance lessons from Mike and late Chris Okey
The send off parties were coming up amongst all the secondary schools in the north of Cross River,those of Mt Carmel and Ntol comprehensive were the delight of us all or yes I remember unibekwe (bekwarra sec sch )had the converge of all the bad boys and girls who had issues with WAEC and trust retired PS Joe Emeka as at then fine boy principal,who took in all into bekwarra sec school and made the school so hot and popular
UniBekwe was just a stopover
I also wanted to dress well so I begged Mike to teach me how to dress ,I will watch the clothes they brought back from vacation in Lagos and run to Okuku market to open the bail to look for look alike clothes , sometimes i got lucky
Mike and his cousin Chris Okey were the best in all of Ogoja and they had a way of showing off their new cloths and styles especially on Ishibori New Yam Festival (September 15 ) days
They taught me how to crack my bones with the electric boogaloo dance style for a fee (not to say hello to his babes in Mt Carmel)
Mike insisted I learnt the back slides from Chris
Mike was slim and athletic so he taught me the back flip which was the speciality of the Rev Dr King Idris our beloved Pastor and African Escape (my all time dance rival in calabar )
Mike is a man who celebrates friendship
Mike keeps relationships up till now any friend mike had he still keeps in touch to this moment
Mike makes calls
Mike Onah is prayerful and reads widely so when we meet he says have you read this book?
He has deep calling in leadership
Mike is not a jealous man
Mike would always call you on your birthday and will always wish your wife Happy Birthday on her special day
Mike Onah celebrates his friends when they succeed and stays on when even when they are frustrated or in low spirit
Even when I won the John Players Disco Dancing championship Mike came to the federal palace hotel to visit and followed me to the National theatre Lagos (not minding that it was him who taught me how to dance ) for Finals
Mike it was ,when we were in the struggle that introduced me to the young Senator Dino in ABU after I delivered my famous Bakasi speech in the ABU NANs senate that year
Politically Mikeeeeey hasn’t been favored
He has worked for all political sensibilities in Boki
From Eddie Ogon to Chris Eta and Jake Otu Enya all the way to Ambassador Soni Abang
As I write Mike is still working and is always happy to work
Today I want to celebrate my true childhood friend ,my mentor and teacher
A young man that is so deep
Unlike now that they are no friendships anymore only interest and what you can get from the person
I want to celebrate a Boki Hero
A young Man who taught me consistency (that’s why I’m still in my party amidst all I go through )
Respectful and dependable
Maybe because of his training from Rimax In Lagos to ABU and ending up in BSU
well cultured and educated
I recall as if it was yesterday the late Deputy Governor HE Chief John Okpa had a challenge in Lagos and I needed someone to step in and Mike came in handy ,I recall how Etubom Anthony Ani described him “the extremely fat smart dude “
Mike is a future assured
Mike thinks Cross …River
Mike is good
Happy Birthday Pope
Happy birthday Crazy Pawpaw
Happy Birthday Mr Chairman
Please join me let’s celebrate Mikeeeeey the Good Man
Have a blast today Mike
You know I taught that today I would have been wishing the next chairman of Boki Happy Birthday
but Mikes political friends failed him again
Mike remain steadfast
before your next birthday
God will surely elevate you
Just in tears of joy in my eyes
Join me to wish a good and dependable friend Happy Birthday to great Pope
Join say happy birthday to a good man that Boki politics has not been fair to
Mikeey We are Friends and Forever we remain friends Amen
Sign: Papa Dorn Cklaimz Enamhe ( the failure that refused to fail ,writing from Atibulum ,Gakem Bekwarra ,Cross River State,Nigeria.)
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