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Well, what I have done and would do here is to show that their abandonment of the rules in the process of designing the NLNG Prize is a departure from associational propriety and a mark of escape from civilized norms that continue to sustain all successful vocational, occupational and professional associations. I insist that those who do not believe in them and who therefore imagine that they can ride roughshod over them ought to be made to see how they endanger our literature. They were designed for the maintenance of literary standards and the embossment of excellence. Even if it is true that I helped to frame some of the rules and conventions during my time as General Secretary and President, I cannot be accused of dictatorship because I insist that the rules must be followed. On the contrary, I am amused that Professor Obafemi and his General Secretary, Nduka Otiono, are charging me with being a dictator because I demand their adherence to rules and conventions that are the common property of the Nigerian writers who elected them. They want us to accept the good the bad and the ugly as equal in status. Rather than take responsibility for their errors, that is, if they were indeed errors rather than willed acts, they seem to think that the virulence with which they assault and heap abuses on their critics will frighten the rest of us into silence. On the matter of the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas Prize For Nigerian Literature, which has, unwisely, been changed to The Nigerian Prize For Literature, my grouse is that those who were elected to, and are supposed to think for us, abandoned their duties, capitulated to wonky personal agendas, and are now blaming the rest of us for the mistakes which they even admit that they made. Otherwise, even with the best of intentions, their supposed reforms will always end up deforming the society. And, the men and women must be willing to test reality, allowing contending positions to engage that reality, before jumping into the boil of things to act with finality.

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I do believe that if Nigeria is to survive and thrive, there must be men and women who are prepared to undergo the self-punishment of learning how to think for her and to put dreams to work with transparent moral courage. Hence, they assume that every use of the mind is thinking. They seek to, and because they fail to assemble the egg that is already broken, they see the world as a free-wheeling place where anything goes. They tell the rest of us that we can always leap before we think.

Those who do not care about the meaning that they make, who therefore think of deconstructing before they have learnt to construct, are the ones who tend to put the world in trouble. How well we do this is dependent on how we use imagination - the heart, mind and will, that is part of our being homo sapiens. All that we do as writers is to train it in support of life, scooping it, beating it, refining and spicing it, to educate taste, thus making and adding meaning, nutritious meaning, to existence. The truth is that the word, if it is an egg, was already broken. Unlike Professor Olu Obafemi, President of the Association of Nigerian Authors, I do not take the Word as an egg which cannot be reassembled once it is broken. THE NLNG LITERATURE PRIZE CONTROVERSYBefore The Nigerian Prize

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