They say victory loves careful preparation, ay? Well, I guess Emeka John got lucky in one of oddest places….. A beer parlour. Emeka is a trailer driver who was spotted drinking bottles of Star lager beer just in the right place and at the right time. Unknown to him, Star was giving away instant gift prizes for Star drinkers through a raffle draw. Emeka was given some prizes including a raffle ticket to participate in Star TV Game Show in Lagos.

He was later flown to Lagos, all expenses paid for, from his base in Benin, just to participate in the Game Show. Since Star Game Show is team-based, he was by sheer luck grouped alongside David Smith and Ugwu Chukwuemeka. At the end of the games, the trio emerged the winning team. Each team member pocketed N1 million for their victory. 

    Emeka John, first from the left

When he was asked the feeling he had about winning N1 million, he did not waste time to make the announcement of his resignation from  his work place. He declared: “My days of working for other people are over. I will use this N1 million to buy my own truck.”

If indeed he truly plans to buy his own truck, we wish him well in his future endeavours as an entrepreneur. But if he just uttered those words on the spur of the moment or out of sheer excitement, we can only hope that his boss neither gets to watch that particular episode of Star Game Show on TV stations; nor hear about this particular post! 

There are some statements bosses do not usually find funny when they are spoken by their employees. One of them is: “My days of working for other people are over!”