By Adava Festus O
Its not every time the First lady of a
country like ours makes the news for the wrong reasons, but then it
becomes
something of interest when making news for the wrong reasons becomes the
norm,rather than the anomaly, when
making the headlines for being a constant nuisance becomes the status
quo,
then we must take a more cursory look as to why our “humble”
president Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has been making the wrong decisions or
making none that has any effect on the political situation of our
country, Enter the first PATIENCE GOODLUCK JONATHAN a.k.a Mama
peace, Patience Jonathan outward looks, demeanor and mien may come to
anyone as a gentle, cool, easy going and highly intelligent woman UNTIL
SHE SPEAKS, and No! I am not talking about his now-famed “diaris God”
utterances or her constant destruction and maiming of the English
language, which we have gotten used to allowed to slide, just because
“its not our language”, even as we tend to act like its not our lingua
franca,
but since majority of her “defendants” sees her poverty at constructing a
simple sentence in english without having to make it look like a rocket
science as an extenuating circumstance,which is forgivable,as we have
been coerced to
accept it, even for a first lady of the most populous country
in W.Africa, I won’t waste my ink on it.
The major reason that brings about this write-up Is her latest outburst
where she said publicly, in her own words that “anyone who say change in
front of you, stone am”, which literally translates to raising hell
against anyone from the opposition party,and in the deeper sense of it,
Stoking a fire and inciting violence because an opposition who’s tired
of seeing the country teethering towards the brink of perdition dares
preaches Change! Which begets a few question which I personally don’t
expect her to have the required education to have an answer to, Really
Madam First Lady? Does she know what democracy entails? Does she know
anything about the presence and tolerance of opposition as sine qua non
to a functioning democracy? Why on God’s green earth would the First
lady of the giant of Africa make such a huge gaffe,in this century? Why
do the people who makes the least of sense seems to always talk more?
The same first lady who went to tussle with a sitting governor of her
state, yanked off a microphone from him and gave him a verbal dressing
down like teacher to a recalcitrant student , got a
government employment without any experience, managerial
or administrative acumen in any known fields of human endeavours, same
woman called out Nobel Laureate, prof. Wole Soyinka,said so many
unprintable things to a Man who’s been winning accolades and making her
mark in literature years before her husband would dream of leading
this country, is the same woman who after been first lady for about 6
years, without a notable achievement to her name except leading a group
of women to meet their untimely death in a car crash (RIP to the
dead),couldn’t find a better way to campaign for her husband other than
inciting violence with such classless, crass, blood-thirsty and gutter
comment, As if we haven’t become inundated so much we have become inured
to constant comments with no sensible addition to our growth from the
presidents hatchet-men, From Doyin Okupe, to Fani-Kayode, and
Reno-Omokri and others, why should the
first lady,in his hallowed chambers of overriding illiteracy make such a
sensitive comment at this period in time? What a wealthy disgrace! We
have seen Late Stella Obasanjo Child Trust Care in OBJ’s regime,
Campaign Against
Female Genital Mutilation and on 6 February 2003, she declared the day
the International Day of Zero Tolerance
to Female Genital Mutilation. we have seen WOTCLEF from Mrs Titi
Abubakar who fought against Woman Traffikking and using the girl child
as sex object and the likes, its not the case with our present First
lady, if she’s not making headlines for her ridiculous dictions, she’s
somewhere causing a ruckus for reckless comments and she had the
temerity to describe a presidential candidate as brain dead? How ironic!
, we have seen the first lady of the USA, Michelle Obama who is
a seasoned attorney give timeless speeches like a veteran MC makes a
classic project that makes you marvel at her thoughts,reasoning,
intelligence and the class that follows suit, its not the case with our
“Mama Peace” who doesn’t seem to have an idea the kind of highly exalted
position she is, and we really need to be honest here, We as nigerians
don’t care how good she is in the kitchen at the Ofe-Nsala or
Edikang-Ikong soup, what we ask of her is to at least carry herself and
her office as the number one woman in nigeria with class, value and
prestige, For Nigeria to move forward, we don’t only need to pray for a
good Commander -In-Chief, but for a better first lady than this
overbloated bunkum of disgrace masquerading as first lady who would
never let a day pass without putting us on the big screen for every
wrong reasons available, because no matter how much advice a special
adviser gives to the head of the nation, the woman who he goes to bed
with can make or mar whatever he ends up on deciding to do, When the
President said he sometimes gets bad or contradictory information &
advice, you must start to ask if he’s talking about his wife.” You can’t
have the likes of Doyin Okupe, Reuben Abati and Reno-Omokri giving you
advice in the day and then have PEJ doing that night! Lordy! That should
not even be legal, so what now happens when such woman is a Patience
who adds no value whatsover?
This Piece was written by Adava Festus O.
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