Since First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan’s emotional outburst over the missing girls, Nigerians have been busy posting, downloading and sharing the video, and sniggering all the way. There are even T-Shirts with “There is God o!”.
I can understand a nation trying a comic relief to ease tension of the dire security situation in the country, but in constantly making fun of the First Lady it exposes a moral depravity that seems to be creeping into Nigerians.
But are these not the same Nigerians who are united in grief, and who want the Jonathan government to bring back the missing girls? Now, the First Lady is doing her own little part in this mission, and people are turning her to an object of ridicule.
We make “informed” choices during election campaigns, and then vote, then turn round to ridicule that choice. Who are we fooling? A nation of “literates” that vote in the “illiterate” to lead them, a nation of “wise” people who vote in “foolish” people, a nation of “smart” people who vote those who they are “smarter” than, a nation of “good” people who vote in “bad” people. We reap what we sow. And today, the tail is wagging the dog.
But Dame Jonathan is not new to us. Don’t we already know her and her capabilities? Did we not give her that chance again when we gave our mandate to her husband?
Jonathan may not have a polished accent, or a good diction, she may not be sophisticated but she remains our First Lady. God can elevate anybody. He does not look at intellect, He does not look at grammar. Whether you are a professor of English, or literature, a writer, an author or even a laureate of anything, God has placed Dame Jonathan above you.
I myself may not like the First Lady’s style, but I accept her humanity, and its failings, just like everyone else’s. Her love for the nation is not in doubt and her motherliness transcends. We would not act this way to our wife, mother or sister. We should not do it then to our own First Lady.
As a people, we should even hide her mistakes instead of exposing it to the world. What would our foreign friends think of us? Our action to Mrs Jonathan is disrespectful, reprehensible and diminishes us as a nation.
This caricature must stop, henceforth! Let Mrs Jonathan be! We should instead continue to pray for the missing girls so that they come back to their families alive. There is too much at stake for Nigerians to worry about than to get distracted by inanities!
Dr Cosmas Odoemena
Since First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan’s emotional outburst over the missing girls, Nigerians have been busy posting, downloading and sharing the video, and sniggering all the way. There are even T-Shirts with “There is God o!”.
I can understand a nation trying a comic relief to ease tension of the dire security situation in the country, but in constantly making fun of the First Lady it exposes a moral depravity that seems to be creeping into Nigerians.
But are these not the same Nigerians who are united in grief, and who want the Jonathan government to bring back the missing girls? Now, the First Lady is doing her own little part in this mission, and people are turning her to an object of ridicule.
We make “informed” choices during election campaigns, and then vote, then turn round to ridicule that choice. Who are we fooling? A nation of “literates” that vote in the “illiterate” to lead them, a nation of “wise” people who vote in “foolish” people, a nation of “smart” people who vote those who they are “smarter” than, a nation of “good” people who vote in “bad” people. We reap what we sow. And today, the tail is wagging the dog.
But Dame Jonathan is not new to us. Don’t we already know her and her capabilities? Did we not give her that chance again when we gave our mandate to her husband?
Jonathan may not have a polished accent, or a good diction, she may not be sophisticated but she remains our First Lady. God can elevate anybody. He does not look at intellect, He does not look at grammar. Whether you are a professor of English, or literature, a writer, an author or even a laureate of anything, God has placed Dame Jonathan above you.
I myself may not like the First Lady’s style, but I accept her humanity, and its failings, just like everyone else’s. Her love for the nation is not in doubt and her motherliness transcends. We would not act this way to our wife, mother or sister. We should not do it then to our own First Lady.
As a people, we should even hide her mistakes instead of exposing it to the world. What would our foreign friends think of us? Our action to Mrs Jonathan is disrespectful, reprehensible and diminishes us as a nation.
This caricature must stop, henceforth! Let Mrs Jonathan be! We should instead continue to pray for the missing girls so that they come back to their families alive. There is too much at stake for Nigerians to worry about than to get distracted by inanities!
Dr Cosmas Odoemena
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