“Courts Are, Unquestionably, The Seats Of Politeness And Good Breeding; Were They Not To Be So, They Would Be Seats Of Slaughter And Desolation. Those Who Now Smile Upon And Embrace, Would Affront And Stab, Each Other. If Manners Did Not Interpose.” – Lord Chesterfield 1694-1773
The public drying of the dirty linen in the Nigeria’s State House, famously referred to as the “Villa”, was a very wrongly pungent brew for us, the masses to swallow.
I couldn’t help noticing a tinge of disrespect from the young lady who confessed to shooting the video where the First Lady openly complained of a locked door. The young woman actually claimed responsibility for taking the video of our First Lady in what should be an in house squabble resolution attempt. That should have never been done by this person.
What She May not realise, or perhaps they were not briefed as to the etiquettes of the State House, is; she didn’t desecrate or disrespect A’isha Buhari, rather she disrespected her cousin President Buhari and all of us Nigerians. We never sought to know what was going on. her excuse of taking the video shots to hold as evidence against the First Lady was a very lame excuse.
I don’t see a Michelle Obama or even Mrs. Trump being disrespected by the immediate relatives of their husbands publicly. It shouldn’t even be done privately let alone going to the point of shooting videos of the country’s first female citizen. That’s very uncouth, it lacked grace and boldly exposed a hidden bitterness towards the First Lady. Whatever resentment she felt or still feels about the First Lady does not and will never stop A’isha Buhari being the First Lady, secondly, she has children with the number 1 citizen of this country. No one can change that! Nigerians must be respected. They must always remember, President Buhari is a public figure and owned (literally) by Nigerians.
That seat (with the red eagle and the horses) is the symbol of our sovereignty, dignity and our country’s epicenter of decorum, discipline, positive representation and above all, the country’s window to the world. Second to him, is A’isha Buhari. Even he, at one point chose to address his wife in faraway Germany, to the shock and awe of even his host (who also happened to be a woman), was a joke taken too far and to the best of my beliefs; was very wrongly timed and the venue and occasion for such a joke was far from sacrosanct to his comments.
As they say, what is good for the goose, is good for the gander. The Presidential security personnel must, at all times be on hand to make sure that ethics are followed right, privileges are not abused. The poor Nigerian on the other hand, well; you may simply allow business to go as usual as they have The Lord God to always look up To. The little confidence they have, not wanting to be pessimistic I’d say, is far losing its vibe.
Somethings must be corrected urgently otherwise, the kind of wings I noticed the author of the video against A’isha Buhari wields would be capable of disrupting a lot of things. To you Mr. President, remember, a stitch in time, saves nine. Secondly, you must represent, respect and restrict any form of negative exposé towards your wife and children. Respect us as people and citizens. We are citizens of this country too!
