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Leave Dame Patience Jonathan Alone By Emmanuel Y. Kwache Nigerians derive joy for undue criticism. They thrive in putting someone off especially if they did not find themselves in that position. What they fail to understand is that no one is perfect. No one human being on earth is perfect. In several places in the scripture, we have been instructed to pray for those God, placed influential positions on their laps. After all we have been told, God giveth, power to whom he desires. First, some started with her pronunciation of English words. Even the English man had to learn some of his words from cradle. They tabled the permanent secretary issue for discussion on the pages of newspapers. If she didn’t deserve the promotion; there was no how need, now, for some other person, somewhere to bring it up. Nigerians do not respect their leaders at all, nor have regard for their elders and seniors. Are they not flesh and blood? No one is infallible, Then her sickness. Who does not fall ill? Can’t we remember Late Yar adu’a the former President? Speaking on NTA Network news at one time Late President Umar Musa Yar adu’a said, if it were his wish or desire, he had liked to live beyond ninety. But the plans of God are not in his hands; he philosophized. No one lives forever. Nigerians do not consider God in their schemes. Instead to pray for them, they rather ridicule, humiliate, disturb and distract them. Who does not fall ill and who will not die? Man is like green grass in the morning, beautiful to see and adore but wither in the evening and dries. Didn’t a donkey speak in the Bible? God can do all things. We should not provoke God, Almighty with our utterances and cursing. After all the country is lucky. All those earthquakes, earth tremors, blood bath, genocide, hunger, hurricane Isaac, mass unemployment, extreme fundamentalism, gun totting and running by deranged citizens are not witnessed here. The country is blessed with so many natural resources. Instead for us to pray and harness our diverse differences, we cajole, blackmail, sabotage and betray our leaders. We are so selfish; we can betray those that we came from the same stomach with them. We are deceitful also and make pretences and say we will do this and will not do it. Does it mean that we cannot give peace a chance? Is she not a woman like any other woman? She can have her emotions and changes in body and hardware and software like any other human being. The criticism can be contained within governance, the Presidency and the President. By going too far, too far to injure the ego of the woman is in a bad faith. She is a mother like anybody’s mother. Everyone gets hurt, if his mother is ridiculed. Therefore, we should see these criticisms in these contexts. We should look at undue criticisms from the reverse angles and say if it were me, how would the pain be? Fellow citizens, my compatriots, Nigerians, we should be restrictive, tolerant and see things from certain angles and give the Jonathans room to operate. They are not going to stay there forever. If she has gone to rest and recover some strength, let it be, so be it Let us not be citizens that are unconcerned about human foible of others’ problems and be demons that are happy when others are hurt. No: let us be Christ-like to sacrifice on behalf of others, agree to suffer for someone else, even when you are not able to get anything from it Derive satisfaction like Jesus Christ, to die in place of a sinner. Let us leave the woman alone. Leave Dame Patience alone. Since the beginning of her husband’s administration more women have come to the center. There is a leap forward. Women for Change Initiative cannot be forgotten in hurry. Let us be Godly in our actions and words, before destruction knocks at the door. It is better to be in this country as it is than to become Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan. To be composed and mature in our words is like been a Methuselah; and a Melchisedec. |