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It’s good to lead a nation. At least, you’ll be in a better situation than a common, ‘Who is in the garden?’
It will just be like when the Redeemer was born and three wise men, amongst others searched for him, to give him presents.
Except for the fact that you’re not the saviour. You are but a small god, with emphasis on the smallness of letter, g!
If it had been just another thingummy or a common hill billy, who would have thought of visiting him in hospital?
Indeed, he would have been deracinated. That’s of course, if the hospitals are even available.
But when a president is sick, it calls for an indaba. While I’m praying to be older than he is now and praying for his soonest recovery, I realise the fact that anything after seventy years is an overtime. So, it takes the grace of God.
Which seventy? With the stress and political climate in this country, the mortality age might not be more than seventy divided by two.
That’s why people are dying to get into one political post or the other. When the common ‘attorney general’ visited, did he go with empty hand? The gominas too have been falling over themselves to visit. Are they going with nothing? Not to talk of Assembly members, it is not done to visit the sick without taking anything with you.
It’s even rude in this case!
Ara baba o ya, eko n wo’le, ewe n jade!
The old man is ill but it doesn’t stop him from eating!
His salary won’t stop. A whole presidential jet is waiting on his pleasure. He is receiving the best treatment available.
Big man good o!
By the way, does his sickness have to stop government activities?
Who says?
Ise nlo! Work is ongoing!
Even in a better way. The only concern is Nigerians who are too restive to mind their own business. Some are counting the days the constitution gives the president to be out of office. They know book even more than Booker T Washington.
When Ebora was there, he refused to be sick. Na lie jo! Na wetin he wan chop no let am sick. But I don’t blame him, he has gone through the vicissitudes of life.
He did not want some, ‘Fellow Nigerians’, to put san san for him gari.
That’s why one of the first things he did as president was to retire those who had tasted the sweet mango of political power!
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