After All is Said and Done, My Thoughts

I bet you guys have had fun with all that happened over the weekend in Nigeria and far away in Germany. We've laughed, ranted, snickered, and had fun with the memes that emanated from the fight between our President and his wife, yes, fight, because I believe that what we witnessed was just a reflection of the way things have deteriorated at the home front.
Trust Nigerians, whenever something like this comes up, you'd see how fast our brain works and how creative we can be with the memes and the cartoons. If only we'd be this creative always and for something better. 

Anyway, we've been entertained and some of us have argued for and against both  sides. However, I wish to express my opinion in all these, jokes aside:

1. I'm not a wife yet, neither am I the President's wife, yet, but from my perspective, withdrawing or threatening to withdraw your support for your husband, who is the president of a country, in public is a no no for me. We've had world leaders who did terrible things, some to their wives personally, yet they never publicly withdrew or threatened to withdraw their support for their partners. They understood that they needed to present a united front. If you tell us you don't think you'd support your husband, how are we supposed to support him? The same goes for men too; notice how Bill Clinton stands by his wife despite all the accusations against her and her roles in some serious issues of national security? Some might argue that she stood by him during the Monica Lewinsky saga, and he's just paying back. Whichever angle you want to view it from, the main thing is that they got each other's back in public. You can berate and criticise him privately, but don't expose your spouse's butt in public, not when he's the President (and one that's fast losing popularity at that). If the whole world turn their back on you as a leader, you'd expect that your family will stand by you. However, when the family publicly goes against you, then you have a bigger problem. I believe they've had personal issues in the past and it got spilled over into the public domain. I also believe things will never be the same in that home. Let us forget the fact that she said what most of us are thinking and we've all been entertained for the weekend; at the end of the day, that's her husband and she's stuck with him beyond 2019 (except if they divorce or one person dies).
2. The President actually spoke the mind of a lot of Nigerian men. Yes! Forget all these men on social media who have suddenly become Voltrons and defenders of women's rights, proclaiming feminism when they won't even let their wives get an education or a job to improve herself. Most of them wish we'd go back to the era of keeping us in the kitchen and bedroom. If most of them could afford it, they'd keep us there still; but thanks to the economic crunch, hehe, all hands need to be on deck to provide for the family. They attack President Buhari now because they do not like him and then he just had to go and say that in Germany, while standing beside a powerful FEMALE Prime Minister!! It really couldn't get any worse than that.

That the President shouldn't have said that is no news anymore, and I won't even try to justify his anger towards his wife for her own statement, or agree with the line of thought that he was caught off-guard with the question, because he virtually repeated the same thing when asked again. So, he messed up, we know. Now what next?? I really do not envy Aisha Buhari right now, seriously!! 

There's a saying that half of the people you tell your problems to do not care, while the other half are laughing at you, happy that you're having that problem. That seems to be the case here. After all is said and done, Aisha stirred the hornet's nest and has to live with the consequences of her actions, while we all retire to our homes and jobs, and wait out this bloody recession, having been entertained by the First Family for one weekend. 

Have a great week ahead.

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