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BY

NIGERIANS, ARE WE GETTING IT RIGHT?
“ECONOMICS” OR “ECO-NONSENSE”? ‘OBASUYI
ECONOREMEDY MODEL’ – THE SUBSTITUTE Folorunso Obayemi Temitope, Obasuyi Department of Economics, College of Education, Ikere Ekiti.

CONTINUATION

Nigerians, what should YOU Do? In concluding this ruminating exercise, the poor
are seriously at the mercy of the political class.
The Functionality Theory would break-off leaving Conflict Theory of Karl Marx to regulate the economy. First, conflict theory does not explain
preparation for war. No, not even carrying gun
and be killing ourselves is sufficient. That is
where the true Economics comes in. Now, why
should we apply conflict theory? We are seeing
that the gap between the rich and the poor would be widened with the subsidy removal and the
deregulation of Nigeria currency. The life of the
poor would become wretched the more. This is
because nothing is left for them again by the rich
or political class. Even the so called averaged
people would be vulnerable to fall back to poverty very soon. We equally observe that the country is
toiling with security problem in the future
because of the teaming unemployed youths
where over 70% of parents working at the public
offices receive no salary for six months and
without three times meal to keep the soul (I am not talking of balanced diet but unbalanced. Just
to eat. We are used to that). How are we sure that
our society would not become a dead-trap of
criminals because of no salary, no food, wages
constant, fuel price increased with an increased
aggression? In so doing, as a matter of fact and in the interim, it would be appropriate for Nigerians
to look critically the below Obasuyi Econoremedy
Model. Econoremedy Model. This is a model which explains how the poor and
the averaged Nigerians could suppress the
harshness of economic policies of May 2016
Subsidy removal and IMF Currency Deregulation
implemented in Nigeria. This will help the poor
keep pace with good life suggested by ( Sen, 1999) and by tackling the multidimensional poverty
symptoms developed by United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP). The Obasuyi
Econoremedy Model assumes that at a point
where economy offers no benefit to the poor, the
poor and the averaged people themselves should prioritize or rank their living activities to keep
pace with good living and put the living cost at
minimal level. In so doing, the worries of the poor
would be minimized and keep living for a good
life. Facing the reality, adopting the Econoremedy Model would allow keeping ‘peace of mind’ for oneself and keeping peace with members of the
society. It will allow for critical thinking of
minimizing lifestyle so as to eat food three or two
times daily- though may be unbalanced
sometimes because of the economic harshness.
To conserve and protect good health, mobility is a necessity of life. The people with mobility are
faster to participate fully in the market economy
and reduce the stress of walking thereby
protecting them from over-walk stress of the
road. However, we beg your pardon if the Econoremedy Model will be offensive to you. Nevertheless, we won’t keep shut to suggest that, as warming
economist, the poor and average people should
begin to order their priorities in all their facets of
life, in this era of misplacement of priorities of
the government. Practically, the Econoremedy Model assumes that in a society where two strong variables – subsidy removal and currency
deregulation – are simultaneously implemented,
without consideration for the living standard of
the poor, the poor and averaged people
themselves should begin to purchase new bicycle
and motorcycle as means of transport if one wants to live a life of satisfaction in this episode
of PMB Economic Recovery. Truly, it can’t be an easy life to cope with those economic episodes of
PMB. Even the writer of this article is not an
exemption, so to say. As a matter of fact, buy
yours before the price of these products (Bicycle
and Motorcycle) goes up beyond your financial
capacity and capability. The bicycle would enhance your good health like in those days when you
were riding it. The motorcycle would enhance
your movement in a relative distance and to enjoy
your social interactions with associates in a
relative gathering place to your home destination.
It is fuel efficient. If you have big cars and you cannot maintain it because of fuel subsidy
removal, don’t be ashamed to export and sell it to
neighbouring countries where fuel price is
friendly. Use the sellable amount of the old car to
buy a small car that can move you and your family
around. Rank your movement around the city and outside the city. I mean, prioritize or order the
places where you should go daily. Choose event
you should attend at a particular time to minimize
the cost of transportation or fueling. Make use of
Social networks that provides free services so
that you maintain your social connections and consciousness at optimum level. These social
networks would help to minimize the cost of
moving around. Secondly, don’t be too big or shy to go back to
the fertile land that you left several years ago to begin with subsistence farming (farming that will
provide agricultural outputs such as yam, maize,
cassava, varieties of vegetables, okra, wheat,
plantain and so on, for your family consumption).
The suggestion of this Econoremedy model of
eating lifestyle would rescue the household from been vulnerable to extreme hunger. It will
enhance the family feeding behavior before one
escape this sinful and hopeless world. Though this model is bond to have criticism from
the religious perspective, especially where
acquisition of wealth is the brain-box of sermon,
the reality of the social environment explains that
mobility and food is the strong anchor for human
development. That is, you eat food to get strength and later proceed to search or walk
about to get additional food for the next meal.
The food may be at distant place. Hence, mobility
(Bicycle and Motorcycle) would come to rescue
one from the stress of walking long distance
thereby protect the person from been vulnerable to health hazards. However, if one religious
affiliation rebuke this practical model for living, in
abeyance for elusive acquisition of wealth where
there is no job, no salary syndrome, and
deliberately act otherwise, the proposition of this
model is that in a shot distant time, the same government (the rich or political class) that
inflicted hard economic life on the people will
equally arrest, prosecute and put to jail or
sentence to death the violators of societal rules.
So, it is better to adopt a simple model of Obasuyi
Econoremedy provided in this article. It will enable the poor life expectancy improve from 51
to a life of 70 or 80 as the Creator promises.

Introduction Is it not appalling to be asking the meaning of
economics from the society of elites? As we have
already known from the acceptable definition of
economics, in the event of time, like Nigeria, it
requires another conceptual understanding of the
concept, particularly polish the Robins definition. Without missing words, the caption of this article
suggests that we first understand the basic
concepts. What is Economics? And what is Eco-
nonsense? Has Economics changed to Eco-
nonsense in the political institutions? How will
the Obasuyi Econoremedy Model play an important role in Nigerian economic
development? Firstly, Economics helps to
understand human activities and provide rational
conclusions to solve economic downturn in scarce
and abundant resource environment of a given
economy. On the other hand, Eco-nonsense is an activity put in place by an institution (Political
class, Rich class or Capitalist class) to harm the
economic life of the people in order to increase
the wealth of the rich and deplete the wealth of
the poor such that the poor is left with nothing.
Let us peruse the Inverse U-Shaped Kuznet Curve on economic growth and income inequality. It
explains that inequality of a given economy
should be allowed to rise until it gets to the pick
and later falls (Kuznets, 1955 ). Since the advent of oil boom, a small portion enjoys the proceeds of
the oil. Income inequality remains over several
years waiting for the inverse U-Shaped Kuznet
Curve prediction to come true. But for how long
should the inequality rises before it begins to
fall? The Nigeria experience, a developing economy, shows that the rich class disallows the
U-Shaped Curve to take its cause over the years
(Stewart & Samman, 2014 ). No wonder that the geography of poverty is in Africa especially
Nigeria the largest economy of the region with
61% poverty rate ( Hulme, 2014).This article proposes to unravel the condition of Nigerians,
what is left for them and what Nigerians should
do to avert the evils of Eco-nonsense policies. Reality: Nigeria Economy versus Household Though I am struggling to be an economist, but I
wonder why economic policies of Africa, which I
named as “Eco-nonsense” have no human face. I wonder that our economic behavior is always
dependent. As such, I wonder why two most
influential variables (Oil subsidy removal and
deregulation) were implemented simultaneously
in a depleted economy. Nothing remains for the
people in Nigeria again. My concern is, since IMF had been deregulating our currency, has it
yielded meaningful development to Nigeria or
Africa where such policy was implemented? What
does the poor derive from deregulation in return?
I begin to ask: What actually are we benefiting
from the tax we are paying to the political class, the so called government or another way, the rich
class? No regular electricity supply (in some
places, none). Roads are dead trapped. People
provided their own water by digging a borehole
(no power to pump the water). The price of fuel
goes up to #145.00 from #87.00, thereby no longer affordable for the poor nor for the average
Nigerians (To researchers in development, there
is work for you on Fuel Poverty in Nigeria). Since the past six months ago, no salary as a
government worker. No other job to supplement
the income. Internet services are on the high side
price and most times not available. No good
physical environment provided to think off our
troubles. The market economy has collapsed. The financial market is deadly. Unemployment rate is
high among the youths and so on. Currently, the National Assembly (NA) is using all
its might to attack Lecturers of the tertiary
institutions in Nigeria proposing in a bill that they
should be put to jail on a trivial matter of what I
called “Matter of Consent”. Sex or hunger to death, what order of ranking in a scale of
preference? Is the order Economics or Eco- nonsense? (Read: http://educhats.com.ng/re- nigerian-senate-moves-to-criminalize-lecturers-
students-sexual-relations-plans-5-year-jail-
term/ ). Sad, the NA refused to come up with a
sound model(s) that would provide food for the
people of their constituency that are dying of
hunger. Why is it that African leaders are still sleeping in governance? Why are they always
playing the role of spectator in the world
economic movement? Why is it elusive to make
provision for model that would provide good life
for the poor people? Why do they find it difficult
to develop their own suitable model for development? Why is it that we quickly subject
ourselves to the West in dictating how we should
live our lives? Can’t we imitate the Asians that are
developing their own models of living, the
emulation theory of Reinert? Or are we still living
in what I named as “Modern slavery or Modern Colonization?” These questions are paradoxes to human perception about Africa Governments,
particularly Nigeria. Currently, in Nigeria, the academicians (the
“ojogbons” – Professors) have no place in
governance. The research institutes are having no
recognition. My worry is: Can we rule out
Research and Development (R&), one of the
models of the developed economies, in our dear country? To be precise, any country without R& can never be developed. Any government or country that neglects the learned can never get it
right. Why? It is because they have the tool to
get systematic and scientific discovery and arrive
at suitable conclusions in a well-researched
phenomenon. They have the rules of innovation
and creativity. It was noted that US used to recover its economic problems at a point in time
with R& (Reinert, 2008). US had been listening to the voices of Harvard University Dons to
formulate policies carry out her economic
activities. After US independence in 1776, the
philosophical thought of Adam Smith, the learned,
was used to recuperate her market economy from
the evils of the British Colonization ( Reinert, 2008). Thereafter, they developed their own model of two edged sword, one reserved to
promote her economic activities while the other
side of the sword was prohibition against
competitiveness. US does spend billions of dollars
annually to support private companies despite
Washington Consensus of free enterprise economy and globalization agreement ( Reinert, 2008). At this point, Nigeria government is missing the point of development. Rather they
are enjoying misplacement of priority. Since the poor households have little power to
harness their pains to the ruling class (the rich
class), let us wait and see whether the subsidy
removal policy would save people from hunger.
Currently, government implementing these
policies should never forget that 70% of Nigeria workers in the public sector have not received
salary for minimum of 5 months now. The
consequence of the removal is that the price of
basket of goods (and services) would
multilaterally go up resulting to an increase in
12% inflation rate of March 2016. No salary, how will a household cope with the rising prices of
goods and services? It’s a cruel behaviour of the
time, we guess. Again, let us wait and see whether the
deregulation evils of IMF .would turn to
opportunity to Nigerians this time. Let us wait
and see whether the implemented currency
deregulation policy of May 2016 would bring the
Nigeria poverty rate down from 61% to appreciable rate at the end of this current
administration without constructing our own
model for development. (Malaysia poverty rate is
0.6%). (We shall publish a comparative analysis of
poverty and its dimensions in our next article).

Following the international outrage at the
killing of a Shia cleric by Sunni majority
Saudi Arabia, this piece elaborates on the
differences between both Islamic sects. From Nigeria, to Iran, Saudi Arabia and other
world countries, there have been several
uproars among Islamic followers and leaders
believed to be sectarian disputes in the
world. The recent cases was the Shiite/Military
attacks in Nigeria, ad the execution of Shiite
cleric in Saudi Arabia, a country believed to
be Sunni Nation. Who are the Sunni and Shia (Shi’ites) in
Islam? Sunni and Shia Islam are the two major
denominations of Islam. The demographic
breakdown between the two denominations
is difficult to assess and varies by source,
but a good approximation is that 85-90% of
the world’s Muslims are Sunni and 10-15% are Shia, with most Shias belonging to the
Twelver tradition and the rest divided
between many other groups. The historic background of the Sunni–Shia
split lies in the schism that occurred when
the Islamic prophet Muhammad died in the
year 632, leading to a dispute over
succession to Muhammad as a caliph of the
Islamic community spread across various parts of the world, which led to the Battle of
Siffin. The dispute intensified greatly after
the Battle of Karbala, in which Hussein ibn
Ali and his household were killed by the
ruling Umayyad Caliph Yazid I, and the
outcry for revenge divided the early Islamic community. Today, there are differences in
religious practice, traditions, and customs,
often related to jurisprudence. Although all
Muslim groups consider the Quran to be
divine, Sunni and Shia have different
opinions on hadith. These are 5 major distinctions between
Sunnis and Shiaīs which can be seen
through observation: 1. Names Shia are sometimes recognizable by their
names, which are often derived from the
names of Ahl al-Bayt. In particular, the
names Fatima, Zaynab, Ali, Abbas, Hussein,
and Hassan are disproportionately common
among Shias, though they may also be used by Sunnis. Umar, Uthman, Abu Bakr, Aisha,
Muawiya, Yazid being the names of figures
recognized by Sunnis but not Shias, are
commonly used as names for Sunnis but are
very rare, if not virtually absent, for Shias. 2. Composition and Location Sunnis are a majority in most Muslim
communities: in Southeast Asia, China,
South Asia, Africa, and most of the Arab
world.
While Shia make up the majority of the
citizen population in Iraq, Iran, Azerbaijan, and Bahrain, as well as being a politically
significant minority in Lebanon. Azerbaijan
is predominantly Shia; however, practicing
adherents are much fewer. Indonesia has the largest number of Sunni
Muslims, while Iran has the largest number
of Shia Muslims (Twelver) in the world.
Pakistan has the second-largest Sunni as
well as the second-largest Shia Muslim
(Twelver) population in the world. 3. Salat When prostrating during ritual prayer
(salat), Shias place their forehead onto a
piece of naturally occurring material, most
often a clay tablet (mohr), soil (turbah) at
times fromKarbala, the place where Hussein
ibn Ali was martyred, instead of directly onto a prayer rug. There is precedence for
this in Sunni thought too, as it is
recommended to prostrate on earth, or
upon something that grows from the earth. 4. Mut’ah and Misyar Twelver Shia permit Nikah mut‘ah—fixed-
term temporary marriage— which is not
acceptable within the Sunni community, the
Ismaili Shia or the Zaidi Shia and is believed
a planned and agreed fornication. Twelvers
believe that Mutah was permitted until Umar forbade it during his rule. Mutah is not
the same as Misyar marriage or ‘Arfi
marriage, which has no date of expiration
and is permitted by some Sunnis 5. Hijab and dress Both Sunni and Shia women wear the hijab.
Devout women of the Shia traditionally wear
black and yellow as do some Sunni women
in the Gulf. Some Shia religious leaders also
wear a black robe. Mainstream Shia and
Sunni women wear the hijab differently. Some Sunni scholars emphasize covering of
all body including the face in public whereas
some scholars exclude the face from hijab.
Shias believe that the hijab must cover
around the perimeter of the face and up to
the chin.[40] Like Sunnis, some Shia women, such as those in Iran and Iraq, use
their hand to hold the black chador, in order
to cover their faces when in public. http://howng.com/5-major-differences-between-sunni-and-shia-muslims/?utm_source=&utm_medium=facebook

Hmmm I'm sure many of us did not know some
of these incredible facts about naija.
1. The River Niger Bridge at Onitsha was
constructed between 1964 and 1965 by Dumez-
a French construction company and cost £5
million.
2. Patience Jonathan is one of Nigeria’s most-
educated First Ladies, with an NCE, a B.Ed, and a PhD from University of Port-Harcourt.
3. The highest peak in Nigeria is located in
Taraba and is called Chappal Waddi which
means “The Mountain of Death”.
4. There are 196 countries in the world and at
least one Igbo person from Nigeria lives in every one of them.
5. The Pidgin word ‘Sabi’ came from ‘Saber’,
Portuguese and Spanish for ‘to know’. Both
country’s ships traded slaves from the Bight of
Benin.
6. Katsina College (now Barewa College in Zaria) has produced 5 Nigerian Presidents/Heads of
State since it was founded in 1921 in Katsina.
7. Ojukwu taught Murtala Mohammed and Ben
Adekunle at Regular Officers Special Training
School, Ghana. Both ‘fought’ their teacher during
the civil war. 8. At Nigeria’s independence in 1960, there were
41 Secondary Schools in the North and 842
Secondary Schools in the South.
9. In 1983, Senator Arthur Nzeribe spent $16.5
million to win a Senatorial seat in Orlu (in Imo
State). 10. In 1973, the Federal Government of Nigeria
considered officially changing the name of
“Lagos” to “Eko”. Regarding “Lagos” as a colonial
name.
11. The geographical area now referred to as
Nigeria was once referred to as ‘Soudan’ and ‘Nigiritia’.
12. Offences punishable by death sentence after
the 1966 coup included embezzlement, rape and
homosexuality.
13. MKO Abiola was named Kashimawo (Let us
wait and see) by his parents. He was his father’s twenty-third child, but the first to survive
infancy.
14. Jaja Wachucku was the first person to refer
to Lagos as a “no-man’s land” in 1947, provoking
a national controversy.
15. Jollof rice, chicken Bosom , serve of ice cream, tea, coffee or Bournvita, with full cream
milk and sugar: Meal Cost = 50Kobo- Unilag in
the late 1970s
16. At the point death in 1989, Sam Okwaraji was
a PhD candidate and qualified lawyer with an
LL.M in International Law (University of Rome) 17. When British Bank of West Africa (now First
Bank) opened a branch in Kano in 1929,
Alhassan Dantata (Dangote’s Grandfather)
opened an account depositing 20 camel-loads of
silver coins.
18. Jaja Wachuku is reputed to have owned the biggest one-man library in West Africa. Balewa
sometimes referred to him as “Most Bookish
Minister
19. The colonization of Nigeria took more than
40 years to achieve and the territories were
integrated by the use of force. 20. Yoruba is spoken as a ritual language the
Santeria cult in Carribean and South-Central
America.
21. Slavery existed in the Nigerian territory
before the 15th century and was abolished in the
19th century- 1807 by the British. 22. At least 55 women were killed in South-East
Nigeria, in 1929 when the women forced the
Umuahia warrant chiefs to submit to their rule.
23. The coinage ‘Supreme Court’ was first used
in 1863 by the colonial administration through
the enactment of the Supreme Court Ordinance No. II.
24. MKO Abiola died suddenly on July 7, 1998,
exactly one month after General Sani Abacha
died mysteriously on June 8, 1998.
25. Agbani Darego was the only one to wear a
maillot as opposed to a bikini during the Miss Universe contest in 2001.
26. The ‘Ankara’ material is not indigenous to
Nigeria. Our indigenous textiles include the
Akwete, Ukara, Aso-Oke and Adire.
27. Aloma Mukhtar is the first female lawyer
from the North and went on to become the first female Chief Justice of Nigeria.
28. The area known as Makoro town in Lagos
was first a swamp, later sand-filled by the
colonial government and served as the first
bridge to the Island.
29. Esie Museum is Nigeria’s first museum, established in 1945. Once reputed to have the
largest collection of soapstone images in the
world.
30. Aminu Kano formed the Northern Teachers’
Association (NTA) in 1948, the first successful
regional organization in the history of the North. 31. George Goldie, who played a major role in
founding Nigeria, placed a curse on anyone who
attempts to write his biography.
32. In 1996, John Ogbu, a Nigerian Anthropologist
firmly advocated for the use of African-American
Vernacular to teach in the U.S 33. Hause Language indigenous to Northern
Nigeria is spoken in 11 African States. Germany,
French, U.S., and British International radio
stations broadcast in Hausa.
34. The surgeon who ‘killed’ Stella Obasanjo was
sentenced to 1 year in prison, disqualified for 3 years and fined €120,000.
35. The word ‘asiri’ means ‘secret’ in Hausa,
Yoruba, Nupe and Igarra. It also means ‘gossip’
in Igbo.
36. Igbo-Ora in Oyo State, Kodinji in India and
Candido Godoi in Brazil are the towns that produce the highest number of twin births in the
world.
37. Bishop Ajayi Crowther, a Yoruba, in 1857
produced a reading book for the Igbo Language
and a full grammar and vocabulary of NUPE in
1864. 38. The first TV broadcast in Nigeria and Tropical
Africa was on October 31, 1959.
39. In 1978, a 50Kobo increase (from #1.50 to #
2) in the cost of University Students’ meal per
day caused the ‘Ali Must Go’ protests.
40. Albert E. Kitson discovered coal in Enugu in 1909. This discovery led to the building of Port-
Harcourt town in 1912.
41. Today, only Nigeria has a larger black
population than Brazil. More than 3.5 million
Africans were captured, enslaved and transported
to Brazil. 42. Groundnut pyramids were the invention of
Alhaji Alhassan Dantata to stack bags before
export.
43. In 1967, old traditional ruler, Oba Akran and
A. Ademiluyi were jailed for 14 years (7 each) for
stealing £504,750 (#2.5b). 44. Since 1960, Nigeria has been either ruled by
an ex-lecturer/ex-teacher or military man. The
only exceptions are Azikiwe and Shonekan.
45. If you visited Lagos in 1975, you could spend
a day at the Presidential Suite of Federal Palace
Hotel for #100, single room for #19. 46. The first aircraft to land in Nigeria landed in
Kano in July 1925. A British fighter jet flew from
Khartoum (present day Sudan).
47. In 1895, Koko of Nembe (now in Bayelsa)
took 60 white men hostage. When the British
refused his demands, more than 40 of those men were eaten.
48. The ‘Naira’ was coined by Chief Obafemi
Awolowo when he was serving as the Federal
Commissioner of Finance.
49. Koma Hill (settlement in Adamawa where
people lived and practised the killing of twins) was discovered in 1986 by a NYSC corps
member.
50. The pilot (Francis Osakwe) that flew Ojukwu
away from Biafra (1970) was the same pilot that
flew Gowon to Uganda (last flight as Head of
State). 51. In 1986, Shehu Shagari was banned from
participation in politics for life. The ban has still
not been lifted.
52. As the wife of the deputy Head of State
(Vice President of Nigeria) in 1984, Biodun
Idiagbon personally ran a small ice cream shop in Ilorin..
53. Koma Hills (Adamawa State) inhabitants
when discovered were observed to engage in the
practise of borrowing wives among themselves.
54. Juju, Dashiki, Yam and Okra are words in the
English dictionary that originated from ethnic groups located .
Source: http://www.akposupdate.com/2015/10/54 - incredible-facts-that-you-might-not.html?m=1

Photo News:
NANS in solidarity with Saraki
Do you observe anything here?
Credit: Olasoji Akodu

Then go to ur former secondary skul 2collect ur certificate. Waec office only issue nov/dec certificate.

dosht:
May/June

Yep.jux enter d participatory banks and purchase d applicatn pin

pweetiedee:
I want to start PGD in mass comm. Is the form still. on? am in akure.

dosht:
I've paid for the form. Whats the next step now?
Who's going to give me the Application code? The bank or Study centre? Pls its urgent

d applicatn code is already on printout given 2u by d bank. Den proceed 2cafe 2fil d form online

What does this portend for our nascent democracy?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bukola_Saraki

dipopooo:
Negative

pls help me check mine
boyede abiodun seth
nis-000000195399
ondo state

pharmtex08:
Pls who among you wrote GST 807 the result was released and to my greatest surprise I was given F. The reason y I said I was given F is because that is not my score. From my e-exam I score 37 bcs I check my score after submitting the exam and my TMA I score 25.50 if added together it should be 62.50. With this I saw fail. Same happen to my friend to. Did anyone here have similar problem and wat is the wayout

To calculate ur real exam score. Simply multiply ur e exam score by 70, den divide it by 120. Dat gives ur actual score 4 exam. Den add it up with ur best 3scores in tma out of ur 4tma. Dat gives ur final score. Kindly post al ur tma scores online,if u are stil confused. Rest mai case

The photograph of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), at the Lagos State interdenominational thanksgiving service standing with his running mate, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo; the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, and Governor Babatunde Fashola on the front row says something about the APC presidential candidate.
There have been murmurs about his donning a fez cap in church – that he is a Muslim disrespecting Christian tradition. For me, his forgetting to take off his cap shows he has yet to fully master the nuances and rituals of spaces he is treading for the sake of his political ambition. If I were a Christian, I would pardon him. What is not so easily dismissable in the photo-op, however, is much more telling than his cap. In the picture, all the aforementioned men had their wives by their sides except Buhari.
For a man who preaches “change” and desires to rule a country made up of men and women in almost equal halves, I wonder why he finds the anomaly of an “invisible wife” wholesome. Interestingly, this is not the first time that Mrs Aisha Buhari would be left behind in her husband’s aspiration.
In 2003, she was not prominent when he lost to Olusegun Obasanjo’s “moonslide.” Four years later, not much had changed though one could argue that his biggest opponent, Umaru Yar’Adua, did not “use” his wife to campaign either. In 2011, when the presidential election was on, I asked one of Buhari’s closest aides where Mrs Buhari was and why she was practically unseen in her husband’s various campaign efforts.
My query sprang from his image: If you are being termed an ogre, furnish reasons why you could not be one. His wife standing side-by-side with him would, I told the aide, soften his unimpressible image.
This Buhari’s aide agreed with me that his wife would be strategically invaluable for his persona. He said she was coming to Lagos at that time and he would arrange press interviews to introduce her to the public.
The aide called shortly after to say Buhari was not sold to the idea. The aide was apologetic while explaining why Buhari did not want his wife displayed like a ware even in the heat of campaigns. He said Buhari himself could be rather reticent; then, I should consider the religious factor, and that the General was too disciplined for such and several etceteras. I wished him the best and left it at that. By then, Patience Jonathan was criss-crossing the country and canvassing votes for her husband in her peculiar ways. Even though she was being mocked for her lack of sophistication, she was winning some hearts because of her confidence.
By the time Buhari’s wife would surface to sell the “softer” side of her husband; by the time people saw her on TV expressing herself more articulately than the woman who would become the First Lady, the election had practically been won and lost.
We were eventually availed her credentials: she is not just a housewife who sits at home making “Fura de Nunu” for her husband but a distinguished person in her own right. I do not claim Buhari’s loss of the 2011 election had to do with his wife but I think the belatedness of her emergence was a flaw.
If your own spouse is not at the forefront of your dream, it could be interpreted in several ways. One is that the woman does not believe in you enough, or that you do not have faith in her abilities, or you are the alpha male who believes women should be seen and not heard. Any which way, it does not look good.
After three defeats, you would expect Buhari’s packaging to prominently include his wife. You would expect an image of him as a loving husband and devoted husband to be part of his virtues marketed to the public. You would have thought he would take his wife with him for the photo-ops he is garnering in churches and elsewhere. But no, she is still missing in the picture.
When Buhari had a photo-shoot recently where he was dressed in the attire of various cultures of Nigeria, I wondered why he was the only one in the picture. How does a man run for president, take pictures of himself at a desk with the Nigerian flag in the background but his partner of many years would be missing from the shoots? They decked the General in suit and even had a picture of him “hi-fiving” a child but there is none where his wife appears? Why? I do not want to speculate on his private life as a married man but I think those images portray him as a self-centred person who does not share space.
When the picture of his family appeared, eventually, we saw his wife, children, son-in-law and even grandchildren but this time, Buhari himself was missing. I am still trying to wrap my head around the kind of PR that misses the simple fact that Buhari should have appeared in his family picture.
There are several reasons one can adduce for Buhari and his wife’s photo hide-and-seek. One, the culture of lovey-dovey is simply not him. Like the Igbo proverb that says a man cannot learn to be left-handed in old age, I wager that this is a left-handedness that Buhari has not learnt and is probably a far harder lesson than removing his cap during a church service. Two, he probably thinks being seen with a woman will detract from his famed militarist discipline and Spartan image. He has done a lot of bending just to project himself as a non-Islamic fundamentalist pan Nigerian statesman but the woman aspect just does not resonate well with him – yet. Third, the religion and culture Buhari has known all his life do gift a second-class citizen status to women.
As if the invisible wife syndrome is not grave enough, he even threatened to abolish the office of the First Lady. Did he think the “First Ladyship” is all about frivolity and has no symbolic and cultural value that redeems it? Did he consider the implication of such a move for his image and ultimately, ambition? His manifesto promises women empowerment but I wonder how he proposes to empower Nigerian women when his own wife is tucked away from view.
True, Nigeria has had First Ladies who have turned out as a real nuisance; Area Mothers who have their aliterate fingers spotted in every political conundrum. The classlessness of some, however, should not overshadow the beauty of others who reinvented themselves and rose to the status of a genuine First Lady.
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