Remember
Monica Lewinsky? If you do, then you should also remember the “Blue
Dress” she wore to the white house that got President Clinton, the most
powerful man in the world and the then president of the United States of
America almost impeached. And 16 years on, just when everyone thought
the seductive blue dress has been locked away in a highly secured vault
somewhere at the pentagon, it reared its dangerous head at Nigeria’s
presidential villa, worn by a nollywood actress for her movie premiere.
Only this time, it was seductively patterned as a strip wear. Is the
second donning of the dreaded blue dress a decoy to seduce another
president? This time around, the president of the most powerful black
nation in the world. Well, your guess is as good as mine. I can still
remember being glued to my laptop trying to make sense out of the
picture of our president shaking hands with “The lady in blue”, with a
larger part of her cleavage exposed for the world to see. It got me
wondering how anyone dressed in such a manner could have been allowed
anywhere near the presidential villa for any reason. How did she get
past security? The habit of indecently dressed nollywood actresses
tiptoeing around the presidency should not be permitted. The
presidential villa is no place for a movie premiere, neither is it a
place for a dress rehearsal of any sort. And as far as I can
remember, the federal ministry of tourism never issued any statement declaring the presidential villa a tourist site. So please take your sliced gowns and facial foundations elsewhere. After all there’s been no complaints about the architectural foundation upon which the presidential villa stands. Let us stop distracting the President from his constitutional duties unnecessarily. Leave him alone to concentrate on more pressing matters of state. His constitutional duties do not revolve around entertainers. I can’t see how premiering your movie at the presidency serves this nation?
remember, the federal ministry of tourism never issued any statement declaring the presidential villa a tourist site. So please take your sliced gowns and facial foundations elsewhere. After all there’s been no complaints about the architectural foundation upon which the presidential villa stands. Let us stop distracting the President from his constitutional duties unnecessarily. Leave him alone to concentrate on more pressing matters of state. His constitutional duties do not revolve around entertainers. I can’t see how premiering your movie at the presidency serves this nation?
It
is a no-brainer that the president needs time and space to concentrate
and fulfil his elective duties, but I find it baffling that some
entertainers don’t seem to understand what distractions are? And If you
reasoned, your movie will help pull the country’s head above the
parapet, why not have it screened at a pubic cinema to the benefit of
all? Please for the love of this country, keep the vanity fair and
celebitchy attitude away from the presidency. We always take things to
the extreme in this country. Very soon the musicians will start taking
their album listening parties and their musical video premieres to the
presidential villa. Can you imagine Angelina Jolie premiering her movies
at the White House? The American government will never approve of such.
Isn’t
it shameful that the President seems to have become the prerequisite
for making movies or holding events in this country? The president’s
goodwill and open arms shouldn’t be given misguided interpretations.
Stop painting the presidency as a place for extra curricula activities.
We need the president’s full concentration at this material time when
the country is at war on so many fronts.
There
are indeed more pressing matters calling for the president’s attention.
The chibok girls issue is still a lingering embarrassment to the
nation, while Grand scale corruption is another stigma that is yet to be
dealt with. With ebola and terrorism crying to the president for
attention, isn’t it extremely insensitive of any individual taking his
or her selfish interest to a president that already seems overwhelmed
with too many activities?
As
a nation, we are at a delicate point. It is up to us if we are to get
out of this mess. What Mr. President needs most importantly is our
prayers not seduction or distraction.
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