Who Thinks Of The President? By Prince Chux Davix

The recent happenings in the country has invariably placed most, if not every Nigerians, on the brink or seat of commentaries. Like a people, we are so used to passive comments without minding how the receiver will feel or whose horse will be gored at the end of the day, a lot of us take pleasure in bashing without recourse the head whenever there is an uproar or sudden incident in the country. 

Every name is associated with the president and we are gifted in talking and rolling out words that are not just negative but destructive to the image of the president. We call him several names and make mockery of his personality via cartoons with numerous display of caricatures with his name boldly written on it. We call and name him names that are never his and we feel cool doing that because we hide under the shadow of ‘freedom of expression ‘, after all, nothing will happen since he is just the people’s messenger. We professed negative appellation to the image of our country and expect to progress overnight, how possible? The Bible even reminded us that life and death are in the power of the tongue so we get what we profess. 

Rather than praying and committing the president in constant prayer and wish him well in his candid endeavour of making policies that will move the country forward, we resort to insult and speak ill of him even in public and on social media. on

We kill him daily with our utterances and plunge his family in same ship of condemnation. We don’t see anything good in him and will always take pleasure in discussing him in bad light at the slightest opportunity. In all fairness, a man controlling the affairs of over 160million population will need nothing more from his people other than constant prayer and well wishes. Knowing fully well that he is answerable to thousands of calls and meeting which us geared and aimed towards the betterment of the country. 

Who ever thinks of how the president feels?

We retire to the comfort of our beds and rooms after the days work but this man whom we insult at our work places hardly sleeps three hours a day. We associate every blame to him as though he is responsible for our personal failures sometimes. I have seen people, who out of sheer display of ignorance, blame Goodluck Ebele Jonathan on every of their shortcomings. I can’t recall countless people who park their cars with reckless abandonment on the streets of Abuja and end up blaming GEJ for their stupendous actions. When a careless accident occurs, we relate same incident to GEJ. Let truth be told, we have been so unfair and unreasonable in our various condemnation of the president whose only sin has been on how to make Nigeria a peace loving Nation like it was referred to and known in those days of old.

We will do ourselves lots of good if we refrain from our negative and unreasonable manners of calling fo the president’s head and that of his family whenever any sad event takae place in the country. For sincerity sake, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is human and not a ghost. He deserves some commendation and cooperation from us if we truly wish our country to advance from her present state of rancour.

We can combat these crisis and fears gripping us if we come together and put our hands under the basis of our Nations sovereignty by protecting it from our enemies. We can live like one big happy nation if we avoid this sadistic theory of hatred towards the president whose only crime is to ensure safety of his people, whose magnanimity as a father has seen him as an ordinary man who act like a true civil servant and does not a dictator. Let us be reasonable and change our perception towards the president an rather cooperate with him and commit him and his household to constant prayer. This I am very confident if done, will go a long way in shaming our detractors 

Prince Chux Davix D. Onyemaka 
Founder/National Coordinator, 
Delta Youths Development Assembly