The Other Room Conversation

 

By Hafeez Onitilo........ 

Okay guys you need to understand that I tried staying off but being the Realist and Factist writer that I am, I couldn’t just let go, so yes I am sorry but HaFeesto’Nova has joined the other room conversation and this is my thought.

You all have been criticizing the president for his my wife belong to the kitchen and the other room speech, that is wrong, though I am not here to stop you from criticizing the president but before you do, read this let's see if your mind might Change.

The Kitchen, The Living Room and The Other Room: We all say we are Africans and proud, we say we shouldn’t forget our heritage yet we live in the 21st century where we say what a man can do a woman can do better as a form of promoting gender equality.

A true African woman who is proud of her culture and doesn’t joke with her heritage belongs to the kitchen, sitting room and the bed room (or the other room like Mr. President). A true African woman has three major roles, cook the food (activities of the kitchen), eat together with your husband (activity of the living room) and raise the kids ( activity of the bed/other room). So could it be that when Mr. President made that speech, he was only talking like a true African man educating us on the duties of a true African woman? I mean don't you think it would be hypocritical if we flaw PMB for his speech and not flaw Aisha for her speech? Don't you think that her own I won’t vote for my husband speech is a heavy blow to the president himself and his speech was just a form of damage control? 

You know we won’t sound like hypocrite if we flaw Aisha and flaw PMB instead of castigating PMB alone. Really let ask ourselves, if the first lady doesn’t believe in the president what hope is left for the masses? Patience was my friend not because of my fellow widow speech but because she was always there to pull some pressure off Goodluck back which is what Aisha should have done in her interview. Don't you think if this was the last administration we would have had another Chaii Chaii Chaii speech by now?

The Other Conversation: if somewhere in your mind you have thought of this as a form of distraction then you might also be right. Let's begin from the beginning which was the interview, this whole things started from Aisha Buhari's interview with BBC, that's where you should start from. Ask yourself this, was Aisha not prepared for this interview or didn't the presidency have a foreknowledge about the interview? One thing I know is that you can’t interview the first lady and the president won’t know about it, I can also tell you that there is no way the presidency wouldn’t have scripted what Aisha would say in the in interview as it relate to PMB. So yes my conspiracy could be valid and not just a theory that what is going on is just a way to distract us from the recession and not realizing that if we had not change PDP, suicide rate in Nigeria would have skyrocked because we would have hit Depression, the money Mr. President Witch-hunt (EFCC) whispers can literally make you jump in a river and our tears right now for pass tiwa own.

My Conversation: I can smell Government Magic, someone somewhere is trying to turn red into blue. The political hypothesis that I know Nigeria for is taking place, I mean let's look at it from this angle, the boy language of Mr. president is one thing we Nigerians read meanings to and the body language also sync with what he says 90 percent of the time, so why didn't anybody see this as a joke because when Mr. President first made that statement he laughed meaning he was trying to joke around with that statement.

Remember this is just my thought and I think this is a political charade.