“It’s Really None of Your Business”

Yes, that’s exactly what the PDP (Power-Drunk Politicians, as someone called them) leadership has been telling us in many ways over the past few weeks (months, actually) with respect to the matter of our ill-to-the-point-of-death (or dead?) 'President' Umaru Musa Yar’Adua.
They have fed us with all sorts of stories (tales by moonlight, haha), which in the end still comes down to one thing; it is none of our business what happens (or does not happen) at the highest leadership cadre in the country, and we do not exactly have a right to know the whereabouts or whatever-else-there-is-to-know of our President.

They are probably right, at least Chapter 4 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria of 1999, which provides for inalienable fundamental human rights makes no such provision or stipulation...neither does the CFRN 1999 in any place make mention of any civic duty that creates an obligation to have accurate information on the leaders (the President in particular) of our nation per time, especially as regards their location and state of health.

Looking at the foregoing, and considering that our role in bringing the said man to power was not as central as the Constitution would have had it be, it is reasonable to say that the PDP-led government has even gone beyond the call of duty by feeding us with irritating untruths over the past weeks, and for this we should be thankful, rather than berate them for their alleged irresponsibility (yes, alleged...they’ve done nothing wrong).

It is none of our business, really. I mean, the man is not your father, son or brother so where do you really figure in the whole formation? Those who needed to be kept informed, I’m certain were always fully in the know and have (or owe) no apologies for keeping their knowledge secret. Forget the little matter that the man swore an oath to us (yes, Nigeria and its people) to carry out his duties faithfully and all that boilerplate.

Hey, see me talking about oaths sworn to the ‘good’ people of Nigeria. I mean, the man couldn’t perform his duties any longer, yet the Constitutional provision was not adhered to (as if we ever really follow the book sef). Even that is none of our business, or so PDP thinks. A sovereign nation (who in its infinite vanity loves to be referred to as the “Giant of Africa”) was practically left without a President, in the way it would happen in a sole proprietorship business when the owner is ill. Speaking of business, that is also unfortunately none of our business. That’s why our elected representatives did nothing about the matter, abi? God punish dem!
Now, they say he is dead (or brain-damaged, like there’s any difference). Is that any of my business? Hell, no...! And interestingly, he is said to have passed on (to the not-so-great-beyond of brain damage) on the 10th of December; when we in my church (where we felt it was our business) were still busy praying for him to get well. Maybe it was our ignorance that made our prayers go unanswered...LOL (forgive my black humour).

Of course, none of all that is your business, nothing that happens in leadership in the country is your business. Yes, it is their business (whoever they are), abi dem don call you for AGM to share profits before?

So, here I say; “to your tents oh Nigeria”. Go and face your businesses o, and stop poking your black noses in the private affairs of a family man (especially one who’s ‘late’) in the name of being interested in the whereabouts of your President.