Happy people, ever wondered why president Johnathan has been hanging out a lot with Nigerian entertainers? Read what Etcetera thinks of the recent so called interactive session between GEJ and Nigerian entertainers below...
Once again, Nollywood and President
Jonathan are disconnected from the priorities of Nigerians. Millions are hungry
and the country is headed off a cliff and what we get is the President having
weekly dinner with celebs at Eko Hotel. Mr. President should know that all
entertainers in the country won’t amount to a spoon of water in the bucket of
our population. I agree that our entertainers judging by recent behaviour are
now seen as hungry men and women with insatiable appetite, but Mr. President,
the larger part of the society are equally hungry and should be fed as well.
Why feed just the entertainers? Isn’t
that discrimination? What will the entertainers say to Jonathan except the
usual lies and half truths? Can a man with a mouthful of undeserved food speak
or say the truth? An assessment of the lifestyle of these entertainers gives a
false picture of the situation of things as it affects the society at large. I
got your invite for the first dinner which held at Eko Hotel and I boycotted it
because I felt that any event by the government at this point in time should be
about reassuring the people that the government feels their pains deeply with
promises of working tirelessly to bring an end to the underlying causes of such
situations in this country, not getting together to eat small chops and samosa
while most Nigerians are languishing. It was very embarrassing waking up the
next morning to see our shameless celebrities posing with their invites on
social media which invariably means they are telling their fans and the masses
who brought them to fame that they are enjoying the good life and everyone else
can go to hell.
One entertainer jokingly asked why
the President is having these dinners with (the same set of) celebs all the
time. I wanted to attribute it to youth empowerment but on a second thought, If
Mr. President has a genuine interest in youth empowerment, hosting a few
entertainers doesn’t cut across as empowering the youth.
I think Mr. President has been
wrongly advised that entertainers can be used to influence the Nigerian youths
and electorate. These entertainers can’t influence votes within their families.
Another thing is, if Mr. President must have an interactive session with
entertainers, he should consider a larger representation of entertainers from
all parts of the country, not just those who ply their trade in the south. It
will seem to most people that Mr. President is only interested in entertainers
from the south. It is called the Nigerian entertainment industry not the South
South and South East entertainment industry.
Has Mr. President taken over
responsibilities of the Lagos State governor because he currently seems to
enjoy greater visibility in the state than the governor and these visits come
with a heavy cost to the state in terms of lost man hours caused by traffic
along the routes to the event venue. Streets are usually cordoned off by
security personnel and a strange difficulty to use mobile phones in such areas,
possibly because of the deployment of radio signal jamming devices by the
operatives on guard in those areas. Residents of Lagos shouldn’t go through
this because their President is in town. I’ll love to tell Mr. President that
service, not celebrities, delivers votes.
Misplaced priorities indeed! Please stay happy and spread happiness around. Xoxo
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