Taming Turai
Our situation as a nation couldn't be more dicy. There is a sick or dead president that is seen by less than 20 people, mostly family members, a disgraceful House of Assembly that is filled with weaklings, mediocres, illiterates, people without an understanding of the mandate they carry and seat warmers who are literarilly not in the House. When we thought we've had it all, another icing on our cake surfaced in the name of a rabid enranged First lady Turai Yar'adua.
Without mincing words, with her pedigree, experience and academic background, she's supposed to be our most quiet First Lady ever. She is not well lettered, her communication skills embarasses the Nigerian literate women but she still think the nation revolves around her.
I remember watching her address the IAEA Summit in Athens last year. Her difficulty at the English language was palpable and some of those in attendance couldn't help burst in laughter. As a Nigerian, I felt violated.
It is therefore expected that such a woman will be do us the favor keeping her mouth shut on sensitive issues of governance. But as it seems, she is our uncrowned president helping weak Yar'adua make the tough calls.
With the help of the devil's advocate in the name of the Attorney General of the Federation- Micheal Andoaka, and other members of the kitchen cabinet, tough decisions are made, sensitive steps are taken and alliances are built around a president fighting for his life under the numerous life support cables and beeping monitors of the rebranded Saudi hospital. This raises some trivial questions.
The first being the true position of Mr. President on the handover debaccle. It is daily becoming evident that the Turai- led caucus are the ones in charge as Mr. President has been rendered incommunicable, unreachable, and technically insignificant. Is this the 21st Century rebranded Coup plot?
The expertise of our new unelected leaders leaves much to desire. Andoakaa only surfaced on the national scene with this regime while Turai's experience is as a two- term first lady of Katsina who almost took over the reins of leadership from her always ill heartrob- Umaru.
I recently read a statement attributed to the late Sheu Musa Yar'adua in which he was asking Katsinans who they want in the government house- Umaru or Turai? It is therefore not a new incidence or fresh occurence in the family's precidence. However, silence at the national level will be a bad anticedence.
It is therefore worthy to point out that the President is Umaru and not Turai, whose role, at best, is as an adviser on the Yar'adua family affairs.
Nigeria has had several First Ladies before Turai. And each one of them were recognized for their distinct and high peculiar characters.
Mariam Babangida complemented her husband's smiles and programmes, Mariam Abacha was seen as a social face of the unsociable, highly feared dark glasses wearing Sanni Abacha, while Fatima Abubakar was a busy judge who had no time for the social frivolities associated with the post. It was the social scene that the late Stella Obasanjo dominated while alive, bringing recognition to the nation from nations beyond the borders of Nigeria.
None of them interfered with governance, even when they all were well tutored more than Turai who seems to be jumping the gun at every opportunity. There is a reason why these past first ladies allowed due process to take place- it is the sane thing to do, Turai should also follow the path of sanity, for the sake of her sick hubby.
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