Patience Jonathan, the Dame of Goodluck Jonathan’s tragic presidency, has done it again. She just hit another bull’s eye — possibly in infamy.
Indeed, if ever her husband gets to write a memoir on his presidential years, and he mustered enough honesty and candour, he would confess wifey was his own home-made weapon of mass destruction (WWF) — and this is real; not some fib conjured up by the duo of George Bush the Son and Tony Blair to unhorse that brutal despot, Saddam Hussein, who had it coming, anyway!
When President Jonathan made the most monumental blunder of his presidency, dilly-dallying over the seized Chibok girls, it was this same Dame that decided his fate.
First, she reportedly pushed and promoted the cynicism that the so-called kidnap was a bogey, by enemies, to discredit her husband. When that turned out to be fatal illusion, she carried out an inquisition, on live TV, to put the Chibok school girls’ school principal on media trial.
However, she ended up putting herself on a macabre trial. Its offensive but lasting image? The satanically funny “Dia ris God oooooooooooooo!” TV debacle, which instantly became the butt of global jokes!
That proved her husband’s nemesis; and from that time, it appeared goodbye to the presidency, as the presidential couple’s worst nightmare came to pass.
Now, the grand dame is back again, on a grand scheme, as grand nemesis to hubby, on the anti-corruption front, even where many were prepared to give poor Goodluck the benefit of the doubt!
Like someone suffering from a spell, Dame Jonathan, by laying claim to some US $ 31 million frozen money, appears tightening the noose on the neck of corrupt elements in her husband’s presidency.
She virtually owned up, under the instrumentality of an affidavit, to be privy to opening voodoo accounts. In claiming ownership of the trove, she even alleged sharp practices by the proxy given the errand to open the account. It is on account of such alleged sharp practices that she is suing the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Well, it’s all in the hands of the court now. Still, it might be interesting to know how Dame the Game would prove she came about that grand dough!
She may well provide evidence to confound her critics, particularly the ne’er-do-wells (like Hardball, not a few would chuckle!), ever ready to believe the worst of this otherwise hardworking, gentle and industrious woman.
Who knows? Maybe Dia Ris God Plc was, after all, a billion-Naira, money-spinning corporation; and, by its sheer business adventure, service innovation and acute marketing genius, has bragging rights over that trove. It could, after all, be the result of its fair and legitimate sweat.
If that were so, why not make a sensational claim, with malice to no one, in the presence of all?
Well, that had better be! Otherwise, as Patience’s Chibok debacle on TV buried her husband’s presidential encore, so might this rash claim bury whatever remains of her husband’s reputation and integrity.
But we await the court’s decision. Let the court do justice to all!