Etcetera has once again called out President Jonathan saying having dinner with entertainers will most likely not swing enough votes to his side. He called many of the entertainers fraternising with government now as hungry men and women with insatiable appetite. Read the full article 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.
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