Aminu Strikes Gold!

With her alleged brutalization of the youth man Aminu Adamu Mohammed at Aso Rock, the presidential villa in Abuja, Nigeria's "First Lady" Aisha Buhari, sullied herself, her reputation, her husband, her family, and the Buhari Maladministration, perhaps irretrievably.

That you have certain power whether legally acquired, or practically endowed, does not mean you should recklessly exercise such power, especially without reasonable cause.

If you are a public figure, public insults come with the territory. The extent to which you are able to ignore public insults and move on, particularly when they are manifestly untrue or completely unfounded, is a measure of your socio-political maturity.

Who would have heard about Aminu or his tweet if the First Lady had not myopically tried to show Aminu and Nigerians at large, "that the Buharis are in charge."

Today Aminu is a global hero and soon-to-be public figure, while Aisha Buhari is an emergent villain.

Not a few people now want to check out and see for themselves whether Aisha is fatter today than she was previously.

What is unknown if she is truly fatter today than before, is whether her supposed fatness comes from chopping the monies of poor Nigerians as Aminu tweeted, albeit without proof, or from excessively savoring her legitimate and honest wealth, or from some undisclosed ailment or medication, or from over-indulgence due to some form of depression, or from whatever cause.

Aminu clearly has his own opinions and judgment on this matter, but to most other people it is "who cares?"

Indeed, who cares? Beyond the fact that the First Lady foolishly took punitive laws into her “hands and legs,” with nearly fatal consequences for both the victim Aminu, herself the punisher, as well as bringing disgrace to Nigeria?

It is alleged in the local press, and as yet not officially disclaimed, to the best of I and I‘s knowledge, that while trying to physically strike Aminu or someone else under punitive detention at Aso Rock, the First Lady suffered egregious injury to a hand and a leg, and was rushed to a nearby hospital for emergency medical attention.

There is a school of thought which holds that for a nobody, all publicity, whether good or bad, is good publicity, while for a somebody, the publicity should better be good, or else you suffer bad consequences.

If you subscribe to this school of thought, then Aminu, a "nobody" before now, has struck gold and become a somebody, while the "powerful" Aisha Buhari, hitherto a "somebody", is fast enroute to becoming a notorious nobody.

For Aminu, it is welcome to stardom, but I and I would advise him to be very careful with his new-found star status. It is what it is. What will be, will surely be.

We are watching 👀.
Anthony Chuka Konwea, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE, MNSE, FNIStructE, MNICE.