By Ayo Lijadu
There was once a First Lady of Nigeria.
A true Mother of the Nation who showed empathy; who rallied and gathered grieving mothers whose children were snatched from under them; who grieved and shed tears with them; who felt their pain.
But we mocked, laughed at, and ridiculed her.
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Now that our children have been snatched from under us again and the nation is in dire need of a mother figure in the form of a First Lady; the Mother of the Nation; one to assure us that our pains are her pains; our tears her tears; our grief her grief; our sleepless nights hers as well; that she is on standby to rally around us and put pressure on her husband, the President, to do the urgent needful, – we cannot find one.
The one there now is as silent as night, and missing in action – two weeks since our children have been whisked away into the forests!
No word from her publicly on her concern for, and on the fate of our kidnapped children.
Two weeks after!
There was once a Dame Patience Jonathan – a true Mother of the Nation.
