Etcetera’s today’s note is focusing on Omoni Oboli and her blue dress to
the presidential villa during her movie premiere. Etcetera titled
this new article the Celebitchy, but we decided to change it here. I
thought she already explained she didn't know it was that revealing.
Lol.
Remember Monica Lewinsky? If you
do, then you should also remember the “Blue Dress” she wore to the white house
that got President Clinton, the most powerful man in the world and the then
president of the United States of America almost impeached. And 16 years on,
just when everyone thought the seductive blue dress has been locked away in a
highly secured vault somewhere at the pentagon, it reared its dangerous head at
Nigeria’s presidential villa, worn by a nollywood actress for her movie
premiere. Only this time, it was seductively patterned as a strip wear.
Is the
second donning of the dreaded blue dress a decoy to seduce another president?
This time around, the president of the most powerful black nation in the world.
Well, your guess is as good as mine. I can still remember being glued to my
laptop trying to make sense out of the picture of our president shaking hands
with “The lady in blue”, with a larger part of her cleavage exposed for the
world to see. It got me wondering how anyone dressed in such a manner could
have been allowed anywhere near the presidential villa for any reason. How did
she get past security?
The habit of indecently dressed nollywood actresses
tiptoeing around the presidency should not be permitted. The presidential villa
is no place for a movie premiere, neither is it a place for a dress rehearsal
of any sort. And as far as I can remember, the federal ministry of tourism
never issued any statement declaring the presidential villa a tourist site. So
please take your sliced gowns and facial foundations elsewhere. After all
there’s been no complaints about the architectural foundation upon which the
presidential villa stands. Let us stop distracting the President from his
constitutional duties unnecessarily. Leave him alone to concentrate on more
pressing matters of state. His constitutional duties do not revolve around
entertainers. I can’t see how premiering your movie at the presidency serves
this nation?
It is a no-brainer that the
president needs time and space to concentrate and fulfil his elective duties,
but I find it baffling that some entertainers don’t seem to understand what
distractions are? And If you reasoned, your movie will help pull the country’s
head above the parapet, why not have it screened at a pubic cinema to the
benefit of all? Please for the love of this country, keep the vanity fair and
celebitchy attitude away from the presidency. We always take things to the
extreme in this country. Very soon the musicians will start taking their album
listening parties and their musical video premieres to the presidential villa.
Can you imagine Angelina Jolie premiering her movies at the White House? The
American government will never approve of such.
Isn’t it shameful that the
President seems to have become the prerequisite for making movies or holding
events in this country? The president’s goodwill and open arms shouldn’t be
given misguided interpretations. Stop painting the presidency as a place for
extra curricula activities. We need the president’s full concentration at this
material time when the country is at war on so many fronts.
There are indeed more pressing
matters calling for the president’s attention. The chibok girls issue is still
a lingering embarrassment to the nation, while Grand scale corruption is another
stigma that is yet to be dealt with. With ebola and terrorism crying to the
president for attention, isn’t it extremely insensitive of any individual
taking his or her selfish interest to a president that already seems
overwhelmed with too many activities?
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