Unongu Shares Mind

Dear Mr. President, I wish you a Good Morning. I do hope that by the end of this letter, you will still consider it a Good Morning. My President,  permit me to start this letter with a Yourba Proverb that my father used to say when I was a young child. It goes like this:  Eni ba nba afoju yan epa gbodo maa sufe kikan kikan . Sir, my translation of the Yoruba Language isn’t so good but I can loosely translate this proverb to mean ‘whoever roasts nuts for a blind man must relentlessly / continuously whistle .’ Do you know the reason he should whistle Sir? It is to prove to the blind man that he isn’t eating out of the roasted nuts. This is indicative of the need to establish a ‘trust’ relationship between the blind and the nut roaster. Drawing from this analogy Sir, you are the nut roaster whilst we, your able citizens are the blind. Your rise to the office of the President of this nation as a man who had no shoes was inspirational and so, many Nigerians put their blind t...