For those who felt that the ‘Bermuda triangle’ ‘story about former President Obasanjo, his son, Gbenga and daughter-in-law, Moji, should revolve around the old man alone must have seen in the past few days that such a stand is not only faulty but prejudiced. A matter as weighty as treasonable sex should not be seen as a political spectacle.

What happened or did not happen in the Obasanjo family is not a political matter. It is an intimate matter and that is why I’m revisiting it, at the risk of being called Obasanjo’s concubine and all kinds of other evil names. But since when have name callers been able to stop me from expressing my opinion? If only they know that this column thrives on name calling…I am always worried if all I get are commendation mails. Anyway, let’s break down a few of the issues in the matter at hand.

President Olusegun Obasanjo slept with his daughter-in-law, Moji Obasanjo
Let’s be truthful to our God and our conscience. There is no proof. All we have is Gbenga Obasanjo’s words and our deep-seated-hatred for our former President. He has wronged us so many times, let us down too many times for us to have anything good to say about him. It is not as if Gbenga caught his father with his hands in Moji’s corsets or pants down, or did he? All Nigerians know is that if the man was bad enough to want a third term in office, he is bad enough to want his daughter-in- law. Most of us would believe any negative thing about Baba, and I confess that he has earned our hatred. He has done many bad bad things. But we have no proof that he slept with Moji or anybody for that matter, apart from , Stella,the late First Lady. And what is the definition of rumour anyway?

Obasanjo has no moral right to continue as PDP’s Board of Trustees Chairman on account of having slept with his son’s wife.
Haba, who are the saints throwing this particular stone? Is our largest party peopled with such righteous men that a sinner like Obasanjo has to be tied to the stakes? These saints, did they catch Obasanjo in the act? Let’s even assume that they caught him with his pants around his ankles in Moji’s bedroom, can they in all honesty cast the first stone? I have seen many vehicles, Peugeot 406, with number plates of highly placed public office holders in Wuse Zone 4 coming to pick scarlet ladies.

What was I doing there? My husband’s office was in the area. How many of the people this sinful BOT Chairman would preside on can hold up their moral handkerchiefs for all to see? How many of them can open their closets and assure us no skeleton will come crawling out? Those stories of gentlemen and anal sex we read in the soft sell magazines, are they tales from other lands? The stories of ritual killings, Okija shrine, are they not about Nigerians? I fail to see what all the grandstanding is about? No man should sleep with his daughter-in-law, no man..And any man caught in such an evil act should be buried alive in the open market.

You are nodding? Great. What should we do to men who sleep with their house helps, wife’s friends? What should we do to those men who frequent the Moremi and Queen Amina Halls of our universities? What should we do to the men who sleep with their daughters’ friends? Or such men are not in the great party? What about politicians and their twosomes and threesomes? If a man has had three or four failed marriages, is he qualified to be a marriage counselor? Let us quit the self-righteous drama. It does not suit big men in Nigeria. They have too much to hide. And why should we be found guilty of hanging our dirty linen out to dry, like Gbenga?

Gbenga was right in spilling the beans.
Really? Let’s look at some of the things that have happened before now. Was it not Gbenga Obasanjo who told us that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and others are partitioning Nigeria and stealing the family silver in an ‘interview’ that took place between Republic of Benin and Nigeria and later denied? What nice thing did he say about his father in that controversial ‘interview?’ Who told us that the former President was actually older than 70 years? Did Gbenga not tell Nigerians that his father was interested in getting a third term in office? I am not a psychologist but I know there is something wrong with a son who has nothing good to say about his father.

It’s some kind of deprivation. Now, that is not to say a son should cover his father’s evils. What is bad has no other name. But how come this son hasn’t told us good things about his father? Has he given this Yoruba adage a thought- Omo ti ekun ba bi ekun ni yoo jo? The offspring of a lion can be nothing but a lion. If there is nothing good in the father, what will the son inherit? This whole mess is spattering on all who carries the name Obasanjo. Did Gbenga consider that in his trauma and pain? Who doesn’t have private pains? What exactly is manhood? Who is a man? The one who must spill the beans at every turn? The one whose private pain must become public discourse? Obasanjo is a bad man, so what new thing has Gbenga told Nigerians except drag his own reputation in the mud and ruining the happiness of his children? What good thing will his son have to say about him in years to come? Now that Gbenga has said it all, let us hope this will ensure his father’s salvation and place in heaven. Let us also pray that calling attention to his pain will assuage it and take away his trauma.
“My father slept with my wife.”

Serious matter
In these days of all kinds of libido-enhancing brown liquids in all kinds of bottles, too many men have problems performing their conjugal duties. They have become addicts of the Opa Eyin concoctions. The situation has laid their wives open to temptation. Some now have kids who look like their drivers and landlords and mai-guard. Is it the fault of their wives? Please guys, take care of your health and stop accusing your wives of what they didn’t do. See, a wife who has decided to keep it all in the family should be commended and a man whose father sleeps with his wife may just be impotent. I hope you can situate this in the foregoing scandalous story. Why should your wife prefer your father? It’s either because of what you are doing or not doing.

While I wait for the name-callers, let me state that this piece is not about blaming Obasanjo Senior or Junior,. I simply could not understand why we all went into a political frenzy over such an intimate affair. There are too many sides to this story and hypocrisy on our part just worsened everything. I am still waiting for the sons of drug peddlers, couriers, money ritualists and armed robbers to tell the whole world that their fathers are so evil that everybody who shares their surnames should die of shame.