In the President's brief speech he disclosed that he was undergoing treatment and recovering gradually and will return soon. His voice was weak with intermittent cough. Apparently he was still in some pains. The fact that the President has been away on medical needs is no longer news. What has become news is the plethora of rumours about the true state of his health including suggestions that he was braindead. It was even taken to the extreme, when the online edition of the US newspaper AMERICANCHRONICLE, carried a brief report that the PRESIDENT WAS DEAD AS FAR BACK AS DECEMBER 10, 2009! Such has been the magnitude of the domestic and global rumour mill that the matter has generated.

One would have readily heaved a sigh of relief that with the President's comments tension would ebb. However, considering the political forces that are work in the current situation, such hope may only fade as a fallacy. The desperate calls from generality of the public including yours sincerely, has been a live broadcast of the President, which his speech is akin to. However, there seems to be a segment of the masses in the political class that is less interested in solutions and rather in the quest for inadequacies that could help their political objectives.

To this end, it is not surprising that the speech has been questioned by those whose new demand is for a video evidence and live media interaction with the President. I wish to ask: if video evidence is further shown, will the clamour stop? I think we all know the answer to that question. The agitations are not really about provision of proof as a matter of solution to the internal problems we are currently facing. On the contrary, while we the poor ones are concerned with personal problems being provoked by distractions to matters of governance, we have on our hands, a class of people, who wish to gain by making the public hate the current administration. For the avoidance of doubt I am not passing a vote of confidence or vice versa on the administration. We remain apolitical. We rather stand in the way of any acts that are meant to bastardise, trivialize or politicize our collective concerns and aspirations as a wounded people.

Therefore, we know very well that the clamour for evidence about the President, is not the real issue with their proponents. Even if the President is to return today, the clamour will shift to possibly demands for his impeachment. Unfortunately, if it were in those days of “yore”, most newspapers would have been inundated with adverts on the President’s health, with virtually every public official, businessman and other captains of industry wishing him well and praying for him. Where has all that milk of human feeling gone to, that we cannot wait for only awhile to vent our spleen and frustration? Anyone that heard the voice of the President as I heard on TV would surely spare some emotion for a man who apparently was trying in so much pain to talk just to reassure his people. I personally have a lot of grievances at the way certain things are being done around there by those that should know better. But until the President returns and I have my feel of him, I will do no other thing but PRAY - PRAY for a man who has treated Nigerians with respect and tolerance despite his handicaps as a President.

So like the protesters of Abuja were saying, "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH" to everyone who dims it more honourable at this time to make demands on the President rather than make demands to God on his behalf.