My name is Ilori George. I am the wife of Bode George who was recently sent to jail by a Kangaroo court in Lagos. I write this article to show my discontent over the wrong imprisonment of this great man who has served his country with all his strength.

My name is Ilori George. I am the wife of Bode George who was recently sent to jail by a Kangaroo court in Lagos. I write this article to show my discontent over the wrong imprisonment of this great man who has served his country with an affective disorder to make sure that the vestiges of corruption democracy were uprooted. My hubby is a patriot, lovely and almost perfect husband. Although sometimes stingy, he did everything to send his children to the best school in the world; and me to the best shopping malls across the globe. Although older than I, he’s better than most young men – even intimacy. What else does his country want from him? What and what else?

My hubby, Peoples Democratic Party Chieftain and former Nigeria Ports Authority chairman, was convicted by one Justice Olubunmi Oyewole to 28 years imprisonment without an option of fine. What a joke. What a farce. What a bias and inexperience mind. The judgement is simply unfair and further makes mockery of our judicial process. I know that Nigerians feel extreme happiness over the judgement but of course, it shows the shallow side of a people who forget so soon.

Now they are hailing the verdict but what are they going to do should the apex court crush it? Then they will start abusing the judiciary they had already praised vociferously. So, who is systematically destroying the country? Is it my hubby or Nigerians who can't think deeply? I have never seen a country so determined to useless its best citizens like Nigeria. This is a country full of frustrated and angry human beings; a nation in denial; full of PHDS (Pull Him Down Syndrome). Nothing is good in their hollow eyes.

This is the same people who probably believe that the former EFCC chairman, Malam Nuhu Ribadu did an excellent job during his tenure. If he did his job well and he didn’t find anything incriminating against my beloved, why is BG being persecuted now? By hailing the judgement, Nigerians have displaced extra-ordinary ignorance. They have talked from both sides of their mouth. They have enthusiastically enticed politics of bitterness into our polity. I believe my hubby has been made a scapegoat.

Well, he will go on hunger strike and he won’t wear that stinking prison uniform but the aso ebi the family had sown for him. And he will demand special treatment from prison authorities. For your information he had already bought N1million VIP en-suit cell. Though I can wait for two years, prison authorities have assured me that I can be with him any time I feel like. And shame on some of his close pals who have been making advances to me since his demise. Till death do us part is my watchword about marriage.  

And what offence has my pet committed? My darling was specifically convicted on 38 out of the 68-count charge which border on contract splitting, abuse of office and disobedience to lawful order. Isn't it extravagantly humorous? Since when for example, is contract splitting or abuse of office or disobedience to lawful order - especially by big men - becomes a crime in Nigeria? Or is my dearest no more a big man in his country? Let someone answer my question. Justice Oyewole must be naive. No qualms for we shall kill plenty cows and we shall dance form Kirikiri to uptown to agodi in Ibadan adorn our aso ebi to celebrate when the Supreme Court will have trounced Oyewole's verdict.