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U guys should know ,money is speaking here,Coz i don't fink is the first time things like this is happening,its now becoming a concern coz,those women have been paid to stop the wedding,and are they taking it up Coz the person involve is a celebrity.shikena

Should Mercy Johnson go ahead with her wedding plans?


Aunty Ngozi,

I am one of your biggest fans but up till now I haven’t written you because I have no problems requiring your help. Thank God! But my friend is currently suffering in the hands of the Nigerian media and I want to have your take on her story.

The friend I’m talking about is actress Mercy Johnson. I don’t know if you are aware of her marriage plans to one Prince who already has a wife. The guy and his former wife have been separated for sometime but the lady is now blaming Mercy for her marriage break-up and sending spreading all sorts of story about Mercy calling her a home wrecker.

As of this morning I read on lindaikejiblog that the society for Nigerian women are planning to demonstrate if the wedding goes ahead. This is just too much and nobody is fighting my girl’s corner.

So please let me have your most sincere objective view on this issue. Someone needs to stand up for Mercy.

Femme fatale.



My reply

Dear Femme fatale,

Indeed I’m aware of the story but I must confess I haven’t been following it as a matter of duty. You see, the love lives of actresses and their lovers don’t pay my mortgage or fuel my car or buy my Christian Louboutin shoes.

That said; the matter of the so called Society for Nigerian Women has pinched my arm. I am now totally interested in the entire sordid affair.

Who are these Society for Nigerian Women? I am not a member, are you? Do you know any Nigerian woman who’s a member? Who appointed them? Who elected their leaders? Who are they representing? Not me. Who gave them the authority to carry out demonstration on my behalf?

The way I see it, the man is Nigerian, his first wife is Nigerian, Miss Mercy Johnson is Nigerian, and in Nigeria polygamy is not a crime.

I must say, the only person that’s been acting like an ass in all this is the first wife. Miss Johnson has maintained a dignified silence throughout and the only public washing of dirty linen has been done by the other woman.

It is not by force to remain married o! If someone stops loving you and they want to move on, let them. And if someone wants to become a second wife who has the right to tell them not to? How many of these Society For Nigerian Women members are not second or third or fourth wives? I’d like to know.

As for the first wife, the lady is a woman scorned and she’s all out to destroy the guy. She has fall my hand because she could have gone about it in a totally different manner instead of this global show of yansh she’s done to herself and her little kids. I mean, what man will ever feel safe to marry her now? If my brother says he wants to date such a woman I will warn him that madness can only be partially cured.

I have absolutely no advice for Mercy because she’s done no wrong falling in love and because it will be unfair to drag her into this matter. I know, it sounds silly saying that ‘cus its all about her wedding plans in the first place, but she did not ask for this fight. She did not go to the man’s happy home and force him to leave his wife and kids and follow her. She has not resorted to name calling and media bashing. She, I dare say, is the real victim in all this.

Back to this Society for Nigerian Women - I am going to join issues with them as a matter of principle. If indeed they seek to represent me then I want to know why they are spending their time getting involved in other people’s lives when women are still being marginalised in business and in politics in Nigeria.

If they truly represent me then I want them to carry their demonstration to Aso Rock and ask Jonathan why women are being picked off the roads of Abuja by the AEPB to be humiliated, molested, raped (yes, raped. Forcefully touching up a girl in the name of searching her or arresting her is rape), extorted, and charged with prostitution. I will join that march.

How can women stand and look when other women are being treated in this way? What if one of those girls wants to run for senate or even president in the future? Some stupid men will go and dig up the fact that she was charged with prostitution and use that to kill her ambition.

And so what if some of them are prostitutes? So what? Have you provided decent jobs for them? Have you given them better chances in life? Please!

This so called Society For Nigerian woman have really fall my hand. Who send them job?

Aunty Ngozi

why would a church of all places allow polygamy?

Why ar famous women finding it very difficult to marry single men?

:oIts so surprising the way we Nigerians have moved from a state of sanity to that of insanity. We are Africans, our culture is not the divorcing type. Pls don't blame her for trying to keep her husband and family, it's her right and it's silly to just let go of what you have or love. Pls lets put an end to this western insanity that is eating deep into us. we have our own cultures remember The man is obviously out of his mind, I mean who would go on with a wedding like this after all frowns. What made mercy think she won't be treated that way? Shameful

Leysco:

Why ar famous women finding it very difficult to marry single men?

Floxyluv:

Mercy is really blind, d prince is a fool n d wife or ex wife is a shameless dog. This so called nigeria women blah , Blah, blah, They re jobless. 2 me this issue is not meant 4 d public, they shld stop washin their dirty linens in public n settle d issue amongst demselves, frnds n family. Wettin concern me? Na im b d career wen i dey pursue? Jobless nigeria women blah blah blah!!!

More like Society for Insecure and utterly jobless Nigerian Women.

Mercy Johnson embodies everything they fear. . . a young, semi-attractive, vivacious girl "stealing" their husbands.

Now they must destroy her. . . .reminds me of the witch hunt of yester-years.

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@ kandiikane

idolatry and human sacrifice is also in our african culture but that doesnt make it mandatory for everybody.