One of the stories or news that has dominated the social media, especial Facebook, in Nigeria in the past weeks was the marriage between Regina Daniels and her politician husband, Hon. (Barrister) Ned Nwoko. Apart from dominating the social media posts, the matter is still one of the most discussed topics in Delta State and other states in Nigeria.
I didn’t bother to comment on it when it first broke out because I thought it was one of those gossip usually peddle by the womenfolk and some Things Fall Apart’s Unoka kind of men. But a certain young woman said something about this subject-matter, which aroused my interest to write this article: My Verdict On Regina Ned-Nwoko vs. Tatafos.
The young woman in question, tweeted that Regina Daniels was a disgrace to all young women in Nigeria by marrying an older married man. She went further to say that Regina’s pair of breasts had sagged more than hers and worse than that of a woman with children.
Funny enough, that young woman didn’t show her readers her own breasts, so that her readers could compare her breasts with those of Regina. Since she didn’t give her readers the opportunity of comparing her breasts with those of Regina, how can her readers believe that Regina’s breasts have sagged more than hers?
That is by the way!
People who criticize Regina for marrying Prince Ned Nwoko believe that it is wrong for a young person like her to marry and older married man like Hon. Nwoko, judging from the age difference between them.
I have never met Barrister Nwoko in person, neither his wife, Regina, apart from their photographs which I see on the Internet and in the electronic and print media.
And inasmuch as I am not holding brief for either of them, I wish to state my own opinion on the matter. I will to do this without fear or favour and without an apology to anybody.
Before I do that, however, permit me to make some observations.
- As somebody who travels regularly, I usually come across men in their 50s, 60s, and even 70s, who date and sleep with younger women who are younger that Regina Daniels. This means that Regina is not the first lady to marry an older man, neither would she be the last to do it.
Funny enough, most of those men I see are not as educate, wealthy or influential as Prince Ned Nwoko. And none of them had the financial courage of spending as much as Hon. Nwoko spends on his new wife, Regina.
How do I know that Ned spends so much on Regina? You go and ask Google.
- Most of the people who have been ranting about Regina’s relationship with the Prince of Idumuje-Ugboko, especially girls and women, have done and are still doing worse things about relationships, love, sex, and marriage than Regina. Some of them have even dated older men that were older than Ned.
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While most of the girls and women who criticize Regina for going for an older man date their own older men for the fun of it, Regina decided to settle down with her own older man.
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Some people asked me: “Would you allow your twenty-something-years-old daughter to marry an older married man like Ned?
My answer to their question was: “My twenty-something-year-old daughters may not marry an older married man because, as a Christian, I have been teaching them what God says about polygamy.
“The fact that my own daughter or daughters misbehaved, after teaching and advising them against polygamy, shouldn’t be a ground for me to discuss their misbehaviour on the pages of newspapers, on radio, on television or on social media. If I cannot do it to my own daughters, then, why should I do it to someone else’s daughter?”
After answering their question, I then asked them: “If your twenty-something-old daughter marries an older married man like Ned, would you disown or kill her, or, would you discuss it on social media?”
Their common answer to my own question was: ‘NO.’ Many critics of Regina and Ned are like those people. They would neither disown their daughter in the same circumstance nor discuss her matter on social media, yet they are happy discussing that of Regina everywhere they go. Why?
My Verdict on Regina Daniels vs. Tatafos, therefore, is that Regina does not deserve the type of noise that people are making concerning her relationship with the Honourable Prince. This is because most of them are kettle that calls pot black.
Those who criticize the relationship between Regina and Ned do so out of jealousy. Not because they mean well for the marriage institution.
Since most critics of Regina and Ned have done and/or are still into what they criticize Regina and Ned for, what moral right or justification do they have to do so?
Did the Holy Book of God not warn us to remove the specs in our own eyes first before removing the log in other people’s eyes?
My verdict on Regina Daniels vs. Tatafos is based on a very popular precedent: The case of the scribes and the Pharisees versus the woman accused of adultery, which was published in the Holy Book of John the beloved, Chapter 8, verse 3 to 11.
People who are still angry over Regina’s marriage to Prince Ned Nwoko should make out time to study that universal verdict on which my verdict on Regina Ned-Nwoko vs. Tatafos was based.
It was delivered by the best Judge that the world has ever produced, which is Jesus Christ, the way and the truth of life.
Any critic of Regina or Ned who fails or refuses to study that verdict should, please, hold his or her peace or forever remain silent!
