She particularly faulted the timing of the change, querying
how the return to the old anthem was going to tackle the hardship in the
country.
The movie star lamented that the country is facing
“excoriating hardship and lack of good governance on every level.”
“In the midst of excoriating hardship & lack of good
governance on every level but not to worry, going back to a colonial anthem
will be a soothing balm and inject patriotism back into our veins, a
much-needed drug,” she wrote on her X handle.
In another post, Henshaw wrote, “The labour of our heroes
past… o ti lo [is gone].”
President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday signed the National
Anthem Bill 2024 into law to reinstate the old anthem, “Nigeria, We Hail Thee.”