I am ready for an incredible new week.
Money, success and joy flow to me effortlessly.
I am open to every miracle and every bit of magic headed my way.
I am always exactly where I need to be and the timing of my life is perfect.
I affirm. ๐
A husband living in Ikorodu axis used to wake up 4:30am daily to catch two buses to work.
His wife hated the life they were living. One morning after their landlord embarrassed them over rent, she looked at him and said:
โI regret marrying poor.โ
Bros acted normal after that day as if nothing happened.
But he stopped talking about his dreams with his wife.
Stopped joking.
Stopped opening up.
He became cold at heart.
Years later he finally made it through a contract job that changed his life completely.
Money came fast, it began to rain in dollars and naira.
Due to his coldness, he became kinder to strangers than to his own wife.
She got frustrated and felt she did nothing wrong to be treated badly.
But she forgot that words spoken during hardship sometimes outlive the hardship itself.
Gbajabiamilaโs office. Abuja Private meeting.
Desmond walks in smiling, wearing his best agbada.
Desmond: โOga good afternoon sir. You sent for meโ.
Gbajabiamila: โSit down Desmondโ.
Desmond sits. Smile fades slightly.
Gbajabiamila: โHow many years have you been in Surulere Assembly?โ
Desmond: โTwelve years sir. Three termsโ.
Gbajabiamila: โAnd what did you build?โ
Desmond: โSir I sponsored 11 motions, co-sponsored 42 motions, chaired four committees andโฆ.โ
Gbajabiamila: โI did not ask about motions Desmond. I asked what you builtโ.
Silence.
Desmond: โSir I also produced a 198 page compendium titled My Surulere and I So Farโ.
Gbajabiamila stares: โYou gave them a bookโ.
Desmond: โA very detailed book sirโ.
Gbajabiamila: โDesmond, from Bank Olemo to Olawale Dawodu to Iponri to Masha, every community in Surulere is saying enough is enough. Not me. The peopleโ.
Desmond: โSir those ones are just propaganda. I donโt even know themโ.
Gbajabiamila: โYou donโt know your own constituentsโ.
Desmond: โSir I know the important onesโ.
Gbajabiamila sighs deeply: โDesmond I begged those people to take you in 2015. I personally went on my knees for you. Obasanjo called Tinubu. Tinubu called me. I called Surulere. Do you understand the chain of calls that put you in that seat?โ
Desmond: โSir I am very grateful and that is why I am saying if I have erred in any way I am deeply sorryโ.
Gbajabiamila: โErred in which way exactly?โ
Desmond: โAny way at all sir. Whichever one you feelโ.
Gbajabiamila: โYou donโt even know what you did wrongโ.
Desmond: โSir whatever it is, I am sorry for it completelyโ.
Gbajabiamila rubs his forehead: โDesmond I have identified a replacement. Her name is Barakat Odunuga-Bakareโ.
Desmond: โSir a woman?โ
Gbajabiamila: โIs there a problem with that?โ
Desmond: โNo sir. I justโฆ sir I have twelve years experienceโ.
Gbajabiamila: โTwelve years of my experience. Not yours. Every road they praise in Surulere, I built before you got there. Every structure they point to, I laid before 2015. You inherited a structure and spent twelve years taking photographs in front of itโ.
Silence.
Desmond quietly: โSir what about my fourth termโ.
Gbajabiamila: โWhat about itโ.
Desmond: โCan I still contest?โ
Gbajabiamila: โThis is a democracy Desmond. You can contest anythingโ.
Desmond brightens up: โSo I have your support?โ
Gbajabiamila: โI did not say thatโ.
Desmond: โBut you said I can contestโ.
Gbajabiamila: โAnd Manchester United can win the Champions League. Possibility and probability are different thingsโ.
Silence.
Desmond picks up his agbada slowly: โSir should I go and see Tinubu directly?โ
Gbajabiamila: โTinubu is in Rwanda telling people to be transparentโ.
Desmond: โRwandaโ.
Gbajabiamila: โRwandaโ.
Desmond stands up, adjusts his cap: โSir I just want you to know that whatever happens, you are my leader, my father, my political compass and myโฆโ
Gbajabiamila: โDesmondโ.
Desmond: โSirโ.
Gbajabiamila: โGo and focus on your acting career. Nollywood missed youโ.
Desmond opens mouth, Closes it. Opens it again.
Desmond: โSir at least let me do a cameo in 2027โ.
Gbajabiamila: โThis is not a movie Desmondโ.
Desmond: โEverything in Nigerian politics is a movie sir. I have just been the supporting actor for twelve yearsโ.
First time Gbajabiamila almost smiles.
Almost.
(My narration)
๐๐๐
"I think ADC is dead.โ
- Senate President, Sen. Godswill Akpabio, said as he announced the letter of defection of Sen. Enyinnaya Abaribe, the senator representing Abia South senatorial district. He defected from the ADC to the Labour Party.
@TaoFeek182 It's bn 10yrs without u daddy.๐
Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord,
and let perpetual light shine upon them.
May their souls, and the souls of all the faithful departed,
through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen. ๐
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