The Preacher Son

Episode 11

‘Oya make una dress fine we dey go see important person for hotel’ my dad ordered us all.

‘Daddy where na?’ we questioned him!!
‘Let’s go there first’, my dad replied.
We all got dressed in a flash, i wore my best dress that was bought for me the previous Christmas; a designer red shirt with pockets at the fronts, with an ash colour strip chinos trousers and my jet li boots that had survive the Jos riot.

Our senior pastor (Tina’s father) came to carry us with his jallopy peagout 405(anyway it was my dream car back then).
He was hosting a program and the then governor of plateau state was the chairman of ceremony.
So we all queued up in the car and went to the hotel the governor was logging.
‘If heaven go fine like this eh, God na me go enter first’ i said proudly.
If you say the hotel is fine you are mistaken, i mean this hotel is finestest(no check dictionary o), there were waterfalls, infact if that i was given their security house to live in, i would have grab the opportunity with both hands and leg.
It was a complete 5-star hotel even their gutter was a site to behold. We were looking like we had entered into an alien country.
We entered into the hotel lobby and we asked for the governor’s room number and a guard was sent to come get us.

We walk to a wall with two lines in between it, i wanted asking why we were not going, abi were they planning to search us, not until the wall opened and guards came out, i almost died with fright, the thing that came to my mind was “Jonah and the whale”.
“Na wetin i do God, abi He send me something and i refuse to do”i taught sweating hard.
I intended running but since i saw no one moving i stood my ground with shaky legs.
“The governor sent us to come get you people”, the mean looking guards beckoned at us to follow them.

‘So na even inside fish belly governor the live sef’. We all entered the so-called fish stomach and i saw them pressed a button and the door closed and it started counting upwards.
I pinched my elder sister and asked her what kind of fish is this that use to go up. She smiled and told me that it was a generator upstairs that takes people up and down, not knowing she had also use her local champion to give her own yeye definition.

Atlast the door open and we step into the most beautiful corridor i had ever seen in my life till date (apart from naija and oyinbo films sha).
To cut a long story short we reached the governor’s lodge and we entered. The T.V i saw in that room was big enough to fill a hut. We greeted him and he shook every one of us.
Mehn that man hand was soft more than vita foam, i almost cut it off to keep as an artifact.
After we had gone i could not risk wiping off my hands or doing anything even to eat that day i se left hand, just to prove to my classmates on Monday that i had met the governor, i even wrapped my hand to prevent the scent from escaping.

Finally, Transfer came knocking and we were posted to Nasarawa state to continue the ministry.

I cried when i learnt i would be leaving all my friends, school, neighbors, and my love Tina e.t.c. I even started missing the Jos riot.
We left the “Land Of Peace And Tourism” and we started our abode into the “Home Of Solid Minerals”, that was where our drama started all over again.