By Abdullah Tijani
Why must it be his time? This is my first public project fa, why did it have to cause all these fuss? I really want to help my colleagues but they were shouting, why? And I don’t want to become angry?
Sir, pls don’t mind them. Don’t let their ignoramus attitude enrage you. I know how you will be if you unleash your spitefulness. Their small child don’t know potent charm, he is calling it vegetable soup.
Adviser, please advise me. Tell me how we can do it again. Tell me how to satisfy mankind. They have been saying human beings are the most ingrate, I just agree to this fact. Tell me how we are going to let three people stand in two.
Don’t mind them master, it is their heads which haven’t said what it want. Their sailing ship doesn’t know where to land. I think it is their missing plane that is still wondering on space.
I don’t ask you to give me some useless parables. What will parable do in a case like this. They don’t need proverb, they are men of words. They know how to twist words and so that the world can twist the recipient.
I’m sorry your excellency, pardon my insolence, I don’t mean to. But sir, this thing is still obscure to me. You too have been speaking in tongue. Will you please share it with me and let me know the personality of the person on masquerade. Show it to me is the ‘bata’ drum sounds in ile ife.
We ask you to stop this parables, then you start fuming the haze from your mouth. I can be an Hausa but I understand much of parables and besides my tribe is full of literature. That reminds me, I nearly forget you are one of them.
One of them? I swear to God I never wish you bad, I am your loyal servant and you know it. Someone must have made you angry, I won’t forgive anyone who has turn you to this.
I don’t say you are my enemy, I meant to say you are also man of pen. You penalize anything you see with your pen, worthy or unworthy. Your colleagues use the power of their pen to let what is untrue to manifest in people’s minds. Do you even know your appointment as my advicer affect my personality on campus? It is the first fuss that affect my regime.
I did my lord. It was the work of the enemy of progress. Don’t let that bother you, I know how to deal with my kind. It was because it came from my party, they want this position but you don’t give them chance. Don’t let their cheap trick affect the faith you have in me. They claimed not to desire the position because of their profession, then they should allow their sluggish rat make way for my tortoise.
So you have many parties, why don’t you tell me, may be I would have save myself. Do you want to turn me to partial leader. Now I found the reason these people are implacable on me. No problem, there is no point in putting blame on you, it is like a situation where a child is playing with knife, the knife cuts the playing boy then throw the knife away, what is the essence, the knife has done its part already. So let me feed your inquisitive on my spite. It is all about my first mission which was perturbed, I seriously think I can do what my past leader has done. I think I can gain their trust and win their heart. But all were just in vain. I don’t know the reason everything turned against our plan. I planned to impress danfodites, it happens I was left depressed.
You shall not be depressed, not all of them think like animals. Besides, there are some students who commend your efforts; some have given you their heart. My lord, you are a martyr who sacrifice everything for his subordinates, don’t mind those bafoons.
I don’t know what wrong with that man, I tried to win his trust, I sent the proposal to him but he used his foolishness and decided not approve it. Can you imagine, after three weeks fa. They said they want to sit and decide on what will be the end of my action.
Ha ha my lord, you make me laugh in pijin, what a dog will do for tiger unless it want to swim in blood. Their hunter can hunt all animals but who dare move close to lion den. My lord they cannot do nothing.
Seriously! Don’t you worry, let’s see where their fish is swimming to, surely their camel wandering in desert will land somewhere. Let’s sit and see what they are capable of.