“…News spread like wild fire in the entire campus that Duke Oil and Gas had dropped out of the election race a day before the election.
Rumours spread along with the news. Some said that I saw that I was going to lose and dropped out.
Others said that I have collected money from the highest bidder and left. Some claimed it was my parents and others claimed it was Amaka that made me drop out.
There were those who knew what happened, like Kendo and and his group.
On my own side, I was glad to be alive and glad that Amaka wasn’t violated. We locked ourselves up in the room althrough that week, refusing to pick calls nor reply people’s messages.
The trauma was just too much.
We also avoided Ejike’s calls. We assumed he was calling for his money, knowing that we had lost.
After he called for several times, he sent a text message to Amaka, informing her that he has been taking to Bishop Shanahan Hospital Nsukka as his leg injury had gotten worse.
Amaka had to visit him to see how he was doing. It’s only humane that who came to your aide in your time of need, that you do the same in his time of need.
Amaka left the house for the first time in one week, braving all the curious eyes and gossipping mouths at Odenigwe.
She came back after 30 minutes, telling me how Ejike hadn’t eaten anything meaningful since 2 days he was admitted, as his mother went to ọmụgọ and his boys at the shop only buy ọkpa for him.
She quickly cooked jolof rice and took to him. She stayed with him till evening, since there was no one to keep him company.
It continued like that for the next one week. Within that same period, I also found the courage to enter inside school.
I met Kendo who told me how people in his cult group had planned to execute me so them one of them would win the election and how he had to use the sum of 50,000 naira and 5 cartons of beer to beg them to spare my life.
He blamed me for not joining their cult before venturing into SUG Elections. Claiming it would have been smooth and easy for me.
He said that on a normal, I was supposed to pay him back all he spent to keep me alive but seeing how much I have spent, then it wouldn’t be good.
I just had to thank him and ignore all others, then focus on covering up all the things I lost in class within the period as I prepared for exam.
Meanwhile, Ejike was due to be discharged as his treatment was almost complete.
How will I pay back what I owe? How will I get such money from my gas business in this exam period? Especially now that all the lecturers know me and are monitoring me closely? Just how?
DUKE THE NIGERIAN
(NAVIGATING THROUGH SCHOOL, Season 3; Episode 7) was brought to you by Ugwuagbo Emmanuel Chizoba Daniel (Zoba De Great)
"…News spread like wild fire in the entire campus that Duke Oil and Gas had dropped out of the election race a day before the election.
Rumours spread along with the news. Some said that I saw that I was going to lose and dropped out.
Others said that I have collected money… pic.twitter.com/OS56SFPhKU
— Zoba De Great (@ZOBADEGREAT) October 26, 2023