“In the silence and conviviality which enveloped our meeting, my entire inside started reacting and I became emotional and hysteric. My spiritual person began to agitate against my physical alertness and a mind which was now confronted with a homogeneity through the lens of a latent force within, that was seeing me into a mode that resonate with the atmosphere similar to what it was at the time of Duke’s reign as Governor of Cross River where our futures, all of us in the state at that time in politics, from obscurity, were going to be defined by it, in terms of plenty for those who would aspire or retrogradation for those who didn’t.”

“The Lord God Almighty will surely bring about the desired change and atmosphere befitting of those highly endowed Nigerians in their chosen carriers who have decided to remain in their motherland, where those like me would have a place to function and do whatever it is within our competence to pursue without let, nor hindrances, where we would be accorded our due in a situation where we aspire to contribute our quarter to enhance the development of our beloved country. And where those with a great endowment from other tribes other than the Yorubas, among the southerners, will also gain prominence in the Nigerian space with or without encouragement from their tribesmen provided they have proven themselves worthy of acknowledgment for what they do and not who they are.”

I have witnessed many failures and the downturn of the lives of treacherous individuals I had met on these parts in their quest to live life as if the is no tomorrow. It further increases my fear of the Lord that superintends over earthly affairs, otherwise known as the almighty: Allah or Jehovah. I doubt if these men with questionable powers do also reflect this.

The only reason which makes selflessness look unrewarding in our society is because of the lack of reciprocity on the part of those who benefit from the act. And it is prevalent among politicians.

Most of them fail to give back to society what they had promised by rendering the same measure of service to others in need to reduce detent.

Those who are selfless or take to pleasing people unconditionally are often seen as weak and less audacious and are being taken for granted especially among politicians who are used to cornering things all to themselves with a corrupt leader at the head.

Nonetheless, politics does not preclude one from going through the consequences of ingratitude, especially in situations where the activities involved were being brought about by forces stirred by the almighty.

I had a lofty idea a few days ago and thought of how I could get the human support I badly needed to pull this through to have them actualized. And the thought of my friend the former governor of my state His Excellency Mr. Donald Duke readily came to my mind, and I put a call to him from my base in Calabar to see if he could be of help too.

All those I know, said to be highly connected in the system see me as a rival as such they’re reluctant to assist or link me in any way possible politically, especially in the party to which I belong, the All Progressives Congress, (APC).

Wherever they notice I have an interest, they make sure whoever is concerned see me in the negative. And I had always questioned why that is so without answers.

This is responsible for the reason why I am not being called upon to take part in ad-hoc activities both in my state and at the national level of the party despite all I have proven at my party.

Their whole aim is to make me feel the Lord to whom I ascribed my victories is not a politician, perhaps. Or may have gone to sleep. The agony, however, has now ended with my conscientious visit to Duke.

However, I must confess that since Mr. Donald Duke left the office as governor, I had barely seen him in person once and that was at the airport on my return back from New Delhi, India, seven years ago.

We had both spoken on phone on a few occasions though and I have written a few articles concerning Cross River where I happen to mention his name as one of the characters to buttress what I was saying, but we have not met in person to talk.

When I called he picked up and told me that he will be coming to Calabar on a certain date and when he is in town he’ll call me to come around for us to sit and discuss the issues.

When he came days later he called me and I went to his palatial mansions a few nights ago and we sat in one of the parlors to discuss.

I must confess, Duke is usually a good listener and I am good at talking. It is difficult for anything to take place when we’re both together for a discussion; then.

As soon as we sat down to talk, after the exchanges of greetings, he asked me right away about the issues concerning my party in the state and different litigations being pandered about by those aggrieved, and I thought that was a good issue on which to start the conversation as one who was partially involved and was going to elaborate on those and even says more things.

While I was into the buildup of my story in response to the questions asked, and as I sat side by side with Donald, I began to have conflicting issues within my spirit concerning the motives which got me stocked in my mind in between the stories and the nostalgia that followed in trying to tell a story concerning those who ordinarily, wouldn’t have been the ones to occupy our discussions, the fact that I was here sited again with Duke who symbolised a time in our political history in the Cross River where all of a sudden, young men became involved in a scheme where the forces of nature breeded down opportunities that were to change the circumstances of a lot of humans that were locked down by some forces of darkness which enabled those of us in the milieu of a higher calling who were attracted by the light that shone around Duke then, constituted the human force that was used to drive the project to victory.

Those who call the short today, however, were a secondary team. And all of them are on top, notwithstanding, I couldn’t speak and got confused, buried in my emotions, and was unable to articulate.

In the silence and conviviality which enveloped our meeting, my entire inside started reacting and I became emotional and hysteric.

My spiritual person began to agitate against my physical person and mind which was now confronted with a homogeneity that was seeing me into a mode that resonate with the atmosphere similar to what it was at the time of Duke’s reign as governor, where our futures, all of us in the state at that time in politics; from obscurity, were going to be defined by it, in terms of plenty for those who would aspire or retrogradation for those who didn’t.

At this point, I stopped and looked at him and said: you can see that my ability to articulate the issues further is lacking.

He ignored what I was saying and merely looked at me and reluctantly closed his eyes fairly, and turn a bit sideways as if one pricked to sudden laughter.

If he hadn’t known me as one who talks with enough logic to convince, he would have thought I was hallucinating. Or one under the influence of dub.

After sipping a cold drink from the glass on the table beside me, and then turn to him and said, Your Excellency, you know I didn’t benefit from your government like others because of the involvement of belligerent forces mostly from my roots, that hacked my “star” spiritually and caused my reluctance to advance to change my circumstances unknown to me, as it is with many today with whom we were bigoted.

He retorted by asking me not to say that, otherwise he would close up – that he was there as Governor for me and indeed everyone of those who helped in the project, if I didn’t take advantage, that was not his fault, and went further to ask what is it I want him to do for me and forget the past; the past is gone, he exclaimed.

I know Donald deep enough to haven’t once been his confidante as governor, if he were no more interested in the meeting, he would stand up instantly and leave.

I was mute and couldn’t say anything all I began seeing was a picture of a young man then carrying the same mindset with almost the same approach and abhorrence towards the many obnoxious religious beliefs as I do; whom the Lord or time brought forth through the instrumentality of politics to open the political space for endowed and upcoming bearers like me who would find my bearings, make contributions to the project for its success from where I was to take off and excel.

But unfortunately, there came a monster or it was so designed, within the household of my birth, who created a chasm with powers from the deities, to devour those like me who had refused to bow to the gods of our ancestors or resort to self-help that abounds though, from other gods with much higher powers perhaps, to overcome their spell failure, which I became susceptible to their incursion to devour, the rest is now history.

While still soliloquizing and within those conflicting feelings, I suddenly realized myself and calmly told him verbally what I needed him to do for me if he can.

And he said yes, why not. He sat there and called the person involved. And when the person wasn’t picking up his call, he turn and ask me not to worry as soon as the person returned from his trip abroad he will discuss the matter with the person and have me talk with the person myself to seal the deal after he would have done the groundwork. That is it, I didn’t expect less from homogeneity.

We later got engaged in a light conversation where we touched on a few things here and there and he showed me around his laborious and well-landscaped compound and a few other things of interest, being my first time there, and later called out his driver to take me home that night.

At home, I moved straight into a section of my house which is the office where I stayed without doing anything but thinking and meditating over what transpired between the two of us in Duke’s house that night.

And the Lord, the spirit in me started ministering to me through me as me, all that transpires and what it meant and the message it seeks to convey to a doubting Thomas like me who doesn’t believe but act on knowledge.

I thought I lost the chance to state to a friend in the opposition how viable my party, the APC in the state was and how it was going to sweep the entire votes regardless of big names like himself, Senator Liyel Imoke, and others who have lost touch with reality.

And I had equally expected him to give me a hint of the surprises awaiting us from the Caterpillar configuration of men in search of power that may be evasive during the forthcoming elections of 2023, given the incursions of the Obedient movement.

Just as I was pondering on that, a few hours from then, my phone rang, guess who, it was Donald who called to inform me that the person he was trying to speak with had called back from abroad and they discussed and he gave me the details of their discussion and ask me to furnish him with my reply as soon as I make up my mind, he was presently having visitors, I mused!

This is a clear departure from what I have been used to with most Cross Riverian people I relate with, especially those I play politics with in recent times, within the All Progressives Party (APC).

The difference is not in a party, the difference is the human being. Their level of spiritual attainment and how they have adjusted to the demands of their spirituality.

Those who are born with a mission have a character display that is unique and homogenous no matter how much they display their eagerness in wants of material pleasures, their attitude towards those homogenous to their type some of whom may be ordained as kings, high priests, some chief executives officers in charge of earthly businesses, or among the peasants, is different and remains the same.

Naturally great people, not those who acquire greatness through hard work or favoritism, but those ordained from birth, all carry in them effulgence or grace that is undiminishing even if they are seen pushing trucks, or being brick layers for a living, they radiate that aura. I learned that again at that brief meeting I had with Mr. Duke.

My visit to Duke that night was not to get connected as such whether material or human, that could not have made any difference in my life than the tutorials inherent in what transpired that helped assuage my restlessness over the way things are with me in recent times politically that were inexplicable and unacceptable for who I am and in all the sacrifices made, since I had never heard the Lord speak to me audibly nor the Holy Spirit. That remained a nightmare.

I am the most conspired against among members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) family here in my state.

But I continue to do my best regardless of the humiliations from all manner of persons. Seeing some of these persons in question, they don’t worth a penny in comparison, even in the game of politics.

So, it usually gives me a lot of awful reflections on my faith. But now I know what is responsible for all of that. And I must learn to ignore and forgive these people for they’re just behaving to type. There is still gold dust in the air. And the Lord holds the trunk card.

The Lord God Almighty will surely bring about the desired change and atmosphere befitting of those highly endowed Nigerians in their chosen carriers who have decided to remain in their motherland, where those like me would have a place to function and do whatever it is within our competence to pursue without let, nor hindrances, where we would be accorded our due in a situation where we aspire to contribute our quarter to enhance the development of our beloved country.

And where those with a great endowment from other tribes other than the Yorubas, among the southerners, will also gain prominence in the Nigerian space with or without encouragement from their tribesmen provided they have proven themselves worthy of acknowledgment for what they do and not who they are.

Why I tried to relate to the Duke’s visit is to show two things namely:

(1). That there are benefits if one associates with people of his type. He will be appreciated better.

(2). A spirit that is bedeviled with fear of the unknown for which it scampers for those to vent its wickedness as revenge, from that which is liberated from the same.

If you do not work yourself into a situation where you rise above ego and primordial disorderliness or pettiness in your view of things, you’ll always envy others and that may not allow you to see the need to do in your power what can truly help the other man leap at your expense.

That is what love, Christianity, or Islam is talking about in their Holy Books.

Have a date with me next week for the concluding part of this episode, the Lord willing.

End Time Message!

GOD WITH US……..

To Be Continued

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