PART 28
“I AM PRESIDENT MAMUD”
©Opeyemi Ojerinde Akintunde
Yenewa kept pacing about at the edge of the pit… It’s been 3 days since she had shown the picture to Holey. Holey could not recognize any of the people in the picture but Yenewa knew without a doubt she was his daughter…
“What’s wrong? You have been pacing around since you got here… Are you planning on releasing me today? “
“No! I really don’t know why I am doing this to you! Honestly… “
“Don’t worry… I know… God is using you to put me in the place I ought to be… Hey listen … believe it or not. I know you are God sent… I have never had a private time to myself in years… Never had time to search within myself… Do you know the past three days had me asking myself a lot of questions… Like why am I President? You know….” Mamud kept talking… He was bubbling with Joy! Too much Joy for a man who had not had his bath in days…
“Honestly, thank you for the Audio Bible, it’s so comforting… “ Mamud said “Do you know, like you said, I realized in the book of Numbers, God got angry with the Israelites a couple of times, but that Anger was not a destructive one like mine… Remember when the Israelites complained about God not giving them meat, God got so angry at them and made sure he overfed them till they got irritated with meat… That’s some funny way of God showing his anger.., You know if old Mamud was God, I would have done something terrible to them… Imagine, they were the ones who complained about food but when Food came, they complained they were tired of it…! God!” Mamud was talking excitedly about scriptures…
Yenewa knew without a doubt, him falling into that pit had been necessary for God to hold him down and talk some sense into him…
“Yeah!” Yenewa said hoping to hear more…
“Yeah… God also got angry at Miriam and made her Leprous for 7 days… He could have killed her you know! That shows we can get angry but we must learn to use the anger rightly to achieve the good we want to achieve and give the right measure of punishment !”
“Thank you Yenewa, and I am sorry about Fila… I hope Hidoko forgives me like you have…”
Yenewa froze as this was what she was trying to avoid… The past three days had been very hot on the media… The First Lady had released a video that painted Mamud as a criminal and a mentally unstable one. Hidoko had come out stating Mamud was once a murderer.
Mamud had become the most terribly talked about person on the streets of Nirato and conveniently, people were already warming up to Hidoko…
“There is something I need to tell you… as I think this is time for me to release you but I fear your anger may be kindled against those you love…!” Yenewa said
“What?”
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“I knew it, I knew it… !” Ashkian said to Bereto excitedly
“What?”
“Noell just informed me Hidoko wanted to marry the First Lady wayback?”
“So?”
“Hidoko is finished, He thinks he can use The First Lady against Mamud, I will show him I am wiser… I am using the same weapon against him..!”
To be continued
