*shines torchlight* Sir, we’ll need your particulars and your driver’s license!
Your certificate of roadworthiness also Sir!
Oga constable, a pedestrian needs no permit!
My legs are licensed by the Federal republic of Nigeria to roam as they wish! I know my rights!
Well, well…if you know your rights, you know we have the right to arrest you, and show you on the next episode of crime fighters!
Calm down constable, I am but from the presence of the Lord; rejoicing, wining and dining at the re-incarnation of our modern day Lazarus.
Sergeant, please arrest this man, he has had a bit too much to drink!
Arrest who?! Constable, don’t you have a television set?
Television set? At a checkpoint? We would write a memo to the Federal Government to that effect.
Well, your ignorance is permissible. If you had a television set, you would have been privileged to note that I was one of the esteemed dignitaries at the thanksgiving service of Dame Patience “Lazarus” Ebele Jonathan.
Thanksgiving service? Sir, whatever you have been drinking tonight, we want some…for the road of course!
Officer, while you have been at the checkpoint trying to checkmate the forces of evil, principalities and powers have tried to destabilize our great nation!
If you do not make any sense in the next ten minutes sir, the powers that be on this road shall put you in handcuffs sir!
Well, simply put, in leading the way as Africa’s Giant, the First Lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria recorded history as the first Woman to return from the land of the dead!
The land of the dead?!
Yes constable, our First Lady arrived at the gates of death (thankfully without her obscenely large entourage), but she was refused entry!
Sir, remember you have ten minutes!
Constable, our First lady went for a surgical operation! She was unconscious for a week, and the Good Lord was gracious enough to send her back to us! Like Lazarus of the biblical times!
Surgery? What surgery? I’m sure that if our First Lady was outside the shores of this country having surgery, the good people of Nigeria would have been informed!
We would have prayed for her! T.B Joshua could have predicted the outcome beforehand!
Well, constable, that’s not very important, you know how the First Lady likes her privacy….
If my memory serves me right and my radio still tunes to the news every morning, the Special Adviser to the President on Media insisted that our First Lady was off to Germany on vacation!
You know how vacations are unpredictable, one minute you’re on the beach applying sunblock, the next minute you’re flat on your back fighting death! Let’s focus on the miracle for now.
I don’t quite agree, Reuben Abati, seasoned journalist turned Chief of propaganda, told 167million of us that our First Lady needed rest as a result of her hectic schedule. When did a vacation become an euphemism for surgery?
The image of the President and his wife is Abati’s top priority, I’m sure he didn’t want to throw the nation into panic. He knows how much we love our First Lady.
Yes, we love her, and her particularly moving speeches, our very own Mrs Malaprop….
Abati sought to calm our nerves by telling us a half truth. Like every piece of tragic news, it must be broken systematically.
So, he lied for our own good? Public defender turned public confuser! This memory again! Her husband also confirmed that she was in Germany on vacation! Could Nigeria’s topmost public officer lie to us?
Constable, you ask too many questions! You are like Thomas who doubted the resurrection of Jesus. Or more like Mary who doubted if Lazarus would live again.
So, why did the Honest Reuben Abati decide to put us out of our misery and tell us the true condition of our beloved First Lady?
It didn’t quite go as planned, Dame Patience arrived at the press conference with a prepared speech, but she was so overcome with emotion….
Yes, her moments of extempore are quite legendary, once she saluted “fellow widows”; our poor President must have choked on his millionaire’s lunch on that occasion.
As I was saying, she decided to tell us of her ordeal in Germany, her near death experience, her return to life, and her belief that her assignment on earth is unfinished.
That’s rather interesting; I guess that speech is a roundabout way of announcing a new “NGO”?
Doubting Thomas! She did something a little different; a N500 million thanksgiving dinner with the movers and shakers of Nigeria was her medium of new contribution.
For your information, it aired Live on the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA).
N500 million for a thanksgiving dinner?
How much would a burial have cost?
Ah! Constable, now I should arrest you! For wishing death on our President’s better half!
If she came back from the gates of death to spend N500million of our commonwealth, all hail this Pyrrhic victory!