CHAPTER 72

Enjoy your day guys!!

A blank car huge in price droved inside a building and with Nigeria's flag on it and parked inside the garage built at a corner in the building, the driver's door opened and he got down from the car and with a bodyguard from the opposite side. The driver went to the back door, opened the door and standing beside it.

A man rolled his cloth called Agbada in Yoruba language and which was one of the language in Nigeria, the man took a step out from the car with his shoe shining and very beautiful. He came out from the car, rolled the hands of the cloth and going inside.

His bodyguard followed him from behind and going inside with him, the man was one of the popular politician in Nigeria and a God father in the party. He was one of the elder of the party that Somia's uncle wanted to join and one of the top elders.

They stopped at the entrance and waiting for the door to open, after few seconds the door opened and going inside. The secretary greeted him as he entered, he just replied with his hand and going to his office. There were flags hanged all over the place and with different symbols of Nigeria.

The bodyguard quickly ran to the front as they got to the corridor of his office and they were standing at the front of his office, he opened the door, stepped to his right hand side and the man entered. He entered with him and closed the door.

"Good morning Sir!" A middle age man said and standing up on his foot and as the sign of honor for the man, he was the vice chairman of the late party chairman and he had been waiting for the man since.

"Good morning! I am sorry for be late!" The man apologies and sat down on his chair, the man too sat down and looking at him.

"No problem Sir! As I saw your message yesterday night, I have known that you have a good new for me and that is why I am came here so early" The man said with low voice

"Yes! There is something I want to discuss with you---"The man was talking when the door opened, the secretary entered and with a cup of coffee in her hand. She put it on the table at the front of the man and going out. Sound of the door opened and closed.

"Let go to the main thing because I have a meeting to attend soon" The man said and zipped from the coffee and put it down on the table.

"I want you to step down for someone and the person is Umar Abubakar, let him be this party chairman and don't let us drag it at all!"

"What did you said God father?" The man said with loud voice and his looks had changed.

"It's what you heard, this is our party so don't think we should need members to be voting again for who should be the party chairman, let discuss it here and let it be like that. Step down for him and let him be the chairman" The man said with low voice and the man started laughing loudly.

"Why are you laughing? Is what I said funny or something?"

"Off course Sir, it's funny. How can you expect me or telling me to step down for someone? Even who is that Umar Abubakar when we are building this party, did you know how many years I have been servicing the party as the vice chairman. Now want someone that doesn't know anything about politics or has been in politics before to be the party chairman" Said with anger.

"This thing is not about time you have spent in politics, if you have the quality then go for it. Listen to me, your post as the vice chairman is still there and many compensations that are coming to you from him and from the party-----"

"Oh! Sir, spare me that! Sir look at me, I am not stepping down for anybody. And i can't even believe I can hear this from you God Father"

"You are taking this thing far! Look at me, I know what I am doing and what I want for the party. Okay! Okay!! Any post you want to contest for, I do it and you will get there"

"How much did you collected from him Sir?" The man asked with low voice and the man looked at him.

"Are you asking maybe I collected bribe from him or something?" The man asked with loud voice.

"Yes! Because it's obvious that you have collected it, if not you won't called me here, sitting down there and be telling me all this rubbish" Said with anger.

"Watch your mouth, young man!" The man said with low voice.

"I am sorry Sir!" The man apologised, and looking at the old man drinking coffee.

"But! With due respect Sir, I am not stepping down for anybody. Let the party member's votes count for individuals"

"Really! You want it to get to that?" The old man asked.

"Yes Sir!" He replied back with loud voice and looking at the man with a kind of look.

"Can I take my leave now Sir? I can see this conversation is over for me" The man said.

"Yes! You can go" The old man replied with low voice.

"Thank you God Father!" The man got up and going out, he wanted to put his hand at the handle of the door when the door opened and Somia's uncle entered.

"Hello Vice Chairman, we meet today!" Somia's uncle said with smile as he walked in a bit and left the door opened.

"I greet you too Mr. Umar Abubakar" The man said and pointing his hand to Somia's uncle for a handshake, Somia's uncle held the hand and shaking each other.

"You really tired, I can see that! But let the member's votes speak for us, I am not ready for that and don't dare me next time" The man said as they were shaking each other and with anger.

The man smiles at Somia's uncle and going out, Somia's uncle was looking at him with a look and smiling poison smile inside him. Door closed.

"Come and have your seat, that is politic for you. It mean nothing" The old man said with low voice.

"Good morning Sir and thank you!" Somia's uncle said and sat down on the chair; he and the man started talking.

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Ali came down to the living room gently and sat down on the chair, he was wearing an armless top and with a short trouser. He had been feeling fine and the pains had gone, he just woke up after sleeping for few hours again in themorning.

"Sorry! How are you now?" TJ asked with low voice.

"I am good and thank you very much brother!" He said with low voice and took his phone beside him.

"Thank God that you are, it's because of you that I don't go to work just want to make sure that you are fine" TJ said and took the remote control of the television on the table.

"Hmm! I am grateful, you are more than a friend" Ali said with smile, Tj mute the television and faced Ali very and with a serious look

"I think this is the best time to pass some sense into you and talk you as brother" Tj said with loud voice.

"Look at yourself, just take look at yourself! It's God that saved your life. You are not ready to work just want to be seeing everything on platter of gold, this was why you picked a fight with me then and left to meet all those irresponsible guys and telling you rubbish. Now where are those guys? Did anyone of them called you, this is to tell you that none of them cares about you since you don't have money again"

"That day that you came here and talking like it was you that gave Semirat the money that she is spending, I am just looking at you and waiting for everything to end first. When you are together as husband and wife what could you say that you did for her as her husband or your son, even this was why she divorced you and you expected her to give you money to pay a debt, when she is not mad"

"Her mother told her not to marry you because she had saw it that you are not responsible and what did you did, you showed it that her mother is right. Now she is the one taking care of the child alone, you don't have any impact in it and you want that son to see you as he is father, when he is not blind" Ali was just looking at didn't utter a word.

"You just decided to be depend and it's bad group that caused it, I am your enemy then right. Ali you are educated, brilliant and came out with a good grade; fine you don't want to work under anybody but that did not mean you should be depend on your wife and be an irresponsible husband and father to your son" Tj Took a breath.

"I that didn't have the opportunity like you then to continue with my education, I have enrolled myself back to school not now talk of you that went to university and came out with a good grade and decided to just be jobless"

"If it's not Semirat's boyfriend and his friend that gave you money, you know you could have dead by now because where did you want to get the money from. Sat down here and shouting she will gives me, as if she own you a money before. A lady is working hard to be a good a mother to her son, and you is to show the child how irresponsible you are"

"Plan your future, let your son see you as a responsible father and not like this at all. Think and plan your life, because for the child to know you in the future and for you to get a responsible wife and how to maintain her" Ali breathe in.

"I am not telling you this so that you can change but to pass some sense into that your head" Tj rest his back on the chair and looking at him.

"Thank you very much TJ, you are a best friend!" Akeem said with low voice and sat down on the chair properly.

"I too have thought about my life overnight and I have changed" Tj looked at him.

"Since you have practical experience on mechanic and I too have theory experience on mechanic, I am a second class upper graduate from mechanical engineering. So I think we should work today, buy a workshop that they want to sell at Semirat's place and that place it's big people that are living there so we will be getting big and rich customers"

"Buy that place from the eighteen million naira in my account, buy all the model equipment, make a business card and all these we differentiate us from others. Also with our educations will be getting contract from all those big company" Said with low voice.

"Is this coming from you Akeem?" Tj was so surprise to hear that.

"I want to turn a new leave and be a good father. So let us work together, I am ready to be a mechanic like you and this is self-employed that I want" Said with low voice.

"That your place will still be there and your boys will still be working there, two of us will be in that new place and just be directly some customers and sending works to that place. Just name it in the same name we give that one and put the two address on our business card"

"Wow! I am so happy to hear this from you brother, I am happy for you"

"I suppose to thanks you, you are a good friend and I have decided to be here with you, not going back to those guys" Two of them shook hands and happy.

"So which name are we going to be bearing?" Akeem asked.

"What of FRIENSHIP MACHINIC, what about that?" Tj said.

"Wow! That is awesome! I think we should go and buy the workshop now before they sell it to someone else, and that place will be a good market place for us" Akeem said.

"Alright! Let us go" Tj said with low voice and two of them got up, held each other's hands, talking and going out with a full excitement full Tj's face and happy that his friend had changed. Sound of the door opened and closed