The Chief's ordeal

There lived a man in the town of ilupeju,his name is chief abayomi,cheif abayomi married 3 wives and gave birth to 7children,he has alot of possessions so he concubines too outside that gave birth for him,he has many houses and different lands, his first wife name is tunrayo and she gave birth to 3 children,one male and two females,his second wife name is bisola and she gave birth to two girls while the third wife name is dupe and she gave birth to 1 female and 1 male child. They are always fighting,never at peace in that house, always from one problem to another

Chief abayomi loves bisola more in that house and loves her children too,he is a fair man, always meeting the need of all his wives but they are never satisfied, always jealous of each other,one day Chief abayomi developed an illness and he went to see his doctor,only his doctor knew about his sickness,he told his doctor never to tell anyone and keep it within them. For years he kept battling with the illness and kept it within him.

Every year it was his first wife that always celebrate his birthday for him,she knows how to organize everything and make it look good but when he was about to clock 70 years,he called all his wives and children and even the children of the concubines and assembled all of them in the house,all the children including those that already got married,they came with their spouses and the house was complete ,before then the doctor already told him he has just 4weeks to live and there's nothing they can do about it,so he assembled everyone and told them to celebrate his birthday together,he doesn't want just his first wife to organize it this time around, he wants everyone to gather together and organize it for him,he begged them that even if that will be the last thing he will beg them to do for him that they must do it but because all the wives and children are never at peace,they did not yield to what their husband said,they did the birthday separately,they got their gifts separately and the man was so sad,he said to himself "is this the home I want to leave behind?, how will they cope when he is gone,won't they scatter everything he built for years"? That was all his thoughts .

So he decided a means and told his lawyer what to do,he pretended to die ,the next morning the first wife daughter went to his room to greet him when screamed out that their father is dead,they all rushed to see what happened,they cried and cried,when the lawyer came after two days,the lawyer explained to them that the children must all go to chief's village for two weeks and after they can come back if not anyone who refuses to go must be sent out of the house,so all the children decided to go,when they got to the village they were doing things separately the first two days,there was a feast going on in the village so they have to join because if they don't they will be known as outcast ,so to prove that they are from that village they joined in the feast,and one person cannot do it alone,they decided to team up as a family so as to emerge the winner, after two weeks,they were so used to each other and they couldn't fight anymore and also the wives at home too...

They emerge the winner and decided to go home after that,when they got home, everyone were assembled again to the sitting room so that the lawyer can tell them what to do,so they can bury their father because there was a warning before they left that no one should go back and look at the corpse or bury it before they go to the village,so after everyone was assembled,their father showed up and everywhere scattered thinking they've all seen a ghost,he narrated everything to them and told them this was why he devised that means so as to bring everyone together in unity before he finally dies.

Everyone was amazed, everyone promised chief that they will all be in unity and nothing will break them apart. That was how everyone of them continued in unity even after Chief's death.