A Rare Day

Today was quite stressful for me that I ended up developing cold and headache. I hardly go out these days especially since the war between ASUU and FG remained a continuous battle. I only go out on Sundays and I do go to the market occasionally. Today I had to travel to attend a program in another town. The journey was just an hour from my place. The journey was supposed to begin at 9am and since the program is starting by 10 we will just join them immediately we arrive at our destination. Unfortunately, things didn't go as planned, we took off after an hour, many things are just so messed up, African time is trending and if you decide to adhere strictly to the appointed time, one will probably regret it. I finished dressing up since it's quarter to 9, I can't believe I had to wait for a whole one hour for the bus to arrive. I almost gave up because I hated that kind of situation.

Amazingly, when we arrived at the venue, many were still coming in because the program have not even started. We had to register first before entering into the venue of the program. We waited for another one hour before they started the program. Things are just so messed up. But I guess many people are used to this so called "Africa Time" when a scheduled program will take longer than expected before the commencement.

The theme of the program is "A day Governor" Many church representatives were present from all over the state. Many talks and speeches were made on Agriculture and Education especially. Part of the program was a competitions across all the local governments invited. The competition are in two stages. I was among the representative among the first stage. Where questions were asked and we will answer. After that stage, another one was made where three candidates were chosen to talk on the the theme of the program. The question they are to talk on is "If you the governor of Kwara State for a day, what would you do. (I really don't know how the candidates were chosen because about 200 candidates were present for each local government and there are three local government present for the program)

When it's time to announce the winner and present gifts. The three candidates that were chosen for these debate were given prices according to their positions. Laptops, Home theatres and plasma television. A plot of land was included to the first position's price. For our stage, we were given prices also but something funny happened 😂😂😂 While calling our names to come forward for prices, I came out last due to where I was sitting and I couldn't get a price. Yes! I mean they miscalculated the number of prices they brought and one single price was left out and that's mine. I was embarrassed for a little moment because I wished I never came out at first. Eventually, I was given a cash price instead because that's the only alternative they have at that moment.

The program was educated and entertaining. Foods, snacks and cash gifts was given to everyone present for the event, nobody left empty handed, we collected the whole three packages meant for each individual. I met a childhood friend. She could hardly recognize me because it's already over 10 years we have seen each other. She was so excited to see me and we exchanged our contacts. It's really a rare day because I don't recall attending a huge event like this for the past five months I have been at home.

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