"Enough of the election articles for now," I said to myself and so I decided to just fool around.
Presidential election has come and gone. While there were tensed moments that came with it, there were also funny moments.
I had some personal "LOL" moments, that took my mind off the tension temporary.
Incase u didn't "LOL" while reading this article from the beginning to the end, then your problem is large oh.
Fews weeks to election, I got a call from my cousin saying, there was a big problem. My adrenaline increased immediately because our grandmother fell ill few days before. "so I thought it was that kind of call," if you know what I mean! (the crying things that comes with aso ebi).
She went on, like she had hot water mixed with chilli in her mouth.
"Problem dey oh! I dey buy cloths since, I forget election dey, na only ten thousand naira remain for my account, if war go start, where will I go to?" she said.
I just went blank! Saying I felt like killing her at that moment, was an understatement, because she didn't only disturb my sleep, she almost gave me a heart attack.
On Election day, after waiting hours for them to change the faulty card reader machine, for me to get accredited, I had to wait extra hours for INEC officials to bring ballot papers because the adhoc staff didn't come with any.
So while waiting, I chatted to kill the anxiety.
...and my friend whom I was chatting with was wondering why it was taking that much time to vote. "Babe no ballot papers, so we dey wait" I said. " what do you need ballot papers for, machine no dey?" she said.
I was baffled and kept wondering what planet, she was from. I spent hours explaining the whole process to her.
Anyway, she went further with our discussion and she thought I was stressing myself. "Babe go home" she said. So I felt the need to explain the importance of this election "this is a revolution" I said, and she was like " this isn't a revolution, it is an election," so I gave up.
I can't seem to get the picture of the Hausa man off my mind, he wept bitterly like a baby because he voted for the umbrella party mistakenly. "You would think someone stole his herd of cattle.
Many of us won't forget the display of shame by our ex-minister easily. One will think, he was auditioning for the "Lion in the jungle"
This single act created panic all over the nation. Offices closed, people ran back to their houses, and my cousin sent me a message almost immediately "am on my way home, Oga don gbez (run), so me too gbez oh"
Just after the epic display by our ex-minister, was a comic relief by a professor from University of Port Harcourt, who claims he doesn't read hand written document, " I only read typed document" he said.
" if I have to read tiny prints, it is with special conditions"
What I saw wasn't a man who needed special light to read but a man battling with his conscious.
Finally, I didn't know the number Four, had so much significance until I watched the young man on Channels TV with his hilarious analysis... If you missed that, you are on a long thing.
Feel free to share your "lol" moments as comment...
