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Osemwegie came this last weekend

I was suprised to see Osemwegie last Saturday. He cam in some minutes past 8p.m. He had come from Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State where he lectures. I was happy to see the great guy after a very long time. We had communicated on Friday and he didnt mention anything like coming to Benin. So it was more of a suprise to see him.

He had a long talk with his dad and mum. Apparently, something serious was up and I would later discover that It was something that had started about three to four years ago, something I knew about. Something that would have to do with his future. Everyone's future actually, but more of his.

And then Sunday came, we attended church together (Winners Chapel, Iyekogba, Benin City) and he was almost saying someone would feel somehow about he going to Winners but I just pushed him on. No one felt anyhow afterwards that I knew about.

The most suprising thing about the day was the visit to people he knew at Benin. We visited his grand-mum, his mother's mum. didn't want to write mother's mother. Though it would still sound well anyway.  We saw his Uncle. We saw Omofunwa/Osazuwa. We saw Mummy Airport Road, She lives behind Zoro Supermarket on Airport road, thus the name Airport road. I should add that everywhere we went, each person took him to an inner room to discuss this issue while I stayed out in the sitting reading 'My Vision' by Mohammed Bin Rashid Almaktoum of Dubai.

Whatever the issue was, I told him everyone would speak to him but he still had the final decision to make, and then I got a story that looked like the Jeroboam story. Listening to elders.

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