Adieu!Chief Caution Preboye- ANA OYO Patron & Presenter@Monthly Literary Readings of This Day In History (snippets by Gbemi Tijani MST)

[Gbemi Tijani]

420pm(11/10/19
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Please attn Prof Toyin Falola, Convener USA africadialogue


@Energy Clinic..
      for Chief Preboye,(author,poet,presenter @ANA Monthly Readings"This Day In History")
         
'Where are you  now?'
         a ring tone from  a brand apple phone disturbs the plight  silence of hundreds waiting besides  their cars in a long gas queue to be fueled at the cheapest option in the city."
''Aleluai,
I 'm on Number fifty
With a tag!"
       
'Fifty?'!
The spouse queried astonishingly.
Her husband  has been on fuel queue
Since Ten O'clock in the night  from previous day!Its that horrendous.
      "You aren't on ground here to see the reality of vehicles waiting for the same.
Don't bother to ring me earlier than noon time.'
       Got it . Honey,
        Despite the tag?"
    
"Yes.Thats the credential for being on the queue,I tell you!"
       'You mean...
More protocols to be fulfilled before fueling?'
       "Yes O --  to infinity."
       
'Don't worry
Remain faithful
The Lord will do it'
       "Thanks for calling".
      
*11:48pm@ fuel ward
       
Tag 50...
       
"Yes I m here
Keg or car?
Both.
'No.Not possible here except,e except,except..
    'WHAT?
        
..
      " NEXT.  Tag 51
...
OPE O...
         
Tank of thanks
Yeah at last..
Car only Sir
Ok Sir
      *'Another Chance. 
Tag 50 holder  around?
"Yes still waiting?
Full tank sir.
   He repentantly moved in his wife s car who does the school run more than him.
"Thanks" ,he acknowledged his kindness despite his initial greed to fill keg and car tank at the  peak of a fuel hike
"It's a pleasure, he muttered
Good-bye."
       
      Soliloquy   
          
     He drove away asking himself a few profile questions on Nigeria "Sure
We'd see better times in this country?
   Is Naija not one of the 13th world exporter of hydrocarbon?
   Ye-e-e -s.
Is Naija not the six best exporter of crude oil?
Y-e-e-s as far as I know.
     Sure there will be abundance
      Are you sure?
          In this country?
Yes o.we are die - hard optimists
     Ok -- being a predominantly a secular but faith - field nation---
It will happen but how holistic or digitally productive will it be ?
    I laugh and laugh at myself
    This is still a pedestrian nation.
      Where ' re real  actions of redeeming infrastructural deficit despite trillions of dollars budgeted germane to this?
* I laugh at myself again and again
   Why?
  * It takes time.
   Besides do we have relevant technical manpower locally to implement cost effectively as Ukraine,Israel,Singapore ,South & North Korea
* Still you re a laugh big stock of yourself - your questions
As if you or your policy makers haven't travelled around the globe and witnessed first hand these tech powers how they look up to Russia,Uk & USA & rise up by planning & dogged determination
And mimic the next tech and economic  powers of Japan and China - Southeast Tigers!
My country is far !
He continued soliloquizing till a welcome ringtone from his darling
Joyfully truncated his self inspired Questions & Answers at last.

'Honey,are you still on queue?"

"No no no I m almost with you ."

'Where are you?'

"Don't worry i will be right home less than ten minutes!"

'Great & Gooooood..
We will rejoice together.'


      *His mind- though comparatively lighter is still full of uncleared dregs
He continued ruminating on symptoms that made us systemically poor,a carbuncle
Unteachable ...

"Are you still there?"the wife s impatient voice caught in his soliloquy again successfully

"No .I m out of the queues".
I told you not to doubt this Fuel Ward.
That's why I didn't fall out unless the nozzle hangs up
For settlement
Against a convocation of hustling scholars
Burning both ends of the candle dimly

Should you hold the silly thrill?
Endure the ultra delicacy?
You don't need anaesthesia
Don't waste the passions
Cultivate it's molecular infinity
If not ,see the knight Voice
Praise The Theory   of justice
Despite its impermanence
If you desire some stable ecology
The energy chess tournament isn't a palatable cake - baking joint.
Nor an auto- fuel injector delight.

Beware another entropy
For sheer ubiquity
Of Jerry cans
Hydrocarbon aroma
      Hydrocarbon crisis
     Tough times imminent
       For pedestrians &
    Association of empty tankers
  In the absence of any laser surgery clinic
For Treating Transportiasis
Could we erase the mute images
Of those who perished with tragic hustling - dagger for  dagger?
*The effigy of injustice is burned unhindered-
In the gas stations &
Toil--assisted transit.
Fuel station--
What a painful energy clinic?
Even for paraffin!

At Preboye --shops galore
Sumptuous kitchen abound
Keebabe customised spices
Boutique with Thailand wears
Unisex salons,cosmetics
Literary Readings &
Authors Secretariat & Remnants of
The then 24/7 cybercafe
For the Epicureans,
A culture & Jaz,z club exists
* How swiftly the days pass!
It makes us realise how short
The years we have left.
Adieu.Chief  Preboye
CEO,Preboye Complex & Holdings
Affable ANA - OYO Patron,poet,author

GBEMI TIJANI MST
Paul Harris Fellow
Convener: Civicconcern,
* Alliance4Social Justice