Episode 5
1.20 A. M
The President sat in hi story, deep in thoughts. Many of
the files he had been working on in his office earlier in
the day in a heap beside the laptop. Just like every other
night, he was suffering from insomnia. He took his
sleeping pills, and walked to a miniature refrigerator. He
pulled out a bottled table water and swallowed the pills
in one gulp.
The study, like every other place in the Presidential villa
was elaborately decorated down to the minutest detail.
The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria was a
man whose eccentricity is based mostly on collections,
he has a collection of rare books and artefacts in his
study encased and arranged neatly on the shelves.
Among his collections is the copy of Aeneid, written by
the Greek author Virgil and many other rare works of
literature; paintings of the Virgin of the Rocks by
Leonardo da Vinci, and the Madonna painting graced the
full length of the west wall of the study. Most of the
paintings were reproduced from the original by experts
using radioactive technology and Giclee. Equally gracing
his library were the Grimorum Verum, the Arbatel de
magia, to mention a few. He so much loved mystics.
As he adjusted the chord of his white night robe and was
just about to sit down, he heard the distant ringing of his
phone. It then occurred to him that he had left it in the
adjoining state room after a very disturbing session with
the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory.
The President was a firmly built man in his mid-fifties; he
had served in the Nigerian military with his brother
before he was recruited by the U. S. SEAL where he rose
through the ranks. He finally retired from the service to
face politics which had been his lifelong ambition and he
easily rose through the echelons of power with his
austere and imposing personality. His long years in the
service helped to furnish his rise to that position. He had
been at loggerheads with his brother, Arnold Kelvin, the
black sheep of the family for years. Arnold had been in
the shadows since, surfacing once again when he was
campaigning for the President post and that was when
they had the major showdown that tore their r/ship to
shreds. Kenneth Kelvin had every reason to believe that
envy has taken its toll on him.
TBC.
