Opinion article by Duke of Shomolu, Joseph Edgar
My friend says I have an unusual amount of grace and that I should not take it for granted.
Well, since I can’t quantify it, touch it or predict its occurrence, I can’t connect to it.
But some unusual things happen to me with a scary regularity that I am beginning to look towards this grace with one eye.
The account has been credited was a message I got from the PA of one of the richest Nigerians ever.
Last October, I went to do my Play *Sardauna* in Abuja and his son came to see the play. He was tall, light skinned and very handsome.
He quietly came into the hall and sat down. I walked up to him and greeted him. He was gracious and gentile.
After the play, he walked up to me, ‘ Edgar this is lovely. I’m off to Kano tomorrow to see my dad and I will brief him.
Now I don’t have a job. I don’t earn a salary but must make at least N60 million a year to cover running costs with all these crazy school fees everywhere.
This is where this grace is coming in o. When we first started sending upkeep money abroad, we were doing like N400k a month. Now we are doing like N1.4m monthly on the average and on the same FOREX. Some months we hit N1.7m.
How this money gets sent remains a little miracle and may possibly be about this grace I am talking about.
So this month, I was looking at N1.4m with nowhere to get the funds. As the month end approached I refused to panic.
Sponsors for my play – Encore were not moving as fast and I had covered my N77m budget in pledges but collections were slow.
To make it worse, one major sponsor pulled out and another very big one is saying ‘ he will pay after the shows’ . This huge holes I have no way of plugging.
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To make matters worse, my egbon the Chairman of Odua the highly respected *Bimbo Ashiru* called – Edgar, Odua says they had supported before and may not again this time.
I said Baba I no gree. Help me beg them. He laughed and said only you Edgar can pressure me like this. I say baba no vex.
The days are counting and I have started getting little reminders from the people abroad.
Joe my rent, Joe my light will be cut off. Joe, I need Wi-Fi yet I refuse to panic. I can’t stress myself because of my blood pressure so I don’t connect.
Now I have begun to notice a certain calmness that comes over me in times of crises. When bad news hit, I just take it like water off the back of a chicken.
My major sponsor, after giving me 50% of the agreed sums, suddenly stops taking calls and sends a third party to say, I will give the balance after the shows.
Normally, I would release his nudes but I smile and move on. Make plans to push back but don’t connect.
Somehow I make it happen and this my friend says its grace.
So yesterday, as I came out of a meeting, I checked my phone and grace happened.
Edgar, we have paid N2m. These were my Kano friends and in the nick of time.
I heaved a sigh of relief. I didn’t have to prostitute or turn into a part time gigolo anymore to get the funds.
So meeting me at my point of need has been my lot. My friend says, ‘ you don’t have savings, you don’t believe in material acquisitions, you don’t plan and you don’t budget but you get by. And concludes its grace.
I will like to meet this grace one day. She seems to be playing a very important part in my life. I really would want to ask her why me?
So is there a God? I doubt. I really doubt.
Search yourself,
*Duke of Shomolu*
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