Chapter 51

When I turned again, I realized I was not tipsy or seeing double but that one of the female banquet attendants manning the banquet tables was the wife of the late Sunday Onakposeba. I was stunned while walking slowly to my seat. I tried to imagine how the wife of a dead billionaire and owner of an airline would now be serving in the banquet hall of a hotel as an attendant. Twenty minutes later, I wasn’t surprised when I saw the ‘strange lady’ in a blue dress, looking in my direction with a copy of the program in her left hand. At that moment, I knew there was going to be a ‘job’ for my invisible double to do.

It was the third Saturday after St Valentine’s Day in the church Pastor Alozie presided over. The men and women had been on their feet for almost three hours and didn’t look as if they were going to take a break or conclude any time soon. 

It was almost six in the evening, and Samuel Adefarasin and eight other members prayed with one prayer point after the other. Th