GSL stabs me in the back

I did not know that I have another very big lesson to learn on the eve of the governorship election which I have slaved for these past two years. Can you believe that our allies in the Get and Spend League [GSL] are trying to stab me in the back in today’s election after the […]

I did not know that I have another very big lesson to learn on the eve of the governorship election which I have slaved for these past two years. Can you believe that our allies in the Get and Spend League [GSL] are trying to stab me in the back in today’s election after the deal we reached with them that helped their candidate to win the presidential election in Tafki State?
Our agreement with them was very solid, that since their presidential candidate is very popular in Tafki State while our party SIP’s candidate was a non-starter, we agreed to help them by directing our supporters to vote for their candidate on March 28. This was how their candidate got 78% of the votes in Tafki State. Despite all the money ESEP spent in this state and all their boasting about incumbency, we defeated them very soundly in this state. Their candidate could not even get one quarter of the votes.
The Governor was very humiliated because when ESEP’s candidate the president came here, he promised him that he will get at least 70% of the votes here. The Governor began trembling when he heard about the deal we struck with GSL. He was sure that his governorship candidate Goshin Bauna can beat GSL’s candidate Barmu Dakatsalle in today’s election despite their winning the presidential election but when he heard that it is me that GSL will support, he became very confused.
When GSL’s candidate was declared winner of the election, my party SIP’s supporters joined them in celebrating. Our supporters came out in thousands and drove through the streets cheering. When our supporters passed by Goshin Bauna’s house they chanted, “One down! One more to go!” GSL’s state chairman even came to me very early in the morning and said I should help with food and drinks so that our supporters can spend the whole day and night celebrating. So I sent my aides, they bought all the pure water in the market. They commissioned twenty food sellers in the market to make food. They commissioned every roadside akara seller they could find to make thousands of akara balls. Even kunun zaki and fura, we bought by the truckloads. As our supporters and GSL’s supporters were dancing in the streets, we showered them with food and drinks.
It was during that celebration that we began to sense trouble, that GSL leaders were planning to pull a fast one on us. Even though we had a solid agreement that their governorship candidate Barmu Dakatsalle will withdraw for me, he came out to address the crowd during the celebration and GSL’s state secretary introduced him as “Governor-in-waiting.” Maikahon Karo was standing nearby and not being the one to leave things like that, he rushed to the podium where Dakatsalle was standing, tugged at his gown and said, “Which governor in waiting are you? Remember that you are stepping down for Alhaji. Better come down from that place!”
When we heard what happened our people went looking for GSL’s state chairman. We found him dancing to goge music near the motor park, surrounded by dozens of women of easy virtue. Anbuga Anbarka pushed through the crowd and dragged him out to where my campaign chairman Alhaji Gohe was standing. Gohe said, “Chairman, it is time to stop this celebration. Let us go and have a joint meeting. We have fulfilled our promise; it is time for you to fulfil yours. Let us go and start working out how your supporters will vote for Alhaji in the governorship election.” The man said “Eh, we can do that meeting tomorrow. Please let me finish dancing first. I am very happy that Baba has won the presidential election. I cannot do anything today except dancing!”
The next day we waited for GSL’s state leaders to come to my house as agreed for our joint meeting to hold. We agreed on 12 noon but three hours later they did not show up. We began to smell a rat so we decided to go looking for them. We went to their state secretariat but it was deserted. Presently we saw a truck stop by the roadside and bring out freshly printed posters of the President-elect raising the hand of GSL’s governorship candidate Dakatsalle. They were pasting them all over the town and a car was following them around with a loud speaker saying Dakatsalle is the governor in waiting.
Maikahon Karo entered GSL’s state secretariat and bribed one messenger to tell him where the party’s leaders were holding their meeting. We hid the man in our campaign bus and he took us to one deserted street and pointed at the house. Before they knew it our Youth Wing leader swept the gateman aside and six of us barged into the living room where they were meeting. GSL’s state chairman Bara’u Marke and the others were shocked to see us. They stood up and started saying, “Welcome Alhaji. We were even wondering where we will see you…”
Maikaho cut them short. Pointing at their chairman he said, “So what I have been hearing about you is true! That you are a big liar and dupe! I heard some people calling you Musailamu the king of liars but I did not believe it until today. Well, let me tell you something, all of you. If you think you will deceive us, after we helped you to win the presidential election and you want to renege on our agreement and try to win the governorship election as well, you are lying! All of you! You heard what the Oba of Lagos said about falling into the lagoon? Very good. In this state we have a lake bigger than the Lagos lagoon. Anybody who tries to clash with Maikahon Karo, let us see what will happen between him and the lake!”
The GSL chairman’s feet were shaking and he said, “Wallahi tallahi it is not like that!  We are not planning to betray you. Our agreement with you is still there. We are just discussing how to direct our supporters to vote for Alhaji.” Up until yesterday they kept assuring us that they will support me in today’s election but around midnight last night our scouts saw GSL men moving around in buses, distributing polling agents to various polling units. Their men also fanned out into every street corner saying, “Remember, Baba President-elect said Sak!”
So as we go into today’s election I am only relying on my party SIP’s supporters. My worry today is not even Goshin Bauna, who is completely demoralised by ESEP’s defeat in the presidential election. The biggest threat to my ambition today is a man that I previously never spared a second thought for, Barmu Dakatsalle.