PVC Hustle

A struggle for an entitlement

Two goats- those type that carry their God given perfume with them yes, those ones, will enter the compound and mehhh loudly.

How they entered, no one will know and obviously not you. However,one thing is sure. You can enter the INEC building but only as a goat.

INEC? How did we get here?

Sorry I leaped- it was a big leap. Fortunately,I can give you a run down since I'm not so good starting the story from the middle.

So preamble it is.

You will decide one day that you need to get your permanent voters card. PVC for short. You'll decide that you might not necessarily vote but you will use it as a source of identification also. It'll be a two in one card. No, you fit collect money with it. So it's a multipurpose card. How wonderful!

6:30am

You will wake up early for the first time since your internship at the Afriwomen-an NGO. Remember you're still waiting for ASUU to call off the strike.

"Sister, passport photograph, e no go waste time".

A guy will wave a stranger's passport photograph to your face in front of the secretariat's entrance. This will make you assume that once you become a customer, you automatically take up the role of a model after the patronage.

You will wait in a queue to write your name.

"262"

You will scream "chisos" in shock internally as you write. You'll also look around to try to look for the 262 people around but will only find roughly 30 people.

The officials will come by 9am to address everyone about the procedures. They will instruct everyone to form two lines- one female and one male and discard the previous 262 list.

You will be thrilled at that announcement until you have to struggle to get into the queue to be among the first hundred.

Fortunately, you will succeed. You will be the 99th.

You will think that this wasn't the plan. However,you will not know that what you have just gone through is only a tip of the iceberg.

"Number one to fifteenth enter",the official will shout to the teeming crowd.

Things will go smoothly until one man in agbada will enter the office. He will walk through the crowd,parting it as per say na the red sea. He will greet the officials with familiarity in his voice and there will be murmurs but no objection.

"Ah ah, Torikogbon join me na"

He will step back to call you and also help you in because he recognizes you as the son of his former lecturer in Federal cooperative college.

He will discuss briefly with the official supervising before attempting to walk in, of course with you by his side.

There will be an uproar as you're about to enter and altogether the man will wait along with you.

Your connection and helper due to either village people or enemies of progress will join you in the hustle.