Prayer warrior, here is your chance

Tragedies often bring opportunities in their wake. In the midst of the tragedy in Kogi at the weekend where a man who won the governorship election died immediately afterwards, we discovered a great asset that this country has which should overtake oil as a juicy export product.
Just before Prince Abubakar Audu’s funeral at his country home on Monday, wild jubilation broke out as thousands of youths sang and danced saying the beloved political leader had resurrected from the dead. It turned out that the cause of the jubilation was the coming of a young woman, described as a prayer warrior, who offered to bring the leader back from the Hereafter. She however laid a condition which amounted to a gaping loophole. She said if Audu was killed by a human being’s actions she could bring him back to life but that if his death was God’s wish, then there was nothing she could do!
How are we to know the difference between a human caused death and one caused by God’s will? Muslims and Christians believe that one cannot die unless his or her time appointed by God is up, even though that does not rule out human action as causation. This prayer warrior seems to be saying that if there is human causation in a death, she can turn things around.
That is very good. Prince Audu’s death was a borderline case because his family and friends  say he complained of ill health for days, meaning his death was God’s will, but given the political circumstances people are free to suspect human action. Elders and clerics stepped in and denied our prayer warrior the opportunity to determine if he died of one or the other despite strident calls by youths that she should be given a chance. But we have plenty of other chances around to give her so that she can prove her worth. We have many people in Nigeria who are killed by gunfire, hit and run drivers, achaba riders, naked electric wires, club strikes, poisons poured into food jealous rivals etc. Let us pick one of those proven cases of death with human causation and invite our prayer warrior to bring the victim back to life. Simple. That way she cannot hide behind a loophole and say that the death was God’s will. Police, over to you.

Commissioners for Wike?
Members of the Rivers State House of Assembly voted two days ago to confirm the nominations of twenty commissioners sent to them by Governor Ezebunwo Nyesom Wike to constitute the State Executive Council. All the 25 Assembly members present at the session voted to confirm all the nominees. Four of them, being former legislators themselves, were not screened but were asked to take a bow and go.
Ordinarily I would have quarrelled with the number of Wike’s commissioners in these lean times but that is not my concern today. Wike’s election as Governor of Rivers State has been voided by a tribunal. He has however appealed the verdict. Under the law he remains governor until the courts dispose of the matter but what is the idea in carrying on as if nothing happened? How can a man whose continued stay in the Government House is now hinged upon the fine lines of an impending court ruling go about appointing commissioners?
I am not even blaming Wike. I am blaming those desperadoes who agreed to lend their names to the charade. You are appointed a commissioner today and even before you sit down properly in the office, a court sends your Oga packing and all of you are back on the streets. Haba, I will never go in for such a charade. I will say Oga Governor, wait until your own seat is secure before you appoint me a commissioner.