
People tend to be alarmed when the Nigerian Presidency – Aso Rock –
takes certain decisions. They don’t think the decision makes sense.
Sometimes, they wonder if something has not gone wrong with the thinking
process at that highest level of the country. I have heard people
insist that there is some form of witchcraft at work in the country’s
seat of government.
I am ordinarily not a superstitious person, but working in the Villa, I
eventually became convinced that there must be something supernatural
about power and closeness to it. I’ll start with a personal testimony. I
was given an apartment to live in inside the Villa. It was furnished
and equipped. But when my son, Michael arrived, one of my brothers came
with a pastor who was supposed to stay in the apartment. But the man
refused claiming that the Villa was full of evil spirits and that there
would soon be a fire accident in the apartment.