Ironically this happened a day after she told
me that she was carrying my baby. The
strange thing is that my father and wife are
behaving as if nothing out of the ordinary
happened. My father simply got up from my
matrimonial bed and ordered me to follow him. In my living room, he gave me a cheque of
N15m to buy myself a car of my choice while
my wife went into the kitchen to prepare
dinner. The whole thing appeared to be like a
movie as I looked from my father to my wife. A
presence more powerful than me held me down, preventing me from going after either
my father or wife. I eventually summoned the courage to move
and found myself going towards my mother’s
apartment. When I got there and narrated the
whole incident to her, she begged me not to
fight or say anything about it to anybody. My
elder brother who came into my mother’s apartment while I was narrating the incident,
laughed and patted me on my shoulders
without saying anything. My immediate elder sister, who has refused to
come back to Nigeria from London since she
left eight years ago, wasn’t surprised by my
story. She only told me to take things easy and
not try to make trouble with my wife if I valued
my life. I am the last born of three children and the favorite of my father in particular. That
night, my mother came into our apartment to
take my wife with her. I didn’t sleep throughout
the night wondering what strange things were
going on in my family. The next day as early as 6a.m., my father
came over to my apartment to more or less
warn me about trying to make trouble. He told
me what I witnessed was beyond me and that
it would continue to be the pattern until he got
tired. After he left, I ran to my friend’s place who in turn took me to Epe to consult with a
spiritualist. Without much ado, the spiritualist,
told me that I will learn to live with the situation
else I would become insane if I try to challenge
my father. He said, not even my mother can challenge my
father. He said, my father has gone too far to
change and that things have been damaged
beyond repairs in the things he has done to us;
that it would take the grace of God for my
siblings and I to overcome the spiritual problems my father in his quest for power,
money and fame has done. He too advised me
to continue to tolerate the situation by
accepting to live with my wife who he said, was
brought into my life by my father for his
purpose. Two days after our visit, the friend that took
me is critically ill in the hospital. doctors are yet
to say what precisely is wrong with him. I don’t
need anybody to tell me where the attack is
coming from. This has made me very
determined to fight my father to a standstill. I want to confront and expose him for all his
friends and ass ociates to know who he really is. I am yet to
return home after that day. At night I keep
seeing my father in my dream telling me to
come home for my own good. My mother and
elder brother have been relentless on the
phone urging me to come back home. We all live within the massive family compound
which is actually a mini estate as all our
domestic employees with their family live within
the compound. My father doesn’t allow anyone
working for him in the house to live outside the
premises. He insists on it and has a school bus that takes all the children of his staff to
and from school, my mother runs. Please help me as I am so confused. I feel
sorry for everybody in that house. How do I
challenge my father and still be alive to tell my
story. I feel so helpless and lost. Do save me.
