“A Time For Prayer.”
The Vice President is still praying when he notices the movements around his room. He has avoided, temporarily, the Friday show of going to the national mosque because he is tired of all that hustling that follows him into the place of prayer.
He is in the corner of his office when he sees the note drop on his desk and the exit of the shadowy figure who put it there. He is not sure if it is the Chief of Staff or the Head of Admin or the security detail. He does not care.
When he is done with his prayers, believing in every word and every sentence he uttered in that trance, he slowly gets up and rolls away his mat. When he sits at the desk, he is at peace with anything that piece of paper could possibly say.
Dramatis Personae
Abubakar I. Bello-Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
Article in Daily Chronicle
Cleric Calls For Day Of National Prayers. Says Militant Attacks Are ‘Spiritual And The Battle Cannot Be Won By Bullets Alone.’
Excerpt
Anthony Nwabunor
“…Tayo Ogidan, a popular Pentecostal cleric and self-acclaimed ‘Prophet to the Nations’, has declared that the problem with Islamic separatists is a spiritual problem requiring a spiritual solution… ‘we need to stop sending all these soldiers up north without spiritual protection God is angry with our nation and needs us to repent and pray out all our sins…’”
RESTRICTED: HEVP LOG
SUMMARY
HEVP shows no overt sign of disloyalty to the C-in-C. There is no evidence linking him to any anti-national groups or radical Islamic ideologies or groups. He is a devout Muslim of the moderate bent and has many friends across religious and ethnic lines. He still remains highly ambitious, and his private conversations suggest he is still looking at ’15.
Surveillance is ongoing.
