The Activist - Season 2 - Episode 11

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The Activist - Season 2 - Episode 11

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Tade head was split into half for a second. What in heavens name was Wande doing there? He looked at Shade, who seemed unsurprised at Wande’s visit.

“Wande, please take ……..”
“Better shut up, Mr Man! I did not come for you.” Wande commanded before facing Shade.

“Shade, how dare you?! After begging me to keep your secret, you now go and expose my own secrets! How dare you. Better don’t try it!” Wande warned as Shade attempted to stand.

With both of them in a corner, a shotgun staring at them, Tade knew that it was only a miracle that will bring both of them alive of this situation, especially with Wande in charge.
“Wande, please remove that gun from my face, I can’t even think not to talk of giving you a reply.” Shade replied.

“I prefer it this way and if you like, waste your time. I can use the whole day here.”
“Wande please now!” Shade said with impatience.”I don’t want Lekan to meet this here.”

“Ehen, so that your boyfriend is more important than this meeting? I will end that stupid thing you think is a relationship.”

“Wande, please don’t do this to me.” Shade had started crying anew.

“Wetin concern me with that one? You wrecked my heart and now left for that thing called Lekan. What can he do that I can’t do and even do better, eh?”

“I told you that I did not want such a lifestyle again, why can’t you just leave me alone?”
“Isn’t it you that…….” Wande’s voice trailed off as they all heard a knock.
“Shade, how many times will I tell you to close the ..Jesus!” Lekan fell down in fear as he saw what was happening.

“Oh, speak of the devil!” Wande said. “Oya, sit down there, behind that thing you call your girlfriend.” Lekan obeyed completely without a word.

“Now that everyone is here, I will begin to speak. First of all, Lekan, did Shade tell you anything about us?”

Lekan looked at her blankly. “Wande, I don’t understand all these happenings. Why come into my house……”

“Shut up! Your house ko, your shop ni, I asked you a question and you are answering like an idiot! Better answer me before I sound you slap.”


“Wande please be.. Paa!” A slap came from nowhere, sending all present apart from Wande into some shock.

“Answer me!”
“I don’t, I…don’t eeeven kknow whaat you are talking about, hmph!” Lekan said between sobs.

“Ehen, isn’t that easier?” Wande said, laughing at him. “All these stubborn attitude of yours does not change the price of fish in the market.”

“Now let me continue. I and Shade were love partners.” Wande started to open the can of worms on her affairs with Shade, causing more tears to flow out of her.

All this while Tade who had been trapped with Shade was been ignored, something he used to his advantage by sneaking out of her gaze and hid in another room before making some calls.

“Oga Williams, gbese don happen! Wande has freed herself and is now on the loose!”
“Eh?! How did she do that? Besides how come you know this?”

“She is the house of a friend of mine and she is threatening to kill my friend. I just managed to escape her and am not still safe, she may realize am not around and will come searching.”

“Okay, where are you?” Tade started to give him details.

“So, that’s how it is, Lekan.” Wande was still explaining. “What will you do now?”
“I knew all that already.” Lekan started, shocking Wande and Shade.

“I always researched about any lady I go into a relationship with and I heard the exact feedback you are giving me. So realize this, there is nothing you want to tell me about Shade that I don’t know.”

“But that’s what people don’t understand. Unlike most guys with poor observation skills, I have tried her and now see Shade in a different light. Many see her as a cheap person, I see her as a lady who needs a true friend. Someone that will help her overcome her nightmares and mistakes.”

“I love Shade and there is nothing you can tell me that changes that.” Lekan concluded.
Wande was speechless for a moment while Shade’s eyes lit up in joy, knowing that she had won this.

“Everybody hands up!” The Police stormed in, catching everyone by surprised.

“That’s the cult leader. Hold her tight.” Williams told the officers with him. As they moved to put hand-cuffs on her, she raised her gun once more.

Pow! Lekan was sent hurling to the ground, never to stand again.

“Noooo!” Shade shouted, forcing Tade from his hiding. Meanwhile Wande was been cuffed and taken away, much to the chagrin of an infuriated Shade.

“You will not go scot-free, I will fight you with everything I have! Wande, you will die soon. Wande……”

“Shade, its all right.” Tade tried to console her. “She has been arrested, am…….”
“Shut up! Its, it was you that caused all this, Tade!” Shade turned her attention on him. “If not for you, Lekan will still be…….” Her words were swallowed by tears as the ambulance arrived.

On sighting the ambulance, Tade left her and walked towards Williams.

“You know this is the fault of Mr Abiodun.” He started while trembling in anger.
“Probably so, yet you seem to know that Wande will escape.”

“Mr Abiodun told you that?”
“Not really, but he did say that you gave him a hint.”

“Oh? So why did he not follow it?”
“That’s because Wande had escaped before he returned. Well that is bygone for now. It seems like a legal battle will take place soon.”

Williams started to leave. “There is a different battle that will happen in school, Tade and we will need every sinew of an activist to win it. So if you understand that, you will quit blaming yourself for this loss and move forward. The session has already ended anyway.”

True to Shade’s word, Wande did not go scot-free. Not up to a week after her arrest, she was charged to court and subsequently received the death penalty as her judgement. Even though her lawyers had already made an appeal, it was gloomy for her.

That was as far as Tade followed the case, as he returned home for another break.


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Meanwhile in a hotel in Abuja, Dotun was talking to some important people.

“Dust, I am happy that we have acquainted ourselves early on.” One dark-skinned man in his mid-fifties said. “I never thought that it will happen so swiftly.”

“That’s why I am special, Senator Alimi.” Dotun spoke with a wide grin. “Though I wonder who killed our President and his wife.”

“I did.” Another man in his mid-fifties spoke. “Obviously not by myself but I financed it. The b-----d who called himself my President had to pay for all his transgressions against this caucus.”

“So Senator Durojaiye, who did you use?” Senator Alimi asked with an interested wink.
“Well, he is on his way. A talented lad no doubt, though he said that he needed to take permission from his Capone…..”

Senator Durojaiye’s talk was interrupted by a call. Dotun could not hear everything, but he surely heard ‘let him in’.
Senator Durojaiye dropped the call. “Speaking of the devil, the lad I speak of has just arrived.”

On hearing this, Dotun’s blood began to boil. Who was this ‘lad’ that will take a job from him?

The door leading to their room opened and Sunday came out.

“That’s the lad for you!” Senator Durojaiye proclaimed.