Agbani Darego

Lanre frowned at Ebube. She could not believe he was asking for such a thing. She gritted her teeth and took the flash drive from him. Then she told him he was not ready. She stood up and started walking away. Ebube caught up with her withholding her from leaving.

“Ebube leave me! You are not serious. Leave my hand jhoor”. She half yelled yanking her hand away from his.

“Oya make we talk na (let us negotiate)! You too de vex ( You are too short tempered)”. Ebube said to Lanre trying to take hold of her wrist again.

“Ebube, you be thief! Yes, you are a thief. You are greedy. The whole west, you want it? Do I look like your president? Or do I look like a senator or a governor? Even these people have their own limits. I was going to help you with the custom charges despite knowing it was not right, yet you are demanding for something even if I crawl under the sea, you won’t be able to get”. Lanre said. Ebube asked her to calm down and come have her seat.

“I will accept your offer. Please come sit back down and let’s talk”. Ebube said to her. Lanre smirked. She pushed his hand away from hers and walked back in and took her seat.

Ebube clears his throat before speaking. He asked her since he was going to keep the flash drive without releasing the content to the internet, what would he be doing before that.

“You will approach my friend for the last time. She has a video in her possession. I do not know where she kept it. But it would be better if you copy everything on her phone. Then bring it to me”. Lanre said to Ebube.

“That will be difficult”. Ebube said to her. Lanre shook her head telling him it won’t be. All he needed to do was to first create a scene. But he was free to do it his way as the ball was now in his court. Ebube told her he would try his best. They shook hands after which Lanre left first.

“Pay for the drink!” She had said before leaving. Ebube smirked. She still walks the same way as she did back then in secondary school.

“Agbani Darego”. Ebube muttered. He remembers that was the name most of the guys in school used to call her. She was the student who came in new to their school looking like a goddess because of her fair skin. She looked too sophisticated and reserved. There were rumours two weeks after she came that the new student in senior secondary school one was a lesbian. What supported this rumour was the fact that she transferred from an all girls boarding school to their mixed school. A lot of students believed because she barely spoke with the boys. But this mentality changed when they started seeing her with a group of boys. Well, she was mostly with them before and after school hours because those boys lived in her neighbourhood.