Thread by @GbengaWemimo

He wrote ICAN for twelve years. He started writing it with enthusiasm and persisted in his failure year in, year out. He almost gave up on the whole thing but the same shame that was prompting him to quit compelled him to continue the process. His boss was a chartered accountant

He was an orphan
He lost his father to a motor accident when he was five and his mother to another motor accident when he was twelve
The church took over his education and training
He and his three older ones were placed in a boarding school (Owned by the church)
His life was not

one of great pain like that of other orphans, but it was as if there was a huge gulf in it that nothing could fill up
It took him time to adjust to the death of his mother, it cost him two academic years but he somehow pulled through
He gained admission into the University and

tried very hard to be the best but despite everything, he barely escaped the third class grade
He was average in everything
He got a job with the church as an accountant
It was in a way the only way out for him as soon as he graduated
The church had fulfilled the promise to

educate him
He tried getting a job elsewhere but he didn't
He returned to the church and he was graciously offered a job
The salary was not fantastic but he had access to loans and room to study for his ICAN
He was also attached to a man who took a very strong interest in his

career and life as a whole
Something just wasn't right with him
He struggled very much to know what it was
He was a born again Christian
He sowed seeds, fasted, and prayed
He studied very hard
It got so bad that he would go for special prayers from pastors and leaders of the

church before every exam but his results were always a mixed bag
Sometimes he would pass only one course out of six
It was crazy
Everybody told him to get married and start a family but he felt inadequate
He told himself if he got married, the ICAN thing may never work out

He was failing woefully without any distraction
He wanted so badly to scale that hurdle
He started writing ICAN at the age of 28, ten years later, after receiving his results for that year, he found himself plunged into depression
It had gotten so bad that nobody bothers to ask

him what the results were
Failure had become a permanent fixture in his life
Depression led him down a very dark path
Whenever he got back from work, he would walk to a local drinking joint and drink himself to stupor
Sometimes he would blackout while drinking and forget how he

got home from the drinking joint
Sometimes he would drink until he started retching and making a fool of himself
His church members knew nothing of this
He kept a straight face at work and nobody suspected a thing
He began to do crazy things to fund his new habit
He took a little

money from here and a little money from there until he found himself in a huge debt
It was a path of destruction and he had fastened himself to it
He had lashed out at failure and failure had used the opportunity to grab him by the scruff of the neck
He saw a testimony of Twitter

and reached out to the brother in Jeans and T-shirt
He wrote of his situation through a direct message
He said he was tired of the failure and the debt
The Brother in Jeans and T-shirt met with him and they prayed
Something happened three days later
He got a message from an audit

firm he didn't apply to
The letter requested that he showed up for an interview
He got to the venue of the interview all excited only to be told by the Human resources manager of the firm that it was all a mix-up
The lady told him they only employ chartered accountants at the

firm and asked him to come back once he had passed his examinations
He looked at the lady and said "I don't know if I would ever pass that thing"
The lady looked at him and asked him to sit down
He did
The Interview was being held on a Saturday and he had no other place to be

They talked for a while
At first, he assumed she was considering him for the role but he later realized that was not the case
Hours later as they both left the firm, the lady said, I have made up my mind to help you pass your ICAN examination
He laughed
She smiled
They worked

out a weekend meeting
She had been a chartered accountant since she was twenty-two and had helped several of her colleagues and younger ones to scale that hurdle
They met at his office at first, until it was no longer convenient
Then they began to meet at his apartment
She was

quite good
He sat for his exams for the twelfth time that year and passed in flying colours
Something else happened too
In his own words, "Brother Gbenga, she not only coached me, but she also took care of me.
Her presence alone made me stop the drinking habit because I didn't

want her to see me that way and then walk out of my life
She came to my house with raw foodstuff, so that while I studied, she cooked
She would make a meal that will last me the whole week and then return the next weekend to teach me and cook again
At a point, Thank you was no

longer enough
I got her pregnant"
Hmmm
The church must not hear of it
He was trained and raised to do better than that
He knew the standard and he had breached it
He was scared he was going to lose his job
His predecessor, though a married man was sacked for impregnating and then

aborting the pregnancy for a lady
He said he has told the lady the pregnancy was a No-No
She had to terminate it
The lady had not made the decision yet but she was extremely disappointed and willing to do what he wanted
The Brother in Jeans and T-shrit told him to invite the

lady over to his office
They met on a Saturday
The Brother in Jeans and T-shirt asked him if he loved the lady
He said Yes
The Brother in Jeans and T-shirt asked the lady if she loves him
She said Yes
The brother in Jeans and T-shirt told him they should get married
The church

suspension thing is a small price to pay and it is only for a few months
"What about my job?" He asked
The Brother In Jeans and T-shirt said "You will get promoted"
They all laughed
He went to meet with the lady's parents and family two weeks later
After the meeting, they went

to the registry and got married with only a few trusted family members in attendance
The Sunday after the registry wedding, he told his boss what had happened
According to the church rules, he had to be suspended
and he was
When he got to the office the next day, he was promoted

to the position of chief accountant
Apparently, his boss saw the letter from an audit firm offering him a job and decided he was too valuable an asset to lose
The suspension as a worker in church lasted three months
During this period, the lady delivered a baby girl
The church

was in full attendance during the naming ceremony and the pastor used the occasion to lift the suspension
Forty days later, both parents and their baby were wonderfully celebrated as they brought their baby to church for dedication
Glory be to God!

PS: Someone said the lady was desperate
How could you be teaching a man how to pass an examination and be cooking for him at the same time with your money consistently for several months without creating a "come and do me" mentality
I got the point
Another person said she should

have called it quits the moment he started making sexual advances towards her
Someone else said they shouldn't have been meeting in his house
Everybody had an opinion
Opinions cannot change facts
We deal with issues and sort them out as they are not as they ought to be