This is the part 2 of My 3 days journey From Zaria to Adamawa visit for the previous part Here
The journey is going on smoothly, we pass Wudil. Immediately we reached another village between Gaya and Wudil the car developed another fault, everyone was beginning to get fed up, considering we are on a long journey.
We figured out the problem but couldn’t find a permanent solution to it. We have to take it to a vulcanizer Major. SM drives the car to Gaya so we will get both a mechanic and a vulcanizer to fix the car. It was getting late so we wait until the car was fixed before we proceeded with the journey.
It was fixed. And it’s time to leave. Major SM wasn’t so familiar with the road. We begin to follow the wrong route. I call his attention and we change direction and continue our journey. This time around we were moving fast and everything seemed to be Okay. But then I found another task of showing Major SM road.
Joseph was sleeping and later wake-up and told us it seemed like something was burning. He can perceive the smell of electrical burns, we stopped and checked but couldn’t figure it out. We enter and proceed with the journey. The smell got worse and now we can even see smoke. We stop and open the car bonnet. To check. There’s a problem with the one horse in the bonnet. We tried to fix the issue but weren’t successful. The best option we have is to find another car to tow us back to Gaya for the Mechanic to check the issue.
Finally, we found a car to tow us back to Gaya, he charge Major SM 7k for the towing, which was quite much as we aren’t far from Gaya, but Major SM has to pay since we have no option.
On getting back to Gaya the Mechanics tried to fix the car but there was a part that needs to be replaced and since it was a BMW the part isn’t available in the town it’ll have to be bought from the closest city next to it Kano.
It’s late in the night already and the hope of reaching Gombe on the 23 has been dashed, now we begin to ponder on how to pass the night at Gaya. Major SM Gama Gera booked a car to take the 5 of us back to Kano so we could pass the night. He couldn’t pass the night in Gaya considering he’s a high-ranking officer and passing the night there wouldn’t be safe for him. And he feels it’ll be unfair to leave us at Gaya and go back to Kano to pass the night alone.
Our Family has been calling us enquiring about the journey since the start of the journey, it becomes worrying for them when it’s night and we haven’t reached Gombe not to talk of Adamawa or Taraba. After spending over 13 hours. We all have to explain to them that we are passing the night in Kano.
Abdul seems to be Daddy’s boy his Dad was very furious at him because the Dad ask him to go to Adamawa sunshine park to avoid any issues. But he didn’t listen and now the Dad couldn’t figure out why he hasn’t reached Adamawa at the time of the night. Quite understandable of the Dad furry.
My Dad called me and explain the ordeal to him, he transfer 10 thousand nairas to me cause I told him am running low on cash.
We arrive at Kano. Around 9 pm night, he called his friend to book a hotel for us at Sabon Gari, we reach Sabon Gari but couldn’t locate his friend hence he has to do the booking himself. We went to a hotel nearby but wasn’t convenient, so Major SM have to look for another one, finally, they’d gotten a decent hotel Major SM paid for the hotel for us and we pass the night in Sabon Gari Kano.
Major SM told us his Mercedes Benz will be brought the next day so we could use it for the journey while his Mechanic will take the faulty BMW back to Zaria for repair.
We left Kano
It’s morning February 24 a day before the election(The last day we have before the commencement of the election), we wake up clueless about what will happen that day, and we begin to ponder on whether we should go and get a car at the park in Kano but we thought it wouldn’t make sense leaving Major SM after all his kind gesture.
Some family, friends, or relatives not really sure, brought food for Major SM, Major SM ask Agnes the female amongst us to serve the food, and she did and we all eat.
Major and Joseph left us in the hotel and went out, his mechanic from Zaria arrived, and we were happy as we believe we are leaving soon.
After an hour or two we wonder why Major and Joseph haven’t Come back yet. It turns out they went to Gaya where we parked the faulty car to Tow it back to Kano so the car will be repaired there.
Our hotel fee had expired so we left the room in the hotel waiting slot. We were waiting for Major and Bala.
After the long wait, Joseph called us that we should meet them at the Palm Center. We picked Keke up and Went to Palm centre, we thought palm centre is a garage little did we know it was an area after reaching there the Keke guys ask us where to drop us off.
We told him at the garage however he told us there were different garages in the area, so he took us to the nearby garage. Luckily that was the exact garage we suppose to go to.
The BMW was towed to Kano and we transferred our luggage to the Mercedes Benz, we took off and began our journey around 2 pm or so. We had to ask for directions for Wudil Road as we are not familiar with the Kano metropolis. This time the Major was fast. The Mercedes was smooth and this time around there was no problem.
We passed Gaya, lol where we left the other car last night. We are moving so fast that the only issue we have this time around is Major isn’t very familiar with the road however, I’ve been following the road for a while so I was given the task of showing us directions, I wasn’t so confident in my own knowledge of the road. Thank God for Google Maps, some people complain of its unreliability, but it has been great and helpful for us and is mostly reliable.
We use the Kano Azare route, as we passed Azare and take a turn to Missau we enter a pothole that damage one of the car tyre, Thank God Major had a spare trye, and we offload our luggage to remove the spare trye on the car boot, we fix and put everything back.
It’s already 6 pm and we are still 3hrs+ from Gombe, without any issue we are hopeful of reaching Gombe by 9. And if possible we reach Adamawa by 11 then Major and others will reach Taraba early morning that’s 25! The election day.
We take off after fixing the tire. It’s getting dark already. We reach Missau Major who told us he’ll have to change the spare tire, as it was not advisable for us to continue the journey with it. Major ends up changing 3 tires. I was kind of sad for Major. That’s a lot of money to spend.
After the delay, the tires got fixed and we begin our journey again. We begin to think of our chance of reaching home before the election. We reached a checkpoint at Darazo, Major stopped by and lowered his car window, he introduced himself as Major SM Gama Gera, and he told the soldier he was on transfer to Taraba.
The soldier responded by saying, welcome Sir. The Major asked how it works and he responded it’s fine Sir. I was awed by how polite the Soldier was to Major, as I don’t normally see them being that Polite to civilians.
We take a turn, the road leading to Gombe, Darazo to Gombe is 2hrs, and we are still hopeful of reaching our various homes that night.
This is the part 2 of my 3 days journey From Zaria to Adamawa
Stay tuned as the part 3 is coming up Later
