Edo State rainmakers given Royal wedding invitation
29 Apr 2011
Organisers are taking no chances
London - Famed rainmakers from Edo State in Nigeria have been invited to England to attend the Royal wedding.
Despite what some have descried as the rude snubbing of Nigerian big men like Obasanjo and Atiku, the House of Windsor has invited the Edo State indegenes to the wedding ceremony of their Prince William to his Kate Middleton, and even made arrangements to accommodate them in Windsor Castle.
It is also being reported that said rainmakers will be offered full British citizenships if the skies over England refuse to let fall their rain over the duration of the Royal wedding.
Speaking to reporters after he picked up his multiple-entry visa affixed passport from the British embassy in Lagos, the leader of the rainmakers, one Osarobo Enogie, said:
"Yes, we have all of us been invited to come there and checkmate any attempt for the rain to descend down that day."
Mr Enogie however refused to explain why people who purport to hold the rain are called rainmakers instead of rain-holders.
And so it is that a band of sorcerers will be representing Nigeria at the Royal wedding. While some have called this an insult on Nigeria as a nation, others are just grateful that the invitation wasn't given to the First Lady instead.
- Jowo Mabinu, reporting for wazobiareport.com