Sanadin Kenan Part 3 Complete Hausa Novel

The huge dining table was set with different kinds of food and drinks. Large greeting cards had been placed in every corner of the sitting room. Two people were seated at the dining table eating, and on each greeting card was written: “Welcome to Government House, ILYAS.”

Both of them looked up at her and smiled. It was Ilya and Governor Ma’arouf Habibu Ji-kas — Goggo’s Ilya. She locked eyes with Ilya, whose eyes were filled with tears even as he smiled at the same time. It was clear without asking that they were tears of joy. He was dressed in spotless white shadda, with an inner garment, a flowing gown, and a cap — clothes she had never seen him wear before. He looked so polished that he hardly seemed like the same Ilya.

She covered her mouth with her hand in shock, staring at them in extreme puzzlement. Ameena’s father kept smiling at her. After making sure she had fully absorbed her surprise, he said calmly,

“Come closer now! It is Ilyas. Don’t you recognize him?”

Ilya was laughing and crying at the same time. He said,

“Dr. Amina!”

Amina pushed her shock aside and wheeled Ameena toward them, saying,

“Ilyan Goggo?”

He replied,

“Yes, Amina. Because of your education — because of your education, today here I am in Ji-kas! I cannot describe to you how happy I am. Because of you, I have met the person I love most in my life…”

Then he broke down crying.

Amina came closer to where they were, pushing Ameena’s wheelchair gently. She sat on a soft chair beside Ilya, with little Ameena in her wheelchair in front of her.

She said, “But Ilya, honestly, you people have shocked me to death. I did not tell him. I never once mentioned you to him…”

“Do not start exaggerating,” Ameena’s father said with a smile as he stood up, a sign that they had finished eating.

“Did you think I would agree to entrust my only daughter to a man without knowing everything about him and his background? There is nothing I do not know about you and all your people. He did not come because of you; he only stopped so you could greet each other, because I was told you had been looking for him before you came last week.”

He said this while wiping his hands and mouth with a tissue, then walked away without looking back at her. He held little Ameena’s hand, kissed it, released it, and left.

Amina’s body was trembling as she moved closer to Ilya.

“Ilya, how did this happen? Last week he told me to greet you, and since then I have been looking for you so I could tell you — and also ask you where the two of you met. I am completely confused. Was it you who gave him my account number?”

Ilya wiped his eyes, laughing.

“Wallahi, Amina, it was me. That commissioner — your teacher — came all the way to the house himself to ask for your account number; he did not send anyone. Goggo told me to give it to him. Then he asked me, ‘Are you Ilya?’ I said yes, I was. Then he simply told me to follow him.

“At first Goggo was a little afraid, wondering whether I had done something wrong. I told her to calm down — after all, he was the one who had chosen you for the job. So he took me in his car and did not stop anywhere until we reached the Governor’s office. And that was how I found myself face to face with Ji-kas.”