On the D Day of the Freshers Banquet, I was the first person to enter the hall and I was so excited to see youths. I joined them in arranging the hall and doing every other thing. And then the very first person that I saw when I entered the hall was the same person that gave me the invitation at my school. It was Neme Ikechukwu. When I met her, I asked her, "Are you not the one that came to my school and invited me to this program?" She said "Yes."

The name of my school is Ejiofor International College, at Ofulonu, Nsukka. Then i asked her if she is the Joy. She said no her name i s  not Joy. So I was like, "Who is now the Joy?" I was actually looking for Joy. I wanted to see her as namesake, you know... She said that there is nobody called Joy in this place. So I was very surprised. I asked her about her name and she said that her name is Chinemerem. I said, "wow." I was looking for Joy, now I'm seing Chinemerem. It was surprising because my Igbo name is Chinemerem. So I was happy. I saw people whom I could relate to, young people like me. Even though I did not stay till the end of the program, I really enjoyed my stay there in the Freshers Banquet. The package they came with was very interesting, and it was majorly because they were youths, and they were saying things that were interesting. They were not being religious about anything they did. They were just free doing things that were very Christian-like. Because the background Church where I come from is a totally different story. They were not tying their hairs, or looking holy, or wearing long gowns and all that. They were putting on their make-ups and and looking good, and yet, these kinds of words are coming out of their mouth, this kind of wisdom was coming out from their mouth. How did they get to know all these things they are saying? Why are they so spiritual yet they don't look it? So all these questions were in my mind and I really enjoyed the program.  I left that day and I could not wait for them to fix another meeting. And then, it was fixed and it was Sisters' Meeting. I came for the Sisters' Meeting.

Actually, they texted me...There was an attendance book that I wrote my name while entering the hall. I guess they used that list. When I came for the meeting, even though we were just about five persons in the meeting, they made the meeting very interesting.  I learnt things that I did not know before.  They were simple things but I did not know them before. So all those things started to make me begin to love FECA. So anytime they fix a meeting, I would make sure that I attend. I must come, and they always make it fun, and there is always something to eat...So all these little things kept bringing me and they were even talking about relationship. All my life before then, I had not been in a place where they talk about relationship like that. Where I was coming from, it is as though talking about relationship is meant for married people, or people that are really serious about getting married. it is like a sacred topic...or somthing like that.  But FECAites were talking about it, everybody was happy; people were asking questions freely; questions that normally I would be like, "Ah, why all these questions?" But they were asking them all the way! So I loved it. They were so open and honest. All these things kept bringing me to FECA more and more. Even when I later traveled, they were still reaching out to me in form of text messages because I was writing my final exams in school and I had to go home yet they were still reaching out to me. Because they were still reaching out to me they kept reminding me of FECA, and lots of messages kept me up to date with FECA activities. Thus when I came back to Nsukka, I still went back to their venue to go and check FECA. And this went on and on.

The summary of it is that the set of persons that I met during that time were just good doing what they do and I kept coming. They actually took care of me. Neme Ikechukwu who was the Vice president then was very caring. What actually made me to come back to Nsukka was that when she got admission into UNN, that time, I was about to write my JAMB. So she called me and she was like, "How are you? How far with your exams?"  Then I told her, "I'm fine, I am evenn trying to leave this village oh. I want to come to Nsukka so I could have time to read for my JAMB and all that..."

During that time, she got a lodge and she said I could come over lets stay together. That was how I came back, wrote my JAMB. It was as though she was coaching me and I never knew that the whole thing would land me into being her successor. Even me, I was not looking like it...and she said she did not expect me to be her successor. 

Before I got admission into the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, I was handed over as the next Vice President of FECA Odenigbo chapter.

Read about My Leadership Experience as President in FECA Nsukka  (Victor Chukwudi)