DEMOCRACY FEVER
Sovereign national conference
Oputa’s human right melodrama
Afenifere’s, Odua’s People’s Congress
Sharia’s Jihadist mafia
Ohaneze’s Bakassi kingdom
And the movement to Biafra Republic
The executive and legislature pantomimes
Resource control controversy
Pipeline vandalisation by compatriots
Fuel deregulation computation
Cultism and ethnic bias
Police and ‘Egunjee’ syndrome
Armed banditry and commercial assassins
No frozen proteins, except in high places
Aso castle is a mono party affair
Hold ups in petrol stations
No fuel except in jerry cans
And the cataclysm of strike action
NLC, the only opposition party.
As our unity in adversity heightens,
So is Mr. Democracy’s hopes and jokes
Who knows what he will announce tomorrow
We suffer a militarized democracy
Maybe we need a computerized democracy
Where all can agree to sing the anthem
Let the good, the bad and the ugly
Learn the national anthem again
Let them arise with one aspiration
So that as it was in the beginning
It will be again
Arise O’ Compatriots!
HOMELAND
Homeland, the homeland!
Land of the freeborn
There’s no night in the homeland
But aye the fadeless morn
I’m sighing for the homeland
My heart is aching here
There’s no pain in the homeland
To which I’m drawing near.
For those I love in the homeland
Are calling me away
To the rest and peace of the homeland
There is no grief on the way
But when I think of the homeland
My eyes are filled with tears
The only road to the homeland
Is to put a stop to my years.
