VIOLENCE HAS NO PLACE IN A DEMOCRATIC ELECTION.

For election to be credible
They must be free fair and peaceful
Everyone should be able to cast
Their vote peacefully and free from violence
Remember is an election not electwar
 
This is a national call
For peaceful expression of our views
Even though we don't agree on one candidate
The goal here is to have a violence-free election
Because in this we can really we are democrat.
 
We have waited so long for this day to come
So lets not go soiling our hands with violence
Let’s go with aim of having a peaceful show
Remember the election is not war but
For us all to come together to reason together
 
In choosing that group of people
That we go speak our mind
In the seat of power are the president and governors
Extending to the representative in the house of assembly
Violence has no place in a democratic election remember
 
If we must move the country forward
It starts in the period of electing
Credible leaders to fit into position
To serve our nation and her citizens
To the best of their best abilities
 
Will unanimously shun violence
Of any type be it verbal abuse or none verbal abuse
Vote buying and bullying of any kind
Hate speech that can stirrup anger
And remember there is life after the election

HOPE ON THE HORIZON FOR A BATTERED COUNTRY

The land is not thriving again

A lot is beclouding our existence

As citizens, state and nation 

We don’t know where to go

Nor who to trust like hope has left us

Forsaken us to our fate

As each man for himself 

God for us all watching from a distance 

We seek a new better country 

Where there is hope for everyone 

We are tired 

We have lost hope

The horizon is not clear again

Our country is in its state of it remain 

As the citizens hope on the horizon of a battered country

A better country that’s not far from here again

Even though hope has been dashed 

Withered away like a flower 

Scourged by the heat of the sun and we still

Hope on the horizon for a battered country

Who was milked and lotted so much from her

Who’s strength is failing her even 

When she is the giant of Africa 

Hope on the horizon still hoping

Even when we stand on a hill 

And yet our sight cannot sight hope afar

But rebirth is about to happen 

The sound of strong emancipation is about to happen

Things are about to change from the old status quo

An army or revolution is breaking out  

I am sure the season of rebirth is now for Nigeria. 

We dare not miss this moment in history!

As history got a date with our country

Our nation has been through a lot

Within the means of lots left 

We must all arise to save the remains of this great nation

Lift up your eyes Nigeria!!!! Your set time is Now!

THE ELECTION POSTERS

He walks across
So many posters
Defaming the walls
Of each city in the state
Where he lives and dwells in
 
But did he see hope
Looking at each candidate's picture
On the posters starring at him
As he walked pass by each one
With a long gaze at its letter on the posters
 
With a hope that seems so far
With so many that have been beclouded
The existence of the state of the nation
Where he occupies so much
Each day events come up.
 
The election posters
From the manifestos
To the chant of the public address system
Can one find hope in the election posters
Littered around our cities and highway.
 
Can the common man
Find peace while at home
For how long do we go on like these
Our home is no longer home
The election posters
 
So shiny and glaring
So radiating beauty of pictures
So much colour that made it colourful
But is there a shiny light of hope
That we transcend and radiate color of tomorrow.
 
The election we come and go
The posters we go through
Wear and tear before you know it
The posters have faded out
While no hope we transpire from the election posters.

THE KIND OF ELECTION WE WANT

We no want the kind of election
Were the nation go turn upside down
Where house no go gree us to stay again
When be say we go dey run for watin no pursue us
The kind of election we want

Remember say after election life continues
We go still dey while the politicians
We go see them all inside tinted glass car
Carrying siren and military men all over
Everywhere dey go

The kind of election wey we want to see this time
Na the election we see ourself as brothers and sisters
As election no be do or die affair
Remember say na thumb we dey use vote
So no need to bring fist (punch) into election day

Even as campaign dey go on like these
As politicians dey move from this area to another place
As we dey follow them everywhere dey go
Remember say make each person dey go jejely
E no make sense at all to die for one leader wey no worth ‘em

E better make we see the end of election
Then for election to see the end of us
Make sure say you support who you dey support in peace
E no means say we dey support different person
No make say we become enemies to ourself because of this

The kind of election we want
That one way be say we come out in many numbers
To cast our vote for that person wey we feel say
E go do us well in the next four year
The person go use in office for the masses not for himself or herself alone

Remember say
This election na very important issue for our country
Abeg country men and country women, boys and girls
Let’s make sure say we no use fight go vote on that day
And make sure say you no sale your vote

Abeg go vote as your vote this time go count.

DON’T SHORT-CHANGE YOUR FUTURE FOR THIS

Don’t come and sell

Empty promises in place of none
Don’t come and shortchange
Your future is all because of stomach infrastructure
Remember is a long walk to the future

The life you have now
Is the best thing to hope for
A lot is happening right now this minute
So many beckoning at your attention
The incentive is overkilling so alluring

The drums are being rolled out
Every day new tactics are built
While the existing ones keep stronger
Every day someone is working tirelessly
Updating the old tactics in the form of updating

The campaign is in high gear
The reverse is never in sight
As each one is fighting to get your attention
They go far too to any length
To exhume the very possible ways

Make sure you do they do diligent
Carry out well-constructed findings
Check them out well and size them up well
Each one is out there go out and do the needful
This isn’t time for this

Don’t short-change your future for this
A leader who struck his follower
At the point of weakness is never worth
To become a leader because if this happens
Upon assumption of office

He will really explore more vulnerability
Of those he or she will be leading
If such a leader wins the election at the end of the day
You as electorate if you dare sell your future today
And shortchange your future for this
You will cry a million tears four years ahead

TO THE STREET: THE STATE OF THE NATION

All our life we’ve live in peace
In the environment we were used to
Know so much clamminess the surrounds it
So fresh smelling scantly habitat
To the street
 
Full of love void of hate
Where love leads and dwells
Full of peace not tranquillity
Where is our motor and watchword
To the street
 
Where children plays at will
Far and near their home
Where nothing like fear of been kidnap is
As everyone loves the street
Because the street is home for all
 
The land flows with milk and honey
So much and plenty for all to survive
As each comes weren’t no need or room for fear
As each room is filled with peace
To the street
 
Where everything is working out fine
The security network is intact
And never broken down by faceless being
Where there is faster development
Visiting the land and the street flourish
 
To the street
Where hope is lost and gone with the wind
And we have threw caution of surviving into the air
And we begin to hide and seek for refuge
While long the government has failed
 
There is no one to trust
Fear is the order of the day
Each one for himself and God for us all
To the street where we kill at will
Fighting each other in the name of religion
 
We cried and pray
To the extent we’re losing faith
Of the street coming back to normalcy
Like it used to be back in those good old days
To the street we lost its peace and stability.

IF YOU MUST DIE

If you must die
Don’t die for any politician
Listen well and good
Quick one a timely warning
As election preparation is at the heat
 
Things are no longer normal
Many things are now very wrong
So don’t lose focus of your eternity
Child of God children of the kingdom
Citizens of Heavenly city
 
If you must die
Child of God
Citizens of the kingdom
Pilgrims here on earth surface
The day is getting dark
 
And the night is getting darker
And the dawn is getting longer
Evils are prevailing in the air
Signs of the time are everywhere
Get your guide on don’t be swept away
 
If you must die
Child of the kingdom
Citizens of the eternal city
Lend me your ears and hear me well
If you must die for something
 
Don’t die for politics it is nonsense
Don’t die for any politician or statesman
It is eternally valueless
Don’t die for the nation
Don’t die for the job
 
If you must die
Die for Jesus
Die for the kingdom of God
If you must lose
Lose the election but don’t lose your soul
 
Don’t sacrifice your eternal soul
On the altar of an ignoble election
If you must lose anything at all
Don’t lose your soul
Lose the election but don’t lose your soul

DRUM OF POLITRICKS

It’s beat is so high
Becoming intense
So loud that you can hear it from afar
Wherever you stand
Drum of politricks
 
The sound are so pleasant so subtle
That you will be lured away
In the sweet smoothen words
Of these politticks of these men and women
They will come calling
 
Without no breathing space at all
They run like a cheetah after you
Zooming on you at all time
In all corners you will get to see them
Their billboard so erect tall high
 
Those at every turn you get to see, hear and feel them
To see their posters defacing our walls
Hear their campaign jingle audio and visual format
Feel their presence as they blast their serene all over
Drum of politiricks that’s it
 
And the beat goes on
So intense its interlude isn’t here
Flooding the whole city
The highways and the street
Drum of politiricks
 
It will get so high hard enough
That if care is not taking
Your ear drum will be damage
Beyond repair that you cannot hear
When the warning sounds comes calling
 
They will come in their numbers
With different format for same goal
To canvas your vote to get them all in
But using your head when these drum of politricks
Comes drumming at your ear and watch your dance step
 
Don’t be carried away while you dance
The drum of politricks so deceptive
Don’t get deceive by it

And what's that the

Drum of politricks

BE ON YOUR GUIDE, THEY ARE HERE

They are out there
They are at it again
They are really filling out
They are spreading it
But you have to be on your guide they are here
 
They are out there
Like a torrent of sea current
Blasting each rock they touch
They are flowing like a unique force
So hard that its slipperiness can slip you off
 
The money bag politics are here
About to play their evil plotiricks on you
If you aren’t careful I tell you
You we be swept off from your feet
Not just your feet but your sense
 
And lost it all out
Your sense of discerning-ment
That it will disarm you
Of your left off weapons
To reason well all because of
 
Their sugar-coated lips
Written on a mere paper
Which are not workable nor visible
All because to have your vote
Be on your guide they are here
 
Who are they?
These are ill-manner politicians
Who lacks manner to behave well
Once they taste the wine of power
As it will intoxicate them to the extent of losing senses
 
They are leaders
Who’s got no heart for their followers
Who has lost the moral up righteousness is questionable
Who’s got no structure to neither rule nor lead
Be careful and be on your guide they are here
 
They’re locking around the corner of every city
Busy blasting the sound of jingles of political campaign
Spilling out what they cannot offer as they have nothing

WILL MUST SPEAK UP: ELECTION 2023

Is never too late
To make the U-turn of 360⁰
We’ve come so long
Seating on the same spot
No moving forward or backward
 
Still the same line time after time
We’re just recycling and recycling
Same old folks who ought to be resting
But many are they wants to die there
Will must speak up come 2023
 
Election is around the corner
A lot is happening and still happening
The nation’s treasure has been looted
To the fibre of its root existence
Everyone is on survival mode
 
The killings is not here
Because we are killing each other
In the name of religious affiliation
Who did this to us we were once living like brothers and sister
Irrespective of the religious affiliation we belong
 
The guys in the government
They’ve failed us all
To deliver their mandate to us
Upon assuming power when they were voted
Now is just I not all self-centeredness has taken off
 
They are busy chasing and working
Tirelessly towards the election 2023
And fail casting deaf ear to the untold
Suffering, starvation and struggles of citizens
We all must arise and speak up now or will shut up
 
Speak up to your friends, family and colleague at work
Scream aloud for each one to get their PVC’s
And get ready for the rain of emancipation
Of our beloved fatherland as our motherland
Cannot fail to bury her own anymore
 
To make history happen
Will all must arise and speak up
Speaking for peace not for violence as we cannot achieve nothing in violence

A LOT WILL HAPPEN AS WE PREPARE FOR ELECTION 2023

As we get ready in our dear nation
To usher in a new administration
That will stir the ship of this nation
For the next four years
As these political men and women
 
Are out there doing all they can
To make sure they enter into power
That if it takes them to go to any length
In defaming the next opponent
All in the name of becoming the people’s person
 
Many will go far as to dig up
The past of their fellow opponent
And many ambushes will be lay
Like a cover pit it will be a snare and a trap
A lot will happen: election 2023
 
The heat is on
The drums of war is been beating
The rain is about to pour out
And some have a mind seal with a hot iron
That comes hell hot water they fierce full ready
 

IS BEYOND THE PVC's (Personal Voters Card).

Our nation is boiling
And the boiling has been on for long
That we can not see it as strange again
Is now normalcy of the day
Is beyond the PVC's

If you feel
If you think
And if you sees it
That Personal Voter's Card (PVC)
Is the solution to our nation's problems so far

I tell you my fellow country men and women
You have to rethink it through enough
Is not enough to change a bad egg
For its rottenness but flushing it all out
And that PVC will never achieve these aim why

Because it starts from the godfathers
Of this ones who has stair the course
Of this nation for long as we gear up
In preparation of the forthcoming
Transition of another phase of administration

Now as we speak they have decided
The fate of the man who we take on
That post of office in all areas
From the smallest position to the biggest
See isn't just PVC alone

But the sanitation of the mind
Because our mindset as a nation
Has been fine tune with the spirit
Of selfishness and corrupt practices
Is beyond PVC's

We must shun the practice
Of election with money
In exchange of kinds and gifts
That we must flush out of our mind
We must see this nation

As our own a collective ownership
Not just a single kind of collective stuff
But a collective responsibility
Is beyond the PVC's
Fine PVC is part of it

But there are so many other things
That needed to be done
If we must get it right come 2023
Our minds needs to be work on big time

NIGERIAN YOUTH AND 2023 ELECTION

Is a call
A national call
A call from the motherland
To serve our fatherland
With heart still young and blood fresh flowing

Is a call
Not to be use as before
By the political gladiator
To achieve their selfish interest
And is a national call from the heart

A national call
Not just to a section of the youth
But the youth across all geo political state
Where human is found to take a stand
Nigerian youth and 2023

Is a call from the heart beats of motherland
Whose breast feeds so many strong minds like you
Because you are strong and ready to take on the fragile hand
Of our motherland to save her from losing more children
Nigerian youth and 2023

To serve our fatherland
As the labours of our hero past
Will can not stand to watch it be invain
Neither the toils and sweats of our fatherland
Go down the drain and we live in regret that will were not able to save the land

While it is called now today
And our blood is still fresh and flowing
Within us lies the power and will to
Act right and say No when they come luring us
With all manner of incentives

Nigerian youth explore all means
The internet is the best place to begin
As will spend so much our time on the internet
That is our platform and that should be our meeting point

BALLOT BOX AND NOT FIGHTING RING

Fellow countrymen and women
Is that time in our country
Where we all we march to the pool
To elect those who we be our mouth piece
In deciding the state of our nation
 
But as we go to the poll
Let’s go with our sense
That sense of belonging
That makes us who will are
Citizens belonging to this great nation
 
But is a big but
Is for the good ballot box not fighting ring
You can not go on a fight with your brother nor sister
So let’s leave our various home with the mind
Of casting our votes into the ballot boxes
 
Not turning the ground that bears the ballot box
Into a fighting ring remember is not a fighting ring
But election ballot box that carries our mandates
For that one man one woman who is ready
Ballot box and not fighting box
 
We are one
We move as one
We vote as one
We have one voice
We are ready to change the age long narratives as one unifying force
 
And to do all these
Will see that we change these whole thing
Having the right attitudes with the positive vibes
Not the negative vibes that breeds violence
Ballot box is the channels that we project this whole experience 

LIGHT UP 9JA

From the darkness of lawlessness
That parades our landscape
To the hates on the faces of her citizens
And the smiling and suffering faces
That floods our streets and bus terminal stations

From the darkness of corruption
That has eaten deep into the fibers
Of our political system infected
All other sectors of our state
As the homes, religious houses aren’t left out

From the darkness of poor road network
Whose contract has been awarded for years
Beyond the current administration
As many administration has not been able to deliver
Just a kilo meter road project for long

From the darkness of poor epilepsy power supply
Whose outrageous bills is meanted out
To the users and consumers of electricity
As they pay for service that wasn’t provided for
And yet a megawatt of electricity isn’t enough for just a street

From the darkness of fallen standard of education
Education believe as a light on which
Innovation and development of nation strive
That same education when is taken away
That same nation is heading to mass destruction

From the darkness of unemployment
As jobs are scarce for the one whose gone to school
As these days in our nation is no more what you know
That gets you the job but who you know in there
As the wrong one is put into several job position
All in the name of knowing someone

From the darkness of frustration leading to jungle justice
There is intense heats and hate paraded in our society
On can see it on so many faces
And the question where is the way out
Is putting in the right person in government

VOTING TO STAND

Enough of the old saying
Will must do must a new
If we want a new result
If truly we are sick and tired
Of the way things are in this our nation

See is our country
We must face the reality
And see from our inner eyes
That is time to make our vote counts
By all means and in what ways will can

Voting to stand
Will must to the end of the day
From the dawn of the arrival to the pooling bolt
To the dusk of the election day
Isn’t enough to chant and shout of getting PVC

But the PVC must be gotten before the day fine
But will me mark our measure to protect our votes
Which stands truly well thought out strategy
A detailed followed up and backup plans
Voting to stand

Each voters must go with a conscience
Strong enough to be carried away
With the lureness of incentives from the party stakeholders
That will flood the field of the election on the election day
Each one should be his or her neighbors keeper

Serving as a watch dog on that day of election
A clarion call is going out to everyone
Whose sick, tired and be withered
Of the state of our dear nation
This is the time to vote and make it counts

By standing and seeing it counts
And is not vote and go home neither to go play football
But to vote and stand till result is announced after been counted
So prepared to vote leave home filled not hungry on that day

MAKING THE VOTE COUNTS

For long we’ve fought it out
And we got tired and retired to fate
With the saying that it doesn’t count
As each admonitions comes and goes
Making the vote counts

And we march on to the pooling bolt
To engrave our thumb print
On the side of our desired candidate
That we stir the course of our nation
Will que stand in unfavorable weather condition

Come hell hot water
We stood there and make the imprint
Of our thumb on the paper
But many years has come and gone
The question on every lip and mind

Does our vote really count?
Takless of seeing the light of the day
Talkless about seeing it to the collation center
We lost fate in the voting agency
We hand and lost it game over

With all saying
The vote doesn’t count
They have known who will enter
And much more tomorrow we kept on
Saying that it will get better

For how long it we get better
And to talk about vote been counted
At the end of the voting exercise
But this time mumu don do
The veil has fallen off our face

We have seen the light and darkness we can’t take chances of going back
And the decision is reached
Come rain hot water we’re ready
To secure our future this time we’re not just voting and going away

PULL UP NIGERIA

The country has eaten
Into the rotten ness of her state
That it takes for a carmel to pass
Through the needles eyes for her redemption to happen
Pull up Nigeria

From the debris of her collapseness
To the littered of licking roof of her shelter net
From the ill health of her health sectors
Whose turn to death incubator instead of hatching life
Now is hatching death on a large industrial scale

Pull up Nigeria
Is time we take our stand
Marching to our different zones
As no stones is left untouched in each constituent
As the grassroot we become the point of development

We must arise
From the age long limberness
That has catted away our agility
Blindfold our sight from see and acting right
All hands must get down to work

As we race off to quick intervention
In saving this dear nation
From collapse as the foundation
Is weaken and shaking void of stamina to stand
Pull up Nigeria

From the debris of age long
Poor ill manifestoes of not working administration
If you’re out there am calling on you
To bridge the gap to save this nation
From the hands money go round being

NIGERIANS DECIDE 2023: CAPABLE HANDS

The era of old faces
Same method old pattern
Same lines of debate
With just old brains and weak hands
Has come and gone
 
We are in the phase of a new things
As old things has flew off
Like the dream of the night
The dusk has embark on a French leaf
As incapable hands has change hands
 
We need capable hands
To lead us alright to the promise land
We have been longing for all these years
You cannot imagine an individual of 70, 60 and 90 years
To run for an office all in the name of ruling leadership
 
Capable hands
Who are ready to roll upon their sleeves
And get to work in dedicating all the nations resources
To meet the needs of the country making all the masses smile
Capable hands
 
Who are ready to work their hands to the bone
Whose heart beat for the people
Not a leader who’s got no heart for others
Not the one who we loot the nation’s treasure
For just a personal gain in bid to eat from nation’s cake

ELECTION ERA: SCENE OF MANIFESTOS

Everyone wants to run
Everyone wants to lead
Everyone wants to clinch the touch of leadership
Everyone is beating the drum of readiness
The scene of manifestoes
 
Soon or later
Our highways we be decorated
With flyers of all kinds of face and colours
Bearing with political flags affiliation
In a bid to secure the bag of leadership
 
The chant follows suit
As jingles blares in loud crescendo
The online communities aren’t left
This one and that one is crafting out
Beautiful pieces to paints its candidate well before everyone
 
As the scenes of manifestoes of different kinds
Are been rolled out to sweep everyone off their feet
As intellectuals meets to argue their points
And reasons upon reason to what end they stand with their candidates
The campaign on going very intense in order to gain momentum  
 
From the East to West
The clamoring of supporters is on
The North races to catch up with the South
Elder statesmen aren’t left out on this scene
As godfatherisim pulls their weight behind their own
 
Well written crafted political manifestoes
With detailed plans on how to run the campaign program
As campaign manager are working relentlessly
To outshine and come out with campaign strategies
And the scene went on and on like that
 
Never let all these their manifestoes
Swilled you aside from what we seek to effect
Because this time mumu don do
And we are ready to take the future in our hand
And that time is to scrutinize all these scene of manifestoes