HELLO MR. GOVERNOR.

I wonder how you stand
That day to give your
Inaugural speech when its time
We you stand boldly
And say the election.

That brought you into the office
Are on a clean slate
Where no lives was lost
And it wasn't infuse with intimidation
Talkless of victimisation.

Mr. Governor
Will you say the thugs
Who came out with cane
And weapons of massiveness
To inflict injury upon people.

An armless citizens
Who came out to exercise
Their civic duties
Just because you see your opponent
As a threat you then went head long to unleash pain to the masses

How we you face these ones
Come May 29th upon
Your take the oath of office
And been sworn in
How we you look in their faces.

Remember a good leader
Don't take power by force
But power is given by the people
Not with victimisation, intimidation and thuggery.
Hello Mr. Governor think and rethink twice.

BEFORE YOU VOTE TOMORROW.

 

Before tomorrow comes
When you stand in the face to face
With the ballot box starring at your face
Standing in a long queue to cast your vote
Remember the state of the nation
And those who brought us to this point in our nation

As our nation
Moves from the home where peace
Co-exist with harmony
Whose long before we know it
We lost the peace at home
And home never home again

As we become strangers
In our home as our motherland
That once flows in milk and honey
Is not been painted in blood RED the colour of an innocent soul
Killed and massacre during

The Endsars protest
The Owo massacre
When our brothers and sisters
Went to worship God and were killed
Right in the presence of their Maker

Before you vote tomorrow
Check your pocket and weigh
The money inside your pocket
Not that you don’t have money
But the ones who govern without feelings locked down all money

And money becomes a scarce commodity
Instead be a common commodity
That can be found everywhere we go
Just like the MTN slogan how do come to this point
Of legal tender is never legal tender as it becomes scarce

Before you vote tomorrow
Remember those in captivities
Of the bandit, kidnapper, and hostages
All because of our security network
Has a breach and its network has broken down.

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!

YOU HAVE YOUR PVC? GO OUT AND VOTE.

We've prayed enough
We've tarried long enough
We've debated about this candidate and that candidate
We've watched them at various
Town hall meeting now
 
Is the time to brace up
And brave up to go out there
With our PVC's in our hand
To make a statement
Of taking back our nation
 
This election is not a do-or-die affair
Your friend may not share
The same candidate as yours
That shouldn't mean you guys
Should see yourself as ravels
 
We have been so long
On the same spot
No moving forward or backward
We're still where we are
Day in and day out like years too
 
This is the time to stand
As we march out come Saturday
Is an election we call it
Not a fest of violence
Characterize election
 
Enough of prayers
Now is the time to stand in the gap
Stand in the queue no matter
How long do you stand one day
History will remember your stand
 
Your stand in fixing our nation
Your stand in saving the remains of this great nation
Your stand to write the wrong in history
Your stand to see a new Nigeria working
Not just for a selected few but for all.

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.

DEAR SORO SOKE GENERATION

We are so close to that solemn time
In our nation's history
We have now to make the difference
That history will never forget
And we cannot fail our motherland
 
This time we need to stand strong
So tall with shoulder high
Getting ready and preparedness
To take our fatherland back
From the parasite that has feasted on it for so long
 
Will must unite in one voice
Indivisible that nothing we shattered us
No money can buy us this time
And we are not going to be tools
In their hands to toil with at all this time
 
Here comes a clarion call
Dear Soro Soke Generation
we are strong and let’s use our might
To go out at this time of election
To send the right one who is fit for the job
 
Not the one whose got a heart of selfishness
But the one whose got the heart for others
As these is the criteria for being a leader
and not just a leader but servant leadership.
 
Let’s save our nation
And bring back the glory of our land
Because this nation must not dead
We must arise and save this nation
With all our strength and might.

GO GET YOUR PVC

A few days from now
We meet at the pooling bot
With each person prepared and ready
To cast his or her vote with PVC in hand
The thump is ready to imprint

It signs next to the preferred candidate
That the heart thinks and feels is the right one
To channel and drive the course of this nation
For the next four years ahead of us as a nation
Go get your PVC

We are ready to take back our country
Not on the merit of who dish out
The biggest incentives to the electorate
But on the merit of who got so much to offer
Not for the now but for the next four years in office

Who got a good critical thinking
In revenging our land out of the mess
We all are in today just because of the past administration
Which is about to exit the seat of power
Go get your PVC and if you have yours get it dusted

Clean it all well out
And get the location of were
You will be voting and make sure
The transfer was done well enough
Make sure everything is intact

And remember the voting for this year
Is not about party, religion nor tribe
Is about our nation wellbeing and its state
The future of the unborn citizen of this nation
Go get your PVC and get it out dust and be ready

TAKING BACK OUR COUNTRY

We have burned the bridge behind us
We have taken our bags and badges
We have taken enough from all these menace
With no turning back and no retreat
Never are we going to back down

This is time to take back our country
From the parasite that has loot us this long
Like a canker worm they came in the midst
Lived like a parasite of years
Administration comes go yet nothing move nothing changes

So long we serve our father’s land
But it seems our service are be in vain
In the quest of looking and seeking for answers
For some questionable characters of those in office
From the bottom to the top to the leaders of the land

We all have one task
Every one of us must lend a hand
To take back our country
And rescue it because it must not die
Taking back our country

Demands matter of urgency
The remains of this country
Is really at a dying stage
And needs urgent attention of physicians
And you and I are the physicians

From the remains
Of the looters of politicians who has loot
Her treasure for so long all these years
Enrich themselves with the nation resources
Taking back our country come 2023 is a date that must be keep.

THE NIGERIA WILL SEE

Beautiful communities
With good amenities
Great land with so many opportunities
Peaceful coexistence security assured
Nigeria will see

Equal access to all
With a good working judicial system
On the ground of a fair hearing
Both for the common man out there
On the street as well as for the high place

A home where there is much
Happiness to go round the table
Here the act of service is what
Everyone looks out for
For mankind and for country

Good health services
For all no matter the size
Of the cash of the pocket
Reducing mortality rate drastically
The Nigeria will see.

Is Nigeria
That works for all
Where investors return to invest
As well as foreign investors too
Where the economy is buoyant not Sicky

The Nigeria will see
Where holding and running
For political office is never
A do or die affair but a peaceful
Then a free and fair exercise.

The Nigeria will see
Were small-scale business
Never strive but succeed so easily
As there is room for growth and expansion
That is the Nigeria we want to see.

REGARDLESS

Life dey hard
Dollar dey rise everyday
Five k no dey buy much again
But regardless

Make sure you hold body
Make sure say no body pressure you
Make sure say you dey in charge always
Make sure you stay strong fit like fit farm
Regardless

Of how today bi
Get liver with strong heart
Be always up don't let
The issues of life weigh you down
Regardless

Even inflation dey pursue
You up and down
Money wey dey your hand
No fit buy something wey tangible
Regardless

If tomorrow no sure
Get belief say go make sense
One day if you no give up
Because na only who reach finishline dey win
Regardless

No take your life
Because life go sweet again
And you go smile again e sure die
Abeg no cry no think 'em
Regardless sometin wey hot go cold again.

SO, IF AM THE PRESIDENT

I we Make each promises count
Upon running for the seat
Of the number one person in the land
Delivering the mandate of my manifesto
So, if am the president

I will make sure
That the land is fit for all to live in
That all necessary facilities
Are being served and enjoyed by all
Irrespective of your attainment and level in society

There won’t be channeling
The nation’s resources
To one set of people in the society
To bring the government to the doorstep
Of everyone who’s out there

So, if am the president
I will make sure that the epileptic power supply
It will be a thing of the past
And making every heart to be at home
Void of fear of insecurity in the land

Awarding of contract
Won’t be on sentiment
But fitting the right man who can do the job
And delivery to the utmost of his or her ability
In each sector we get a shared allocation in each year's budget

Striking of workers in all federations of the state
This will cease to happen as each one is paid
As at when due is wages as the workforce
Are those who drive the survival of any nation
So, if am the president

Making sure we consume our locally made goods
To boost the immune system of our currency
And make certain investors fly in to invest
In the richness of our natural resources
Not chasing away investors

Making sure small and large scale business
Strive in the midst of the economy of this nation
By providing credit facilities and recovery loan
At a subsidy rate to these set of business
So, if am the president.

2023 RACE

As we race off towards 2023
As individuals and as a nation
This is one of the greatest strides
In our dear nation a solemn time
Because that one event

Will determine how the next
Phase of our nation will go
And this event will cut across
And touch down one every sectors
2023 race

Each one of them
Are really working tirelessly
From dusk to dawn leaving no stone untorch
A period intellectuals will be working for mediocre
All in the chase of what the stomach will feed on

Stomach infrastructure
And the nations flows on
In waiting for that solemn day
To see the one who will seat on the seat of power
To govern and run the affairs of this nation

My fellow countrymen and women0---
If will miss it by sending the wrong person
To that seat of power and that person cripple
The whole activities I bet with you all it will be funny
2023 race

Will must see
That will send in
The right person for the job
The right person who will take our nation
From the cross of burden suffering

To that point of salvation
Where will all will start living
Like the real owner of the land’
Never a stranger at home again
2023 race is a must task for everyone to run

BEING THE PRESIDENT

The presidency
Doesn’t change who you are
It reveals who you are
The same thing is true of a presidential campaign
So if a candidate is erratic and threatening

If a candidate traffics in prejudice
Fears, and lies on the trail
If a candidate has no clear plans
To implement their goals
if they disrespect their fellow citizens

Including folks who make extraordinary sacrifices
For our country let me tell you
That is who they are
That is the kind of president they will be
Trust me.

A candidate is not gonna suddenly change
Once they get into office
Just the opposite, in fact,
Because the minute that individual
Takes that oath.

They are under the hottest harshest light there is
And there is no way to hide who they really are.
And at that point it's too late
They're the leader of the world's largest economy
The commander-in-chief of the most powerful military force on Earth.

With every words they utter
They can start wars…crash the market
Change the course of this planet.
So when it comes to the qualifications
We should demand in a president

To start with,
We need someone who is going to take this job seriously
Someone who will study and prepare
So that they understand the issues better
Than anyone on their team.

And we need someone
Not with good judgment
But with superb judgment in their own rights
As that one is needful in becoming the president
That is being the president


We also need someone
Who is steady and measured
Because when you're making
Life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions
A president can't just pop off.

Being president
Is not anything like reality TV
It is not about sending insulting tweets
Or making fiery speeches
It is about whether or not the candidate
Can handle the awesome responsibility 

Of leading this country.

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

ABORTION: OUR NEXT ELECTION

Open your heart, let the effulgence of this light I'm about to share, walk through your arteries and flush out every dark areas filled with inhumane blood flowing in your veins.

Why will another long term of service in a worthy seat of honour become a battlefield for jocularity and idiosyncratic walkthrough?

Africa is a continent with great elites and noteworthy figures who can shake the world with what's in our hands. Nigeria, a nation, whose millions of citizens are recognized all over the world yet her top leadership seat is not sheathing her sword of ill-mannerism and inability to cause a positive change.

Here, our next election, hits us soon with all activities/schedules of voting been made available at every nooks and crannies in state governments, cities and its suburbs. And, we all shout, 'solidarity forever'.

When a husband got pissed off because of lack of funds to manage his wife and four kids. Along the way, she got pregnant again in same poverty. And everyone advised that she abort the child even if the foetus is 7 months old.

I ask myself, "Is that the needed solution to the problem?"

What a painful lifestyle!

In same vein, this kind of scenario is been played out in our elections - whereby we're in dire need of a solution to the mess of the nation and still yet, many advisers come together to abort the already impregnated ideas of the right candidates because of godfathers order, money bags, selfishness and bad agendas.

Leadership position is not a do or die affair neither is it a call to unbridled power against your fellow human. Let your heart judge you!

A stranger I met says, "Election, election, election. What will be, will be; and nothing can change it in this nation, Nigeria." What a shame!

Will our civil right to vote be aborted again? Won't our votes be discarded and trashed? When will the chosen candidate with the highest vote stop deceiving us?

In these questions, are answers that we need to take to heart and be ready to dedicate our lives by coming together as a nation poised to eradicate bad and ineffective leaders whose bellies are their gods and pockets, a bloody mint.

Embrace a free and fair election, tilt your heart towards building a great nation and don't allow your vote to be a waste by selling it off for filthy amount of naira. Don't vote for the sake of selfish reason. It pays to vote for the benefit of all Nigerians and let's join hands together for the unity of ethnicity, religiosity, and a common purpose - peace and love.

Wisdom is spelt out in this micropoetry of Omar Nassar on corruption which explains the reduced honour of our so-called leaders and their leadership styles.

Where life is always uncertain

when corruption is the fountain

of every perceived earthly evil

money can break a mountain

and the corrupt can rarely be evil

because they belong to the devil.

Conclusively, this coming election must not be a norm of abortion that had been around us for donkey years. 

Transformation is not lip say, it's a paradigm shift for new heights beyond the usual to unusual act of undaunted patriotism.

Know that, your civil right is voting right on election day.

Thanks. God bless you.

© HOTONU Olasunkanmi

Lagos, Nigeria

FINALLY IS HERE: THE CAMPAIGN BELL

They are preparing
Marching so hard
Getting the drums ready
About to lunch out to deep
They are not taking chances

Is finally here
The campaign bell
Is ringing at a high crescendo
Each is pitching its tenth
They must do all they can to win people's heart

Will must be on alert
As they come with sweet tongues
Same story... the same plot
Same music...the same dance
Make sure you are not sweet off

Stand firm stay
Stay strong in your conviction
Don't let their bell confuse you
Do your background checkup
And then follow your heart

Because we cannot continue like these
Things have to change and this is the time
To get it right if we must move forward
From the state we find ourselves today
To that place of a better land for all.

Finally is here the campaign bell

FROM THE REPUBLIC OF CONSCIENCE

To our leaders whose
Verge from here to there
City to cities chant their manifesto
Promises yet to be brought to the limelight
In verging for a position to rule their people

Public leaders must swear
To uphold unwritten law and weep
To atone for their presumption to hold office
In utmost sincerity and honesty
From the republic of conscience

Whose still much alive and kicking
Whose heart is still much soft
Soft to the plight of the people
In which the same leaders are leading
From the republic of conscience

In whose republic
Our dear nation was birthed and born
Who’s upon the fabrics of our mother
Who’s our fatherland is built on
From the republic of conscience

What kind of leader are you
As you go around verging for political office
Are you really who you are portraying yourself to be
Will you still maintain this humility and selflessness
Upon the resumption of office if you win the election

Will your conscience still be much alive
Or half alive when the election result is announced
Where you place those who voted for you
In sun, rain and cold chilled weather
From the republic conscience

THE CALL

It is not about the tribe
Neither is it a call for one man
But is about Nigeria for Nigerians
Is a nationalism clarion call
The call of rebirthing a nation

A nation that has forgotten
Who's suffering has reached the height
We are doing it for us not for one man
The country cannot continue to go down
This road for so long we need to chart a new course

Unifying voice of solidarity
We must bring all hands to the deck
Ready to soil our hands for our land
For the good of this great nation of ours
The call is coming today to make it a great nation again

You all need to know this
Will must shun the old ways
Appointing a leader into a leadership position
Because it is not about religion anymore or party
The call is for all

Away from slumber
Wake up and catch the fever
Of revolutionizing our mentality
Toward appointing a leader that will make it happen
Because we need to save the remains of this country.
The call...