Nigeria-I  Weep For You

Weep not for Jonathan,

but weep for Nigeria,

rejoice not much over

2015 presidential elections,

never be carried away by

events of moment;

delude yourself not

by epithet “change,”

rather envision-

what Nigeria of tomorrow

SHALL BE.

Weep not over Jonathan’s

failure to secure-

another four-year-tenancy-

at-Aso-Rock,

weep for the goose-Nigeria-

that lays the golden egg;

mourn the river that gives

everyone water to drink,

wail over the cow,

whose milk everyone feeds on.

Ululate over the woman-

whose breasts every Nigerian

suck-

that may soon be abused;

screech for the re-emergence

of cobweb that slows

Nigeria’s fifty-something

years of greatness and 
development down.

Squawk for return of nepotism,

whimper-yes-whine over

tribal cleavages,

howl over religious bigotry,

yowl over political arm twisting;

yelp for return of born to rule,

shriek for the land that has

refused to grow.

Squeal for the stunted land,

land-the central government

shall become Santa Claus,

with iron rod to inflict injury

upon enemies.

Bawl-yes-yammer

as federating units

shall remain pupils-almajeris-

resulting in socio-economic

and political kwashiorkor;

snivel as federal powers

will be abused.

Bleat over federal powers,

consider how current holders

will use the power to
perpetrate and promote

decades of frauds-

as 2017 Census be conducted;

Nigerians just contemplate

how tilted and biased

“Federal Character” policy will be

under the future dispensation-

in favor of Regional Character.

Bellow as a section in the land

may be insensitive to the

feelings of others,

vociferate as collective wealth

will be up for grab by a new

political and economic mafia;

weep and weep again

as North-South Dichotomy

will re-emerge.

Be alarmed as concentrated

defense and security apparatus

in federal hands be used to

pursue sectional and promote
religious agenda.

Weep over hunger, misery,

anger that will pervade in the

land;

cry over failures,

incompetence, injustices,

arrogance, and wickedness

that will rule over the land.

Weep over suppression of

civil institutions in the land,

mourn over attacks on

legislature to create a

free pass to

dictatorship and fascism.

Cry over anti-social-cum-

religiously-toned-policies

that will take the land

backward;

weep over reign of

impunity, return of

ethno-religious crises.

Weep as a select,

but powerful individuals,

power-behind-the-throne

through back doors take

over the reign of the land.

Cry! Cry!! Cry!!!

Weep! Wail!! Howl!!!

For the Land-

One Hundred and Seventy

Million People called Home,

most populous Black nation in the

universe;

land of two great Rivers-

Niger and Benue,

a land of 450 nationalities-

NIGERIA.