What Kind of Change

By Soibi Ransom

Change Change Change !!
The people yelled
They came and promised a change
A change without a basis for change
A change none cared to know

The people believed their lies
A story of change
Heaven on Earth they promised
No more pain they said
One naira equal to a dollar
Monthly stipend for the youths
The people believed their lies
In exchange gave them their votes

They came and started with excuses
Jonathan the problem they said
The opposition a band of thieves
Dasuki incarcerated for years
Diversion of funds they said
Shites mutilated unjustly
Their leader still in prison
The people asked for change
A change they never knew was bad

The economy entered a recess
Prices beyond normal
Poverty more than ever
Crime more than ever
Herdsmen now on the rampage
Killing a game of fun
The people asked for change
A change they never cared to know

Elections now inconclusive
Voters being harassed
Votes buying now the norm
Card readers must fail
Elections now like a coup
Democracy raped and despised
With the winners not allowed to rule
The people asked for change
A change they never cared to know.

Parallel government threatened
Parallel conventions they suffered
Oh what sort of change
Fuel now as costly as gold
They claim they sweep corruption
But their own homes are dirtiest
Their beds littered with dungs
Their cushions covered with maggots
The people wanted change
A change they never cared to know.

Intergrity they said he had
Yet his results are yet to be found
His relatives have fat accounts
His ministers bastardly rich
His son drives an expensive bike
Yet he has no sort of job
His children all schooled abroad
Yet he cannot pay for a form
Pastors warned about this change
Kanu warned it was all a lie
Jonathan said don’t believe the lies
But the people had made up their minds
The people asked for change
A change they never cared to know

Now many regret
They wished they never asked for change
A change that has put them in chains
A onc

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