President
Olusegun
Obasanjo-
Atiku Abubakar



Promises of pardoned traitors   

Reek like ancient regrets.

Exhibitions,

Steeped in rapacity.

Inured to light, they

Dominate blindly

Evoking the same air of oppression

Noteworthy of the days of yore.

Traitors in transit, trampling as they go.





Over us, they bellow.

Lording it, they rule

Under the guise of foreign dogmas,

Silence all demanding.

Egocentric beasts with rotund bellies

Gloats with our reserves.

Unaffected by the groaning of a people

Nestled in penury.





Our Overseers,

Behemoths, disguised,

Assiduously make us the

Shame of the whole world while

At  perfect ease with themselves.

Neglecting the many sufferers about, they

Jostle for private vaults in Zurich as

Our poverty became their riches.





And the bespectacled gargoyle

Trenched in the prison called Rock.

Impervious to all wisdom,

Kept an unholy vigil as

Undertakers beckoned suddenly.





Archetypical simpletons, they

Bask in gaudy wealth

Untouched by the miseries surrounding them

Building high walls to keep prying eyes away.

Atop Hills, perched like Vultures,

Kleptocrats searching for new honour.

Aglow in oily garbs, they

Regale themselves, as the world looks on in amazement!

Macaulay Oluseyi Akinbami



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