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THE EXTRAORDINARY GOVERNOR – DAVE UMAHI
As fragile as an incubated baby
Your survival muddled in a cloak
Of stern hospitality
An obnoxious parenting, gyratory
Around the whispers of demagogic delusion
Then, a plethora of gybe to a mottled future
Yet in that stark oblivion
They nurtured you to perfection

Like a tender lily upon the hills and valleys
With obstreperous pebbles in the wind
They were the inevitable Achilles heel in the offing
And like the gibberellins – the inhibitors
Against your growth in surreptitious mien
Yet you greened not whithered

As unperturbed as a statuesque
Enduring the excruciating lam from the opposition
But like an epitome of spry intuition
You skidded while they were languishing
As the indisputable power of fate
Plunged you to the reign in the echelon

You were accompanied by a providential leverage
Professed by the peripatetic of the people
Like a plenipotentiary in plenitude of pleasantries
The toddlers, the teens cum the adults
Enough to convert the most skeptical
That your choice transcended man’s façade of intellectualism
But the singular sanctimonious conduit
For Ebonyi’s divine restoration

Your perspicacity flourished amidst
All malevolence orchestrated to sully your reputation
Such abhorrent abracadabra hardly writhed
The profundity of your perspicuity
Of the tormentors of Ebonyi people

Thank heavens you weren’t a proselyte
You unfurled the scroll of their mystified worship
To sponge the unpardonable malfeasances of the demi gods
And punctiliously enshrine into it
The sanctity of the Almighty God
So this prodigy gripped the mandate tenaciously
With the grit devoid of any pusillanimous trait
You started without any probationary aberration
And the ubiquity of your whooping transformational strides
Has left even the dummies thunderstruck

Like an irrepressible advocacy for change
As regenerative regimental onslaught
The surroundings of Abakaliki bloomed audaciously
Yet you vowed you’d not be an ombudsman
You retorted: ‘let the clenchy fangs of posterity
Grind those in schandenfreude’

Conscientiously, you pummeled the preposterous
Dereliction of the infrastructures
A consequence of the desuetude of public fund
While the fulfilled people are immersed
In multiferous felicitations as you trod
On the teeniest despicable despondency
That begrudged their greatness


As a canopy of elegant fatherhood
The planetarium in which no roguishness thrives
For their labyrinthine connotation over governance
And the unsuspecting people are sold dummy
While the one – upmanship soars
But you’ve belligerently beleaguered this bad omen
As you repudiated sloppiness
Until Ebonyi people regain to the fullest their lost freedom

Oh! The souls which sojourned in dungeon
And amassed the filthiness of its death
Can perspire oncemore in the refreshing
Wind of your ruthless sincerity
Freedom is sweet! Freedom is sweet!
As you lambaste the lameness
Lamentably their ploy to perpetually slowpoke
The people’s psyche

Governor Dave, you’ll forever be the meritorious souvenir
As you salvage the people from the interminable
Peremptory abasement of their respectable dignity
And together we abnegate them that swore
To exterminate the people’s expostulate
For their murderous despotism

The deplorable roads recuperation seemingly conspicuous
An indubitable evidence of your propitious and prophylactic touch
For the healing of the people’s destroyed ego
And the insanity in the transport system
You’ve painstakingly curbed like sedatives

With inestimable vigour, you cultivate the soil to the farmers’ delight
Ravishing the eaters’ table with bounteous edibles
And the intransigent starvation crucifying the people’s bond
Would be apprehended by your utterly
Resourceful doggedness to ouster
The deprivation like a depository upon the people

This governor is simply unquantifiable
A panache for the incurable decay on the health system
Raising with audacity porch hospitals
Even for the people with quack health centres
Mesmerizing the despots that preached it’s unattainable

With humane and generosity, you also add the salt
To the schools – from primary to tertiary
The people once mused, tagged artless and unlearned
Becoming the cynosures of the east
And no more, you bravely vowed
To condone any derogatory postulations of your beloved Ebonyians!

What more?
Governor extraordinaire!
The east is more enchanted
The nation is applauding
And the world stands still
To your performances yet unmatched!

BY
UNO UMEZ

Please, share until it gets to Governor David Umahi
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JAGABANISM
A politico-ballistic missile,
Stealthily yet unfalteringly
Decimating the obstreperous jabbers;
Opponents of a seemingly
Untrammelled phenomenon,
Swelling on such providential
Abetment so absolute
Again and again;
Albeit not like a storm
But with a meticulously orchestral
Choreographic setup,
Permeates the apparently
Impregnable bulwark
And they are left thunderstruck.
Now it poses indisputably
To the glare of their malignances
Though unrelenting
As they perfidiously lambaste
This pious enchantment
Rapidly engulfing the whole people
Home and abroad!

JAGABANISM
A politico-ballistic missile,
Stealthily yet unfalteringly
Decimating the obstreperous jabbers;
Opponents of a seemingly
Untrammelled phenomenon,
Swelling on such providential
Abetment so absolute
Again and again;
Albeit not like a storm
But with a meticulously orchestral
Choreographic setup,
Permeates the apparently
Impregnable bulwark
And they are left thunderstruck.
Now it poses indisputably
To the glare of their malignances
Though unrelenting
As they perfidiously lambaste
This pious enchantment
Rapidly engulfing the whole people
Home and abroad!

UNO UMEZ

JAGABANISM
A politico-ballistic missile,
Stealthily yet unfalteringly
Decimating the obstreperous jabbers;
Opponents of a seemingly
Untrammelled phenomenon,
Swelling on such providential
Abetment so absolute
Again and again;
Albeit not like a storm
But with a meticulously orchestral
Choreographic setup,
Permeates the apparently
Impregnable bulwark
And they are left thunderstruck.
Now it poses indisputably
To the glare of their malignances
Though unrelenting
As they perfidiously lambaste
This pious enchantment
Rapidly engulfing the whole people
Home and abroad!

UNO UMEZ

JAGABANISM
A politico-ballistic missile,
Stealthily yet unfalteringly
Decimating the obstreperous jabbers;
Opponents of a seemingly
Untrammelled phenomenon,
Swelling on such providential
Abetment so absolute
Again and again;
Albeit not like a storm
But with a meticulously orchestral
Choreographic setup,
Permeates the apparently
Impregnable bulwark
And they are left thunderstruck.
Now it poses indisputably
To the glare of their malignances
Though unrelenting
As they perfidiously lambaste
This pious enchantment
Rapidly engulfing the whole people
Home and abroad!

UNO UMEZ

JAGABANISM
A politico-ballistic missile,
Stealthily yet unfalteringly
Decimating the obstreperous jabbers;
Opponents of a seemingly
Untrammelled phenomenon,
Swelling on such providential
Abetment so absolute
Again and again;
Albeit not like a storm
But with a meticulously orchestral
Choreographic setup,
Permeates the apparently
Impregnable bulwark
And they are left thunderstruck.
Now it poses indisputably
To the glare of their malignances
Though unrelenting
As they perfidiously lambaste
This pious enchantment
Rapidly engulfing the whole people
Home and abroad!

UNO UMEZ

THE EXTRAORDINARY GOVERNOR – DAVE UMAHI
As fragile as an incubated baby
Your survival muddled in a cloak
Of stern hospitality
An obnoxious parenting, gyratory
Around the whispers of demagogic delusion
Then, a plethora of gybe to a mottled future
Yet in that stark oblivion
They nurtured you to perfection

Like a tender lily upon the hills and valleys
With obstreperous pebbles in the wind
They were the inevitable Achilles heel in the offing
And like the gibberellins – the inhibitors
Against your growth in surreptitious mien
Yet you greened not whithered

As unperturbed as a statuesque
Enduring the excruciating lam from the opposition
But like an epitome of spry intuition
You skidded while they were languishing
As the indisputable power of fate
Plunged you to the reign in the echelon

You were accompanied by a providential leverage
Professed by the peripatetic of the people
Like a plenipotentiary in plenitude of pleasantries
The toddlers, the teens cum the adults
Enough to convert the most skeptical
That your choice transcended man’s façade of intellectualism
But the singular sanctimonious conduit
For Ebonyi’s divine restoration

Your perspicacity flourished amidst
All malevolence orchestrated to sully your reputation
Such abhorrent abracadabra hardly writhed
The profundity of your perspicuity
Of the tormentors of Ebonyi people

Thank heavens you weren’t a proselyte
You unfurled the scroll of their mystified worship
To sponge the unpardonable malfeasances of the demi gods
And punctiliously enshrine into it
The sanctity of the Almighty God
So this prodigy gripped the mandate tenaciously
With the grit devoid of any pusillanimous trait
You started without any probationary aberration
And the ubiquity of your whooping transformational strides
Has left even the dummies thunderstruck

Like an irrepressible advocacy for change
As regenerative regimental onslaught
The surroundings of Abakaliki bloomed audaciously
Yet you vowed you’d not be an ombudsman
You retorted: ‘let the clenchy fangs of posterity
Grind those in schandenfreude’

Conscientiously, you pummeled the preposterous
Dereliction of the infrastructures
A consequence of the desuetude of public fund
While the fulfilled people are immersed
In multiferous felicitations as you trod
On the teeniest despicable despondency
That begrudged their greatness


As a canopy of elegant fatherhood
The planetarium in which no roguishness thrives
For their labyrinthine connotation over governance
And the unsuspecting people are sold dummy
While the one – upmanship soars
But you’ve belligerently beleaguered this bad omen
As you repudiated sloppiness
Until Ebonyi people regain to the fullest their lost freedom

Oh! The souls which sojourned in dungeon
And amassed the filthiness of its death
Can perspire oncemore in the refreshing
Wind of your ruthless sincerity
Freedom is sweet! Freedom is sweet!
As you lambaste the lameness
Lamentably their ploy to perpetually slowpoke
The people’s psyche

Governor Dave, you’ll forever be the meritorious souvenir
As you salvage the people from the interminable
Peremptory abasement of their respectable dignity
And together we abnegate them that swore
To exterminate the people’s expostulate
For their murderous despotism

The deplorable roads recuperation seemingly conspicuous
An indubitable evidence of your propitious and prophylactic touch
For the healing of the people’s destroyed ego
And the insanity in the transport system
You’ve painstakingly curbed like sedatives

With inestimable vigour, you cultivate the soil to the farmers’ delight
Ravishing the eaters’ table with bounteous edibles
And the intransigent starvation crucifying the people’s bond
Would be apprehended by your utterly
Resourceful doggedness to ouster
The deprivation like a depository upon the people

This governor is simply unquantifiable
A panache for the incurable decay on the health system
Raising with audacity porch hospitals
Even for the people with quack health centres
Mesmerizing the despots that preached it’s unattainable

With humane and generosity, you also add the salt
To the schools – from primary to tertiary
The people once mused, tagged artless and unlearned
Becoming the cynosures of the east
And no more, you bravely vowed
To condone any derogatory postulations of your beloved Ebonyians!

What more?
Governor extraordinaire!
The east is more enchanted
The nation is applauding
And the world stands still
To your performances yet unmatched!

BY
UNO UMEZ

Please, share until it gets to Governor David Umahi

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THE EXTRAORDINARY GOVERNOR – DAVE UMAHI
As fragile as an incubated baby
Your survival muddled in a cloak
Of stern hospitality
An obnoxious parenting, gyratory
Around the whispers of demagogic delusion
Then, a plethora of gybe to a mottled future
Yet in that stark oblivion
They nurtured you to perfection

Like a tender lily upon the hills and valleys
With obstreperous pebbles in the wind
They were the inevitable Achilles heel in the offing
And like the gibberellins – the inhibitors
Against your growth in surreptitious mien
Yet you greened not whithered

As unperturbed as a statuesque
Enduring the excruciating lam from the opposition
But like an epitome of spry intuition
You skidded while they were languishing
As the indisputable power of fate
Plunged you to the reign in the echelon

You were accompanied by a providential leverage
Professed by the peripatetic of the people
Like a plenipotentiary in plenitude of pleasantries
The toddlers, the teens cum the adults
Enough to convert the most skeptical
That your choice transcended man’s façade of intellectualism
But the singular sanctimonious conduit
For Ebonyi’s divine restoration

Your perspicacity flourished amidst
All malevolence orchestrated to sully your reputation
Such abhorrent abracadabra hardly writhed
The profundity of your perspicuity
Of the tormentors of Ebonyi people

Thank heavens you weren’t a proselyte
You unfurled the scroll of their mystified worship
To sponge the unpardonable malfeasances of the demi gods
And punctiliously enshrine into it
The sanctity of the Almighty God
So this prodigy gripped the mandate tenaciously
With the grit devoid of any pusillanimous trait
You started without any probationary aberration
And the ubiquity of your whooping transformational strides
Has left even the dummies thunderstruck

Like an irrepressible advocacy for change
As regenerative regimental onslaught
The surroundings of Abakaliki bloomed audaciously
Yet you vowed you’d not be an ombudsman
You retorted: ‘let the clenchy fangs of posterity
Grind those in schandenfreude’

Conscientiously, you pummeled the preposterous
Dereliction of the infrastructures
A consequence of the desuetude of public fund
While the fulfilled people are immersed
In multiferous felicitations as you trod
On the teeniest despicable despondency
That begrudged their greatness


As a canopy of elegant fatherhood
The planetarium in which no roguishness thrives
For their labyrinthine connotation over governance
And the unsuspecting people are sold dummy
While the one – upmanship soars
But you’ve belligerently beleaguered this bad omen
As you repudiated sloppiness
Until Ebonyi people regain to the fullest their lost freedom

Oh! The souls which sojourned in dungeon
And amassed the filthiness of its death
Can perspire oncemore in the refreshing
Wind of your ruthless sincerity
Freedom is sweet! Freedom is sweet!
As you lambaste the lameness
Lamentably their ploy to perpetually slowpoke
The people’s psyche

Governor Dave, you’ll forever be the meritorious souvenir
As you salvage the people from the interminable
Peremptory abasement of their respectable dignity
And together we abnegate them that swore
To exterminate the people’s expostulate
For their murderous despotism

The deplorable roads recuperation seemingly conspicuous
An indubitable evidence of your propitious and prophylactic touch
For the healing of the people’s destroyed ego
And the insanity in the transport system
You’ve painstakingly curbed like sedatives

With inestimable vigour, you cultivate the soil to the farmers’ delight
Ravishing the eaters’ table with bounteous edibles
And the intransigent starvation crucifying the people’s bond
Would be apprehended by your utterly
Resourceful doggedness to ouster
The deprivation like a depository upon the people

This governor is simply unquantifiable
A panache for the incurable decay on the health system
Raising with audacity porch hospitals
Even for the people with quack health centres
Mesmerizing the despots that preached it’s unattainable

With humane and generosity, you also add the salt
To the schools – from primary to tertiary
The people once mused, tagged artless and unlearned
Becoming the cynosures of the east
And no more, you bravely vowed
To condone any derogatory postulations of your beloved Ebonyians!

What more?
Governor extraordinaire!
The east is more enchanted
The nation is applauding
And the world stands still
To your performances yet unmatched!

BY
UNO UMEZ

Please. share until it gets to the governor.

Thank you.

THE EXTRAORDINARY GOVERNOR – DAVE UMAHI
As fragile as an incubated baby
Your survival muddled in a cloak
Of stern hospitality
An obnoxious parenting, gyratory
Around the whispers of demagogic delusion
Then, a plethora of gybe to a mottled future
Yet in that stark oblivion
They nurtured you to perfection

Like a tender lily upon the hills and valleys
With obstreperous pebbles in the wind
They were the inevitable Achilles heel in the offing
And like the gibberellins – the inhibitors
Against your growth in surreptitious mien
Yet you greened not whithered

As unperturbed as a statuesque
Enduring the excruciating lam from the opposition
But like an epitome of spry intuition
You skidded while they were languishing
As the indisputable power of fate
Plunged you to the reign in the echelon

You were accompanied by a providential leverage
Professed by the peripatetic of the people
Like a plenipotentiary in plenitude of pleasantries
The toddlers, the teens cum the adults
Enough to convert the most skeptical
That your choice transcended man’s façade of intellectualism
But the singular sanctimonious conduit
For Ebonyi’s divine restoration

Your perspicacity flourished amidst
All malevolence orchestrated to sully your reputation
Such abhorrent abracadabra hardly writhed
The profundity of your perspicuity
Of the tormentors of Ebonyi people

Thank heavens you weren’t a proselyte
You unfurled the scroll of their mystified worship
To sponge the unpardonable malfeasances of the demi gods
And punctiliously enshrine into it
The sanctity of the Almighty God
So this prodigy gripped the mandate tenaciously
With the grit devoid of any pusillanimous trait
You started without any probationary aberration
And the ubiquity of your whooping transformational strides
Has left even the dummies thunderstruck

Like an irrepressible advocacy for change
As regenerative regimental onslaught
The surroundings of Abakaliki bloomed audaciously
Yet you vowed you’d not be an ombudsman
You retorted: ‘let the clenchy fangs of posterity
Grind those in schandenfreude’

Conscientiously, you pummeled the preposterous
Dereliction of the infrastructures
A consequence of the desuetude of public fund
While the fulfilled people are immersed
In multiferous felicitations as you trod
On the teeniest despicable despondency
That begrudged their greatness


As a canopy of elegant fatherhood
The planetarium in which no roguishness thrives
For their labyrinthine connotation over governance
And the unsuspecting people are sold dummy
While the one – upmanship soars
But you’ve belligerently beleaguered this bad omen
As you repudiated sloppiness
Until Ebonyi people regain to the fullest their lost freedom

Oh! The souls which sojourned in dungeon
And amassed the filthiness of its death
Can perspire oncemore in the refreshing
Wind of your ruthless sincerity
Freedom is sweet! Freedom is sweet!
As you lambaste the lameness
Lamentably their ploy to perpetually slowpoke
The people’s psyche

Governor Dave, you’ll forever be the meritorious souvenir
As you salvage the people from the interminable
Peremptory abasement of their respectable dignity
And together we abnegate them that swore
To exterminate the people’s expostulate
For their murderous despotism

The deplorable roads recuperation seemingly conspicuous
An indubitable evidence of your propitious and prophylactic touch
For the healing of the people’s destroyed ego
And the insanity in the transport system
You’ve painstakingly curbed like sedatives

With inestimable vigour, you cultivate the soil to the farmers’ delight
Ravishing the eaters’ table with bounteous edibles
And the intransigent starvation crucifying the people’s bond
Would be apprehended by your utterly
Resourceful doggedness to ouster
The deprivation like a depository upon the people

This governor is simply unquantifiable
A panache for the incurable decay on the health system
Raising with audacity porch hospitals
Even for the people with quack health centres
Mesmerizing the despots that preached it’s unattainable

With humane and generosity, you also add the salt
To the schools – from primary to tertiary
The people once mused, tagged artless and unlearned
Becoming the cynosures of the east
And no more, you bravely vowed
To condone any derogatory postulations of your beloved Ebonyians!

What more?
Governor extraordinaire!
The east is more enchanted
The nation is applauding
And the world stands still
To your performances yet unmatched!

BY
UNO UMEZ

Please, share until it gets to Governor David Umahi

THE EXTRAORDINARY GOVERNOR – DAVE UMAHI
As fragile as an incubated baby
Your survival muddled in a cloak
Of stern hospitality
An obnoxious parenting, gyratory
Around the whispers of demagogic delusion
Then, a plethora of gybe to a mottled future
Yet in that stark oblivion
They nurtured you to perfection

Like a tender lily upon the hills and valleys
With obstreperous pebbles in the wind
They were the inevitable Achilles heel in the offing
And like the gibberellins – the inhibitors
Against your growth in surreptitious mien
Yet you greened not whithered

As unperturbed as a statuesque
Enduring the excruciating lam from the opposition
But like an epitome of spry intuition
You skidded while they were languishing
As the indisputable power of fate
Plunged you to the reign in the echelon

You were accompanied by a providential leverage
Professed by the peripatetic of the people
Like a plenipotentiary in plenitude of pleasantries
The toddlers, the teens cum the adults
Enough to convert the most skeptical
That your choice transcended man’s façade of intellectualism
But the singular sanctimonious conduit
For Ebonyi’s divine restoration

Your perspicacity flourished amidst
All malevolence orchestrated to sully your reputation
Such abhorrent abracadabra hardly writhed
The profundity of your perspicuity
Of the tormentors of Ebonyi people

Thank heavens you weren’t a proselyte
You unfurled the scroll of their mystified worship
To sponge the unpardonable malfeasances of the demi gods
And punctiliously enshrine into it
The sanctity of the Almighty God
So this prodigy gripped the mandate tenaciously
With the grit devoid of any pusillanimous trait
You started without any probationary aberration
And the ubiquity of your whooping transformational strides
Has left even the dummies thunderstruck

Like an irrepressible advocacy for change
As regenerative regimental onslaught
The surroundings of Abakaliki bloomed audaciously
Yet you vowed you’d not be an ombudsman
You retorted: ‘let the clenchy fangs of posterity
Grind those in schandenfreude’

Conscientiously, you pummeled the preposterous
Dereliction of the infrastructures
A consequence of the desuetude of public fund
While the fulfilled people are immersed
In multiferous felicitations as you trod
On the teeniest despicable despondency
That begrudged their greatness


As a canopy of elegant fatherhood
The planetarium in which no roguishness thrives
For their labyrinthine connotation over governance
And the unsuspecting people are sold dummy
While the one – upmanship soars
But you’ve belligerently beleaguered this bad omen
As you repudiated sloppiness
Until Ebonyi people regain to the fullest their lost freedom

Oh! The souls which sojourned in dungeon
And amassed the filthiness of its death
Can perspire oncemore in the refreshing
Wind of your ruthless sincerity
Freedom is sweet! Freedom is sweet!
As you lambaste the lameness
Lamentably their ploy to perpetually retard
The people’s psyche

Governor Dave, you’ll forever be the meritorious souvenir
As you salvage the people from the interminable
Peremptory abasement of their respectable dignity
And together we abnegate them that swore
To exterminate the people’s expostulate
For their murderous despotism

The deplorable roads recuperation seemingly conspicuous
An indubitable evidence of your propitious and prophylactic touch
For the healing of the people’s destroyed ego
And the insanity in the transport system
You’ve painstakingly curbed like sedatives

With inestimable vigour, you cultivate the soil to the farmers’ delight
Ravishing the eaters’ table with bounteous edibles
And the intransigent starvation crucifying the people’s bond
Would be apprehended by your utterly
Resourceful doggedness to ouster
The deprivation like a depository upon the people

This governor is simply unquantifiable
A panache for the incurable decay on the health system
Raising with audacity porch hospitals
Even for the people with quack health centres
Mesmerizing the despots that preached it’s unattainable

With humane and generosity, you also add the salt
To the schools – from primary to tertiary
The people once mused, tagged artless and unlearned
Becoming the cynosures of the east
And no more, you bravely vowed
To condone any derogatory postulations of your beloved Ebonyians!

What more?
Governor extraordinaire!
The east is more enchanted
The nation is applauding
And the world stands still
To your performances yet unmatched!

BY
UNO UMEZ

Please, share until it gets to Governor David Umahi.

MY DEAR STATE – ENUGU
The land is towering in majestic cragginess
Bequeathed on folds from ages past told
Valleys of classic elegance
Of great synchronizing dance
From East to West beginning
To the North unending
The Rivers of Oji and Idodo
Refreshing and relishing this belle
The sun of the East
Meticulously tucked in
By the sinless fingers amidst
Verdant trees of effusively flourishing rainforest
Vintage on the crust with outstanding fertility
A gorgeous demure
With her customized face
Defying unfettered resistance by the Britons
Led by Mr. Kitson, a geologist in 1909
Mesmerized by the beauty spot
Helplessly to their knees in plea
For a stint of romance
With this paragon of beauty on the highland
A huge woman of unfading virtue
Her impeccable characters expounded her inestimable value
The eulogy of her worthiness
The glowing testimony of her greatness
Titillating enormously her admirers astounded by her glory
Agaped as they unanimously rapped in sonority
‘Black is indeed beautiful’
Oh! It was the enchanting black gold, as it were
Her uncorrupted breasts outstanding
In unrivaled loftiness that induced the captivation
Then, this stupendously a damsel
Became the toast of every suitor
From the seven corners of the earth –
An alteration relishing, a vindication of her beauty
So men flowed into her like ocean
Black and white akin
While her wealth soar like a kite
Even beyond the sky
It was truly a woo galore
As they fell in turn with fun
Sometimes with ungainly pledges
But only a ploy to exploit and explore
The breast of this quintessential bride
And then, for a means to siphon her sanctified bosom
They assiduously rolled out a rail for trains
And a seaport in Port to convey her charm
Across her borders and transform the sheer ugliness
Besetting their own faces
In 1915, her virginity was broken
And she delivered the expensive black gold
That lit the entire universe
Yet it brought her fame which also became her name
Extravagantly glamorous and honourably thunderous
The attraction to the East
The tripod of our nation’s feast
A gem of exquisite disposition
Exhuming her hidden treasure
As she became the finest creature
An eagle among chickens as
In 1929, she was crowned with the capital
Of the Eastern Region – the seat of political engineering
The porch for indomitable genii
The rally point of the Igbo race
From the four cardinal points
Pivoted by the most dignified aborigines predominantly agrarian
Naturally hospitable with scintillating vernacular
And English Language spoken as modicum as possible
Rich in agricultural resources too
Like cassava, palm oil, rice, cashew, banana
Feeding graciously the sojourners with energy
To diligently discover the most latent of her beauty
In furtherance annunciating her elegance
To the nooks and cranny yet uncharmed
An undisputable scenery of valleys and highlands
A picturesque extraordinary within
Awgu – Udi – Nsukka hills
And a lot of meandering streams and rivulets
Including Ekulu, Nyama, Nvene and Ajalli
Collectively massaging her fertility
Indubitably, the most serene in the country
Coupled with her unparalleled beauty
The art of international business thrived tremendously
As John Holt, Kingsway Stores and UBA West Africa
Became her foremost lover with activities salubrious
To the bride and an upliftment to her pride
A home for notable political juggernauts and great compatriots
Like Zik of Africa, Dr. Michael Okpara, Dr. Akanu Ibiam,
Alex Ekwueme, C. C. Onoh and Odimegwu Ojukwu
All of blessed memory, and Jim Nwobodo
Men of unquantifiable valour
That earnestly fought with great savour
Extremely down-to-earth
Just to keep undiminished this unquenchable light
On top of the cuesta – from the Eastern Region to the old Anambra State
The illumination has been boundless, generous and truly wholesome
So on August 27, 1991 her fame became so firm
As the nomenclature was never the same
Magnifying the celebrated pageant – an appreciation
For her indispensable roles from the day of our nation’s birth
And so ENUGU STATE was born
With the bride as her heart!
Albeit in 1996 as she rarely found her borders
Another baby was delivered of her –
Five of the bride’s newest siblings subsided with the trough
And then, there were the sweet seventeen musketeers
Just like the bride, her siblings are on the ride:
Resilient and charming; industrious and tolerable
And it’s so prominent in Aninri, just like her name
A food basket indeed
Next is Awgu with the sobriquet ‘Anike’
As strong as the name sounds
Check out the graceful Enugu East
Only generous to a fault
With the unconquerable Enugu North
The birth place of the bride
We’ve the adorable Enugu South
The bride’s helping hand
And the gentle Ezeagu
A plus to her strength
There is the tactful Igbo Etiti
Calculative in all her moves
With the amiable Igbo Eze North
And the adorable Igbo Eze South
Cultivating the glorious soils
As the marvelous Nkanu East
Applies diligence as her gain
Followed by Nsukka,
The only citadel of learning
And the humble Oji River
So amiable in all
As the reliable Udenu
Remains focused and upright
While the eloquent Udi
Defends the rights of the bride
As the last but not the least
The sassy Uzo-uwani
The seal of her reputation
All couched on magnificent royalty
In their various domains
So subdivided into three prominently fraternal senatorial zones
Of West, East and North
The land of milk and honey
Incubating a living population of over 3 million
With trading and services the fulcrum of urbanization
Well planned, clean – the enchantment
To the growing vast industrial base
With an upsurge in rural areas as well
Credence to her bloom in diverse raw materials
Of human and natural endowments
Topping the irresistible fragrance
Of her festivities like those great festivals
Uniting her people and showcasing
Her exclusively untainted cultural inclinations
Oh, my dear State, the place of heavenly crafted natural features
And not just the hills but in caves, falls, springs and lakes
Marking her excellence in tourism sites
As well as her exceptional feat in hospitality concerns
She became widely famous too
For her early exploits in education
With the presence of Nigeria’s first indigenous university
She grows irrepressibly from strength to strength
In stature, wisdom and in all ramifications
Evident in her residents: natives and visitors are alike
This brimming overflowing clout
That outrightly made her stout
Hinges on a pedigree of such an administrative prowess
With enormous degree anchored from inception
By men of great reputation
They include Colonel Herbert Obi Eze
Followed by her first executive governor, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo
But like a comet, the civilian rule went like the fastest rocket
As the military regained power
With Navy Captain Temi Ejoor, holding the flower
Consecutively, with Mike Torey and Sule Ahman
Both of the rank of colonel
But Navy Captain Benson Agbaje ended their era
Ushering in a new dawn and so it spread throughout the nation
As Dr. Chimaroke Nnamani mounted the saddle
An interlude to a period of great movement –
A relief to her people for another midas touch came
From Barrister Sullivan Chime, a great achiever
And now she has a leader with untold compassion for all
With Right Honourable Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi
Coal City is adding more colourful feathers
This gentleman is making Enugu State younger, livelier
And more peaceful – like the world’s best gallery
So we pray that ENUGU STATE LIVES ON…


WRITTEN BY
UNO UMEZ

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