By Steve Osuji
I have been struck by de ja vu
Struck in the face I felt a vuum
1993, about 30 years ago
MKO won election free and fair
They voided it and Nigeria plunged into the abyss
P.Obi wins election 30 years after
They steal his mandate…
And pointed him to the courts
’93 Election Observers booed
Nigeria became a pariah
’23 Nigeria’s becoming a pariah state
The world is sniggering
Like 1993, like 2023…
… 30 years ago, 30 years today
Nothing has changed!
Government became desperate and engaged vultures
Vulture T. Ikimi hefted mega estacodes
Went on foreign junket
Vulture L. Mohammed hauls a bullion
Off on foreign junket
Image launder as money launder
Abacha marched down on home media
Ikimi feted western media
Mohammed bludgeons home channels
And cavorts with American media
Ever seen an American official explaining American politics in Nigeria?
Like 1993, like 2023…
… 30 years ago, 30 years today
Nothing has changed!
30 years ago Vulture Ikimi shuttled America
(Vultures eating from the carrion of national crises)
30 years after vulture Mohammed shuttles America
How they laugh us to scorn
Questioning our very DNA
What do you tell a man who knows you more than you
What do you tell a man who daily navigates your nudity
What do you tell a man who daily
Endures your stupidity
Your dripping nose stupidity…
Like 1993, like 2023…
… 30 years ago, 30 years today
Nothing has changed!
Vulture Ikimi told them no political prisoner in Abacha gulag
But they merely chuckled at the scruffy ruffian
Vulture Mohammed tells them INEC pulled the plug from election server to ward off attack
Like destroying your soul to save body!
But it’s a damned lie!
APC breached server to steal mandate
Vulture Mohammed has ample capacity to make white black
He paints Obi black: victim is villain
Winner of a stolen mandate is a felon
A treasonable felon!
But there are lies…
There are foolish lies
And there are foolish man’s lies
Like 1993, like 2023…
… 30 years ago, 30 years today
Nothing has changed!
A foolish man is adept at foolish lies
Vulture Mohammed never addressed home media
Vulture Mohammed never addressed Nigerians
When did he last speak to us
We haven’t seen him for a while
But he trots the globe feeding off the cadaver of a self-made catastrophe
It’s like re-looting a loot
Like 1993, like 2023…
… 30 years ago, 30 years today
Nothing has changed!
A simple election process
Long perfected across ages and climes
A press-button implement
To capture and upload data
A well programmed process
Working like magic
Until Vulture Mohammed and APC poked filthy fingers in it
A simple civilised process subverted by Vultures, power mongrels and kleptocrats
Like 1993, like 2023…
… 30 years ago, 30 years today
Nothing has changed!
30 years of stunted growth
And arrested development
A democracy advocate yesterday (Mohammed)
Anti-democracy hound today
Champagne democrats
Bare-necked Vultures, preying on the entrails of the people… 30 years…
Nothing has changed!
Osuji, prolific writer, columnist, former member Editorial Board, The Nation Newspapers, was Media Adviser to former Imo State Governor, Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha
