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THEY HAVE GONE TO KANO, By Kunle Wizeman Ajayi

FILE
November 17, 2023

After the Owerri daylight robbery
Using their pals on the bench
To Perfect
What they couldn't
At the ballot.

Alaseju fariga
Onipe kilotukun
Eni laye lolaaye!
The trespasser don vex
Wetin con remain
Na who get earth get Life

When the Spithouse fell
And the umbrella torn
It was just a chilling rain
The storms were only humming
But so so Yakata
The packs fell like cards
A land on the cliff edge
A people on a skeletal muscle
Dancing on the precipice
The hen overfed
And sees the birds perching
Flies onto the rope
Instead of the tall trees
For both are high.

Alaseju fariga
Onipe kilotukun
Eni laye lolaaye!
The trespasser don vex
Wetin con remain
Na who get earth get Life

While the beds keep singing
At each turn of perching
Oga hen no fit slay
For the rope keeps dangling
Headaches for ropes,
Hypertension for hen
Niamey didn't burge
But to send off Paris
Ojuyobo only boasted
His jet couldn't jump
Even near the borders
No one dares the hills
When the ants are soldering

Alaseju fariga
Onipe kilotukun
Eni laye lolaaye!
The trespasser don vex
Wetin con remain
Na who get earth get Life

Cardozo still dey bamboozle
Paying influencers to trend
Against Aboki and other FXs
As if first come na first serve
Wetin don try tire
And bald head still dey junket
From Kirikiri to Kuje
As Aso keeping Aro
as rock instead of hospital
I don trabaye
Portable say street na school
And even if you fly
You still gass breeze pas street
To varsity and vast cities
I say I don trabaye
What is loud is beyond Colorado
Where Daddy GO changed the weather
If not for water and glucose
Omo Pastor for enter earth go!

Alaseju fariga
Onipe kilotukun
Eni laye lolaaye!
The trespasser don vex
Wetin con remain
Na who get earth get Life

I hate to warn
Those who must fall
For majority to rise
I am not Baba Kekere
Speaking with all mouths
For here, and so there
I can only say
As Yankuzo urged
The hawks are close to Kano
Whether dem clear road or not,
But for the people's true victory;
It's neither Kabir nor Gawuna!