Caging Smart-Alec Braggadocio By Austin Isikhuemen
Call it a marriage made in heaven
The Gubernator and the Deputizer
Widely acclaimed as the perfect duo
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Theirs, the partnership exemplar
Wasn’t Edo cited by analysts and onlookers
As the model, where the first and second
Distinguished by their indistinguishableness
Their union impregnable to even fifth columnists
Did Emanton not insist, at great political risk
That snail and its shell must be accommodated
Even when it made immense moral sense
That umbrella owner must enjoy the shelter too?
Deputiser once provided his sharpened knife
Hidden near his unsuspecting mentor’s backyard
At the time its use was inevitably expedient
Drained political lifeblood of the khaki-ed potentate
Wasn’t Edo the envy of Deputizers nationwide
Who were merely used as deaf-mute spare tyres
While at Osadebe Avenue batons changed hands
Each time stressed Gubernator took deserved rest?
Was there really a scenario of perfidious manouevre
Where Deputiser moved in the shadows
To erect a legislative edifice in his image and likeness
A few enemies recruited to make potent numbers?
The protocol breaches said to be legion
Where “one” seats before “two” saunters in?
Shaking hands with already seated superiors
Whose number twos quietly seat in the shadows
Could this divorce of the nationally envied couple
Have been accelerated by the initial faux pas
The “follow” publicly disagreeing with pronouncements
Made by the “lead” when Chairman Ayu came calling?
Would these new outlandish maneuvers really help
Achieve permanent residency at Osadebe Avenue
With smoke-filled primaries that looked like secondaries
Held at the residence of a partisan contestant?
Did the proverbial madman really say so?
That the fire he set was at Airport Road
And he knew nothing about the one
Said to be burning at King Square?
The formerly inseparable couple expects a baby
Would it be still-born, suffocated by a placenta
Swallowed in greed before delivery in labour ward?
Twenty-four-man conclave’s gavel hangs in the air
9th March 2024 – Austin Isikhuemen
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