“He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.” ― George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara
“Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.” ― Bertrand Russell, New Hopes for a Changing World
“I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician”
― Charlie Chaplin
Odun nlo sopin o
Baba mimo
Fiso re so mi o baba rere
Ohun ti o pa mi l’ekun o
Lodun titun, ma je ko sele si mi o
Baba rere
(The year is coming to an end, good Lord,keep me save my good father,Whatever will make me cry in the new year, don’t allow it to happen to me, my good father)
The year is changing
its working dress,
it’s putting on its pajamas
preparatory towards sleeping.
the twelve steps is almost
being completed.
the year is
in the final subject
for the school’s final year
it’s preparing to graduate.
tarry a while ! please, tarry a while!
what have you done
chief Madaru the politician
Madaru the pseudo leader?.
have you not chased power
to exhaustion level?
have you not
started pursuing power
from the year’s beginning
without catching it?
tarry a while! tarry a while !
how many herbalists
have you consulted?
how many vows
have you taken?
how many lives
have you taken?
can we talk of those
whom you’ve wrecked?
how many good names
have you trampled on
in your mad rush
for power?
tarry a while! tarry a while
chief Madaru
the Professor of ruse
tarry a while!
is power that necessary?
that you will
sell your children into slavery?
is power that intoxicating
that you lose everything
to gain it?
is it so permanent,
that you’ll sell
your soul like Mephistopheles’?
Chief Madaru is power the elixir
that you care less
for anybody
if you can only survive?
tarry a while! ! tarry a while !
are you
so power conscious
that you become blind?
to those eternal truths
that move a man?
has justice jumped
out of your heart?
is your conscience
so hardened
that you now
have a heart of stone?
is power so necessary
that you play on truth
and juggle honesty?
is power worth
the compromise,
the accursed flexibility,
and sell outs
in the dark?
tarry a while ! chief Madaru,
tarry a while !
do you ever remember
that power does not belong
to you?
have you ever thought
of its source?
are you not pursuing
a nebulous entity?
a fragile concept
as temporary
as the morning dew
in sunlight?
tarry a while ! tarry a while !
is money, power and influence
your riding aims here?
have you asked about those
who have powers before you?
do you wonder about the leaders
of yesteryears?
have you thought of
the powers that be
some epochs back
who remember them now?
tarry a while ! my brother,
tarry a while !
come,
when you have ten mansions,
are you going to sleep
in all the same time?
when you possess
twenty one vehicles?
are you going to ride
in all the same time?
is this year’s unbridled rush
after power and influence
worth it?
tarry a while? tarry a while !
why don’t you ask yourself
what your Creator wants you
to do?
or
do you think you are just
a perchance creation here?
do you ever reflect on why
your creator places
your in that corridor?
don’t you sometime think
on why you are given
these opportunities?
as the new year knocks
at the door
stop, search your mind
tarry a while ! tarry a while !
ayékòótóFMD 