The Harvest! by Adewale Sobowale

Nigerians are very ready for the Christmas festivities; this December will be very dirty!

Almost everybody is getting money from the various political gladiators. I’m even considering going back home to get my share of the national cake.

May Olodumare bless those who organized the elections for January 2027.

Those abroad can keep their financial assistance at least for now. Yes, Nigerians at home now pick money from the streets.

What with all the money coming from left, right, sides, centre, ground and even the heavens.

We hardly need to belong to any political party. All we need is to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds. 

We’re spared of the hazardous responsibility of committing ourselves to any ideology or even manifesto. That would be a waste of valuable time.

At least, our politricians, sorry politicians arebehaving by putting money in our pockets.

That’s the beauty of demoncrazy in Nigeria.

After the elections, we would be left to our own devices. Nobody is thinking of electricity, food, jobs, security, and other basic amenities for now.

Indeed, they’re burdensome distractions. All we’re after is the money being privided by the fat cats.

We have come to an arrangement that this season – the campaign season – is meant for us.

Isn’t that enough?

Politicians will have the remaining forty-something months to do whatever they want with the treasury. 

Such a wonderful arrangement!

We’re enjoying the harvest!

The future, our future, will definitely take care of itself after the elections, when we must have finished the harvest.

O dun egun a tan, omo alagba a fi ekuru j’eko!

The masquerade festival will definitely come to an end, and the child of the chief priest will descend to eat cornmeal with bean pudding, something considered infra dig, when we were enjoying.

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