June 12 (The Stolen Mandate) Poem by Uche Nwanze

June 12, victory of the Ballot over the Bullet.
The people spoke in one voice.
June 12, the day our votes counted.
June 12, mandate conceived, mandate stolen.
Option A4, a code that broke the norm.
Millions united in one voice.
North and South wed in matrimony.
Muslim and Christian without Religion.
Muslim Muslim ticket, no eye brows raised.
Integrity test they pass. The people hunger for their government.
The people tired of fellow Nigerians slogan
The boys in khaki could not fathom the surge.
To the barracks, they would return.
Hiding In their cocoons, as was in the beginning.
June 12, the Day sleep was murdered.
June12, the day, Democracy was raped.
The day Peace stolen from us.
Our democracy in the dock, manacles on her heels.
Democracy under trial, in the gulag they bury.
Democracy in tears, our fears smear our faces.
The country in topsy turvy, the autopsy an annulment a stillbirth.
our economy running amok.
The people lost faith, fate unkind.
Mandate to liberate, mandate stolen.
MKO is our man o, the anthem gone silent.
On the march again, our voices gone hoarse.
June 12, the ghost haunt and taunt our sleep.
Charlatans feigning Champions of Democracy.
Reaping from where they did not sow, beneficiary of a cause they never believed in.
Politicians affiliation to June 12, hypocrites stealing the ballots, our votes for bazaar sales.
Democracy day, they christened it.
Public holiday, they gazetted it.
Democracy day, no amnesty for the travesty.
Democracy day, albeit our wounds be healed the cicatrice indelible.
Democracy day, our broken hearts will not be assuaged.
June 12 be slain, will never die.
June 12, forever in our hearts.
June 12, we will never forget.