Executive Mandates
written by: Nsah Mala
@nsahmala1
In any country on earth,
once political surgeons
butcher limits to executive mandates,
using the term constitution becomes
a democratic blasphemy,
a constitutional sacrilege,
a political abomination,
a demoncrazic neologism,
a dictatorial normalcy.
No limits on mandates means
as long as I am alive
and can rig.
Now I am king; wait until I go.
Worst is when electoral organ
is subsection of a royal party;
when all village titleholders
pay blind allegiance to Igwe
and are obliged to meddle in
feather counting. Can add feathers!
Aren’t they landlords? Civil chefs!
And we keep renting our land!
In such contexts,
ballots lose their validity;
they become as useless as
raised fingers of a corpse
in a family meeting.
Going to polls loses its allure;
it becomes sheer rehearsal
until when democracy rises again
like Jesus Christ
or when Igwe gets missing.
Long live the King!
(© Nsah Mala, St Andrews)
- Executive Mandates - July 20, 2017
