As Always – A Dirge By Dauda Yillah, United Kingdom As Always My heart bleeds for our motherland Murderous madness masquerading as democratic politics is again at work The Incumbent must win at all costs It has been so decreed The census, a statistical fudge and fakery And the bogus voter registration exercise that came in its wake All foretold a season of bloody electoral harvest A monstrous harvest of the lives of political opponents Real and imagined Soyinka's Kongi's Harvest comes to (.
