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What Am I Supposed To Do

What I am supposed to do When everything around me has gone crazy? What am I supposed to do When my beloved country Chooses the path to perdition Rather than moral rectitude? What am I supposed to do When millions of my compatriots happily Wallow in criminal poverty While insignificant few parasite on our Commonwealth As Lords and masters of our Collective destiny? What am I supposed to do When my country men Cannot sleep with two eyes closed As terrorists and kidnappers Have become our eternal nemesis ? What am I supposed to do When a new opportunity is On the horizon But my compatriots prefer the status quo Hobnobbing with their slave masters? What I am supposed to do When the hope for a new Nigeria Keeps slipping through our fingers At every election cycle? 2023 elections are around the corner Nigerians must get it right this time I cry and point to the right direction So that my compatriots can follow That is what I am supposed to do Stand up Nigerians Take back your country!

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Date: 12/12/2022 12:28:00 AM
Dear Augustine, My heart breaks for you and Nigeria and all the other oppressed peoples. It seems that civilization is a thin crust over a savage reality. And that applies to every nation I can think of. Elizabeth
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Augustine Ogoegbunam Eseke
Date: 12/12/2022 12:47:00 AM
Thank you Elizabeth! That is the sad reality but there is hope in the horizon for Nigerians and Nigeria.

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