The Biafran: Akume

Wednesday, 22 April 2015

Battle for Senate Presidency threatens APC: North East strategizes to wrest top position from the Middlebelt

The ongoing jostling for the Senate Presidency position is threatening the All Progressive Congress (APC), amidst bribery allegations. The Middlebelt and the North East are currently on a collision course.

According to PointBlank News, the bitter battle between Senate Minority Leader George Akume and Senator Bukola Saraki over who should succeed Senate President David Mark after May 29 may have thrown up Senator Ahmad Lawan. The Yobe-born Senator Lawan is chairman, Senate committee on Public Accounts.

Republic of Biafra Anthem

Land of rising sun, we love and cherish,
Beloved homeland of our brave heroes;
We must defend our lives or we shall perish,
We shall protect our hearts from all our foes;
But if the price is death for all we hold dear,
Then let us die without a shred of fear.

Hail to Biafra, consecrated nation,
O fatherland, this be our solemn pledge:
Defending thee shall be a dedication,
Spilling our blood we’ll count a privilege;
The waving standard which emboldens the free
Shall always be our flag of liberty.

We shall emerge triumphant from this ordeal,
And through the crucible unscathed we’ll pass;
When we are poised the wounds of battle to heal,
We shall remember those who died in mass;
Then shall our trumpets peal the glorious song
Of victory we scored o’er might and wrong.

Oh God, protect us from the hidden pitfall,
Guide all our movements lest we go astray;
Give us the strength to heed the humanist call:
To give and not to count the cost’ each day;
Bless those who rule to serve with resoluteness,
To make this clime a land of righteousness.

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Wednesday, 22 April 2015

Battle for Senate Presidency threatens APC: North East strategizes to wrest top position from the Middlebelt