A Rankashidade who never left the throne, by Andrew Agbese

Long before he mounted the throne, Rankashidade told the world, it was his ambition, vision and mission, To ascend the throne, of his fathers.

Long before he was turbaned,
Rankashidade’s gaze has been,
on the turban.
Not long after he was turbaned,
however,
The diadem,
fell off his royal head.

Someone referred to him as former emir,
It was adjudged sacrilegious,
Emirs reign for lifetime,
They cannot be separated from their thrones,
His second coming as proof.

He came in a hail,
of controversy,
Was removed in a bale,
of controversy,
Now returning hale in hearty controversy,
All in a blaze of glory?

From a prince to an emir
To a former emir
To a returning emir
To an emir,
that returned.

Rankashidade,
Allah ya ja zamani,
Enthroned,
Dethroned
Returned.
He never left the throne,
And the throne never left him.
All hail the second coming of Sanusi ii.