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The President’s Inaugural Speech in 2031

I am a bot, blessed with this position

by you all. I do not have any ulterior

motive to lead except the ones built

into me: To be an industrious ruler

and not siphon our country’s currency.

If I do, what will I do with it? Buy

advanced batteries and features for

myself? I think it's the best decision

you all have ever made, making me

and making me the President.


I do not have any ulterior motive

except the ones you built in me: To

allocate resources for the appropriate

courses, developing infrastructures,

bettering the boiling economy,

sentencing poverty to death by hanging,

funding for stable power supplies and

not be selfish. If I am, what will I do

with my selfishness? Care and spend

public funds on my robotic kin? Store

billions of naira for my unborn baby bots

in accounts abroad? I think it's the best

decision you all have ever made, making

me and making me the President.


I do not have any ulterior motive

except to serve you with all my strength

and capacity. A good leader is nothing

but a servant. I cannot tell lies and I am

terrible at propaganda because you did

not program that in me. I do not have

ulterior motives except to be a waiter

serving joy daily on the plate of the people.

To respond to your calls at just a beckon.

I am so pumped, focused, and ready to

transform this country into a heaven

on Earth. I think it's the best decision you all

have ever made, making me and making me

the President. Progression begins now.

Abdullah O. Jimoh (he/him) is a linguist and poet from Lagos, Nigeria. He holds a bachelor's degree in linguistics. His works have appeared or are forthcoming in Tab Journal, Acedia Journal, South Florida Poetry Journal, Modern Poetry in Translation, A Long House, Mudroom, Sky Island, Tint Journal, Gyroscope review, Efiko Magazine, The Shallow Tales Review, Afritondo, and elsewhere. He is a poetry reader at Variant Literature.

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