Poetry remains a medium to interrogate the relationship between state actors and the governed within the Nigerian political landscape. This paper examines the poetry of Odia Ofeimun, published in the opening decades of the twenty-first century and observes that as a poet of the second generation of writers in Nigeria and Africa, the poet has remained consistent with the tradition of the generation of writing for the deprived segment of society. In these later collections, Ofeimun has continued to deepen his mission of feeling “for ears and hearts and hands/to rise with [him]” in the mission to steer society in a positive direction that will benefit all citizens. Drawing on Marxist theory, it is argued that Ofeimun has not wavered in his objective of holding the leaders in his society accountable to the people; and also, that the poet remains consistent in his belief that the power to change society for the better lies with the people. Ofeimun vigorously writes of the travails and plight of the ordinary toiling people in order to “nudge and awaken them” to the reality that surrounds them.