GUN VIOLENCE IN AMERICA: FOR WHO THE BELL TOLLS NEXT.

Just five people shy of Sandy Hook elementary school mass shooting incident that claimed 26 lives, the Uvalde Texas Robb elementary school mass shooting at 21 victims, now ranks among the highest grossing gun carnage in America. It is sad that such frequent blood spilling has tragically become part of our culture as a society. May the souls of the killed now rest.

25th AMENDMENT: ITS NOW ALL CRICKET.

Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi once questioned former President Donald John Trump's fitness to remain in office due to what she claimed was his declining mental capacity. Does anyone know what Madam Speaker presently thinks about the incontrovertible case which America is now saddled with? Just curious!

WHO WILL REBUILD UKRAINE?

The West should convert frozen Russian assets, both state's and oligarchs' owned, into a full seizure and set them aside for the future rebuilding of Ukraine. Like the Marshal Plan, call it the Putin Plan.

A HERO IS BORN.

I am staying put. I will not run away and abandon my people. The fight is here in Ukraine. What I need are weapons and ammunitions, not a ride out of town like former Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani - President Volodymyr Zelensky.

IT IS WHAT IT IS.

"There is too much hate in America because there is too much anger in America." - Trevor Noah.

WORD!

A life without challenges is not a life lived at all. A life lived is a life that has problems, confronts problems, solves problems and then learns from problems. - Tunde Fashola.

NOW, YOU KNOW.

When fishing for love, bait with your heart and not your brain, because you cannot rationalize love. - Mark Twain.

JUST THE FACT.

In our country, you can shoot and kill a nigger, but you better not hurt a gay person’s feelings - Dave Chappelle

DO YOU?.

“What you believe in can only be defined by what you’re willing to risk for it." - Stuart Scheller.

HEDGE YOUR CRISIS.

Never get in bed with a woman whose problems are worse than yours. - Chicago PD.

PROBLEM SOLVED.

'The best way to keep peace is to be ready to destroy evil. If you Pearl Harbor me, I Nagasaki you.' - Ted Nugent.

OUR SHARED HUMANITY.

Empathy is at the heart of who we are as human beings. - Cardinal Matthew Kukah.

WORDS ON MARBLE.

"Birth is agony. Life is hard. Death is cruel." - Japanese pithy.

REPENT OR PERISH - POPE.

Homosexuality is a sin. It is not ordained by God, therefore same sex marriage cannot be blessed by the church - Pope Francis.

CANCEL CULTURE IS CORROSIVE.


FOR SAKE OF COUNTRY.


MAGA LIVES ON: NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER!

TWITTER IS BORING WITHOUT HIS TWEETS. #RestorePresidentTrump'sTwitterHandle.


WORD.

"If you cannot speak the truth when it matters, then nothing else you says matters.” - Tucker Carlson.

#MeToo MOVEMENT: A BAD NEWS GONE CRAZY.

"To all the women who testified, we may have different truth, but I have a great remorse for all of you. I have great remorse for all of the men and women going through this crisis right now in our country. You know, the movement started basically with me, and I think what happened, you know, I was the first example, and now there are thousands of men who are being accused and a regeneration of things that I think none of us understood. I’m not going to say these aren’t great people. I had wonderful times with these people. I’m just genuinely confused. Men are confused about this issue. We are going through this #MeToo movement crisis right now in this country." - Harvey Weinstein.


RON DELLUMS: UNAPOLOGETICALLY RADICAL.

"If it’s radical to oppose the insanity and cruelty of the Vietnam War, if it’s radical to oppose racism and sexism and all other forms of oppression, if it’s radical to want to alleviate poverty, hunger, disease, homelessness, and other forms of human misery, then I’m proud to be called a radical.” - Ron Vernie Dellums.


WHAT REALLY MATTERS IN LIFE - STEVE JOBS

“I reached the pinnacle of success in the business world. In others’ eyes, my life is an epitome of success. However, aside from work, I have little joy. Non-stop pursuing of wealth will only turn a person into a twisted being, just like me. God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone’s heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth. Memories precipitated by love is the only true riches which will follow you, accompany you, giving you strength and light to go on. The most expensive bed in the world is the sick bed. You can employ someone to drive the car for you, make money for you but you cannot have someone to bear sickness for you. Material things lost can be found. But there is one thing that can never be found when it is lost – Life. Treasure Love for your family, love for your spouse, love for your friends. Treat yourself well. Cherish others.” - SJ

EVIL CANNOT BE TRULY DESTROYED.

"The threat of evil is ever present. We can contain it as long as we stay vigilant, but it can never truly be destroyed. - Lorraine Warren (Annabelle, the movie)


ONLY THE POOR WISH THEY HAD STUFF?

“I’m not that interested in material things. As long as I find a good bed that I can sleep in, that’s enough.” - Nicolas Berggruem, the homeless billionaire.

Sunday, February 7, 2010

ANAMBRA PEOPLE HONORS OJUKWU, RETURNS GOVERNOR PETER OBI!

In the battle for Anambra State governorship, Governor Peter Obi of the APGA has won! Riding the co-tail of Ikemba Nnewi Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, a former warlord who is still revered by the Igbo for his role during Biafran war, Governor Peter Obi broke the jinx of a time long begun, which have prevented any incumbent governor from returning to office in Anambra State. All People Grand Alliance Party gubernatorial candidate and incumbent governor of Anambra state, Peter Obi has been declared the winner of the governorship elections in Anambra state. According to available result, Governor Peter Obi won by a total of 97843 votes, followed by the Action Congress's candidate, Chris Ngige with 60240 votes while PDP party flag bearer, Chukwuma Soludo came third with 59365 votes. Governor Obi has officially been declared winner of the election by the state's resident electoral commissioner. What a poor turn-out with less than 20% of the population and speaking of a mandate?

Icheoku says, congratulations to Peter Obi and his APGA for the feat of a second term in office in Anambra State. We pray that Peter Obi will repay the people of Anambra State with good measured dividends of democracy; remembering that it is their goodwill for Ojukwu that he immensely benefited from in getting re-elected and really go to work for them, this time around. Now that the campaign is over and he has won the election, he must settle down immediately and prove to the people of Anambra State that he deserved and earned their trust; that he will work for them with greater fervor such that his work will begin to speak for themselves and without the people asking, what has Peter Obi done for Anambra State lately? That his re-election was not exclusively just because of Ojukwu's influence, but because he earned the right to be their governor through his good-works with promise to do more. Also he must endeavor to be his own man and not be seen as an appendage of Ojukwu or his puppet; and that he can stand up for himself and for the people of Anambra State!

Admitted that Peter Obi may not be the most qualified or the best out of the 25 candidates who threw their hats in the ring for the contest, but his election is better than allowing the brigands in the PDP to once again hijack another state in Nigeria. A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) which is bereft of any internal democracy and which forcibly foist Professor Chukwuma Soludo on the party in Anambra State, despite his lack of any grass-root support therein and not being a foundation member of the party in the state. The party hierarchy in Abuja led by Tony Anenih and Alex Ekwueme discarded the niceties of democracy, which would have allowed the 58 PDP candidates to vie for who would fly their flag in Anambra State governorship election and despite several courts' pronouncements rejecting their anti-democracy activities, still managed to sneak in Soludo as the governorship candidate? However, Anambra people knew better, being wiser than the honchos of PDP in Abuja; and today, the rest like they say, is now history. As a result, Professor Chukwuma Soludo has been perpetually and permanently damaged politically, being an accomplice to the perversion of democracy with his imposition as a candidate and the attempt to extend the infra-dig, with him as the governor?

Icheoku
commends the people of Anambra State for making a bold and loud statement to the PDP that their planned 60 years in office is but a wishful thinking of a drunken sailor, and that Nigeria will collectively reject them come 2011. Further what went down in Anambra State is a testament that the days of rigging by the party in Abuja is over and/or that the people who owns the land will out-rig them? Also that the people are now ready, willing, able and prepared to defend their mandate and not a gazillion PDP thugs will be able to pervert the will of the electorate anymore.
Once again, congratulations Peter Obi; while we wait to see if the recent ruling of a court in Lagos State, disqualifying INEC from conducting any election in Nigeria, will have any adverse effect on his election or be invoked by a court petitioned by an aggrieved to nullify it? Until the other aspirants concede the election and congratulate Obi, it remains a waiting game; especially for Soludo and his henchmen who had earlier sworn to win Anambra State by all means possible and coronate him the governor; notwithstanding that he neither stood nor won any party's primaries or has any serious grass-root mobilization/structure or campaign strategy; and despite the true outcome of the election! For them in PDP, election or functional democracy is just a ruse to remain in power for 60 years; and they do not care if it is given its rightful place in the Nigerian society. But the good news however, is that the Igbos of Anambra State were vigilant as they waited for this perversion to take place and would have vented their pent-up anger against those detractors who do not mean well for Nigeria. Way to go Anambraians! Also, please see this as a victory over Soludo and his power-drunk PDP!

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