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.

Thursday, September 18, 2014

JONATHAN does not LOVE NDIGBO?

Icheoku bemoans that the people of Southeastern Nigeria Igbo has been exhilarating celebrating the emergence and presidency of Goodluck Jonathan and beating their chest of his love for them? Icheoku says based on available statistical evidence and unless the universally accepted definition of love has morphed into something extraordinarily different, with this kind of love Jonathan has for Ndigbo, Ndigbo needs no enemy.  Icheoku recalls that it was the late Nigerian democracy personified and the holder of June 12th presidential sacred mandate, Aare MKO Abiola, who famously said 'with a friend like IBB, no one needs an enemy." Icheoku says MKO was right then on IBB and in relationship to the proverbial Jonathan's love for Ndigbo, his admonition is sacrosanct and a statement of equal application to Jonathan on behalf of Ndigbo. 

Icheoku has labored to understand this burning romantic love Ndigbo has for Jonathan and what the president did or is doing to deserve such infectious admiration but has successively come up empty. Icheoku went even further to see if it was because Jonathan has an Igbo sounding middle name "Ebele" that endears him so much to the Igbo nation only to be disappointed by learning that his Ebele was an abbreviated form of an Ijaw name Ebelesiemi? Icheoku tarried further, what about "Azikwe?' but again hit a brick wall as the "Azikwe" was not a registered name of his but merely a form of alias. His first name is Goodluck; his middle name is Ebelesieme and his last name is Jonathan. So query is Azikwe his baptismal or confirmation name except that Jonathan is not a Catholic for having a confirmation name purposes. 

Now getting back to the main gist of this article - whether President Jonathan has proved his admiration and love for Ndigbo as to rightly earn all the encomiums and fanatical unalloyed and unconditional support Ndigbo has been and continues to bequeath him, Icheoku says the jury is still very much out. So what then is driving Ndigbo towards this Ijaw man whose Igboness has not been established and at best is only tepid, clever, calculated and cunning? Icheoku answers that the answer is fogged up and admitting of no sunlight or x-ray. Icheoku therefore sounds the alarum bell that Ndigbo should quickly either retract their support for this president or make him truly and sincerely earn their loving support with meaningful commitments to do better for Ndigbo next time, his second term.

Icheoku laments that never in the history of the ever-ailing Nigeria has a whole Igbo nation been so marginalized as is being witnessed under this supposed Igbo-lover's presidency?  Icheoku makes bold to say and unequivocally too, that Ndigbo has never had it this bad in a Nigerian government, where they are completely left out holding the plate and sidelined entirely out of power. Icheoku asks does anybody know why the Igbo nation is in the dog-house of  President Jonathan's government? 

Imagine for the first time in Nigeria, no Igbo occupies any of the following arterial-vein offices and yet a man who has unceasing tingling in his legs each time Igbo is mentioned is occupying Aso Rock?

1. The Presidency of Nigeria - non Igbo
2. The Senate President - non Igbo
3. The Speaker of the House - non Igbo
4. The Chief Justice - non Igbo
5. The IG of police - non Igbo
6. The Chief of Defense Staff - non Igbo
7. The Chief of Army Staff - non Igbo
8. The Chief of Navy Staff - non Igbo
9. The ruling party PDP chairman - non Igbo
10. The chairman of Nigeria Ports Authority - non igbo
11. The chairman of Nigeria Railway Corporation - non Igbo
12. The Controller General of Customs - non Igbo
13. The Controller of Immigration - non Igbo
14. Minister of Defense - non Igbo
15. Minister of Interior - non Igbo
16. Minister of Police Affairs - non Igbo
17. Minister of Justice and Attorney General - non Igbo
18. Minister of Works - non Igbo
19. Minster of FCT - non Igbo
20. Minister of Foreign Affairs - non Igbo
21. Minister of Petroleum resources - non Igbo
22. Governor Central Bank of Nigeria - non Igbo
23. Ambassador to the United Kingdom - non Igbo
24. Ambassador to the United States - non Igbo
25. Group managing Director of NNPC - non Igbo
26. Chief of Staff - non Igbo
27. President of Court of Appeal - non Igbo
28. EFCC chairman - non igbo
29. Niger Delta Minister - non Igbo
30. Minister of Agriculture - non Igbo

Icheoku begs to stop at ONLY 30 of the "Fortune 500 offices in Nigeria" but it shows beyond all shadows of doubt that all the juicy ministries and security apparatus as well as the cash-cows of Nigeria PLC have in their driver's seats Nigerians other than Igbos; including people who did not even vote for Jonathan and people who are still continuously piling up on his administration without ceasing. Icheoku asks anyone who has a refutal to please furnish it or rebut; but if someone who loves a people would so marginalize the same people he loves and in this manner, please can someone tell Icheoku what a real hater would then do? 

Icheoku says if only there would be a credible alternative come 2015, this particular Jonathan has not shown or in any meaningful and purposeful way manifested his love for Ndigbo thus far and therefore does not deserve Ndigbo's en-bloc loyal vote again. Needless to add that the promised second River Niger bridge is nearly stalled as it was not provided for in several budgets. The same Jonathan invited other tribes' "armies" including OPC and APC to the National Conference but left out Ndigbo's MASSOB? The same Jonathan went outside his usual practice of filing existing political vacancies, when he moved the then FRSC chief marshal over to Aviation, but failed or rather refused to replace that Igbo lot with another Igbo person? Now people do the math and tell Icheoku that Jonathan's fabled love for Ndigbo is genuine and not a drinking from a poisoned chalice showboating? Icheoku is emphatic that "this kind of love I never see am" and maintains that if love indeed now looks like this Jonathan's love for Ndigbo, then enmity should be erased out of the vocabulary; or better still let the two words be used interchangeably going forward. What fucking love are we talking about that this man has for Ndigbo yet he would not entrust them with sensitive or appoint them to mouth-watering positions!

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