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.

Monday, November 17, 2014

OBASANJO DEFECTING TO APC?

Icheoku has it on a strong authority that the man who ascribes himself with everything authority  in Nigeria, including being the spirit behind the existence of Nigeria, without whom Nigeria would have been a long gone history and the undeniable deity of Ota, Baba Iyabo, Olusegun Obasanjo, would be defecting to the APC and very soon? The source said that everything has been finalized and only waiting execution; and that the formal declaration of Aminu Tambuwal as the APC presidential candidate would be the occasion for Baba Iyabo to make it official as he plans to campaign vigorously to install Tam as the next president of Nigeria? This allegedly would be the trade for handing Tambuwal the APC presidential ticket as he demanded? 

Icheoku says that there is nothing wrong in dreaming; so dream on Baba Iyabo as Nigerians will resist you and the cabal behind the current operation foist Tambuwal on Nigeria. Not this time and not at any time soon in the future of Nigeria would the House of Fodio again be allowed to impose another president on Nigeria, not so soon.

Icheoku says Olusegun Obasanjo's plans not withstanding, the real question is whether the honchos of APC are ready to take second place to make room for the man who does not accept roles or ever agrees that anyone knows better than him; and who cannot now find himself taking any position below anyone including the owner of APC Bola Tinubu? So Icheoku asks, what then becomes the fate of APC should this rumored entrance of Olusegun Obasanjo pan out correctly? First, would Bola Tinubu accept to sep down from his epicurean heights as the man APC defers to, especially in the Yoruba Southwest where he is nearly a demigod to make way for the new sheriff?  Then, would an Abubakar Atiku, whom Baba Iyabo has been attacking all these years accept to share the same platform with his nemesis and hound dog in chief? Then, there is the question of Muhammadu Buhari, who is now getting desperate with trying to win the presidency of Nigeria, that would consider an Obasanjo entrance as an unwanted nuisance that should be immediately sidelined, if not completely vanquished? 

Icheoku does not know how Olusegun Obasanjo's membership of the APC will considerably affect its fortunes or anything else, except to say that if it does not cause the party to implode, it will probably cause it to explode. So either way, it is not going to be a win win situation for the party but an assured deficit. The beneficiary would of course be President Jonathan and the PDP,  as the same flurry of men now parading themselves as APC strongmen would be seen crawling back to the PDP with complaint that they could not and would not tolerate Baba Iyabo's undue influence in the party. Such outcome will be a gift that keeps on giving to the PDP and Jonathan; and 2015 will be better for that. Icheoku says Obasanjo, go, go, go, and to APC, go. What a character.

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  3. Declare for APC, Yoruba Group Tells Obasanjo
    Afenifere Renaissance Youth Congress (ARYG) has said that it is better for

    the former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, to formally declare for the
    opposition party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), instead of working
    to damage the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from within.
    The group, which comprises many members of the PDP in the South-west zone,
    also said that Obasanjo’s pastime of publicly attacking President Goodluck
    Jonathan when, as a former president, he has unfettered access to the
    Presidential Villa, was unstatesmanlike.
    Speaking against the backdrop of the recent attacks by Obasanjo on
    President Jonathan, on behalf of the Yoruba youth group, the group leader,
    Mr Abimbola Owolabi, stated that it is difficult to believe that Obasanjo
    is still a member of the PDP.
    The group wondered why Obasanjo cannot respect the provisions of the
    Constitution of the party, especially the section that frowns at bringing
    the name and image of the Party to disrepute.
    According to the group, “Obasanjo is not only denigrating the presidency,
    the person of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan and the ruling Party, which he claims
    to be a member of by his constant lies, unwarranted attacks and
    mischievous blackmail to portray President Jonathan as weak, corrupt and
    dictatorial but also manifestly executing the propaganda of the APC whose
    members he now hobnobs with.
    “These days, there is a complete sync between Obasanjo’s utterances and
    those of Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the APC spokesperson.
    “After listening to General Obasanjo’s lies that President Jonathan is
    running a corrupt government and incapable of dealing with the insurgency
    problems in the North, at the launch of the auto-biography of Retired
    Justice Mustapha Akanbi, we have come to the conclusion that the former
    president does not mean well for this country and the PDP.
    “How can Obasanjo who elevated the bribing of National Assembly members,
    especially during his ill-fated Third Term agenda, to a state policy
    during his regime point finger of guilt at President Jonathan? Or does
    Obasanjo think that Nigerians have such a short memory as to forget how he
    nearly emptied the national treasury to the lawmakers in his desperate
    quest for an unconstitutional third term in office?
    “The same man (Obasanjo) who is now accusing Jonathan of working against
    democracy has been the worst enemy of democracy in the country.
    “He deployed troops to Odi and leveled an entire village without achieving
    any meaningful results over the Niger Delta militancy only to leave the
    mess for the late President Umaru Yar’Adua and Jonathan (who was then the
    vice president) to clear.
    “It was Obasanjo’s recklessness and complete disrespect for the rule of
    law that prompted his successor to quickly adopt rule of law as the mantra
    of his administration.”
    The group further said that it was at a loss as to why an elder statesman
    like former President Obasanjo will be peddling lies as facts just to
    damage politically, President Jonathan and his party, the PDP.
    “When Obasanjo points to the collapse of education and infrastructure in
    the Northeast as responsible for breeding insurgency, he conveniently
    forgets that he ruled this country for a combined period of eleven years
    as military head of state and civilian president.
    “What that means is that instead of President Jonathan who is committing
    funds to Almajiri education, Obasanjo should be held complicit for the
    underdevelopment of the North,” the group stated.
    The group therefore called on Obasanjo to move out of the PDP and pitch
    his tent with the APC now that he has donned the garb of an opposition
    element.
    According to the group, “Obasanjo is a war General; he should be bold
    enough to show to Nigerians his APC membership card. He is too old for
    this chicanery and the hide-and-seek game he is playing within the PDP.”

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