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.

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

TAMBUWAL CHICKENS OUT OF PRESIDENTIAL RACE?

"Having consulted widely, taking into consideration the concerns of some elders of the party, I have decided to suspend my participation in the presidential contest for now. I have done so as a sacrifice for the the cohesion and unity of the APC. I am suspending my participation in the presidential race for now because I do not have any inordinate ambition to occupy any office. Nigeria is a country too great to sacrifice on the altar of partisan politics and personal ambition. What any one becomes in life is exclusively in the hands of God. Only God gives power to whoever he pleases." - Aminu Tambuwal, former PDP Speaker House of Representatives.

Icheoku says with those words the man touted as the anointed one from the House of Fodio just did a u-turn on his supporters and chickened out of the APC presidential candidate's race. Icheoku says when Nigerians were beginning to seriously take a second look at the man from Sokoto as a potential presidential candidate of the APC and possibly president of Nigeria, the man disappointed them, developed cold feet and ran away. , turned tail and scurried away. Icheoku says Aminu Tambuwal understood  that if you cannot stand the heat, get the hell out of the kitchen and so did the needful. Unfortunately, Tambuwal could not even last one full week into his foray, before he found out how scorching a heat, running for the highest office in the land is? Icheoku says it would appear that Tambuwal, cognizant of Atiku and Buhari's almost desperate ambition to become president, somewhat threw subtle jabs at both men when he said he does not have 'inordinate ambition to occupy any office' and that Nigeria should not be sacrificed because of any personal ambition. He also threw one at his APC party when he admonished that no partisan politics should operate to dismember Nigeria.

Icheoku had doubts whether Aminu Tambuwal, assuming he secures the APC ticket, could possibly win in a general election because of his inexperience, paucity of funds and other ancillary factors and reasons. However Icheoku did not know that Tambuwal does not have fire in his stomach to play in the big league; as his panic and scamper under a little pressure from the camp of Muhammadu Buhari now establishes? took flight? Icheoku queries how a man who could not stand his party's 'ordinary' primary battle, ever planned to prosecute a general presidential election and/or go on to rule a complex society like Nigeria? Anyway, a good riddance, his exit was; what a nuisance! But his flight notwithstanding, Icheoku still stands by our earlier story that Aminu Tambuwal was the preferred choice of Olusegun Obasanjo, Ibrahim Babangida and the House of Fodio.

So with the meddlesome interloper now gone, the focus and permutation once again returns back to Muhammadu Buhari and Abuabakar Atiku. The other good news coming from Tambuwal's exit is that it will now delay if not abort Baba Iyabo's planned defection to the APC. It is again back to status quo in a party stuck with two unpalatable presidential candidates, Muhammadu Buhari and Abubakar Atiku. Icheoku asks, so who 'dey laugh' now in Nigeria but President Jonathan who has previously beaten both men in a presidential election and will most likely repeat same feat again in 2015. Baba Iyabo who never stopped laughing at Abubakar Atiku, also still 'dey laugh' at Atiku's never ending spam ambition. Nigerian people also 'dey laugh' at the arrogance of Muhammadu Buhari, in desiring to rule them again after the bitter experience that was his first time around. Icheoku says 2015 is still very too far away and heavily laden with so many unknowns. Icheoku says between now and 2015, it is like a thousand years with so many things and possibilities that could go wrong or dramatically or drastically change so many things. Until 2015 comes and goes, nobody knows what will happen and so Icheoku says, so long Tambuwal!

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