Icheoku says an opportunity calls for President Jonathan of Nigeria to become an international statesman by leading the current effort to shove former President Gbagbo of Ivory Coast out of power. The defeated former president is boxed in and merely clinging to power; so any little push or threat of it is all that is required for this African wanna-be sit tight leader to turn tail and scurry from Abidjan.
Therefore President Goodluck Jonathan should give the former Ivorien president an ultimatum - a maximum of two weeks to vacate the seat of power or have the Nigeria fighting machine sent his way to destroy his rag-tag army and capture him alive for trial at The Hague. If he is even killed in the process, good riddance! Hundreds of Ivorien people have already died as a result of his obstinacy and he could be held accountable for their loss as an enemy of democracy who would rather see Ivory Coast go down in flames than concede a lost election. President Jonathan should therefore re-assemble ECOMOG and with it set Ivory Coast free of this impending despot and thereafter reassert Nigeria as the regional power in West Africa.
However, President Jonathan must first extract a binding promise from France, America and the United Nations to foot the tab of such international assignment, both in weapons and cost of the exercise; - remuneration and upkeep of soldiers as well as logistics of moving equipment and troops must be underwritten by these interest groups before Nigeria embarks on such nation saving mission to Abidjan. Icheoku is confident that former President Gbagbo, faced with a threat of Nigeria fighting forces and the prospect of becoming a war criminal will drop his claim to the Ivorien presidency like a hot-potato. President Jonathan, this one is for you and an opportunity never called this rosy!
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