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, February 21, 2011

MALLAM NUHU RIBADU, PLAGUED BY LACK OF A VIABLE RUNNING MATE.

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A political neophyte by his own right, former EFCC mallam from Adamawa State and now presidential candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has yet again fumbled in the latest choice of a running mate. Call it the proverbial "double wahalla for dead body" syndrome of a novitiate presidential candidate saddled with a nobody political greenhorn vice presidential candidate?

However Icheoku sympathizes with Mallam Nuhu Ribadu for being unable to free himself from the leech of his sponsor, Bolaji Tinubu, in choosing his running mate. Bola Tinubu cannot afford to let Nuhu Ribadu run free and has to maintain a stranglehold on him by wily-nilly imposing a candidate on him. Moreover, the ACN being a Yoruba party, cannot afford to have other tribes producing both their presidential as well as vice presidential candidates of the party. Otherwise what does the ACN stand to gain by spitting the Igbo South-East by removing the former running mate of Ribadu, Sunny Ugochukwu; and now venturing into the mouth of the Tiger, Ogun State, to get their latest running mate? Newest Ribadu's running mate, Afolabi Tajudeen Adeola's Ogun State is the home of Otta Deity Olusegun Obasanjo, the incumbent Governor Olu Gbenga and the Speaker of the House of Representatives Bankole. Icheoku wonders what the political calculation is in selecting Mr. Adeola, all of these competing odds considered. So with Yoruba vice presidential candidates for both Buhari and Ribadu, and Obasanjo influence included, the Yoruba South-West votes will now be split into three; leaving the entire South-South and South-East just for President Jonathan; with the entire north still at play?

Icheoku queries, who are political advisers to these opposition political parties or don't they have any for them to know about catchment areas of politics? Anyway those whom the gods want to kill he first make mad and so it is that the candidacy of Mallam Nuhu Ribadu has suffered a still-birth with this latest choice of a running mate, singing its requiem even before the April election! As it stands now, Icheoku says, all hail President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, president and the commander in chief of the Nigerian armed forces for the next four years!

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  1. ACN VP ticket: How Adeola beat Ebi, Akabueze
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    By EMMANUEL AZIKEN
    LAGOS—THE Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, yesterday, formally submitted Mr. Fola Adeola to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as the running mate of its presidential candidate, Nuhu Ribadu.
    Vanguard learnt that Adeola, erstwhile Managing Director of Guaranty Trust Bank, beat former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mr Ernest Ebi and Lagos State Commissioner for Budget Mr. Ben Akabueze to the position of Vice-Presidential Candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria for the spot.
    ACN determination
    Adeola it was learnt, was chosen on the basis of the determination of the ACN Presidential Candidate, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu to have an economic guru as his running mate.
    A top party source told Vanguard: “Ribadu had said that his vice-president must be an economic expert and that is why you see that with the exception of Ngige all other considerations were on economic experts.”
    However, the choice of another Muslim to be running mate for Mallam Ribadu was raising apprehension among party insiders despite the enthusiasm of some that the pair of Ribadu and Adeola would rekindle the victory achieved by the Muslim-Muslim ticket of Moshood Abiola and Babagana Kingibe in the June 12, 1993 presidential election.
    Managing Director of the World Bank, Dr. (Mrs.) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala who was Ribadu’s first choice declined the offer party sources said.
    Party insiders Vanguard learnt had then focused on Dr. Chris Ngige from Anambra State who was favoured for his capacity for grassroots mobilization ahead of Ribadu’s primary criteria of economic expertise.
    Ngige was, however, given the cold shoulder by a top party chieftain from Lagos, a development that compelled him to dash for his Anambra Central senatorial ticket.
    Vanguard learnt that Ngige was screened for the post but “declined” for personal reasons, a party source said yesterday.
    Ebi and Akabueze were the other choices but they were reportedly turned down in favour of Adeola on account of what one party source disclosed as “Adeola’s charismatic personality”.
    Besides, Mr. Adeola is believed to have deeper pockets to contribute to the presidential campaign of the ACN.
    Adeola is presently the chairman of FATE Foundation, a charitable foundation he founded to promote entrepreneurship among Nigerian youths. He founded the foundation following his exit from Guaranty Trust Bank Plc which he founded in 1990 and served as Managing Director and Chief Executive for 12 years

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