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, April 28, 2011

OLUSEGUN OBASANJO HUMBLED, CHASED OUT OF YORUBA SOUTHWEST?

Icheoku says, from the just concluded Nigeria elections 2011, has emerged the biggest political loser of our time. Olusegun Obasanjo, the self-styled 'do or die' area-boy politician from Otta, whose failed third-term bid, permanently consigned him into Nigeria's most despicable political personalities wasteland won the award. 

The deity of Otta and chicken-farmer, was three times beaten and four times shied in the election. First, his sponsored candidate, Speaker Oladimeji Bankole lost his reelection bid back to the House of Representatives; then his own biological daughter Iyabo Obasanjo lost her Senate re-election bid as she could not sail to victory on her father's supposed mighty wings of destiny. Lastly, came the mother of all loses, the failure of his sponsored governorship candidate, Tunji Olurin, to emerge victorious as the next governor of Obasanjo's home State of Ogun. The result of a house divided among itself that was bound to fall as the fight for control of PDP machinery between Obasanjo and Governor Gbenga led to splinting of the party in Ogun State and thus further weakened an already fledgling party pummeled by an insurgent Bola Tinubu led ACN. This loss by Obasanjo's Tunji Olurin to ACN's Amosun was the biggest slap on the face of Olusegun Obasanjo and Icheoku asks with what face would this man still appear in Ogun State and in Nigeria, after being so politically decimated in his own home turf? 

Icheoku bemoans that Olusegun Obasanjo and Governor Olugbenga Daniel lost Ogun State chiefly by their infighting as neither of them, standing alone was a match to the now confirmed and crowned political successor of the late CHief Obafemi Awolowo in Yorubaland, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. Gbenga will now say blame Obasanjo for not letting me win Ogun State for the PDP while Obasanjo will be saying blame that rascal Gbenga for refusing to take my dictation. Icheoku asks how is the mighty OBJ fallen or was this a confirmation that he rigged his party into power in the Yoruba Southwest during the previous elections of 2003 and 2007?  Anyway, the playing field has now been leveled and Obasanjo has once again been rejected by his own Yoruba people of Southwest Nigeria. 

So with the ACN sweep of the five states in Yorubaland, the party has now succeeded Awolowo's UPN as the bona-fide Yoruba regional party with Asiwaju Bolaji Tinubu presiding. Bola Tinubu who, like his predecessor Awolowo, shall never make it in national politics because of certain peculiarities of Yoruba politics of not trusting anyone else but themselves.  Moreso the North will never forgive Bola Tinubu, who they blame for sabotaging Buhari's prospective presidential election; and the Igbos may still have the problem of establishing trust on another Yoruba leader after their experience with Awolowo and Olusegun Obasanjo, whose policies burnt them badly. It is equally instructive that Nuhu Ribadu is still dazed and confused at the treachery he suffered in ACN controlled Yoruba Southwest when he lost woefully in the last presidential election. It is possible that the mallam is smarting to take his vengeance on Tinubu for leaving him high and dry midstream. Icheoku says but who blames Bola Tinubu for taking his revenge on Nuhu RIbadu after the later branded him the worst financial criminal in Nigeria and still dreams of becoming a presidential candidate in the formers political estate, ACN. Anyway, so long OBJ as Icheoku and the rest of Nigeria believes they have heard the last of your scorch and burn politics; 2015 might be too long for a bad man so aged to still be around and relevant. What an election this has been!

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