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, May 9, 2011

JONATHAN IS SERVING SOUTH-SOUTH'S TURN AT THE PRESIDENCY - OBASANJO.

"My party, the PDP, believes in what is in the country’s constitution, which indicates that there must be federal character reflected in all appointments and elective positions. What the PDP said was that for now, where there is a president from one section of the country, who has had his term, whenever the term ends, either by himself through resignation, by the constitution through impeachment or by God through death, the next president should come from the other part of the country". - Olusegun Obasanjo. Icheoku says any correct interpretation of what Olusegun Obasanjo said concerning what amounts to a section's term at the presidency of Nigeria seems to suggest, by necessary implication, that the death of President Umaru Yar'Adua effectively brought to an end the Northern Nigeria's turn at the presidency; hence the rightful rotation back to President Goodluck Jonathan's South-South section? 

According to Obasanjo, any section of the country which has had its term, whenever that term ends either by act of God such as death, then the next president should come from another part of the country. The implication is that President Umaru Yar'Adua died with Northern Nigeria's turn at the presidency hence the rotation of the presidency back to President Jonathan of the South-South? So assuming that as Chairman Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party that Obasanjo candidly spoke on behalf of the PDP, it would mean therefore that it is not the number of years each section serves as president that is the controlling authority but the presentment or appearance of service, no matter how trivial and ephemeral? If this were truly the case, Icheoku asks, where then is the justice and fairness that one section of the country stayed in power for eight long years and the other for less than three years and that is it? Or that a moribund weakling that practically had few years to live on this earth was imposed by a contriving Obasanjo as that other section's candidate, knowing fully well that he will not live long enough to serve out that section's full eight years in office and effectively provide sectional representation for that section. 

Icheoku thinks something is not right with this interpretation of the PDP's constitution as rendered by Aremu Olusegun Obasanjo; otherwise it will be susceptible to frequent abuse as an outgoing president can easily engineer the emergence of a dying incompetent from the other section to succeed him in order for power to quickly rotate back to his more favored section. This skewered interpretation of the PDP constitution as given by Obasanjo is fraught with danger of abuse and a rightfully frightening resistance by any short-changed section. The provision should be more properly re-worded and amended, to expressly state and specifically provide for a term definite and not a person, as the controlling authority of a sections's term at the presidency. The new provision should read "every section of the country is entitled to eight full years in office" and not otherwise construed or interpreted. So in case of a 'banana-peel syndrome' or any other intervening circumstance such as death that frustrates a particular candidate from completing his/her section's eight years term, that section should still be able to complete it through one of their own person and not to have their allotted term fly away to another section. Even if a section prefers or chooses to have an eight person-presidents during their eight years term of office, to serve one year each respectively, so be it; but equity, justice and fairness demand that there should be equal time at the presidency for each section. Alternatively, let such an entitled section, which will produce the incoming president, be allowed to chose or nominate their own candidate of choice and not have it done by the outgoing president or the proxy of some other impostor who does not truly represent the section or their interest. Fairness demands that if every section should produce the president, that every section should also be allowed an equal amount of time to sojourn at the presidency; and this should not in anyway be shortchanged by any technicalities or such unforeseen event as an act of God - the death of the president. 

But be it as it may, Olusegun Obasanjo has once again thrown a new spanner in the wheels of Nigeria political question 2015 and is now either calling President Goodluck Jonathan a liar when he declared that he will serve only one term or there is an undisclosed hidden agenda by Obasanjo's cabal to make President Jonathan continue in office after 2015, under the guise of serving out South-South's eight years turn at the presidency. Political fork-speaking and manoeuvring is not peculiar to Nigerian politicians and the fact that politicians say and do anything to get elected notwithstanding, it will be in the best interest of justice and peace that parties stick to their pre-election 2011 talking-points when 2015 arrives and not unnecessarily overheat the polity or unreasonably disturb the peace of the land with their pursuit of their selfish interests. The Igbo South-East is anxiously waiting to produce the Nigerian president in 2015 and as a bargain, did not field any candidate but supported President Jonathan's election 2011 wholly and therefore must not be dribbled again come 2015. But whatever happens, Icheoku says, that Nigerians particularly the Igbo South East are primed and waiting; and will react accordingly  when 2015 comes. Until then let Nigerians be vigilant and wary of Obasanjo, neither completely ignoring nor too seriously taking his antics; admitted the man Olusegun Aremu Okikilemo Matthew Obasanjo is capable of always causing great mischief!

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