DOKUBO IS A HERO, SPEAKS FOR SO MANY NIGERIANS' DISENCHANTED?

Icheoku admires the courage and bravery of this Niger Delta freedom fighter and supports him in his struggle for a total emancipation of his oppressed people of the Niger Delta of Nigeria. A people who have paid so much sacrifice on the alter of a "united" Nigeria; yet their Ken Saro Wiwa was brutally hung just for speaking out for his oppressed people. Icheoku asks when shall enough be really enough for these Hausa/Fulanis of Nigeria, who under the ruse of maintaining unity and keeping Nigeria as one, keep appropriating for themselves everything and alone eating all that belongs to all? They have forced into the throats of these South-south Niger Deltans as well as other Nigerians who are not Hausa/Fulani, so many unprintables. Icheoku praises Asari Dokubo and his team of freedom fighters and pray the good Lord will see them through in their bid to institute a more equitable Nigeria where everyone will be treated as human being and of equal status. Here please find published, excerpts of some memorable and admirable speeches of Asari Dokubo, the budding NIger Delta's Nelson Mandela:- 

1. "It’s for the North and their supporters to moderate their actions, because they had al­ways been the people to initiate violence. It’s for them to moderate, see reason and live with human beings.They want to reduce us to their level. But there is nothing we can do about it. If they want us to come to their level, there is no other option than to come to their level. We will not fold our arms and die. We will not fold our arms and watch them take the man­date that was freely given to Goodluck, that  will be freely given to him on February 14 to continue for another four uninterrupted years until 2019. So, we are not going to fold our arms and watch them fight people, and watch them have an exclusivity to violence." 

2. "In their belief that they are born to rule, they make rules they think are superior to the constitution. It was not the right of any other people when Yakubu Gowon was succeeded by Murtala Mohammed. After Murtala Mo­hammed, they brought Olusegun Obasanjo, who was overshadowed by Shehu Yar’Adua. It was their right. Then Shagari took over, Shagari handed over to Buhari and then to Babangida, Babangida hand­ed over to Abacha; Abacha handed over to Abdulsalam. Then they brought Olusegun Obasanjo, their puppet, who again handed over to Yar’Adua. You see, for the first time, some­body has become president that they did not decide for the people and now they are both bitter and angry." 

3. "They are pushing Goodluck Jonathan. They are pushing him. He did not use power like Obasanjo did in sacking Ladoja; in locking Ngige in a toilet as a governor, in chasing Dariye away, in chas­ing Fayose away, in putting Alamieyeseigha in prison. Goodluck Jonathan, because he re­fused to use these powers is clueless, is weak, is incompetent. Don’t fight with a deaf and dumb man. Whatever you are talking, he does not hear you. He can’t even express himself. So anything that enters his hand is a weapon. For us, if they make Jonathan to make a 360 degrees turn, I pity them." 

4. If it is somebody like me that is the president, ah! by now a lot of issues would have been settled, Obasanjo will not be anywhere around and be talking. It’s Goodluck. You abuse him and he will come and sit down with you and eat with you. It’s the good side of him. Maybe that’s why God has kept him alive and successful. I pray that he should not change his nature, no matter what, to become a Dokubo Asari. Be­cause, if he becomes a Dokubo Asari, nobody will be able to stay in this country." 

Icheoku says every well meaning Nigerian should support the people of Niger Delta in their struggle to freely partake in the governance of Nigeria as co-equals. Nobody in Nigeria including the Niger Deltans is inferior to these Hausa/Fulani maniacs and their born to rule imbecility and infantile madness; and at worse, if they will not let others rule them, they should not be allowed to rule others either. It is fairness, it is the right and equitable and the most appropriate thing to do in the circumstance.  The Niger Delta people also own all the oil in Nigeria and should therefore be given some respect and commended for even sharing with the rest of Nigerians, what is their personal God-given natural wealth. Icheoku says on February 14, 2015, support Niger Delta, VOTE FOR GEJ.

NIGERIAN BLOGGERS BEWARE, BUHARI IS COMING TO GET YOU FLOGGED?

Icheoku says like Saudi Arabians, Nigerian bloggers will face a very hard time in the unfortunate event the lean and mean Muhammadu Buhari has his way with a bemused Nigerian polity and secures a win. In Saudi Arabia, a blogger Raif Badawi was sentenced to TEN YEARS imprisonment and additional 1000 LASHES for merely blogging. So ask yourself Nigerians, especially the Internet generation, whether you want to take such a chance under a Buhari government or would you rather do the needful now to stop him from nearing the gates of Aso Rock. Call a friend, text a friend, inbox a friend and ask them to spread the message today that taking such a chance with a Buhari administration is suicidal and not a risk worth taking. If you love blogging then you must love not to be disturbed from blogging; so beware!

According to sources, in a model similar to Kano State Hisba religious vigilantes, Muhammadu Buhari will establish "bulala or koboko" bearing blogger-minders to whip senses back to "errant" Nigerian bloggers if elected. It will be akin  to the WAI brigade of his first coming that enforced his War Against Indiscipline rigorous rules; including inflicting physical pain with koboko whips, public stripping naked, flog-jumping, doing press-up, picking trash and swearing on the grave of your ancestors to become a better citizen who loves his president and country? Icheoku says why wait to find out since you already had a preview of what lies in wait from the example of Saudi Arabia; instead of doing something to prevent it and NOW!

Icheoku calls on Nigerian bloggers and every online operators and users to, with your votes, tell Muhammadu Buhari now that 'blogging is not bad for your back'; but that it is a healthy mental exercise and a protected freedom of speech right under the constitution. Please don't wait till the day after February 14 to tell him because the despot Muhammadu Buhari has shown times and times again that he is no respecter of either the law or the constitution and would be deaf-toned then. The time is now and particularly on February 14, so that the message will have some weight. 

Icheoku says please do not wait to find out the hard way; JUST STOP HIM NOW. On February 14, VOTE GEJ; under whose administration blogging and other online activities has thrived in Nigeria and everyone is free and enjoying unlimited rights to free speech. Icheoku uses this opportunity to call on the Saudi Arabian authority to FREE Raif Badawi as blogging is not a threat to their maximum rule or control of the oil dollars flowing into their private Swiss accounts. Icheoku says 'Je Suis Raif Badawi;' FREE BADAWI NOW but will not similarly plead in the event they buy into the Buhari snake-oil some bad fellows in Nigeria is trying to sell to gullible Nigerians.

BUHARI IS A SNAKE OIL, WATCH THIS!

ARREST DANJUMA FOR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, NOT TOMOPOLO AND DOKUBO?

Icheoku says who the hell is this murderer, who killed his commander in chief and head of state General Aguiyi Ironsi alongside his host governor of Western State Adekunle Fajuyi in cold blood, to think he has any moral standing whatsoever to voice an opinion or in any other way insert himself, trying to abridge Nigerians hard won freedom of speech right. Icheoku says Asari Dokubo and Government Tomopolo, like Professor Ango Abdulahi, Muhammadu Buhari and other bomb-throwing Northern Nigerian Hausa/Fulani elements, have a constitutionally enshrined freedom of speech right, to air their opinion on matters of the state and as they deem fit. Therefore the current call for the arrest of the two Niger Delta freedom fighters by Mr Danjuma is not only uncalled for, but is misguided, illegal, unlawful and merely tailored to pander to Danjuma's Hausa/Fulani overlords and house masters. Icheoku says it is not right and should therefore neither be condoned nor honored; and that if there is any person that needs to be arrested, that person is Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma himself, for crimes against the humanity called Nigerians for killing their head of state. Alternatively, Mr Danjuma latest outburst should just be ignored as a product of a demented mind in the interest of the country, peace and unity. 

Icheoku asks why the sudden morph by Danjuma into a moderator of what constitutes conscionable speech by Nigerians and calling two freedom fighting activists "IRRESPONSIBLE", when he is the most irresponsible living Nigerian still alive?  A man who conspired with his other hooligans in army uniforms to kidnap and murder their commander in chief and in the most gruesome manner, lost every right to play an arbiter of decency in Nigeria. A man who hog-tied his head of state to the back of a jeep and dragged him alongside on the pavement as he drove, until his body completely dismembered and disintegrated, is an animal not qualified to sit in judgment over anyone's being responsible or otherwise. And to make matters worse, Danjuma dumped the remains of his murdered head of state in an unmarked shallow grave and till this day, has not yielded a clue where his quarry was covered in dirt for retrieval and proper burial. This is the same man now preaching about responsibility and calling for other peoples arrest for simply speaking, when he has yet to stand trial for murdering his commander in chief? 

Icheoku says this Danjuma sucks and sucks a lot and so much that his mention forces Icheoku to wanna puke. Icheoku queries where was this Danjuma when Muhammadu Buhari threatened that "blood of dogs and baboons will flow?" Icheoku asks where was this mustachioed jackal when Professor Ango Abdulahi threatened the massacre of innocent Nigerians if the feudal North fails to have their way? Icheoku wants to know where this madman was hiding when the El-Rufais and other Northern hotheads were firebombing the whole country in their attempt to blackmail every Nigerian into doing their bidding? Icheoku ask where was this hyena when Muhammadu Buhari threatened to make Jonathan's governance of Nigerian ungovernable? Icheoku asks where was this genocidal maniac when his Middle Belt people were being systematically killed, maimed and massacred by his  Hausa/Fulani overlords, using their cattle-rearing nomads as instrument of mayhem? Did he even raise a voice in protestation or come to their defense? 

But now this sucker, who was on an appeasement mission to the citadel of feudalism in Nigeria, found the mouth to ooze some nonsensical and urging the arrests of two brave and courageous souls of Niger Delta Liberation Struggle, who merely said ENOUGH to internal colonialism. Icheoku asks when Sani Abacha unleashed his reign of terror in Nigeria and with it murdered Ken Saro Wiwa and so many other Nigerians, did Danjuma not know he was duty bound to speak up then? When Ibrahim Babangida ran amok in the land including annulling the freest election in Nigeria, what said he Danjuma? When Muhammadu Buhari murdered three innocent Nigerians using a retroactive decree, where was this now modulator of tolerable speech, Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma? But suddenly, taking a cue from Babangida that despicable coup plotting, quota-system aided army generals are ganging up against Nigeria democracy,  he suddenly found the temerity to insert himself in another's free speech right? 

Icheoku heretofore also throws his hat in the ring alongside Dokubo and Tomopolo and says we are all Tomopolo and Dokubo in the matter of ensuring fairness in Nigeria, regardless of whatever it takes or costs; and in case of arrest, we are all prepared to resist or be arrested alongside trying. Icheoku is emphatic that any attempt at festooning an apparent injustice on the South-south Niger Delta people by denying them their co-equal two-terms right to the presidency of Nigeria, just like their other counterpart Nigerians, as is an acceptable practice in Nigeria, will result in resistance. Who the heck is this man to think that Nigeria revolves around him and his Northern arrogant crazies. Look at Danjuma whose political games in Taraba State is well known and documented. A man who foist a brain-dead governor on a state as their continuing governor despite the fact of his vegetative state of no functionality, is here preaching to far more decent and honorable Nigerians about some people being irresponsible? 

Icheoku says suddenly, feeling threatened that any disruption and upheaval in the Niger Delta would uproot his multi-billion dollars oil wells assets, which were gratuitously bequeathed him by the midget of Kano Sani Abacha, and cause them to be seized and internally nationalized, Danjuma is now crying blue murder and urging preemptive strike. Icheoku says to this human excrement called TY Danjuma, please spare Nigerians including Icheoku, your hogwash ranting of an arrest. Icheoku wants Mr Danjuma to know that the days Nigerians trembled, cowered and hunkered down in fear at the mere mention of his name because of his proven noxious brutality and viciousness is no since over.  Nigerians are no longer afraid of multiple Danjumas and would stand their ground this time, should they again ferment their usual trouble. It is now 2015 Nigeria and no longer the sixties when Danjuma and his band of marijuana-smoking crack heads held the country hostage to their brutality. ENOUGH of this venomous vile fellow called TY Danjuma and his holier than thou call to silence some Nigerians freedom of speech right of expression. What a piece of cow dung in human skin and covered in cotton fabric this TY Danjuma really is who thinks he can order people around out of uniform. What a  rabies infested hound-dog.

REDEEMERS, BORN AGAIN AND OTHER CHRISTIANS OF NIGERIA, BEWARE?

Icheoku calls on all Christians of Nigeria, especially those fellow-shipping with the Redeemed Ministry as well as other Pentecostal Ministries in Nigeria to beware of the kite of Pastor Yemi Osibanjo being flown by the Miyetti Allah mafia just to take power back. Those of you who have fished before or who are conversant with the tricks of fishing, when you put an allure on a hook to bait a fish, you don't do that out of love for the fish but as a means to finally serve it on a dinner plate. But unbeknownst to the victim-fish, the flagellum being dangled before it is simply a manna from heaven or a bequeath of good water that keeps on giving? This is now the inconvenient truth with Nigerian Christians, especially those pentecostal Redeemers whom the APC and Muhammadu Buhari are baiting with the allure of a pastor vice presidential candidate. Icheoku says Muhammadu Buhari and his mafia fishermen are not dangling a pastor before Nigerian christian community out of love but simply to get their votes and later dump them alongside their pastor. 

So Nigerian christian community, Icheoku says be warned, because when it sounds too good to be true, it might as well be a phony so  you better watch out. The Fulani Mafia with their Southwestern collaborators have now deployed a joker from their bag of tricks in a pastor vice presidential candidate just to enable them get your votes and get back power. Please don't swallow the bait as it will not do you any good to trade in what you currently have, the pilot, for an anticipated mere co-pilot in the Nigeria airplane. As every Nigerian is probably quite aware, the office of the vice president has no constitutional powers but as much power as the president decides to allocate to it, period.  So it therefore necessarily follows that a very mean president can completely emasculate the vice president and convert him to a mere glorified clerk at Aso Rock. It happened with Olusegun Obasanjo regarding Abubakar Atiku whom he nearly impeached but failing, made his life a hellish nightmare which eventually forced Atiku into self exile.  It also happened with the late Umaru Yar'Adua regarding  Jonathan, during their early days before the president took ill. It later continued and became even worse such that then vice president Jonathan was totally excluded from the running of the government to the extent that he did not have any knowledge about the president's real state of health,  the president's being stealthily flown in the dead of the night into Nigeria and until he died. 

Going back in time, it is on record that Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida similarly used Ebitu Ukiwe to consolidate his coup and later frustrated him into resigning when he railroaded Nigeria into OIC without even having the courtesy of informing his supposed vice president or chief of staff? Even the midget of Kano, Sani Abacha's frosty relationship with his then vice president or chief of staff, Oladipo Diya, ended with Diya in handcuffs and condemned to death. Story even had it that during Shagari's government, the then Kaduna Mafia supplanted President Shehu Shagari's vice president Alex Ekwueme with Umaru DIkko, who in turn dictated everything that happened in Nigeria then. 

So why travel down this memory lane, one may ask? Icheoku in response is only endeavoring to illustrate that a Pastor Yemi Osibanjo might be similarly, equally used to get power and later dumped, like all these past vice presidents. Olusegun Obasanjo used Atiku and his PDM to secure power even after losing in the PDP convention to Alex Ekwueme; but after consolidating power, he still dumped Atiku. So what stops the Hausa/Fulani North-westerners from hijacking the Buhari presidency once the Osibanjo's job is done and then tell the Bola Tinubus of the Southwest to take a hike? President Umaru Yar'Adua did same after winning the presidency when he surrounded himself with only his trusted Fulanis from the Northwest as his kitchen staff and literally consigned the then vice president Goodluck Jonathan to the inner office as a glorified clerk at Aso Rock. 

Professor Wole Soyinka says history matters and that records are kept for a reason, not only to refresh faint memory but to serve as a guide for the future. So it if has severally happened before to somewhat have developed a pattern, with successive Nigerian presidents and heads of states so disrespectfully diminished their vice presidents offices and standing, what guarantee is there now to ensure that Yemi Osibanjo would be treat any differently. What layers of protection exist to ensure that a Pastor Yemi Osibanjo "vice president" would not be left out in the cold, once his job to help elect Buhari is finished,  at an inner recess somewhere inside Aso Rock; while the kitchen staff of a "President" Buhari conduct matters of state in core Fulani language which no untrained native ear is capable of understanding and repeatedly so treated until he is frustrated out and into dysfunctionality. Icheoku is not a seer nor a prophet, but foresees a Yemi Osibanjo who would certainly suffer the same fate in the hands of those people, who are already queued up and laying in wait like vultures of fortune, who will suddenly swoop in and play palace guards to a Muhammadu Buhari presidency. 

Icheoku says that the bait of Yemi Osinbajo should not be too tempting or irresistibly enticing to sway the votes of his fellow Redeemers and make them to abandon a president with real portfolio, real power over the purse and over the military, the police and other security agencies and settle for just an ordinary vice president without any constitutional real authority.  Query:-what would happen if Yemi Osibanjo becomes yet another any of these former vice presidents like Abubakar Atiku and Nigerians begin to once again witness the gathering of the usual Northwestern Hausa/Fulani clan, feasting alone on Nigeria national cake with their PASTOR vice president no where to be found around the table? 

For his so much love for the Yoruba Southwest which Muhammadu Buhari is now professing in his settling for Yemi Osibanjo as vice president, Icheoku rebuts that he stood-by, did nothing and silently watched as his compatriots annulled MKO Abiola election? Buhari also  stood silent when the same clique overthrew Ernest Shonekan interim government? Buhari stood quiet when the same cabal accused and nearly killed Oladipo Diya for a phantom coup treasonable felony? Buhari stood silent when the same anarchists murdered Kudirat Abiola, Pa Rewane as well as many other Yoruba notables? Icheoku adds that Muhammadu Buhari stood silent when the same Northwestern goombahs accused Olusegun Obasanjo of plotting a coup, convicted him and was waiting to execute him before the then Clinton White House intervened and they reluctantly commuted it to 25 years to life imprisonment. In service of their cause, the same Muhammadu Buhari accepted the juicy office of chairman of PTF from the same Sani Abacha, whom he later went on to eulogize as the best leader Nigeria ever had. Needless to add that Muhammadu Buhari's love for Yoruba Southwest made him cancel the Lagos Metro Line project just to mention but a few of his love for the Yorubas that is now making him tizzy. 

Anyway, Icheoku is not attempting to rehash a dirge here or preach to the choir once more on a Sunday, but just for the records and in case Icheoku would be so unfortunate to someday lament 'I told you so'. Concluding, Icheoku asks Nigerian Christian community to show Icheoku the evidence that their Pastor Osibanjo would be any different and would be a safe and secured vice president unlike his predecessors? Where is the confidence that it will not be deja vu the same people and their penchant for notoriously breaking their words? is there a possibility that they would, this time, stick to the bargain, once they are sworn in through their alter ego Muhammadu Buhari? Like the saying goes, the bird in hand is better than the many in the bushes; so why would Nigerian Christian community toy with the idea of just being merely accommodated and tolerated in a Buhari's Aso Rock when they already have the mansion's keys as well as the best room in the house. Icheoku maintains that a Redeemer pastor as Buhari's vice president, is merely a ploy deployed by the Hausa/Fulani mafia to snatch power back from the South; and thereafter they will do with power what they do best with power -  however they please. But Icheoku will not like to witness a baboon Yemi Osibanjo, who after all the election campaign's handwork, becomes translucent and invisible or at best a frosty mildew in Aso Rock, while the monkeys feast on the spoils of office. So Redeemers, other born-again and born-before Christians  as well as other Christians in Nigeria, be a wise fish, please don't take the Osibanjo bait. On February 14, 2015, VOTE GEJ.

ELECTION 2015, NO FOREIGN INTERVENTION PLEASE !

WHATEVER THE RESULT, NIGERIANS PLEASE DO NOT GIVE THESE VULTURES REASON TO DESTROY THE COUNTRY. THEY ARE FULLY PRIMED, WAITING,  EAGER AND READY TO SWOOP. BUT LOOK AT SYRIA, IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN, SOMALIA, YEMEN, LIBYA AND THEN CHOOSE LOVE OF COUNTRY OVER ANY FOREIGN INTERVENTION. ELECTION IS NOT A DO OR DIE AFFAIR AND LUCKILY IT COMES EVERY FOUR YEARS, SO IF NOT IN 2015, MAY BE IN 2019. TO THESE PRETENDERS OF GREAT LOVE FOR NIGERIA, PLEASE SAY TO THEM, NO BUT THANKS, NO TO ANY INTERVENTION.

A DICTATOR IS ALWAYS A DICTATOR.

“The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, is not a substitute to President Jonathan. There is no way you can compare a democrat to a dictator. No matter the coloration or the number of pastors you placed around him, a dictator will always be a dictator.” - Senator Smart Adeyemi, member National Unity Group.

CHANGE 2015, CHANGE NIGERIANS DONT NEED?

Icheoku says the APC wants Nigerians to change from democracy to dictatorship; from moving forward to sauntering backwards; from happiness to sadness; from hope to doom; from living in freedom to living in bondage and from a PhD holder president to one whose First School Leaving Certificate is missing or at best questionable. But Nigerians are saying to APC that with a change like the one they are offering, no Nigerian needs a change. Nigerians, Icheoku urge you to just tell APC and their tired horse Buhari, no, but thanks, no. Look at their faces, they are all very mean, sad and melancholic people and who needs sadists running our collective affairs in Nigeria? Definitely not Icheoku and hopefully not any sane Nigerian, including you. As Professor Soludo rightly encapsulated them, these are "Aggrieved Peoples Congregation" up to no good and out to do Nigeria grievous harm. Say no to APC, reject Buhari.

Icheoku says Muhammadu Buhari is not the type of change Nigerians want or desire or deserve; not now, not on February 14, 2015 and not at any other future time. Muhammadu Buhari is part of the problem Nigerians have been tirelessly trying to solve all these years following his caustic shock and interruption to governance in Nigeria though his bloody military coup of December 31st, 1983. Moreso, Muhammadu Buhari belongs to the ancient school of thoughts and has no idea of how todays world functions. Further, no amount of APC re-branding can make this old wine become new again, including  putting it in a new skin or dressing him in borrowed robes of a democrat, which he is definitely not. Icheoku says Muhammadu Buhari should be left in the rear view mirror of Nigeria past harried coup plotting era where he truly belongs and allowed to live out whatever is left of his very advanced near-senile old age. 

Nigerians, Icheoku cautions that we cannot continue with all these all motion and no movement, one step forward, two steps backwards convulsive jolts, which has bedeviled our march towards progress since independence. A state of near complete quagmire which was caused by certain entrenched conspiracies in the country, including a man who once truncated our democracy named Muhammadu Buhari. Query why is it that each time some one is trying to figure out how to move the country forward, something always happens to intervene to halt the march forward, either a military coup or needless change of government and it is deja vu the drawing board all over again. Icheoku is emphatic that President Jonathan has finished his presidential internship with his first term and would during his second term give it his all, such that Nigerians can and would indeed really witness the change they crave and deserve. Icheoku says it is now time for Nigerians to say and truly mean it - FORWARD EVER, BACKWARD NEVER. So on FEBRUARY 14, VOTE GEJ.

NIGERIANS WHATEVER YOU DO, KEEP MOVING FORWARD - MLK.

Icheoku says except that Nigerians will not listen, otherwise all the warning signs are there that a Muhammadu Buhari presidency is not what Nigerians need at this time. It would be an irreparable backward misstep for Nigerians to take now if they allow Muhammadu Buhari of the past generation to lead this new app-generation. Simply put, he is not a good fit for the job now, he cannot do it anymore and therefore should not be allowed to even try.

At least if Jonathan is not fast enough for NIgerians' liking, they should encourage him to move at a faster pace but not to embrace the non-alternative devil may-care that is Muhammadu Buhari who has the blood of Nigerians in his hand. Even Martin Luther King has now sent a telegram to Nigerians from the grave, warning Nigerians against embarking on this Buhari fantastical experiment. According to MLK, "if you cannot fly then run; if you cannot run walk; if you cannot walk crawl; but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward." 

Icheoku says Nigerians, you have now heard from the King  of liberation theory himself that the mantra for Nigerians should and ought to be FORWARD EVER, BACKWARD NEVER. Buhari belongs to the past and should be left where he belongs, in Nigeria's rear-view mirror, period. This twenty first century does not need a twentieth century thinking grandpa to drive the agenda. Buhari is stale and Buhari is possibly afflicted with dementia; and a twenty first century Nigeria, desirous of moving forward, does not need such a Buhari; not now, not tomorrow and not the day after February 14 and not at any other future time whatsoever.  So on February 14, 2015, VOTE GEJ.

THE SINS OF JONATHAN - ABRAHAM OGBODO

The APC camp is unrelenting. It has decided that come rain or shine, the 72-year old ex-general must make Aso Rock on May 29. A certificate or something that approximates that has been shown to put paid to debates on whether or not the party’s flag bearer in the February 14 presidential election is educated to a level of becoming Nigeria’s president. 

In effect, all things being equal, it has been agreed that Buhari is good enough in all measurements to preside over Nigeria, the most populous and biggest economy in Africa, otherwise known as Giant of Africa in the 21st century. There is little more to add. Some people are saying it is in order to try a school certificate holder or school certificate attempted and a grand old man since the PhD holder and the young man that has been running for six good years has performed below installed capacity. 

Jonathan himself is the cause of these wild speculations. There is a saying in Yoruba that the hawk will lose its essence if it fails to catch chicken. And as essential as salt is, it will become white sand if it loses its taste. What I am saying is that power, especially in this part of the world, is created to be exercised not to be incubated. Maybe the narrative would have changed significantly if Jonathan had tried to come out as a Nigerian head of state, something in the mould of Olusegun Obasanjo. His gentility and attempt to be democratic when he should be rough and dictatorial have not helped him at all. 

Even his best weapon - the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) – in this political war of attrition was not put to effective use. He has lost the purpose for which former President Obasanjo created the EFCC. If the commission had been appropriately applied, his arch-rival in next month’s presidential election, General Mohammadu Buhari would have been probably running around trying to clear himself of alleged misappropriation of N26billion of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) under him. He would not have the time and presence of mind to jump from one state capital to another campaigning to unseat Jonathan as president. 

Under Obasanjo, no Aminu Tambuwal would have come from nowhere to become the House Speaker against the supreme will of Baba. He would have asked for the head of the little rascal to be brought to him on a platter of wood and he would pay the cost even if it meant sinking the National Assembly under the weight of Ghana-Must-Go bags. That is the way of politics in Nigeria and everywhere too. The end has a way of justifying the means almost always. 

But Jonathan is a gentleman. He allows the means to condition the end. He has said so many times that his ambition to remain President is not worth any bloody fight. That was why after months of sustained pummeling, Tambuwal so easily moved to the opposition to continue the onslaught against Jonathan and the PDP. The President has maintained the infuriating stance that nothing, including his political survival is worth a good fight. Tambuwal is still the House Speaker in spite of President Jonathan. I do not know of any other democracy in the world where the minority party produces the leadership of the legislature. 

Also, when a certain Mallam El Rufai was chased out of town under President Umaru Shehu Yar’Adua, Jonathan came fully on board to relax the conditions for his return. Now the hunted Mallam has completed a full circle and among the pack of ruthless hounds hunting Jonathan with a real threat of making a meal of him on February 14. This is the way the gentle crumbles in Nigerian politics. I can say for sure that the dirty game of politics does not have a dirtier and more brutal outlook than it has in Nigeria. And until something snaps to create a new template, its players must attend the Baba Olusegun Obasanjo School of Politics as a pre-condition. 

In effect, Jonathan needs another PhD from the OBJ academy to do good business in the Nigerian political environment. Roughness is the subjective factor in the power calculus. Without it, other factors cannot add up to tilt the scales. It is not enough to be knowledgeable, urbane, visionary, passionate and all of the attributes that constitute a virtuous scale. When all of these are assured, an effective player must exchange a certain percentage, say 50, of his milk stock for bile to sharpen the Machiavellian instincts needed on the field of play. 

Jonathan has consistently missed this point and it is almost too late to return to it. For now, he can only pray that since the universe is on the side of truth and justice, things should happen in a manner on February 14 to set the bad records straight. And the record is that the APC which is loaded with rough necks and rabble rousers, from Lagos to Sokoto and from Maiduguri to Port Harcourt, saw early enough this unusual desire of Jonathan to be the only good man in Sodom and Gomorra and capitalized on same to make life very uncomfortable for the Bayelsa born President. 

It would seem that while Goodluck Jonathan was lost in cloud seven conceptualising a new Nigeria where politics would be played without rough tackles, the opposition only carefully processed the playing field and returned with the verdict that the rules could not be changed in 2015 and whoever that was attempting to rework the rules should be tagged clueless and a weakling who must be changed going forward. 

Nothing was done to straighten issues when this scenario of a weakling was being created and foisted. It was condoned instead in the false hope of building a new political order. For instance, is it not truly a mark of weakness for a Nigerian President to declare a state of emergency in any part of the federation without dismantling the existing regional political structures to make for freer federal access to contain such emergency? Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa did not spare the regional government in 1964 when he imposed emergency rule in the former Western Region. And when Obasanjo did his in Plateau and Ekiti States, both governors were sacked. 

But Jonathan imposed emergency rule in the three states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa without sacking the governors. It is counting against him because these same governors are part of the crowd causing him sleeplessness. What he would have done to show strength and sleep well was to sack the three state governments and begin immediately a military air campaign to level all the cities, towns and villages with the faintest presence of Boko Haram. That is how to become a strong leader with a lot of clues in Nigeria. Obasanjo did so in Odi in Bayelsa State and Zaki Biam, the birth place of former Chief of Army Staff, Major General Victor Malu. Baba is today adjudged a strong leader with a lot of initiatives to contain trouble. 

Even Yar’Adua who was sick had enough strength to send the Air Force to level Okerenkoko in Delta State when some militants killed just one Nigerian soldier. Therefore, to think always of the collateral consequences of a narrow interest action and refuse to act to create the much-needed impression of strength is not good politics. Now, the opposition has managed to convert the gentility of Jonathan to docility and it is asking that he be replaced with Buhari so that the presidency can regain its characteristic rigidity and brutality. 

The message is sinking because the Nigerian crowd is like the Roman Mob that listens to both prose and poetry and acts on the last impulse. Buhari is the last impulse. Anyhow, it will amount to a change if Buhari wins the presidential election. This seems all that the APC wants from the ongoing process – just change for the sake of change. The nature of the change has not been properly interrogated because Buhari the change agent being taunted shall flunk big time on all indices if brought under scrutiny. He is being protected and guided by sheer propaganda to the presidency. 

This is the danger in the Buhari choice. By all measurements, he neither possesses the mental infrastructure nor the temperament to manage a modern state. He is just a piece of mirage defined as reality largely by the inability of President Jonathan to act decisively. Like all mirages, he shall evaporate upon arrival. 

FEMI KUTI WILL VOTE FOR NO ONE.

“In the presidential election, I will not vote because I do not believe in any of the candidates.” - Femi Kuti.

OBAMA VISITS INDIA , FIRST LADY LEFT TO HER OWN DEVICES HOLDING HERSELF?

Icheoku says this is what happens when a country has a bachelor-president or prime minister or head of state and a visiting foreign dignitary is  accompanied by a wife who will have no corresponding first lady to embrace and hold private tete-a-tete with. It happened in India during President Barack Obama's ongoing three day visit to that country of Mahtama Gandi and world famous Taj Mahal; as President Barack Obama is seen embracing the bachelor prime minister of India, Narendra Modi, and there is no India first lady to keep Mitchel Obama company. Icheoku says presidents and heads of states not having wives to serve as first ladies is increasingly becoming the norm these days with countries like France, Philippines and India as example of countries with bachelor presidents/prime minister holding the fort.

Anyway Icheoku has nothing against any man who decides to remain sane and not dabble into something he cannot adequately manage or maintain a grip over. But for any man to aspire to lead a nation, where both men and women abound, common sense dictates that such a man should have some female around him, whether wife or mistress, to help take care of women related matters such as when a Mitchel Obama accompanies her husband President Obama to visit, so that she will have someone to talk women issues  and gossip about other stuff with. Now imagine how a Mitchel is left starring into an openness, hoping that an Indian first lady would miraculously appear while her husband is in a warm embrace with the prime minister? 

However Indian Prime Minister made bold to state during his election campaigning that families sometimes cause public servants to be corrupt as they aspire to provide for them and their future generation? He convincingly won the last Indian election because Indians saw and believed in what he told them that because he has no family he will have no reason to steal from them since there is no one to bequeath it to. It worked as truth always does work and in Modi Indians see a truthful politician they can trust and they trusted him with their overwhelming vote and continuing goodwill. Icheoku will use the opportunity of this comment to once again congratulate Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his election as Indian leader and prays that all the good in his vision for a new working India would meet fulfillment. To President Barack Obama and First Lady Mitchel Obama, Icheoku says hope your Indian trip is meeting your expectations. Goodluck fellas.

OUR SUPPORT FOR GEJ, THAT YOU MAY KNOW !

 

Icheoku says our avowed support for GEJ is merely a bulwark against Muhammadu Buhari and his compatriot coup plotters to prevent them from ever taking power back in Nigeria. So now you know that we did not do a somersault or suddenly now agrees that Jonathan is a wonder-working president who have kept fate with the electorates by fulfilling his promised 2011 bargains. Icheoku only decidedly stepped up the game in order to help wall off the Miyettti Allah and serial coup plotter, Muhammadu Buhari, from ever entering the gates of Aso Rock. 

To help achieve this objective, in line with other so-tuned Nigerians, Icheoku would be employing and deploying varied resources including cache of available adverse information, geared to making the gates of Aso Rock too needle-eyed that the camel named Buhari would find it extremely impossible to make a passage through it. Icheoku says who needs to be told when to eat, sleep, wakeup, drink or even to stay married by a Buhari, when he divorced his wife and married his former mistress and also eats, sleeps, wakes up and drinks; admitted his drink of choice might be 'fura du nono' or tea or whatever his little kettle contains. But seriously speaking, Nigerians should speak up and speak loudly now or forever keep their peace that Muhammadu Buhari is not the alternative Nigerians desire, deserve or would settle for. This February 14, with your vote, show some love to Jonathan of Otuoke.

2015 ELECTION, WHAT ARE YOU VOTING FOR NIGERIANS?

Icheoku says this Election 2015, aside from voting for either a president, named Goodluck Jonathan, who is seeking a reelection to a second term and a desperately wanna-be president, named Muhammadu Buhari, who is running for the fourth time, eager to be allowed back into the seat of power, there are also so many other things that are on the ballot this February 14th election and which you should also be voting for in addition. They are subliminal, they present themselves in subtlety and they also manifest themselves by necessary implication, so read in between the fine-lines to fully unravel these burning underlying issues which are co-tailing the two candidates in this election.

So please don't just vote for the face on the ballot but try and also vote for those things which the candidate stands for and/or represents. With your votes, go behind the mask of their face and ensure that those things which are important to you but which are not visible to an ordinary onlooker are protected and then vote accordingly. As an informed voter, while casting your vote because you can, also vote because there are things dear to you which you want to see come to fruition. Please Nigerians, make your votes count and count for good causes only; but do not be beguiled by primordial sentiments of either religion or that 'it is now our turn to be president or that power must shift back to the North,' when the North does not own Nigeria. On the strength of the laid out premise and considering that the contending candidates are fully identified and known, Icheoku will now move on to explore the subliminal issues that are equally as important and which are gravely implicated in this election. Lets call them the 'other on the ballot issues in election 2015 and which will constitute 'the buy one get the others free' of election 2015.'

1. Born to rule mentality in on the ballot:- Icheoku says this February 14, the 'we are born to rule others but never for others to rule us' way of thinking is on the ballot. Any Nigerian who indeed believes in the sanctity of the constitutionally guaranteed equality of all Nigerians and their inalienable right to aspire to any office in the land including the presidency, should think through before casting his or her vote. Icheoku says if you vote for them and not for him, you are definitely part of the problem; as by your action and your vote, you are emboldening them in continuing their thinking that they are superior, the chosen ones. So make a difference in this election, with your vote, let them know that every Nigerian can aspire to be president and that presiding over Nigeria is not their Allah-given birthright. Like every other Nigerian, these people should also stay competitive and not just always wait for manna to be thrown on their laps from heaven and this includes the presidency of Nigeria. These people are not more endowed for the presidency or leadership of Nigerian  than any other Nigerian, whether the person is from Otuoke or Chibok or Sango Ota or Ntezi.

2. Democracy is on the ballot:- Icheoku says since Nigerians know how hard the fight to restore democracy in the land was and how long the distance traveled to get to the promise land of democracy was, no Nigerian should at this time toy with the idea of playing a rude joke with their democracy by allowing an avowed anti-democracy despot, named Muhammadu Buhari, to reap where he did not sow. Icheoku is emphatic that if Buhari killed democracy once before, he will kill it again; as the Buhari now is cut from the same old cloth of despotism and military authoritarianism as the Buhari of then; and that both Buharis are not given to consensus building inherent in a government of the people by the people and for the people. Icheoku says any spoiler or killer of democracy, like Muhammadu Buhari, should not be unduly rewarded with the gift of Nigeria's democracy, the presidency of Nigeria. To do this would be applauding EVIL and its dubiousness; otherwise where is the lesson learnt and/or deterrent that such misbehavior as toppling a duly elected government is not acceptable nor should be condoned and tolerated in any decent society. A coup plotter has no business or stake in a democracy and Buhari, being a serial coup plotter according to Governor Kwankwanso, should be so summarily dealt with as the pariah of democracy which he is.

3. Fairness is on the ballot. Icheoku says what is good for the goose is also good for the gander; therefore if a Yoruba-man had two terms at the presidency and a Fulani man had two terms at the presidency, admitted the second half was aborted by the same Muhammadu Buhari, then fairness dictates and demands that an Ijaw Otuoke man should not be shortchanged. Icheoku says if an Otuoke man is forced out of office today after only one term, tomorrow it might be an Afikpo man? If an Otuoke man is trampled out of office today, tomorrow it might be that woman of Chibok? If Nigerians allow this injustice of denying equal amount of terms at the presidency to be meted out to a Niger Delta South-south man, who knows what fate awaits that man from South-east or North-central or North-east tomorrow? Icheoku says fairness demands that President Jonathan Goodluck completes his region's two term at the presidency of Nigeria and any other thinking is abhorrent and should be resisted. So when you vote, have this knowledge as your companion in equity.

4. National Conference report is on the ballot. Icheoku says the last year's concluded very far-reaching report on how to restructure Nigeria will be thrown into the waste basket if the APC wins. Recall that the head honcho of APC Asiwaju Bola Tinubu rejected the composition of the national conference and threatened that Yoruba Southwest would boycott it, being against it. Icheoku says now that those naysayers have been proved wrong with a successful conclusion of the conference, their resounding recommendations need to be fully implemented. Icheoku says only Nigerians' smart voting would guarantee that the effort and resources that went into organizing this conference would not do to waste. So Nigerians, make the full implementation of the conference's recommendation possible, this February 14, vote to count and vote to be counted among the smart voters of Nigeria who secured and insured the recommendations of the National Conference. 

5. Oil blocks are on the ballot. Icheoku says mineral rights and licenses for majority of Nigeria's oil blocks, which are largely concentrated in the hands of Northern Nigerian Hausa/Fulanis, are due for renewal and would be maturing for re-licensing early next year. It is imperative that Nigerians know the faceless people who own these proprietary rights over our commonwealth as well as those who are fronting for those coup plotting retired army generals who have stealthily commandeered and appropriated all national assets of Nigerians for themselves and their families only. So when you vote on Valentines day, remember that the need to know this people who are fleecing the country is paramount and trumps over other mundane primordial interests and considerations, which ordinarily would have guided your voting decision. 

6. Internal independence is on the ballot:- Icheoku laments that long after Nigerians freed themselves from British colonial masters, another set of Hausa/Fulani internal colonialists have taken Nigerians hostage. Icheoku says in this election 2015, Nigerians must vote like they mean it and are desirous to secure their freedom from this people. So, with your vote, declare your independence Nigerians from these internal colonialists and tell them enough. These people are keeping Nigerians in bondage of perpetual servitude and only a complete  break-free from their chains and shackles would be acceptable this February 14. If they are the problem, your vote is the solution; so with your votes, solve the problem Nigerians. On February 14, please vote smartly because the British are gone and so also would these Hausa/Fulanis. 

7. Coup plotting is on the ballot:- Icheoku says plotting and/or carrying out a forcible change of government is a crime; hence anyone involved thereat in any capacity is a criminal. Except if the end now justifies the means for Nigerians, Icheoku maintains that Muhammadu Buhari is a CRIMINAL, who plotted and conspired with his fellow traducers of democracy, to unlawfully forcibly seize control of governance in Nigeria. Although not known to many, the coup of December 31st 1983 was also bloody as Brigadier Bako lost his life while trying to carry out his Buhari assigned role of arresting President Shehu Shagari at Aguda House Abuja. Icheoku maintains that the criminal coupist, Muhammadu Buhari, neither got a State pardon nor atoned for his crimes in any other manner and therefore still carries the stigma of a coup plotter and by extension a criminal. Therefore Nigerians must have this in mind when they vote on February 14 to either register a disapproval of Buhari's criminality or give a vote of approval to his criminal overthrow of a duly elected democratic government of President Shehu Shagari. 

8. Moving forward is on the ballot:- Icheoku says Nigerians have a choice to make this Valentines day 2015. Aside of affirming their respective love for their soul-mates or otherwise giving them the boot and moving on, Nigerians will also decide whether they agree with Fela that they are always taking one step forward and moving two steps backwards. A hallmark of a banana republic, going back to the dregs of yester-years is not an option in this election; so Nigerians must decide with their votes if it is okay to see their country as a banana republic or that the country has since moved on from such unneeded 'only "STRONG MEN" need apply for president' mentality. Icheoku says what Nigeria needs now are strong institutions and not a goddamn army-strong man to bully everybody around. Icheoku is emphatic that brain still trumps brawn, especially in the matter of governing a complex society like Nigeria.

9. Whether Nigeria is working for you is also on the ballot:- Icheoku maintains that between the trio of evil men Nigeria was cursed with - Obasanjo, Babangida and Buhari; and added the midget of Kano Sani Abacha's five years; together these three men from hell have been in power in Nigeria for a total of 29 long agonizing years. So for the greater part of Nigeria's life, these monsters have held it on a vice choke-hold; yet you wonder why things are the way they are? Query, if any of this men is any good, why did they not improve things in Nigeria such that Nigeria would not be the humpty-dumpty that is proving a monstrous challenge for the present government to fix. Icheoku does not know about you, but please think through your decision before you contribute to this anathema that helped ruin Nigeria and for such a long time. Enough of these stale and archaic pedestrian thinking that has not moved Nigeria forward and as far as its potential could otherwise have thrived. 

10. Liberating other Northerners is on the ballot:- For too long, everything and anything meant for the North has always ended up and been commandeered by the North-westerners. As at the last count, they ALONE have produced FIVE PRESIDENTS and heads of states in Nigeria. From Muritala Mohammed to Shehu Shagari to Muhammadu Buhari to Sani Abacha to Umaru Yar'Adua - all of them without an exception are from the Northwest. Now, once again they are busily queuing up and gearing to re-produced another president in the person of a recycled Muhammadu Buhari. Icheoku queries, is it only the Northerners from the Northwest that knows how to be president? How about those other Northerners from Northeast and North-central? Admitted that the North-westerners usually trace their right to everything and anything in Nigeria belonging to the North to their ancestry to Uthman Dan Fodio, who having captured and subjugated the other Northerners, are theirs for the asking but should this still remain germane in present day twenty first century Nigeria? Icheoku says helping these people in any way sustain this warped thinking is not healthy for the mind and psychology of these other Northerners. Icheoku says in this election, Nigerians must tell these North-westerners that Nigeria is not Saudi Arabia where kingship is hereditary; that every Nigerian including other Northerners are equally entitled to the office of the presidency of Nigeria.  That the story of Uthman Dan Fodio is a long distant history and should be confined to where it belongs - the past. So Nigerians, on February 14, vote to bring about this truth squarely and frontally to them. VOTE smartly and vote for a purpose and vote for a reason and vote because you care and vote because you matter. 

11. Obasanjo and Babangida relevance are on the ballot:- Strangely and to Icheoku's amazement, many Nigerians still defer to this two retired army men and you ask yourself why? What did they meaningfully contribute to the society that should earn them this relevance and reverence, giving them unmerited air of importance and as with some people, admiration? Look at Obasanjo, an incestuous adulterer who had sex with his son's wife Mojisola and who couldn't effectively run his family, but is swaggering everywhere and pretending to be Nigeria's president maker? Ditto Ibrahim Babangida, a bloody coupist and killer extra-ordinaire, who has the blood of so many Nigerians including Major Mba and 299 other army majors, running in his hand, also perambulating everywhere and parading himself as a king or rather president maker? Icheoku cringes each time Nigerians put this two munchkins on an elevated pedestal which they did not honorably merit nor deserve. Icheoku says this February 14, Nigerians must decide whether to free themselves from the clutches of this two dishonorable despicable fellows or forever remain captive of their imbecility. To be honest with you, Icheoku includes the immediate demise of this two men as prayer points, each time and each day, we are in prayerful supplication to God. Icheoku laments that as long as both men live, Nigeria will never know peace because they are the architects of all our troubles. 

12. Educated president matters and is equally on the ballot:- In as much as Icheoku does not belong to the school of thought that says a "PhD" is the it all; but we make bold to state that any future Nigerian leader should be educated enough to at least understand the workings of basic micro economics and some modicum of international relations. Icheoku says this twenty first century Nigeria should have no accommodation for a president with only a native intelligence. Regrettably, Mohammadu Buhari has no basic education and no certificate either to show in rebuttal of  the assertion. As a correlation therefore, Muhammadu Buhari is not educated enough to be president of present day Nigeria and therefore should not be allowed with your votes to become president. A time when blind men led the sighted is since gone and Nigerians cannot afford the old way of managing things when there is an option which can do without and does not include managing things. This February 14, vote like your mind is developed enough to think and think things through first, before making a decision. Vote with the full knowledge and awareness of all the ramifications and implications of once again having an illiterate ruler, moulded in the form of Buhari, preside over the collective affairs of Nigeria. Such idea is a no brainier and helping to foist it is treacherous; so please be wisely informed as you go inside the polling booth.

13. Freedom is on the ballot:- Icheoku was once kept out of Nigeria and for a long time because of hard political views and commentaries considered adverse by the government of the day, then. If you take a look at Saudi Arabia, you will see how reprehensible their rulers are that have kept their people so captive and so yoked down. Just recently, a blogger was sentenced to 1000 lashes for merely airing an online opinion on issues in the country. The said blogger is presently hospitalized and recovering from the first installment of 50 lashes from a scheduled 1000 lashes which was meted out to him. Imagine a common wide practice in a twenty first century world where people use social media to keep connected and air their opinion on issues, and such is considered an offense the piqued minds of the kingdom rulers? Icheoku says the fate of this Saudi Arabian blogger awaits all online dwellers and participants in a Muhammadu Buhari's Nigeria; except that the good Lord will not let it see the light of the day. Muhammadu Buhari did it before and would readily do it again. He is averse to criticism and does not accommodate divergent and disparate views. Muhammadu Buhari's Decree 4 is very instructive on what fate awaits Nigerian bloggers and FaceBookers in the unfortunate event he is ever let into the gates of Aso Rock. All his present pretensions not withstanding, Buhari has not changed his despotic ways and you cannot teach an old dog new tricks. So 21st century Nigerians, if you like the uninhibited freedom the Internet brings your way and which allows you to freely interact with other freedom loving peoples of the world, who sometimes even call their presidents names to their face and hearing, then for Jove's sake, DON'T even think about voting for Muhammadu Buhar. Icheoku says Muhammadu Buhari should only be good enough to be sighted in your rear view mirror as you cast your vote.  He will trample on your freedom of both expression and association and this is a fact of consequence. Don't let his handlers fool you, tell them thanks but no to their offer of a stale, dementia-stricken mind to lead and guide you in this twenty first century.

Finally Icheoku says the reasons why Muhammadu Buhari should be REJECTED is just too many to be fully encapsulated in this article or any other. So feel free to add your thoughts as you may deem fit; but conversely, do vote for Buhari and live to lament if only you had heeded the maxim CAVEAT EMPTOR. So Nigerians, now you know why Team Buhari and his Miyetti Allah followers are murderously itching to win the February election; a lot of good thing are at stake which they would gladly like ONLY to abort if you let them. Also they know that it is now or never as their old way of subjugating Nigerians would finally be buried with their failed candidate Buhari and they are fighting and clawing to remain relevant with a win, but only if you let them. However and luckily too, the election is still in the future and not already past; and so, the undecided voters in Nigeria still have time to see what the futuristic-thinking and looking Nigerians have already seen, that they have no inheritance in the son of Buhari named Muhammadu and cast their vote accordingly.

The Nigerian people as chief deciders in this election, still have all the difference to make in this election; and it is only them who will decide what is in their best interest and then vote accordingly. The Nigerian people will on Valentines day 2015 chose between President Jonathan and candidate Buhari whom to fall in love with and then be prepared to live with whatever fallout their vote begets. But like Joshua told the people of Israel, Icheoku says to Nigerians, choose you whom to vote for and intelligently too; as for Icheoku and family of well wishers, we have decided to pitch our tent of support to and are now fully vested in the reelection of the man from Otuoke named Jonathan. We are doing this not as a testimonial or for any other reason associated with Jonathan's performance or lack thereof this past years, but in fairness to their South-south Niger Delta zone, who are as entitled as any other zone in Nigeria to a two terms presidency. This 2015 is rightfully theirs to win the presidency and remain in charge of affairs in Nigeria as co-equal partners of Nigeria PLC.  Any other thing or thinking geared at dislocating this is a none starter and simply gibberish. This practice of allowing each region a two term stints at the presidency is time-tested, honored and still remains applicable in Nigeria and should not be unfairly changed midstream and now, simply because a minority is occupying the office. So on February 14, Icheoku asks you to VOTE fairly, wisely and smartly, VOTE GEJ.

BUHARI IS TINUBU'S CANDIDATE, NOT THE NORTH'S?

“The question to ask Tinubu and his cohorts in the APC is simple; if Tinubu’s godson, Governor Babatunde Fashola is saying that 57 year old Jimi Agbaje is too old to rule Lagos State, how then can they present a 78 year old Buhari to be President of the whole country? The answer is also simple, they want a president that would die in office so that they can take over Nigeria. Even during campaigns, Buhari was already collapsing. God will not allow these desperate people to plunge Nigeria into another crisis." - Governor Fayose, EKiti State.

ICHEOKU SAYS NO TO POSTPONEMENT, ELECTION 2015 MUST GO ON.

Icheoku says 'NEPA or no NEPA, Aduke must go on; and so the scheduled election must go on as planned. There is never a time when all registered voters ever votes in an election, so with whatever voters INEC has, they should proceed with letting Nigerians decide who leads them going forward post February 14, 2015. Alternatively, just like Abubakar Atiku suggested, INEC could revert to the good old ballot paper system or better still, allow non PVC holders the opportunity to paper-vote while PVC vote accordingly. 

Icheoku does not ascribe to the postponement of the election whether on grounds of unavailability of PVC to some registered voters or any other ground whatsoever. Luckily, INEC has risen to the occasion by assuring that those who are yet to receive their personal voters cards would so receive before the election; and this is a good confidence-boosting news. According to a release by INEC,  the chairman said “We have assured that the issue of concern, namely distribution of PVCs, will be addressed before elections; and the cards will be made for all registered voters. As evidenced in our preparations, we are ready to hold elections in February.” 

Icheoku says now that Nigerians have once again heard from the man charged with conducting the election, Atahiru Jega, on his commission's preparedness to holding the election as scheduled, they should therefore ignore the earlier fears expressed by the National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, suggesting a postponement.  Icheoku says the assurance from Jega is highly commendable and with that, Nigerians must now continue to prepare to vote as scheduled come February 14, 2015. And please remember that Muhammadu Buhari is not the alternative Nigerians desire nor deserve and/or are looking for; so vote Jonathan Goodluck for stability, fairness and to enable his South-south Niger Delta region complete their own two terms at the presidency. I am Icheoku and I approve this message. So on February 14, go VOTE and please VOTE GEJ.

ELECTION 2015, ICHEOKU ENDORSES PRESIDENT JONATHAN !

Icheoku had initially planned to stay out this election on the sidelines and not take sides but recent developments has forced our hands and we hereby declare our full support for the reelection of President Goodluck Jonathan to a second term. An injustice to one is an injustice to all; and so if a Shagari village Fulani man was allowed that and an Ota man was also allowed his Yoruba's two terms at the presidency, so should an Otuoke Niger Delta Ijaw man. Fairness demands that and so also does the voice of God affirm. Icheoku says no real democrat would stand by and watch the latest gang-up by these coup plotting retired army generals to once again dictate to every Nigerian how to live their lives and not at least say, ENOUGH! To do nothing would be to give these criminals a thumbs-up and vote of approval that their perversion of democracy and ruthlessness were an acceptable behavior. It is equally instructive that not only did this band of anarchists truncate President Shehu Shagari's duly elected democratic government but they equally truncated the also duly elected democratic president-in-the-waiting MKO Abiola election and for no other reason other their penchant to cause mischief and hurt Nigerians. 

Icheoku says that Nigerians gravely suffered untold hardship and torture during their both regimes, added to that one of their triumvirate Sani Abacha, the midget of Kano. Bartholomew Owo, Bernard Ojulope, Segun Lawal, Kudirat Abiola, Ken Saro Wiwa, Mamma Vasta, Dele Giwa, Pa Rewane and so many other Nigerians were brutally murdered under the supervision of this three bloody coup plotters. Icheoku says these were avoidable deaths of innocent Nigerians  which only animals could and did indeed authorize. Therefore Icheoku's fatwa is that no person connected to any of this state murders, talkless of someone directly involved in them, should be allowed near the corridors of power in Nigeria, never again. It is on the authority and rage of these harried memories and the fact that the same Evil Genius who not only murdered Dele Giwa but also annulled MKO Abiola's election, is now shamelessly teaming up with the same man he overthrew in 1985 that caused Icheoku's hairs to stand up in defense of sanity. 

Icheoku says if Buhari was all this and all that and the messiah Nigerians have been waiting for, as Babangida is now telling Nigerians, why then did Babangida overthrew Buhari in 1985 and not allowed his messianic prowess to fully become manifest? Icheoku says the coming together of these former foes cannot be for anything good for Nigeria as they are both incapable of having or showing affection. Remember that Babangida killed his best friend and the best man at his own very wedding, Mamman Vasta, based on a phantom coup. Icheoku says any man who could so cruelly  shed the blood of his best man at his own wedding does not deserve a place amongst decent humanity. Such man is a resident evil not deserving any human interaction talkless of edification of any kind. Why did he not put him in prison assuming an express pardon would be difficult to secure? 

Icheoku warns that this latest alliance between Ibrahim Babangida and Muhammadu Buhari is ominous and should raise instant red flag to every right thinking Nigerian that the duo, being both evil and very mean, cannot be up to any good or have any plans to do anything different to improve the lot of Nigerians. Just ask yourselves Nigerians, when both men had their opportunities as criminal coupists to lead and led for ten years,  what legacies did they leave behind for Nigerians to treasure other than sorrow, tears and blood? Icheoku recalls that MKO Abiola warned Nigerians that 'with a friend like IBB, no one needs an enemy.' Nigerians, Icheoku is emphatic that MKO Abiola was right then when he issued that warning and that MKO Abiola is also right now as he once again telegraphs this warning from his grave. His message, that Nigerians should beware of the poison ivy that is Ibrahim Babangida as he offers a cyanide-laced poisoned chalice named Muhammadu Buhari to Nigerians; and that they should not drink of it.

For those Nigerians who have chosen silence in the face of this cruel gang up amongst Nigerians worst nemesis, Icheoku warns that their purchased silence is a disservice to the fatherland. For those who chose to do nothing but stand hands akimbo and aloof, shivering in fear, Icheoku warns that upcoming Nigerian generations would not forgive their willfully indifference. A time like this calls for real people with conscience to stand up and stand their grounds to  vehemently denounce evil; and should not allow the man and woman in them to die faced with tyranny. Icheoku bemoans that Babangida joining forces with Buhari is tyranny by itself and Nigerians should not wait to see their plans come to fruition before taking up the gauntlet to stop them cold. Posterity will not forgive Nigerians if Buhari ever comes back to power; moreso with the support of the satanic Ibrahim Babangida, a man who literary destroyed Nigeria and left Nigerians near destitute. A man whose flagrant disregard for the law including the Oputa Panel of Reconciliation is simply too mind-boggling, just to mention but a few.

Based on the foregoing and other infra-dignities of Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida in particular, most of which are in the public domain, Icheoku heretofore condemns as very devious, this latest alliance by this two serial coupists to once again snatch power in Nigeria. Icheoku says both men are unfit and disqualified by their antecedents to play any role in a Nigeria that is future-focused; and as result, would work to help stop their cunning advances and conspiracy to once again insert themselves in Nigeria's governance. Furthermore, many of us know first hand what it feels like to be haunted for speaking out and for speaking up; some of us too were once on a prohibited do-not-enter Nigeria list  and were not allowed to enter Nigeria during some past governments and therefore greatly appreciate the abundant freedom under the present government. Therefore Icheoku declares full support and hereby endorses PDP presidential candidate, Dr Goodluck Ebelesimie Azikwe Jonathan for reelection as president of Nigeria. So Nigerians, on February 14, 2015, VOTE FOR GEJ .