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.

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

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.

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