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.

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

OBASANJO FORCED OUT OF PDP, GOOD RIDDANCE?

Icheoku says the only regret is that he was the one who preemptively pulled the plug and not the other way. A very fast one indeed, following the decision of the party's NEC to axe him from the party which filtered to him and he decided to beat them to their game. But regardless, it is still a good riddance to his nuisance and convulsive value to the party; a party which gave him so much but which in turn got mere damnation from him in return. 

Icheoku called it correctly and rightly in our article of November 17th, 2014 titled "Obasanjo defecting to APC," wherein Icheoku predicted that Olusegun Obasanjo was on his way out of the PDP. But the rest is now history, admitted he did not go full hog by also walking over to the APC immediately; but whether Bola Tinubu would tolerate and accommodate a rival in his APC is a matter for future discuss. Icheoku says it is only people with impaired political vision that did not see it coming and did not know that Olusegun Obasanjo  had made up his mind a long time ago about parting ways with the PDP. These are the people now flipping over and about because of the dramatic manner Olusegun Obasanjo ended his marriage with the PDP by publicly shredding his membership card and calling it final quits from the party. 

Icheoku maintains whether Olusegun Obasanjo can still be accommodated in Nigeria as the "statesman", he so desperately desires, is very much debatable in view of the so much damage he has caused his reputation, leading to President Jonathan calling him a motor park tout. Many Nigerians agree with President Jonathan that Baba Iyabo of Ota is a rabble rouser, whose behavior is anything but statesmanly. Like the two women of the Bible who went to King Solomon over custody and ownership of a child - wherein the biological mother wanted the child to live, but the putative mother wanted him killed; this is now  Olusegun Obasanjo and how he has dealt with the PDP that gave him its all. So now Nigerians have watched how someone who did not know how a party was brought into being, did not care about what becomes of it either. A party he never mentored nor nurtured, but walked out of prison, a convict, to be rewarded with a gift of its presidential candidate and went on to do two terms of eight years as president of Nigeria and now in gratitude, he is shredding their membership card on public television. A party he merely leeched off and parasit(ed) on without more, he destroyed their property in this manner which goes to show that he never cared about its well-being in the first place. 

The biggest loser of the Olusegun Obasanjo final ouster is not the PDP, for they will survive and thrive. The biggest loser is Abubakar Atiku, who alongside his fellow  PDM  accomplices in 1998, conspired to deny Alexander Ekwueme his midwifed baby and gave it to Olusegun Obasanjo, thus having Obasanjo reap where he did not sow. That Abubakar Atiku even survived Obasanjo's machination is equally a miracle on its own; admitted Obasanjo so damaged him that today Abubakar Atiku is but an unelectable political untouchable, a corruption pariah in Nigeria; courtesy of Olusegun Obasanjo who stamped an indelible ink of the face of corruption in Nigeria on Abubakar Atiku. But hey, Alexander Ekwueme has outlived and out-survived both Abubakar Atiku and Olusegun Obasanjo in membership of the PDP and who says God is asleep. 

So going forward, Icheoku says the PDP will now have to move on without Olusegun Obasanjo's nauseating distractions and refocus itself towards winning the forthcoming elections and convincingly. The PDP will now  have to reconstitute itself into the formidable party to beat it is, without the needless maniac of Ota, whose penchant for shouting fire in a crowded theater house of the PDP is  very well known to Nigerians. As the PDP goes on to win the presidential election of March 28 as well as other subsequent elections, Icheoku maintains that on no grounds whatsoever would they ever consider readmitting both Olusegun Obasanjo and Abubakar Atiku back into their fold. The PDP should use their post election victory to finally clean house, weed off all trouble makers and rebuild the party for the future. What a deed that was so long overdue; so long Ota Deity; and now may your evil deeds finally catch up with you in your miserable retirement into political irrelevance and obscurity in Nigeria. And finally Olusegun Obasanjo's curtain is drawn and may not be opened again  till his final sunset; enough of him and enough of his troubles! The PDP is better off without Olusegun Obasanjo!

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