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.

Saturday, March 14, 2015

FAYOSE AND KAYODE, PUTTING VERVE IN A PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN.

Icheoku has said it before and will say it again that only very few Nigerian politicians understand what real politicking is all about, short of their usual bribery with stuff and bare knuckle thuggery and intimidation that always get them  elected. Many of them do not have what it takes nor possess the cerebral power-punch oratory skill that effortlessly sway  electorates. This is the reason why politics is no longer interestingly fun anymore; unlike the good old days when people would be rushing to get newspapers or watch television or tune-in to their radios just to hear what Zik said again or what is making Pa Awolowo mad again or what vernacular Mallam Aminu Kano spoke again. Those were the days of politics without rancor and bitterness; but one peopled with brainiacs who fought their opponents with superior ideas and witticisms only. There was no do or die bloodletting thuggery or bribery;  it was purely politics based on power of conviction. 

Icheoku remembers the days of colorful politicians like KO Mbadiwe, TOS Benson and a few other notable political juggernauts, timbers  and calibers whose oratorical skills were such that the Nigerian electorates were held spellbound and captive by them. Icheoku nostalgically still remembers the weight of verbal bombs which these gifted real politicians threw across the land and how reverberating their thud sounded. Those days are since long gone with the wind and these days, no one can remember any thing said by any politician nor recall any politician dropping a memorable one-liner that he or she could be remembered for. No Nigerian today looks forward to hearing what any politician said again or how he said it; and none of them draws laughter from an excited audience any longer. 

In short many a Nigerian politician today is bland and tasteless; the reason they resort to bribing their way to power with useless stuff that only a hungry and deprived electorate would trade his or her vote for. No electorate is mesmerized any longer by these charlatans masquerading as politicians in Nigeria. Even MKO Abiola of late had the "with a friend like IBB no one needs an enemy" and "you cannot shave one's head in his absence" liners to remember him for? Then Godwin Daboh's "if you Tarkah me I will Daboh you' liner was equally of note, memorable. Dee Sam Mbakwe's 'the rat does not eat the food of a person who is wide awake" also counts; and then you query what statement could be credited to any of these people now parading themselves as leaders in Nigeria, some of who could hardly even string a sentence, talkless of making it count and sizzle. 

Icheoku says in the absence or paucity of such emotive remarks and "political jingoism", it is discernible why the duo of Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose and PDP Presidential Campaign Spokesperson Femi Fani-Kayode are currently making waves in Nigeria. Both men have finally come to the rescue of Nigerians,  by now giving Nigerians what they have been missing and longing for, and for a very long time. Icheoku says it is not about what you say or don't say; it is how you say it and meaningful mean to say it. It is called passion and being passionate comes with conviction, which many of these politicians lack as they are mainly interested in what accruals results from their activity rather than trying to make their mark on the landscape. Where others failed, both men have succeeded in charming the media as their new darling whose every utterance is reported and carried by the media; thus giving the campaign a much needed oxygen. 

Like an asthmatic patient, these men are the new inhaler that makes it possible for a real breath of fresh air to be reintroduced to the campaign and now it can exhale again. With both Fayose and Fani Kayode, there is quantum passion and they deploy it fully to bear on what they have to say and in how they say it. Thus people hearing them believe they mean to say what they said and they say what they truly mean to say. By so doing, they have brought back some mojo in a hitherto moribund campaign that sauntered for a long time, thus enabling the propaganda machine of the APC to somewhat control the narrative for quite some time with the ruling party playing a catch-up role with their reactionary response. But the free-reign of the duo has now placed the PDP back in contention and ahead of the pack, where they naturally should and deserve to be. So with the playing field now leveled with both parties screaming their loudest, Nigerians are once again tuned in and listening to hear what comes down the pike, next.  

Icheoku is pleased with this two operatives of GEJ2015 and says that the campaign owes everything it is presently now enjoying to the energies brought on-board by this two bare-knuckle pugilists. That's the way campaigns are wedged - take no prisoner, because short of bullets, political campaign is a war and only the brave and courageous throw  their hats in the ring. There is no room for humble gentle manliness in politics and anyone not ready to battle and tumble down and dirty, if need be, should yield because politics is not for everyone. Icheoku says kudos to Governor Ayodele Fayose and Spokesperson Femi Fani-Kayode for revamping the Project 2015 GEJ campaign and keeping git alive and bubbling. It is Icheoku's prayers that they also remain as focused and directed through the last stretch of the campaign project. Hopefully their efforts will be bountifully rewarded with a GEJ victory as well as appointments to any future offices they might desire. Way to go people; and may these guys' vocal cords never whimper nor tremble nor quaver. Governor Ayodele Fayose and Spokesperson Femi Fani Kayode are doing one heck of a very, very, good job for the campaign and Icheoku seriously means it as literally said. Icheoku says it is GEJ all the way, so ON MARCH 28, VOTE RIGHT, VOTE GEJ.

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