GUN VIOLENCE IN AMERICA: FOR WHO THE BELL TOLLS NEXT.

Just five people shy of Sandy Hook elementary school mass shooting incident that claimed 26 lives, the Uvalde Texas Robb elementary school mass shooting at 21 victims, now ranks among the highest grossing gun carnage in America. It is sad that such frequent blood spilling has tragically become part of our culture as a society. May the souls of the killed now rest.

25th AMENDMENT: ITS NOW ALL CRICKET.

Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi once questioned former President Donald John Trump's fitness to remain in office due to what she claimed was his declining mental capacity. Does anyone know what Madam Speaker presently thinks about the incontrovertible case which America is now saddled with? Just curious!

WHO WILL REBUILD UKRAINE?

The West should convert frozen Russian assets, both state's and oligarchs' owned, into a full seizure and set them aside for the future rebuilding of Ukraine. Like the Marshal Plan, call it the Putin Plan.

A HERO IS BORN.

I am staying put. I will not run away and abandon my people. The fight is here in Ukraine. What I need are weapons and ammunitions, not a ride out of town like former Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani - President Volodymyr Zelensky.

IT IS WHAT IT IS.

"There is too much hate in America because there is too much anger in America." - Trevor Noah.

WORD!

A life without challenges is not a life lived at all. A life lived is a life that has problems, confronts problems, solves problems and then learns from problems. - Tunde Fashola.

NOW, YOU KNOW.

When fishing for love, bait with your heart and not your brain, because you cannot rationalize love. - Mark Twain.

JUST THE FACT.

In our country, you can shoot and kill a nigger, but you better not hurt a gay person’s feelings - Dave Chappelle

DO YOU?.

“What you believe in can only be defined by what you’re willing to risk for it." - Stuart Scheller.

HEDGE YOUR CRISIS.

Never get in bed with a woman whose problems are worse than yours. - Chicago PD.

PROBLEM SOLVED.

'The best way to keep peace is to be ready to destroy evil. If you Pearl Harbor me, I Nagasaki you.' - Ted Nugent.

OUR SHARED HUMANITY.

Empathy is at the heart of who we are as human beings. - Cardinal Matthew Kukah.

WORDS ON MARBLE.

"Birth is agony. Life is hard. Death is cruel." - Japanese pithy.

REPENT OR PERISH - POPE.

Homosexuality is a sin. It is not ordained by God, therefore same sex marriage cannot be blessed by the church - Pope Francis.

CANCEL CULTURE IS CORROSIVE.


FOR SAKE OF COUNTRY.


MAGA LIVES ON: NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER!

TWITTER IS BORING WITHOUT HIS TWEETS. #RestorePresidentTrump'sTwitterHandle.


WORD.

"If you cannot speak the truth when it matters, then nothing else you says matters.” - Tucker Carlson.

#MeToo MOVEMENT: A BAD NEWS GONE CRAZY.

"To all the women who testified, we may have different truth, but I have a great remorse for all of you. I have great remorse for all of the men and women going through this crisis right now in our country. You know, the movement started basically with me, and I think what happened, you know, I was the first example, and now there are thousands of men who are being accused and a regeneration of things that I think none of us understood. I’m not going to say these aren’t great people. I had wonderful times with these people. I’m just genuinely confused. Men are confused about this issue. We are going through this #MeToo movement crisis right now in this country." - Harvey Weinstein.


RON DELLUMS: UNAPOLOGETICALLY RADICAL.

"If it’s radical to oppose the insanity and cruelty of the Vietnam War, if it’s radical to oppose racism and sexism and all other forms of oppression, if it’s radical to want to alleviate poverty, hunger, disease, homelessness, and other forms of human misery, then I’m proud to be called a radical.” - Ron Vernie Dellums.


WHAT REALLY MATTERS IN LIFE - STEVE JOBS

“I reached the pinnacle of success in the business world. In others’ eyes, my life is an epitome of success. However, aside from work, I have little joy. Non-stop pursuing of wealth will only turn a person into a twisted being, just like me. God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone’s heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth. Memories precipitated by love is the only true riches which will follow you, accompany you, giving you strength and light to go on. The most expensive bed in the world is the sick bed. You can employ someone to drive the car for you, make money for you but you cannot have someone to bear sickness for you. Material things lost can be found. But there is one thing that can never be found when it is lost – Life. Treasure Love for your family, love for your spouse, love for your friends. Treat yourself well. Cherish others.” - SJ

EVIL CANNOT BE TRULY DESTROYED.

"The threat of evil is ever present. We can contain it as long as we stay vigilant, but it can never truly be destroyed. - Lorraine Warren (Annabelle, the movie)


ONLY THE POOR WISH THEY HAD STUFF?

“I’m not that interested in material things. As long as I find a good bed that I can sleep in, that’s enough.” - Nicolas Berggruem, the homeless billionaire.

Monday, May 25, 2015

ROTIMI AMAECHI, WILL THE VILLAIN EVER BE FORGIVEN BY NIGER DELTA PEOPLE?

Icheoku says when the villains of the lost presidential election 2015 of President Goodluck Jonathan are counted, Governor Rotimi Amaechi will certainly occupy the topmost number one position, followed by several others in that sequence. So the necessary question remains, will he ever be forgiven by his people of the South-south Niger Delta region for selling out their zone's  hold on the presidency without much in return or as compensation? Is it a fair trade that in lieu of his region's presidency, he now ended up as a mere hustler in the presidency of a Hausa/Fulani Muhammadu Buhari? A president-elect who can summarily travel out to London to meet with the British Prime Minister David Cameron without the single courtesy or decency of even an honorable mention of the trip to Amaechi, his glorified presidential campaign director;  following which Amaechi had to scurry to London, chasing after Buhari, just to present an air of still being a factor and included in the fast emerging Muhammadu Buhari inner power house? Why would this jostling around power be more valued to Rotimi Amaechi  rather than his brother remaining the president of Nigeria? Icheoku says, had he secured the vice presidency, my be his people will at least still have some consolatory prize for their loss of the presidency; but Rotimi Amaechi gave it all away, lost it all including his region's hold on the presidency. So what manner of a man would be at easy with such a skewed disproportionate exchange he made, the proverbial cutting off the nose to spite the face?

Icheoku says it certainly is a cause for concern when a man, who for all intent and purpose, now qualifies for a Judas Iscariot of our time, would readily betray one of his own brother, successfully driving him out of power, only to settle for a beggar status around power corridor? A man whose conspiracy caused his entire South-south Niger Delta region hold unto power to completely unravel, now leaving them out of power and merely holding a beggarly power plate. Icheoku does not know about you but says that Rotimi Amaechi is in addition, a Brutus of our times as his betrayal of President Jonathan is akin to the Brutus stab which Caesar felt most, because it came from the least expected quarters - a trusted insider, the unknown enemy within. In a six region power arrangement which Nigeria operates, why a member of a region with hold on power would conspire with persons from other regions with the sole purpose of wrestling power out of his region, is indeed very mind boggling. But Rotimi Amaechi exactly did this and only Rotimi Amaechi can explain the wisdom of his action as Icheoku is at sea on why any sane person would prefer to settle for less when he already had the more by proxy.

Icheoku perfectly understands that politics is a game of the long knives as every player is in it is there for what he or she can get therefrom. But when an unthinking man throws his hat into the arena and ended up being shortchanged and used as merely a tool to wrestle power out of his brother's hand, as it is increasingly looking like, then one must question the political maturity and sagacity of such a man. Icheoku is not a fan of President Jonathan, admitted we strongly carried his waters during the last election because of our disdain and strong resentment of Muhammadu Buhari presidency because of those three Nigerians he murdered; but let truth be spoken, would any reason ever be enough or suffice for the betrayal of the president by Rotimi Amaechi? As a correlative, would the people of the South-south Niger Delta ever bring themselves around to forgive or forget this their rascally son, who conspired with other people from other zones to forcibly yank their mouth from their suckle on power? Icheoku does not know about anyone who would pardon such treachery, but says Rotimi Amaechi should indeed be ashamed for the role he played in the defeat of President Goodluck Jonathan in the last election. What a human excrement this man is by reason of the trade he brokered - trading a position of master to now a mere servant for his region and someone please tell Icheoku Rotimi Amaechi is indeed truly happy for bringing about this outcome?

Sometimes Icheoku gets goose pimples thinking about this Rotimi Amaechi's utmost betrayal of President Jonathan and wonders, with men or people like him still walking the face of this earth, what hope has humanity of ever getting anywhere? Icheoku says regardless of whatever compensation the incoming Muhammadu Buhari's government might throw his way for the hatchet-job he did on Jonathan, will it or anything for that matter ever be worthy of the heinous crime he committed, ousting his own South-south Niger Delta region from power? It is nothing short of a slave mentality for Rotimi Amaechi to prefer someone else as president rather than his own brother irrespective of any disagreement that led up to this. So what if a cash-strapped Jonathan refused or did not pay money owned to Rivers State? So what if Dame Patience made Rotimi Amaechi mad? So what if Rotimi Amaechi was livid and wanted the head of John or Jonathan the Baptist on a platter? Is anything hurting enough to make the horrible trade he made, preferring a Fulani president to his own regional blood's president? So what will happen in the very likely event Rotimi Amaechi has serious disagreement with Muhammadu Buhari; who will he run to or gang up to in similar manner yank the presidency from Buhari? Icheoku maintains that any responsible person does not stir the hornet nest in his neighborhood for fear of being victimized by their sting; but Rotimi Amaechi just did that and today is a loathsome pariah of the entire South-south Niger Delta region. Hopefully he will realize his folly soon enough, make contrition and beg for forgiveness; following which he will find a rope and go behind his house to do what every Judas Iscariot does when the heavy heart of what they did becomes unbearable. Icheoku says this Rotimi Amaechi is one huge unthinking buffoon to have conspired to yank the presidency from the South-south Niger Delta and pawn it over to the Northwest Hausa/Fulani. A Judas Iscariot of our time - pitiful and indeed very pitiful he is.

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