PRESIDENT SHEHU SHAGARI: DEAD AT 93

ICHEOKU say the former president of Nigeria during the second republic between 1978 to 1983, Alhaji Shehu Shagari, has died. Shehu Shagari died of old age related infirmities following a brief illness. He was 93 years old. Shehu Shagari was meekness exemplified and had a heart of gold that granted amnesty to both Yakubu Gowon and Odimegwu Ojukwu, the two protagonists of the Biafran Civil war, admitted Gowon's case was for participating in the failed coup that ousted Muritala Mohammed. ICHEOKU says may his gentle soul now rest. Adieu Shagari.

PRESIDENT TRUMP VISITS TROOPS IN IRAQ

ICHEOKU says hopefully the visit will now quieten down all those naysayers who have been crying wolf that the president has never visited troops stationed overseas since his presidency; as they will now look for something else to be mad and angry about at the president. ICHEOKu says congratulations to President Donald John Trump and First Lady Melania Trump for finding time to visit with our fighting men and women at the Iraqi front. May God keep them safe and also our troops. Happy Yuletide season everyone. 

AMERICA'S NEVER ENDING GLOBAL WARS: A SOLUTION EXISTS.

ICHEOKU says the only reason America is constantly fighting wars and acting as a police man of the world is the American military industrial complex, their profiteering honchos and the pervasive mentality among the elites that it is other peoples children and relatives who are fighting, being killed and maimed in these mostly needless and endless wars. As is always the case, when somebody is not paying a levy, he or she usually does not mind nor care if the levy is unaffordable or outrageously so high, provided they are not required to pay it. This is the reason so many people, particularly those in the Congress, support engaging America in unending wars throughout the world and in every part of world, no matter how remote it is; regardless of how inconsequential it might be to the security interests and needs of the United States of America. 

ICHEOKU says it is about time, these wars, which are depleting America's resources, both monetary and human, ended; or at least be brought within reasonable affordability. America cannot continue to assume everybody's and every country's security responsibility, especially when it the American tax payers that are usually called upon to bear the brunt of paying for these wars. It is becoming unbearably too expensive and it is about time it ended; or at least those countries whose security interests and needs, necessitate those wars, are made to pay for them. If that means American military becoming a mercenary soldiers that go to fight other countries wars, so be it; but America should henceforth start choosing its wars more sensibly and as is strictly restricted to the security needs of the country. That America is always going to save these countries makes those countries not to invest in their own military and security needs, aware that  American military will always rush in to save them.

It is therefore disheartening to see the outrageous outcry by some people in the Washington DC power circle, following President Donald John Trump's latest order pulling American troops out of Syria; and you ask yourself what is behind this outcry. The answer is simple, these people who are shouting holy macro have neither their sons and daughters or relatives in the military, who are fighting, being killed and being maimed and whose families are left lonely and without them during holidays and festivities such as the Yuletide season. They are observing the holidays with their own families, while the military families are alone, separated and perpetually worrying about the safety of their wards in the front line. Some of these perpetual wars apologists are also beholden to the military industrial complex, with military contractors lobbying them without ceasing for their military contracts to keep on coming, regardless of the dire hardships which military families face, the loss of lives, life altering injuries and financial resources involved in these world wide military adventurism. 

A solution however exists and ICHEOKU strongly believes one that will be the magic silver bullet that will finally solve all these needless and unending global war, which America has somewhat made its past time. Every son and daughter born to any American parents should be required to do at least four years of service in the military, compulsorily and without any exception or waiver whatsoever; except on dire medical or proven sickness grounds, which will render such a person incapable of serving the fatherland. ICHEOKU says you can call it bring back the draft if you like, but it is about time America reinstated the compulsory military service and force every parent in America to put their skin in the game that is defending America; and watch this incessant needless wars come to an end. Other peoples children are being killed and being maimed; and families are in constant grieving, while many others have since broken apart, victims of the constant separation of families; while the beneficiaries of these wars are smiling to the banks and building nests for their own privileged sons and daughters and generations yet unborn, from their profiteering from all these wars. 

It is about time this skewed Americanism ended and every American should be made to equally contribute in the defense and security needs of America. Military service in America should be made a one cap fits all affair, and let every American share in the burden, pain, agony and joy that necessarily comes with serving in the military. That way, every American will be better placed to have a real and actual perspective of what is  involved in prosecuting wars. This will enable them appreciate the need to only order the military into wars when a real need arises and exists; and not just because there is money to be made and that war lobbyists want to make more money or that their lobbying foreign countries want their security need to be met. American military should only be deployed to protect America's interest and nothing more. Therefore, ICHEOKU supports the withdrawal of the American troops from Syria and urges more of such withdrawals, including from Afghanistan and other places where their presence is not necessarily needed. Enough of these endless, needless wars. as the cost in human lives and to the American treasury is increasingly becoming exorbitantly, too prohibitive.

CHARLES SCHUMER'S BORDER WALL: ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES?

ICHEOKU says why is the Charles Schumer led Democratic Party behaving as if the election of 2016 did not take place and as if his party is still in power and therefore still calling all the shots in Washington DC; and also as if President Donald John Trump was not elected president based on election promises which he made to the American people? 

Watching the current absurdity going on in Washington DC where a minority party is holding a party in power hostage to its own agenda, indeed questions everything the Democratic Party has told American people previously that elections have consequences and you wonder if it is only when the Democratic Party wins elections that the rule applies. Why is it that they tell us this and then turn around and seem to forget the fact that President Donald John Trump was elected president in 2016 and therefore his election should have consequences as well. Or did they forget that the president was elected largely in part for his tough stance on immigration, including his promise to build wall on America's southern border; admitted Mexico was supposed to pay for it. but things did not work out as earlier planned to make Mexico pay for it. 

But irrespective of who pays for the wall, if the president won the election by reason of his promise to BUILD THE WALL, why then should the expressed wishes of the more than 63 million Americans who voted for the president not matter to the Democratic Party or be of such consequence as to warrant the fulfillment of the promise and expectation from the government which they put in power. Why then do people vote for any particular candidate based on campaign promises and why do people even run for offices if not to articulate what is important to the electorates, with a promise made to fulfill them if elected? Why then do candidates make promises to the electorate, based on which they swing their votes, if it turns out that they will be frustrated from keeping their election promises, by the obtuse and obstructing minority party? 

A case in point being the southern border wall with Mexico which catapulted President Donald John Trump into the White House, and which Charles Schumer, Hillary Clinton and even Barack Obama once supported, only to now become anti wall obstructionists just because their lunatic fringe base is against it. How about President Donald John Trump's own base or is it only the Democratic Party's base that should be catered to and whose wish must always be fulfilled? Where is the tolerance and accommodation or is the political relationship now so one sided that it must always be the Republican Party which is always forced into a retreat while the Democratic Party becomes so bullish that they always have their way or it is the highway for everybody else. 

Where is the fairness and honesty in the horse trading usually involved in politics and where is the justiciability. Why did the Democratic Party take over the House of Representatives in the last Midterm Election if not for the promise of keeping Obamacare which they made to their base. So, how will they feel if Republicans decide to obstruct them or truncate it and make their promise to their base go up in smoke? Politics should never be a game of winner takes it all or a stance of my way or the highway, because what goes around always have a way of coming around. It should be a little here and a little there, flesh and bone situation, and in that way, both political parties' bases will feel like their votes mattered and counted.

ICHEOKU says therefore necessary accommodations must be made by the Congress to enable the president satisfy the wishes of the millions of Americans who want the wall built and thus help him fulfill his election promise to them; otherwise what use then is running for any office, if the wishes of the electorates doesn't matter any more or can be simply discountenanced by a minority opposition party. 

ICHEOKU says short of trying to force a distance between the president and his base and thus separate them from him because of the 2020 election, the Charles Schumer led Democratic Party have no other business or any cogent reason for obstructing and resisting the building of the southern border Mexico wall. The Republicans must therefore treat such a continuing obstruction as an affront to them as the majority party and to their president and find a way of circumventing the Democrats obstruction. If it means deploying the nuclear option, so be it; afterall their former leader Harry Reed used it to confirm two otherwise would have been impossible to confirm liberal Justices of the Supreme Court. 

Were it the Democratic Party that ran on the BUILD THE WALL promise and won, they would have since flooded the airwaves with their "election has consequences" outcry and will stay on the message until every American says let the Democrats build their wall. But not with the Republican Party, which sometimes appear to be not willing to fight for anything which their party's base wants or believes in; afraid of being branded racist or any other inclement adjective. 

ICHEOKU says what happened to the fighting spirit which distinguishes the two political parties, failing which, we should just have a one Party State and forget about it. What is worse if ICHEOKU may ask, is it using the nuclear option to confirm Supreme Court Justices that lasts a lifetime and which decisions affects nearly everything in the society or using it to clear obstacles towards securing needed funding to build the wall. Only that it would seem that even the Republican Party are equally sabotaging the president's agenda and do not want him to succeed, otherwise why not just go full metal jacket on approving the entire $25 billion for the wall and damn the consequence. But they are mad as well, alongside their Democratic Party establishment, that an outsider crashed their Washington DC's power party, uninvited and hijacked the center seat at the head table. 

Anyway, American people are waiting and watching to see how the current border wall triggered government shut-down face-off eventually works out; but truth be told, President Donald John Trump needs to have his wall built and it does not matter nor should it matter if the next Democratic Party's candidate runs on demolishing the wall and if he or she wins on that promise, should feel free to take bulldozers to the wall and demolish it. But let candidates be allowed to fulfill their campaign promises otherwise American electioneering campaign is doomed for vacuousness; because words should matter and campaign promises which secured victory for a candidate should as a matter of need, be fulfilled. BUILD THE WALL and let American Tax payers pay for it.

MATTIS FIRING: JUST ANOTHER DAY AT THE OFFICE.

ICHEOKU says it was wrong for the outgoing Defense Secretary, James Mad Dog Mattis, to so publicly rebuke the President and Commander In Chief and the man at whose pleasure he served; and should have shown some respect at least to the office of the president, even if he does not like or disagrees with the president. President Donald John Trump was elected president by the American people and anyone who disagrees with what he I doing or what his policy initiative and direction is, should trash it out with the American people who elected him, but must learn to respect the choice which they made on November 6, 2016. It is not debatable and it admits of little to no choice in the matter. Therefore, irrespective of how any of those Washington insiders may feel or think, America has only one elected president and President Donald John Trump is that person, case closed. 

Therefore, anyone called upon to serve in the administration must either conform to the policy directive of the president or take the exit; no backbiting and no talking back nor grudging snipes will be entertained or tolerated. There is no exception to the rule and it does not matter how highly regarded the official is, as everyone of them is subordinate to the President and Commander In Chief who appointed them into office. James Mad Dog Mattis is not an exception to the rule, thus firing him was in order, as he disrespected the office of the president by openly castigating the president and challenging his right to the office by disregarding his order and by necessary implication, questioning his decision making capability. 

Those too big to control appointees in the administration should make way for those self disciplined individuals, who understands the boundaries of their appointment and are fully aware that there is only one president of the United States of America who was elected to direct the policy initiative of the country to step in. America does not have room for more than one president at a time and any appointee who cannot check his ego to this consequential fact should move on or be fired. If any appointee feels that they do not like the direction of the government or the type of foreign policy they are pursuing, they should leave or even run for president themselves and if they win, then drive the ball of the State as they see fit; but they must not be a passenger in another man's vehicle and want to impose their will on how the vehicle will be driven. 

President Donald John Trump was elected by the American people who are tired of how things have been going on and wanted an entirely new direction. Nobody serving in his government has any superior right to anything, including the right to first refusal other than the president. If James Mad Dog Mattis was given a notice long time ago, 8 months to be precise, that the mission in Syria should be wound down within the next six months and two months after the deadline, he has not taken any steps to implement the directive, that actually amounts to insubordination and disobedience of a lawful order from a superior authority. So the question should in fact be why did James Mad Dog Mattis not obey the president's directive and if he strongly disagrees with the president, why did he not turn in his resignation, rather than wait to be fired and now acting out with open letters of disagreements. 

Why would James Mad Dog Mattis play the game which all of those Washington establishment members play? Why would James Mad Dog Mattis disobey his boss, the President's directive, only to now say what? That he knows better than the man who was elected to drive the policy and foreign relations football of the United States of America, who appointed him into office and at whose pleasure he served. But as with every other thing else which the crooked media covers, concerning the president, they are now making the James Mad Dog Mattis firing appear as if the president took him by surprise, when in fact it was James Mattis that indeed took the president by surprise by not only carrying not carrying out an express directive  but now lashing out against the president, when he was given 8 months notice hers up, which is now two months past due, to wind down the Syrian operation. If he knew that the president should have the type of defense secretary that he can work with, why did he not resign or rather change into the type of defense secretary he knows the president would rather have.

Anyway, in any government or administration, every appointee is dispensable and even the president if need be; so as James Mattis goes another person will fill his shoes. The Pentagon was there long before James Mattis arrived and so will the Pentagon remain there long after James Mattis is gone. Hopefully, the president will quickly find a very competent hand to man the tiller at the Defense Department and life, as always, goes on. Many members of Team MAGA thought that Mad Dog Mattis would have been above the fray and crass partisanship of Washington DC, and would have worked with the leader of Team MAGA seamlessly, but it turned out not to be so. Our allegiance lies and remains with the president and we are sticking with him until after his second term in 2023. Therefore, the president can fire whoever the heck he wants to fire, as nothing will or can sever our allegiance to him and we shall reelect him to a second term come 2020. So long Jim. 

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU AND YOURS.

ICHEOKU says may the Yuletide season bring you everlasting peace of mind and fulfillment in the life whose birth we are celebrating today. Merry Xmas.

ATIKU IS DOOMED: THROWN UNDER THE BUS BY MIYETTI ALLAH.

ICHEOKU says it is now John 19:30 for the Abubakar Atiku's campaign effort to enter Aso Rock. As is self evident, the noose on the crooked and corrupt polygamist Abubakar Atiku's quest to make it into Aso Rock is increasingly, tightening. The taut just got more tense as his own people, the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, has now thrown him under the bus or is it even under the hoofs of their cows, to be stampeded to death. A man who has been bedeviled with all manners of problems, each capable of derailing his campaign and collectively now seriously threatening to actually achieve that. 

What a gathering of the storm against a campaign that was doomed from the onset to fail, even before it actually kicked off; dogged by one scandal after another. A man with such a quantum of baggage, yet the load keeps on getting heavier as more and more things are being added to his already heavy burden. Atiku's case is made worse by the ineptitude of his campaign media organization, which is not doing anything fantastically well and/or professionally exceptional, to help shut some of these bad press against their candidate down and ultimately squelch them. 

ICHEOKU says what then is the use of a media consultants who could not kill a story or at least spin it out of focus and out of the front page and prime time, which are constantly  reminding Nigerians of the questionable character who wants to be their president. There is the saga of an American financial crime, an absconding from America, an American visa snafu and also his being a wanted man by the American FBI, all of which have hounded Atiku's presidential quest for so long and are still hounding him till today; and which will eventually, collectively prove his albatross come February 15th, 2019. 

As if those are not enough campaign-killing troubles already, Atiku is running a mediocre campaign with staffers who either do not know what they are doing or could be said to be working against the interest of their candidate. How can a candidate seeking the votes of the electorates be damaging his relationships with different voting blocks of the electorates. How could Atiku's staffers and even vice presidential candidate be picking fights with the electorates, instead of mending fences and suckling up to them, at least, until they cast their votes. 

The other day it was Father Mbaka and his Adoration Ministry that Atiku's campaign took on and today, it is the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, his own Fulani people, his umunna, that the Atiku campaign also took on. The first rule of engagement of campaign politics is "TO DO NO HARM" and not cost your campaign any votes; and to protect every vote, no matter how seemingly inconsequential they may be, from leaving your column of support. One cardinal rule of electioneering campaign is to never make any voter so mad or minimize his or her essence, as to make the voter's vote part of the 500 votes in Florida which made Al Gore to lose the presidential election to George Bush in 2000. 

That Atiku is not a consummate politician is becoming clearer by the day as evidenced in the way in which he is running his campaign thus far; and by not protecting against these leaching off, of his otherwise potential votes. This explains why he has not been able to successfully close the deal with the Nigerian electorates, despite the strong distaste for a continuation of the Buhari's presidency. It could also be argued that Atiku is a very bad product, which a very horrible sales people, his campaign organization, are trying so hard but without success to push into the market. But unfortunately, they are not doing well enough and neither are they making the requisite effort necessarily needed and required to push such an unwanted product into marketability. 

ICHEOKU says so far, the Atiku campaign media organization has failed him woefully and a thinking presidential candidate would have done some shaking up in it, with a view to injecting fresh, ideas-filled minds and competent hands and quick thinking brains, to help chaperon and coast him through the rest of the campaign season. The current staffers have failed to propagate his candidacy far enough as to be within the threshold of electability. Their inability to successfully endear Atiku in the minds of his critics and detractors; and thus unable to erode some Buhari's would be voters and switch them to Atiku is tellingly costly. 

Atiku, ordinarily, has no strong solid political base anywhere, and without poaching voters from the other guy, he has a near zero chance of ever uprooting an incumbent who is fully resolved of retaining the seat of power. President Donald John Trump won the presidency of the United States of America not with Republican votes or because the Republican Party wanted him; no, but because he was able to poach some Democratic voter's votes, some Independents voters' votes, as well as other non aligned voting blocks, some of who have never voted for any candidate within the past 30 years, but all of who came out to break for him. But instead of Atiku courting and growing these various block of voters, he is rather constantly pushing them away; some as a result of unintended misspeak, utterances and actions. 

ICHEOKU says except for the easily excitable few hollering Facebook macaws, there are no major noticeable movement or political realignments within the polity, ever since Atiku purchased the PDP's presidential nomination ticket. The most chilling being among Nigerian governors, particularly those from Atiku's own Northeast geo-political region; none of who are getting giddy with excitement about Atiku's prospects at entering Aso Rock. The Southeastern governors as not excited either; including Southeast's Ike Ekweremadu, who will not commit a political harakiri by encouraging his own upstage as the natural PDP political leader in the Southeast. The Deputy Senate President is fully aware that the election of a PDP Vice President from the region will automatically sideline or push him aside and make way for the new dog in town. 

But will Ike Ekweremadu accept this new impending order, in view of the Alex Ekwueme's saga of 1979 through 1983, which saw an unparalleled rivalry and sometimes near physical confrontation and even a shooting fight at Nkpor, in his attempt to wrestle power and control from the then NPP controlled Southeastern States of Imo and Anambra States. The memory is still very fresh in the memory in those PDP governors as well as Ike Ekweremadu and they will seriously guard against their losing their relevance and of course political strength in the Southeast to any stranger who just wandered into the PDP to snatch their entitled right of first refusal vice presidential slot, and thereby a threat to their political base, which took them decades, in putting together and establishing. 

This is a pivotal issue which any thinking presidential candidate would have factored in, while choosing his vice presidential candidate, but not the brain-dead Atiku. Politics is about having a strong loyal powerful base and once established, no politician likes any straggler encroaching on it and will do whatever it takes to sabotage and frustrate such incursion or should ICHEOKU even call it, protect against such an invasion and possible overthrow of the politician and banish him from his territorial political space. It is akin to staging a personal political coup de tat against such politician and they usually do not take such very kindly. 

It is just like the lions in Serengeti National Wild Life Park or any other place, once they establish their territory and their pride, only a fight to death to defend it or their banishment would dislodge them from there; and so it is with politicians, because without being in charge and control of their political base, they are nothing and have no bargaining chips left on their table. 

But the man who believes that everything is money and money Is everything, is yet to convince ICHEOKU that his pick will deliver the Southeast for him, especially when he has no control of the political apparatchik of the Southeast, including in his own home State of Anambra. That William Obiano is working for Buhari reelection effort is an open secret, based on a deal which the governor reached with the president, before his own reelection victory was signed off on. That Ike Ekweremadu feels threatened by Peter Obi's emergence is also a fact because he will not allow his political hold of the Southeast to slip from his hands and shift to Peter Obi. Further, Enugu State Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, who owes his appointment or "selection" as then PDP candidate for governor, to the Sultan of Sokoto, will do exactly as instructed by the Caliphate. 

Thus, with Ekweremadu and his State's Governor Ugwuanyi working against Atiku, Atiku's election victory's prospect in Enugu State is at best, flickering. Then factor in the Enugu State's Father Mbaka's Adoration Ministry fiasco with Peter Obi and you be the judge that with this three opposed factors in Enugu State, that Atiku's winning Enugu State will be an uphill task to pull off. Imo State is already under the APC controlled and Ebonyi State governor is not equally excited about Atiku and he is rumored to be a closeted Buhari supporter. Abia State is at best uncommitted; and there goes the so much noise about a sweep of the Southeast by the Atiku/Obi ticket; a matter which is not helped by the IPOB threatened Election 2019 boycott in Southeast and South-south, Biafran land. 

But Atiku, as if he needed more problems in addition to his already existing 99 problems, which are seriously militating against his election bid, has now added the entire Fulani North in the Atiku's conundrum. How can any politician, who is already this heavily loathed, afford to continuously elongate his enemy's list, especially when the cavorted new enemy is his own Fulani people. It shows that Abubakar Atiku is an unthinking money miss road; and has no grey matter in his brain. How can Atiku afford to be bleeding this much many votes, particularly a voting Zombie Nation, as the Fulani, who simply follows orders to execute and without ever asking questions or thinking about it. What inoculation does Atiku has against these lost votes and he is not in power to either mobilize, marshal out and coordinate an effective rigging of the election with the security agencies. 

ICHEOKU says anyone who pays attention in Nigeria knows that the powerful Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, is everything Fulani. Put in another way, Fulani is MACBAN and MACBAN is Fulani, two sires of the same loin and inseparably tied together to the same apron string. They are the same people and what affects one, equally affects the other. Fulani are fundamentally cattle rearing Nation and for the most part, have retained this niche in the society, as it has always been and still remains true till this day. It is their preeminent occupation and they are so proud of this their ancestral heritage, that every Fulani either owns cows or has a family member who owns cows and/or is a herdsman. It runs in their blood, hence whatever affects a Fulani herdsman affects the entire Fulani Nation put together. It is also a fact that the Fulani still maintains a top to bottom hierarchical society and that they usually speak with one voice. 

Therefore, the Fulani who denounced Abubakar Atiku as a prodigal bad Fulani, would not have spoken if his statement was not first signed off by the Sokoto Caliphate itself. Please don't forget that MACBAN has as its three patrons, the three most prominent Northern traditional rulers - the Sultan of Sokoto Sa`ad Abubakar, the Emir of Kano Mohammed Sanusi III and the Shehu of Bornu El Kanemi.  It is also on strong authority that ICHEOKU says that practically every retired or serving Northern military honcho invest in the cattle business heavily. Then add other prominent rich Fulani and other Northerners who consider cattle rearing business as a must own share or buy stock; or put in another way, Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria is the Fulani person's Stock Exchange and their fortunes rise and fall, depending on how the market of cattle rearing is performing. So, they will do whatever it takes to keep it waxing stronger and stronger and will not tolerate anything or person who threatens them in any way, form or fashion. 

Abubakar Atiku just did that by condemning and threatening that their murderous escapades will be tackled and they will not hear nor entertain such intrusion into how they conduct their business, which often turn gory and bloodied. So, it is based on these variables, especially the fallout with the Miyettii Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, a group as powerful as America's National Rifle Association, the NRA, that ICHEOKU says that the Abubakar Atiku's campaign just received a death blow by the statement which was credited tot he Fulani Nation as issued by MACBAN. 

The membership of that Fulani body MACBAN is deeply rooted and they are very powerful as well. That they have now disowned and distanced themselves from Atiku is the biggest deal against the Atiku's moribund campaign for Aso Rock. Yet, somebody is still saying to ICHEOKU that Atiku will win the Election 2019 and ICHEOKU retorts, with what constituents? The MACBAN's statement telegraphs a resoundingly resonating message that the Fulani Nation does not trust Atiku; and at at best, not enough trust, that he will protect their Fulani interest in Nigeria. 

It also sends a clear signal that the Fulani Nation is sticking with their zealotry Fulani nationalist and brother, President Muhammadu Buhari through the Election 2019. Their message is unmistakable and it is clear as a whistle that for the Fulani Nation, their interest supersedes any other interest or thing or consideration, and that they are not prepared to risk it all with a renegade Fulani, Abubakar Atiku, who they cannot trust. 

ICHEOKU says just read what the President of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, in charge of the killing field hotbed Benue State sector, Alhaji Garus Gololo, said, about Abubakar Atikuand you will be convinced. It requires no further interpretation as to where the heart of the Fulani Nation lies in the forthcoming Election Campaign 2019. They do not joke when it comes to protecting their interest and they have severally killed in the past to protect it and if need be, they will also willingly shed more blood to register their message that nothing else matters to them nor trumps the Fulani interest in Nigeria. With the message, the Fulani Nation have spoken and unequivocally too, that they have no inheritance in the House of Atiku; and so have decided to stay put in the House which Muhammadu Buhari built for them. 

President Muhammadu Buhari gave his all to his Fulani Nation, including giving them a government of a Fulani man by Fulani people and for the Fulani Nation. So what else can they ask for and who else can beat the Buhari record of completely ceding Nigeria to the Fulani people. Not a thousand Atikus can come close to ever being more fundamentalistic ally Fulani, than the man who put FULA in the FULANI. Yet somebody somewhere, who just had a bellyful of the the ATIKULOOTED coolaid, is dreaming of an Atiku inside Aso Rock and tasing ICHEOKU tp join the marching band of ATIKULOOTED vuvuzelas now. Really? 

Just listen to what Alhaji Garus Gololo said about Abubakar Atiku for you to understand that were Atiku a cow, MACBAN would have since led him straight to the slaughter and had his meat sliced up as suya and kilisi; and by his own people, the Fulani Nation of Nigeria. The Fulani Nation detests Atiku so much, for being a fake Fulani and actually, accused him of being of a questionable Fulani descent. Here below is the riveting statement:-

“I am disappointed in Atiku because he had already divided Nigeria even when he has not come to power. Buhari has nothing to do with herdsmen, he is a Nigerian and it is the people of Nigeria that voted him into power and l believe they will still vote him again in 2019. Nigerians should ask Atiku about the N68.8 billion proceeds from NEPA which he sold when he superintended over the privatization process of the then NEPA. People should talk about the power plants or the money he raised from the sale of that public asset. As far as I am concerned, Atiku is not a credible candidate to contest the coming presidential election in Nigeria because he is so sentimental and if they vote him in as president, he would divide Nigeria the more." 

ICHEOKU says if this is not the final nail that was driven into the coffin of Atiku's presidential quest, then it is going to take his coming to America and being arrested by the FBI and locked up in prison following a criminal prosecution and conviction to achieve it. But a person who has been disowned by his own very umunna, his kinsmen, is definitely running on empty; just only on fumes, in his quest to dislodge Buhari from Aso Rock. But hey, we shall see how the crooked and corrupt polygamist intends to surmount and dismantle all the obstacles which are blocking, not only his way but his sight, as he continues trudging on, on a lonely road of a failure to accelerate his Mission to Aso Rock. 

As if the mountain of obstacles is not enough already  now his own people, the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, a bona fides Fulani people of Nigeria group, have descended into the arena of conflict to throw their hat in the ring, in support of an incumbent Fulani zealot, their own beloved son, in whom they are all well pleased and  also trust. It is much unlike the renegade Fulani in name only, Abubakar Atiku, a walker about, philandering Fulani polygamist, who they detests with passion. 

And there goes up in a fiery smoke, a dreamt Atiku's presidency but which failed to successfully launch. Abubakar Atiku is victim of self destructive impulses and an inept campaign media organization, which has crass incompetence for a middle name. So long Atiku and may you be forever remembered, although euphemistically, as another best president who Nigeria never had; the other one being the wicked degenerate Obafemi Awolowo. SAY NO TO ATIKU. Atiku, NOT GOOD FOR NIGERIA.

ALEX BADEH: NIGERIA'S FORMER CHIEF OF DEFENSE STAFF ASSASSINATED..

ICHEOKU says it was with mixed feelings but definitely not shocked, that ICHEOKU received the news of the assassination of a former Defense Chief of Nigeria, AVM Alex Badeh. It is unfortunate that he was murdered and now has become part of the statistics of victims of the general insecurity in the land. 

This was a guy who diverted billions of Naira meant to arm and equip the Nigerian Air-Force into his personal use accounts; and was being prosecuted for the grand larceny and theft of the Nation's commonwealth. Ironically, his billions could not save him from the assassins hot leads and he cannot take any dime with him as he flies away into eternity. 

The story of such unmitigated corruption is replete throughout the society, including in other branches of the military as well as other security agencies, including the police; and somebody is still wondering why the intolerable high level of insecurity in the land which has literary defied solution. Yet despite all these, some people still wants to vote for the face of this wanton corruption in Nigeria,  Abubakar Atiku, into office as their president. ICHEOKU says may God forbid bad thing, IJN. 

However, the only good thing out of this tragedy is that it shows that nobody is immune from the insecurity in the land; and that even the high-up also falls victim to the incessant blood letting in Nigeria. A situation which they often don't pay much attention to and at best, a lip service attention, because of the security cordon usually thrown around them, including battery of government paid guards who protect them. But none of it paid off today, as he assumed room temperature and instead of returning home to his palatial mansion which corruption purchased for him, he is in a frozen drawer inside a morgue, awaiting the pathologist's scalpel. 

As a high up military honcho, Badeh possibly too, knew and/or had an inkling about what happened to Bola Ige, but kept quiet about it; thinking that he was just a bloody civilian Attorney General and Minister of Justice and that a non bloody and nor civilian military honcho is totally shielded from such a dastardly assassination. Imagine the possibility that Bade could still be alive today had Bola Ige's assassins been caught, prosecuted and convicted and are either serving life prison sentences or received death penalty sentences that have already been carried out. It would have surely served as a deterrent to those assassins, who today, took Bade's life. But no, it was Bola Ige's turn yesterday and today, it was is Alexander Badeh and who knows for whom the bell will toll tomorrow. 

So, it is somewhat comforting to see that every life can succumb to insecurity and therefore every life should matter and should be protected, by solving the insecurity problem in the country. Therefore, if Alex Badeh's assassination will jolt every leader or everyone in authority in Nigeria, to work harder, going forward; to ensure that there is security for everybody, so be it. An insecurity for one should as a matter of course be an insecurity for all. The life of an Agatu farmer in remote Benue State should not be of any lesser value than a former military honcho Bade's life in Abuja, simply because Bade is a proverbial Nigerian "big man." Former IGP Ogbonna Onovo once issued a report which showed that more than half of Nigerian Police Force are deployed to protecting about only 10% of the population's high up, with the other half protecting the rest of other 90% of the lower caste Nigerians, whose lives are less important and of lower value. Speaking of a country or rather a country, that once was. 

Therefore ICHEOKU welcomes the periodic felling of some of these Nigerian leaders, because we are all in it together and are all equally exposed to the life altering vagaries, which their ineptitude and cross corruption festooned on the country, admitted the disparate proportion. The Orwellian Animal Farm situation in Nigeria cannot go on forever and should not continue to be tolerated, because no life should be more equal than the other, simply because they are the proverbial "big men" and "big women" of Nigeria and other Nigerians are not. A Nibo Nise man's life taken by a killer Fulani herdsman is as precious as a Bade''s life, also, probably taken by some Fulani hired assassins. But who knows who wanted him out of the way or ordered him killed; whether he was another victim of the continuing Fulani onslaught on the people from that region of the country, or he was simply a victim of just a random attack. 

Hopefully the police will help Nigerians solve the crime quickly because of who he was, admitted Bola Ige's murder is still a cold case over 15 years after he was brutally hacked down while having dinner, his last supper, with his family inside his family home. It is very SAD that Bola Ige was killed and it is even sadder that no lessons were learnt from his killing to guard against such,  leading to the now killing of a former Chief of Defense Staff, Air Vice Marshal Alexander Badeh. When will all these wanton wastage and spillage of human lives ever end in Nigeria? May his soul now rest. Adieu Alex.

LINDA IKEJI: A WOMAN SCORNED, BLACKMAILING HER BABY DADDY.

ICHEOKU says Linda is only blackmailing a guy whose only sin was picking up an easy lay, who  took in and was advised to see a doctor, but she refused. How could she, when her womb has long been yawning for a fruit and therefore, was too precious to flush out. According to Linda, her son is the product of a long unanswered prayer, which was finally answered. Query, why and what then is the need for Linda's tale by moonlight about a casual, reckless and unprotected sex, which produced for her a love child and also a loveless baby daddy?

Linda says she is 38 years old, but anyone who has some brain knows that Linda is likely closer to 45 years and at such an advanced old woman age, conceiving is often times very difficult for women. This explains why a surprised Linda would not hear nor entertain the idea of an abortion and she carried her child to full gestation. Luckily too, the child looks healthy and she has the means to support him and give him the best which money can purchase in his life. She should therefor zip it and stop all these pity party story for the Gods, because many people do not really care about what two adults did behind closed doors and at their spare time. 

So what, if she had sex with a stranger and got knocked up, and a child outside wedlock results? She will not be the first, neither will she be the last to so do. The last time ICHEOKU checked, none of the above is a crime, so, why bother with the salacious details. Linda should therefore move on with her life of being a single mother and a baby mama to a guy who did not and does not want a long term commitment and has himself since moved on. 

Nigerians would rather not be disturbed by the outbursts of a one night stand baby mama and she should have known better when she was riding an air bicycle and screaming harder baby, daddy, do it to me really harder; and recklessly, without any form of protection whatsoever. This is the real tragedy of her story, that a supposedly enlightened Linda Ikeji was having an unprotected sex with somebody she just met, a casual one night stand, despite its attendant risks including having a baby out of wedlock. She knows that her risky behavior could result in an unplanned and/or unwanted baby; or if planned by her, she did not communicate or share or break her sex partner, now turned her baby daddy, into it. Linda was being clever by half until 'nkata we kpudo ya bu onye aghugho.' 

Query, did Linda ever discuss getting pregnant or having a child with her baby daddy or was she up to no good in trying to trap the guy with a pregnancy, like so many unthinking women sometimes do. As every grown man who has played the field extensively knows, women are often times cunning, thinking that they are smart, only to down the road regret their actions. Some of such entrapped men often times turn into monsters, as they never forgive such women who forced marriage on them, just because they had sex and pregnancy results and the story turns into you must marry me o. These daughters of Eve have also somewhat perfected the act of entrapment with pregnancy, that even when you agree that condoms and birth controls should be used, they always find a way of skirting the agreement, only to turn around and blame you for getting them pregnant. 

There was this case where one guy did all he could do to stay above the you must marry me thing, until the woman insisted that she will be the one putting on him the condom. But unbeknownst to this guy, the girl always rip off the tip of the condom and the guy thinking that their agreement was holding kept on coming without withdrawal. Few months into their gig, the girl told him that she is pregnant and that she is not aborting the child and that he is responsible for it and must marry her. The rest of the story is now history, but their marriage is one made in hell and blessed by Lucifer. But do you blame the guy when a woman forced herself on him and compelled him to say "I DO." 

Sometimes when such unplanned pregnancy results and these lecherous woman are asked to see a doctor or even before then, are asked to be on birth control pills or feminine guards or cervix gauze, they will refuse. Some will tell you that their upbringing and religious faith is against such things and that it is murder to flush a zygote or rather blood clot inside their womb and we are speaking about a few weeks old cells. They will tell you that abortion is not a medical procedure, but a sin; and that God will not forgive them if they try it. Meanwhile all the time they were performing acrobatic gymnastics and screaming daddy mo, daddy mo, harder and harder, they did not remember that they had the special upbringing and/or that their faith was against having sex outside wedlock. 

They were just interested in proving themselves a whore on your bed, trying to satisfy you and to make you not look any further, and to prevent your wandering eyes from seeing any other God's creature, who is shaking what her mother gave her, down the road.  It is a game for many of them and they have perfected it to science. They will be riding dirty, with legs thrust up as high as Mountain Everest and spread apart as wide as Lake Michigan, with your suffocating self sandwiched in between, only to change the story when pregnancy results and come and see a possessed animal, swearing at you like you killed her parents and entire family. 

ICHEOKU is not here to chastise anybody nor pass judgment on Linda Ikeji or hold brief for her baby daddy, either. ICHEOKU says is here to share some thoughts and also to condemn, in no unmistakable terms, the attempt by Linda to blackmail a guy for merely having  sex with her and he never raped her nor forced his through her. That Linda did not even care nor bothered to find out if the guy was HIV/AIDS or Hepatitis C free; as well as free of other venereal diseases, before taking her pants off for him shows the level of her moral degeneracy and turpitude. That a child resulted from the dalliance is not the big deal here, because Linda purposely schemed the outcome which she got; only that she became an Oliver Twist and wanted more; admitted she couldn't get that her other particular wish fulfilled. 

Linda wanted a child so desperately and her wish was fulfilled by her baby daddy and sperm donor, who obliged her, albeit unintentionally. What a dream come true for her, she got a baby and also wanted the guy in addition; but Linda did not and does not care what her baby daddy actually wanted nor wants. It is all about Linda and nobody else. 

Linda Ikeji is a living example of the tragedy that are those high flying "big girls" in Nigeria and their fellow crazed-out, wild eyed, feminists activists, who are running around town with much gusto, but beneath the facade, are pining away in misery of a loveless and very lonely life. They know that their life is incomplete without a man and they know that as females, there is this naturally occurring biological fire, burning inside of them, with the urge to give life to another, and the lack of fulfillment of this often drives them nut-crazy. 

This group of women have succeeded in every other department of their life, except the the ultimate one, which incidentally they cherishes most - to become a mother and if lucky enough, to kill two birds with a stone and also become somebody's wife, as well. So, dear readers, forget their pretenses and forget their facades, because inside of them is a raging inferno of desire for men, which often manifests as rage against men because they couldn't find one and that no man found them wifely enough, to want to take them to the alter and make them honest women. 

Every woman is by nature a mother, with the ultimate desire to procreate and these highly mobile and jet pacing over achieving women are no exception. They also have their social ego at stake, as they become the object of gossips as to why despite their status, no man ever found them worthy enough to make them their wife. The pressure becomes palpably unbearable when all their friends have since moved on and into men's homes as wives and possibly mothers and they are still left in the cold. They feel abandoned and they feel rejected and they act out every time an incident forces their anxiety to bubble up to the surface. ICHEOKU is emphatic that the angriest women on earth are loveless sex starved women, those that do not get laid periodically. It is hormonal and estrogen is a real bitch; and it ravages them like dogs in heat. It is true and it is backed up by scientific studies. 

Unfortunately, the only way to guard against this, short of the natural progression of procreation, is to surgically take out the entire birth entrails - the womb or uterus, as well as the Fallopian tubes. That way the hormones could be checked and peradventure, prevent it from causing them any further distress. But if in doubt, just read up some medical literature or even watch National Geographic Channel and see felines go nuts when in heat; they literary beg for it. 

People in Linda's social class or rather single women with money, are so much disproportionately displaced in the love lane. First, they will not accept a lower rung  man as a suitor; then the men in their level or above them will not want the disrespect or psychological rivalry and completion involved in dating or even marrying them and will easily step down to get women who are lower than them but who will still show them some respect. It is usually a case of their being suspended mid air, where neither going up is feasible and coming down is not palatable, either. And they are not helped by the cutthroat competition from the up and coming highly mobile and ambitious sweet sixteens, which increases their dick-droughts, triggering the ever present rage against men in them. They are angry and they don't surfer fools showing it, just don't yank their tail feathers.

But what Linda failed to or did not include in her long epistle of a broken heart tale is what made the guy to Ben Johnson away and as fast as his legs could carry him. Is it possible that Linda is such a high maintenance chic that satisfactorily pleasing her is near impossible? Is it possible that Linda does not know how to be a great homemaker and cannot lift a thing and put them in their proper and correct places? Is it possible that the Linda who Nigerians see publicly is different from the fiesta catty Linda behind closed doors, who no real man can stand or tolerate her negatively charged impulses? 

May be Linda is a walking time bomb and a mood killer supernova, who screams and shouts and nags; and sometimes even craws and scratches people in a manufactured fight just to make somebody's life miserable? Is it possible that Linda is even bi-polar and possessed with acerbic mood swings that goes out of whack without notice or provocation? Is it possible that Linda is a stalker who will not give a man any breathing space and is in the habit of checking a man's phone? 

May be Linda is the type of a less confident chic, despite all the bull-crap braggadocio,  who will constantly suspect that her man is cheating on her and perpetually, falsely accuses him of unfounded infidelity, which no real man can stand. Is it possible that Linda is not domesticated enough to be of a good wifely quality or possibly not good enough in bed, that no man wants to be trapped with such an unfeeling cur for the rest of his life? Nobody knows exactly how Linda really responds to the stimuli of sex; so, is it possible that she is just a log of wood in bed, the type who reads the Bible with a man on top of her and will tell him to please let her know when he finishes? Is it possible that Linda does not know even how to cook, clean and keep the habitat tidy; and might not even be as clean inside as she looks outside? 

Is it possible that Linda has anger issues and throws fits and starts, as well spasmodic tantrums which no real man can really put up with? Is it possible that Linda screams and shouts at the slightest disagreement, such that will drive any real man nuts, and as far away from her as is distantly possible? Is it possible that with Linda Ikeji, it is always her way or the highway and which man will tolerate such an absurdity and for how long, except a man who cannot fend for himself and decided to become a Mr Mom to her?  May be Linda curses like a drunken sailor and throws profanities at the slightest provocation; and possibly breaks things when she gets mad? Is it possible that Linda is not well mannered and does not maintain proper personal hygiene and does not have the right etiquette? Is it possible that she has addiction problems, may be alcohol, drugs or even excessive impulsive shopping? There are a thousand and one reasons why and which could make a man to pass, ditto a woman. 

ICHEOKU says there are a thousand and one reasons men check out of relationships; moreso every sex tryst must not end up in an 'I DO".  How about "I CHANGED MY MIND", or  "I NO DO ANYMORE", or are men not allowed to ever back out of a relationship? What is good for the goose should also be good for the gander; and if women can end a relationship pronto, fairness demands that men should also be allowed to enjoy that privilege, if they elect to exercise it. 

Imagine where every man or every woman is compelled to marry every sexual partner he or she ever had, some people will make Abubakar Atiku, a kindergartner in the art of collecting women. Just like women look for certain things in a potential husband, men also look at certain things in a wife to be; and when they don't find them, they beat a fast and quick and speedy retreat. Like not every man is a good husband material, because it is not just about having a penis; likewise women, as there is more to being a wife than just having a vagina and two breasts. 

So is it possible that Linda's baby daddy did not find in Linda what he was looking for in a wife to be and decided to withhold his affection before he became trapped in an unholy, agonizing and unhappy union, called a marriage to Linda Ikeji? ICHEOKU says does not know what stick that broke the camel's back for him was; and nobody else but the guy, including Linda, conclusively knows. All Linda did was to give an account of her side, a  favorable narration indeed, as would make her the sympathetic victim. But Nigerians cannot be deceived, especially not those steeped in the game of love and understands the nature of the beast and how it is played. Such a grown woman and widely traveled and hopefully civilized, should know better; hence nobody with some functioning cerebral cortex is buying into the malarkey which she is selling. It is a snake oil tale of love gone sour and she wants to come out of it smelling like roses, but ICHEOKU says cut the crap Linda.

ICHEOKU will advise the guy to continue to maintain his silence and not take the bait which Linda set for him, by not joining issues with her, because he will not win the game of the mud with a pig. No well mannered and decent woman will so publicly air her private business for the consumption of a hounding world, which means no well, either to her or the other guy, nor anybody else for that matter. Her behavior is street, a market-woman like, and possibly the reason the very private guy, her baby daddy, found her not a wifely material and pulled the plug to whatever they had going on between them. 

Linda will not be the first woman, nor will she be the last woman, to spread her legs for a guy who was not into her romantically enough to want to take the relationship any further. Marriage is not by force and marriage should not be contracted by two strange bed fellows whose souls are not bonded together. Parties to any thing, including sexual coitus or relationship, must endeavor to spell out things about their expectations out of each other, right from the onset. Fa suppose ikpo okwu afa, in order to know if they are agreeable and ad idem to a definite future plan before proceeding. So many unhappy marriages exist today as a result of strangers, who came together, had sex and a baby results; and instead of seeing a doctor, they decided to formalize their relationship just to welcome the baby into a home. 

This should not be the case, because it always ends up causing lamentations of Gomorrah, with both parties regretting why did they get married. A party to a marriage must, under no circumstances, feel compelled or trapped, otherwise they will spend their entire life in the marriage looking for ways to break free and escape with little time left to enjoy each other. The days of sympathy marriage is long over and being single is not yet outlawed. But ask yourself who wants to be trapped in such a permanent cage fight, in a life that is already too short to waste it ruefully with somebody who you silently pray without ceasing for his or her demise, so that you could be set free. 

Linda is a woman scorned and William Congreve's play, The Mourning Bride, rightly captured it that "Hell has no fury like a woman scorned." Linda is hurting because her plan to entrap a guy who wants none of her in the long term, has failed and now she wants to spread her misery and make a villain out of an innocent man who just picked up a chic and had sex with her. Linda had several options, first she could have rejected the guy's come on passes; she could have not followed the guy home on their first meet; she could have not had sex him or if she must, do it with condom; she could have also placed herself on some birth control pills or even have a vaginal sperm guard or cervical gauze to trap the semen; and Linda could also have flushed her womb clean, when she suspected that something might be sticking right inside there and the guy was not interested in furthering their expedition. But she maintained her course, hoping that she can blackmail a guy into committing to her, only to now be abandoned midway like a trailer park whore, by a guy who did nothing wrong except screwing a date, who gave it up. 

It is unfortunate but it is true as Linda's ego is so stratospheric that being an unwanted single mother was not the life she had planned for herself. But shit do happen and Linda should learn to pick up her pieces and go her way and quit this uncalled for tale of love gone awry. The current fight she is smarting for is unnecessary and she will probably not get it, not from a guy who wants to remain under the radar because of the friendships he keeps within the Nigerian high echelon. 

Most decent people avoid scandals like plague and this guy is probably cut in the same cloth, no matter what the whirlwind dust Linda throws up. Avoiding a fight one cannot win is wisdom and not weakness; so Linda can have all the airwaves and social media to herself, as silence is often the most deadly weapon of heart destruction known to lovers. The guy should just give her the silent treatment and she will implode internally, case closed. 

The guy can help her with his child's upkeep by providing Linda with some cash support, if Linda will accept it. He should also try as much as possible to be in his son's life, if again Linda will permit it. Later, if he desires to claim his son, he can always work out an agreeable arrangements with Linda to finally, someday, have his boy returned back to him, his father. At least, he has not denied paternity and the boy looks like him anyway. Possibly too, he can just let Linda be and hopefully, the boy will grow up someday and either reconcile his parents or look for his dad. 

But no matter what happens, life goes on and like Aduke rightly said, "NEPA or no NEPA, Aduke is on." As for Linda, she should know that there are millions of single mothers out there and that it is not a big deal that another one, called Linda Ikeji, just joined the club of unwed mothers' catalogue. The world has advanced so much that no child is a bastard any longer, especially not one whose father is clearly identified and known. As for being an unwed mother and baby mama reject, that's more of a societal derivative than what is right and she can live with that. 

Linda is a big gal and can take care of her business and so, has the supreme right to have as many babies as she wants to have and as with many baby daddies as her heart delights. There was this woman on Maury Povich's Show who had seven children from eight different men and although presently married, her ninth child was not even from her husband's groins. Linda's child or children do not necessarily have to travel to Southeast Igbo land, as even those born by officially married Ndigbo no longer see themselves as being Igbo, courtesy of their parents, who no longer travel to the Southeast nor take their children home to the Southeast, not even at Christmas. 

Even some of these parents are now being buried in strange foreign lands, both abroad and domestic. Many of them who live in Lagos, Abuja, Kano, Port Harcourt and other nooks of Nigeria, have since abandoned their ancestral homes in the Southeast and are now full citizens of their abodes of domicile. So, Linda's son or children yet unborn, if she decides to have more, will be just fine being Lagosians and so, no big deal about what umunna would say or how they will react to the proverbial "bastards."

Linda should just take some chill pills and relax and be thankful that she has the means and can support her child because some out of the millions of other not so fortunate baby mamas, are on the streets, begging for money to buy diapers for their own love children and the heavens have fallen down in protest. 

As for her reason for sharing the story, ICHEOKU says it was an unnecessary TMI. Nobody really wants to know or cares that two adults had sex and a baby resulted therefrom. She  could have summarized her tale from the Crypt very tersely, - "She met this guy, she thought that they had something going on, they had sex, it resulted in a baby. The guy is not ready to settle down. She love her child, a gift from God, and she intends to be the best mother ever to him, case close." Her needless "Love Gone Sour" essay would have been kept so brief and everybody would have since moved on from the story of a knocked up Linda IKeji and the current dramatization of an affair that went sour.

Linda, by telling her story broke the cardinal rule of "don't ask, don't tell" which every relationship, be it marriage, relationship or a fling, demands. According to Tiwa Savage, such two party contract is not a community project, talkless of Linda now making hers a national or rather global project. What a kiss and tell amebo Linda became and you wonder if she could now pass for a Nigerian version of Stormy Daniels who rats on her trysts. Which man wants to be so publicly shamed as a hit and run? 

How about, it is nobody's business what her private life is or did Linda tell anybody when she was riding the air bicycle and screaming 'daddy, f**k me harder, into the guy's ears; not knowing that the guy was not finding it funny nor was he enjoying her theater of absurdity. Matters of the heart is usually different strokes for different folks; and as she screamed every gibberish with excited passion, with every of his thrusting, did she ever look into his eyes to gauge if things were mutually correlated; or is she a tata who does not know when a man is not into her or is smitten by her. 

Nobody was either told nor invited as a witness by Linda when she was doing her thing, so, it is ill advised for her to now forcibly bring everybody into her business and burden them with the salacious details of her being had like a cheap whore and dumped. The last time ICHEOKU checked, Linda never told anybody that she likes dating guys who she is much taller than; or that little people turns her on in a special way or that she would, ordinarily, have looked at the guy twice, if not for who he is and the types of friends which he keeps their company, which Linda of course, would like to be identified and associated with. In some way, Linda qualifies for the proverbial gold digger, admitted it was a different kind of gold she was digging, social class and connections within a particular realm.

ICHEOKU says Linda is entitled to date whoever she likes, but she must suck it up whenever it turns sour because things are not always what they seem.  She should learn not to bother the entire world with her sulking, because millions of other people have been shafted and will continue to be shafted just like her. Everybody knows that Linda was increasingly becoming so desperate to be a mother and if lucky, a wife too. Few years ago, Linda  repeatedly gushed about this her upcoming fantasy wedding with this fantasy guy, who nobody ever knew nor saw or met; giving rise to a story that she merely conjured him up in her mind. She never disclosed the guy's identity to anyone until now when she got knocked her up by a stranger and everyone is being dragged into it, giving credence to the story then that Linda never had any man at all, but was just making it up as she went, while languishing in her lonely laland of desires. 

But what was Linda's attraction to this her baby daddy sef, other than a case of the desirable not being available and the available was converted to being the desirable. She should count her blessings that she at least proved her womanhood, that she was capable of getting pregnant and having a baby. Every other thing is but bunkum hogwash as she knew the risks involved in having unprotected sex but chose to take them anyway. You don't just have unprotected sex with a guy without discussing what would happen if a pregnancy results, especially at her very advanced old woman age, too old for bearing children. If she is as decent a woman as she is painting herself to be, why was she so reckless at her old age not to use protection? What if the guy had the killer virus? Why did she get pregnant without weighing the ramifications and discussing it with the guy to see if that is what he wanted as well? 

Certain things does not usually make sense and this Linda's tale of love gone sour is definitely one of them. Some women often times do stupid things, including getting pregnant and hoping to entrap a man with it, but without first discussing it with the man to gauge his reactions and whether he is ready to buy into such a long term commitment. As with Linda, she was desperate to have a child and possibly too, answer somebody's wife and she saw an opportunity and took it. She should therefore zip up her front upper orifice and rather be thankful and grateful that she is a woman of means and can afford to take care of her God's gift through the guy and not want it all. That is the definition of greediness. The guy technically agreed to be her sperm donor and now Linda wants more than what was originally bargained, just a quickie. Mbanu, adighi eme ya eme; no be like that now. 

Please Linda, stop discussing your business, especially your privacy in public. Nobody really cares and those who pretend to care are but vultures waiting to pounce on your carcass and devour you. Just learn to discipline yourself enough to not scare any future potential suitors away. You are not impressing anyone by shouting on top of the world that you are a Naira billionaire and probably not as rich as you regularly flaunts, including in denying ownership of your Banana Island home when the tax men called. Regardless, just maintain your cool and not be as rambunctious as you have been, admitted those who did not know that they will ever afford the ozo title, sometimes wear their anklets insignia right up to their knees.

ICHEOKU says Linda's epistle is a cry for help and a desperate plea for attention. She needs a man who she can come to and take off her clothes without minding his presence. She needs a man she can come home to and have her feet lovingly stroked or massaged or have her hair flung free and have him run his fingers on it. She needs a man who can whisper sweet nothings in her ears and tell her how she is the oxygen in his lungs; and how she is the Queen of the universe of his world. She needs companionship and a safe hands to run back home to after the bustling of the day. 

Linda needs someone she can call her own and hold his arm as she steps into social events and gatherings. She needs someone who she can go to vacations with and lazily lounge in white sand beaches of the Caribbean and Tahiti. And yes, most women do not feel complete without having a man they can call their own man. Linda Ikeji is understandably furious that her last desperate ditch effort left his tail in her hand and screeched off. Now with his son to constantly remind her of him of what could have been doesn't make her pains any easier. So, simply put, Linda is losing it, her sanity that is. 

Looking into Linda's eyes you will see a hopeless romantic who is desperately begging to be loved and she likely has a large good heart as well. She is not ugly, although she is not a beauty queen, but she is reasonably good looking and not the type of gal who nobody will like to take to a prom party; admitted she is not the type most would hurriedly take home on Thanksgiving to meet their family. Linda may have everything money can purchase including designer bags from Hermes; but what Linda does not have is somebody she can call her own man, who can unconditionally love her and make her feel complete. 

That Linda loves sex is a fact discernible from her body language and her forever roving and darting eyes, as well as actions, such as laboriously driving two hours just to go get some. That Linda likes to be specially remembered during holidays, including on Valentines Day, is also indisputable, every woman does. So it is very easy to see where Linda is coming from and why she is lashing out at a guy she thought she had cornered but who managed to slip off through her fingers. She is mad as hell and she is acting out her bottled up and pent up anger and frustrations. Linda is just being human, with a beating heart and she is hurting.

Unlike men with money, Linda does not have the privilege of just driving down the street or to a university or even at a social event to pick up a lay to go home with. Most women are very particular about who they date and who they say yes to, despite the hundreds of men that usually make passes at them. The social ladder climbers are the worse hit because they will be extra vigilant lest their friends and colleagues chides them about the lower caste they settled for. They are heavily constrained about who they date or have sex with, and usually younger men and men who doesn't belong, are often a no, no for them. 

Also, unlike their men counterparts who plays the field and sometimes can even sleep with women, who are young enough to be their granddaughter. So, put in an odd way, Linda Ikeji also do also cry, although her cry is not for lack of money or food or cloth or designer hand bags; no, her cry is a cry for help for somebody to please love her; as she has not been so lucky in that department, in finding a true love. That is the whole propeller driving her shaft, resulting in the lashing out and not that somebody had sex with her and knocked her up and a baby boy came into being, as a result. 

But can Linda settle for a man with less means, as sometimes such successful women are forced to do? That's the million dollar question and only Linda Ikeji can answer that question. If ICHEOKU may, will advises Linda to find a guy who does not have as much money or someone even without any money at all; take out a prenuptial agreement, with a promise to pay the guy a bonus of N1 million every year he remained of good behavior and until death do them apart. She should just purchase a trophy husband and damn what anyone would say; and let him love her and pamper her and that way she could truly find somebody who could love, cherish and treasure her for the Linda she is. Just a man with sensitivity will do. 

But Linda is making a mistake thinking that with her riches, she could attract other similarly situated rich men, because those men on that level will not settle for an old hag when the entire bevy of Forever 21 are at their beck and call. The competition is so rife that without her money, nobody will be talking or discussing a woman who is old enough to be grandma; as so many of her mates have been going to omugo since yesterday; but here she is, shamelessly discussing having unprotected sex with a guy she just met and getting knocked up as a result.

In India, any woman that passes 25 years without being married is filed away in the unmarried cabinet to rot away; pining at the missed opportunity which she once had. It is true that biology is not merciful to women and the competition is cutthroat, as much younger and much succulent women join the market for men and suitors every day more than you can count. So, why would those men in that level of affluence settle for a Linda Ikeji when they can get as many sweet sixteens as they please. People they can easily please and mesmerized with little stuff than an old woman who has it all and who can hardly be pleased with anything. This is the crux of the matter in the Linda imbroglio and Linda should wake up and smell the coffee to know that her time in the sun has actually since passed and that her choices in the men's market is drastically reduced, if not already closed down. 

But hey, ICHEOKU has no intention of becoming an unpaid counselor here, as Linda knows best what is best for Linda, provided she stopped making her business, the world's business. Everybody has their own issues to deal with and they will be better off if their burden is not made heavier by Linda, with her tales of woes about her love forlorn. Linda is inviting tailor ants and soldier ants by being obnoxiously, too loud for comfort, especially for most of the men who can easily afford to marry her and give her all the life she dreams of and which money can afford, but she is scaring these few good men away and out of her reach. 

Anyway, just said to chime in and hopefully Linda will someday find the elusive love which has been going on a parallel lane from her for as long as Linda became. She is just another Jennifer Aniston or is it even Genevieve Nnaji, another over achieving woman who could not find someone to truly love her. In a Lucifer's world, where nobody actually has it all and Linda Ikeji should learn to make do with what she has and not sweat other sundry stuff. She got herself an awesome healthy boy to raise and hopefully he will someday reconcile his mama with his papa and together the three can live out their life in a bliss filled home. Goodluck Linda and Merry Christmas to the LIB family.