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.

Sunday, May 26, 2019

ISLAMIZATION OF NIGERIA: OBASANJO, THE MAN WHO CRIED WOLF?

ICHEOKU says there are three Nigerians who ICHEOKU prays to God daily to  terminate their residencies here on earth, so that Nigeria can be free. They are Olusegun Obasanjo, Ibrahim Babangida and of course Muhammadu Buhari, the current president of Nigeria. This trio are part of the old guard in Nigeria who strongly believes that Nigeria belongs to them; hence they must always have a say in who governs Nigeria and how the governing is done, otherwise there will be no peace. 

To them, Nigeria is their private estate and they are entitled to lease it to whoever they desire; and it must be to someone who must obey their command, listen to their dictates, comply to their stipulated terms and conditions of holding Nigeria at their pleasure, on their behalf and at their behest. Any attempt by such a chosen lessee to deviate from their strictly laid out blue print and path of travel in governance is met with earth scorching excoriations, vehemence, protests and resistance, sabotage and plotting the eventual downfall and ouster from office of such an "obstinate, wayward and strayed" lessee. So, such imposed leader will only enjoy the privileges of their office as long as they remain loyal and are in the good books of this three individuals and constantly do their bidding, as they are told. 

Coincidentally, one of them is presently in office and not behaving as any other servile puppet would, by kowtowing to every minute instruction handed down to him and this is riling a member of the triumvirates, named Olusegun Obasanjo. Meanwhile the third musketeer, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, is on the sideline silently watching, as Olusegun Obasanjo and Muhammadu Buhari duke it out between themselves. A very clever devil, who rightly earned his moniker, Maradona; and is just biding his time, waiting calculatedly, to see who wins the turf war before aligning himself to him.

ICHEOKU is emphatic that as long as these three individuals liveth, Nigeria, unlike Zambia, SHALL NOT BE FREE. Therefore, if you desire a free Nigerian society, please join IChEOKU in this supplication to the On High, by including the quick transition of this three devious musketeers in your prayer points. 

It is with this reservation therefore that ICHEOKU says Nigerians must be wary and vigilant, and to take with a grain of salt, the latest Obasanjo's alarm that Nigeria has almost tipped over, under the weight of Boko Haram and Fulani Jihadist terrorist herdsmen's push for the Islamization of Nigeria; an agenda which Obasanjo claims is already full throttle, underway. 

Olusegun Obasanjo lacks credibility and his veracity for speaking truthfully is also quiet suspect. His actions are largely in part driven by a self-serving, hidden agenda and possibly he is just being the trouble maker which he is with the current stoking of religious and ethnic feud amongst Nigerians. Obasanjo's capacity to cause mischief is not in doubt and he is very masterful at playing both sides to a dispute and could possibly be enmeshed in it right now; doing what he does best, stoking crisis. This paradigm must be factored in by Nigerians while weighing the gravity of the allegation made by the Ota Deity and not react disproportionately just on the words of Obasanjo.

ICHEOKU is not saying to cavalierly dismiss Obasanjo's latest alarm completely; but to, like Ronald Reagan once said of the old Soviet Union promises, trust but first verify. ICHEOKU is urging Nigerians to weigh it with great cautionary wisdom and then react to it measuredly, because Baba Iyabo is a proven trouble maker, who is often up to no good. He repeatedly did similar things in the past and it is not beyond him to be doing the same thing now, disparaging a Nigerian leader who he fell out of favor with and then inciting Nigerians against him. Therefore, it is with an informed logic backed by precedents that ICHEOKU says that Olsuegun Obasanjo could be raising his usual false flag by this alarm, in the hope that he could incite Nigerians to revolt against their President Muhammadu Buhari or cause the military to stage a coup. 

Obasanjo failed abysmally and woefully in his bid to install Atiku Abubakar as president of Nigeria and is now back to his Plan B; his last joker, to make Nigeria ungovernable for President Muhammadu Buhari. A plan which he intends to implement by fostering great disunity amongst Nigerians and hoping that the country blows up under the president's watch. A timing made more sinister because it is so close to the president's 2nd term inauguration on May 29th, 2019. His calculation, if he cannot dislodge the president, to make his governing Nigeria impossible or difficult at best. A case of, if he cannot dig up the cricket, to just dismantle its mound and that will be a sufficient outcome. Why Obasanjo is doing what Obasanjo is doing is a question which only Obasanjo can vouchsafe an answer; as ICHEOKU and every other pundit can only but second guess his motive.

Olusegun Matthew Okikiola Aremu Obasanjo is a man with a storied history of backbiting and backstabbing of people who he is jealous of, envies and/or does not like. During the Biafran genocidal war, he successfully convinced Yakubu Jackal Gowon that Benjamin Black Scorpion Adekunle was not serious with breaching the Oguta Front Biafran resistance and that Black Scorpion was indeed cuddling Biafrans and sharing military intelligence with them. Gowon summarily removed Black Scorpion and replaced him with Obasanjo and the atrocities which Obasanjo committed while piercing through Oguta Front and taking Uli Airport is yet to be chronicled in any written horror stories about the genocidal Biafran war. Obasanjo is a bloody vampire who has sucked a lot of Nigerian blood and the records are there which validate this assertion.

Again Obasanjo disappointed Obafemi Awolowo in 1978, after first assuring him that the second Republic election will be free and fair and organized on a level playing field, only for him to later use Richard Akinjide to come up with the phantom 12 2/3rd majority to steer victory to Shehu Shagari. Unbeknownst to Awolowo, Obasanjo had struck a secret deal with the Sokoto Caliphate to make Shehu Shagari president in order to establish himself as s permanent friend of the North. Needless to add that the same Caliphate made him Head of State over Shehu Yar'Adua following the assassination of Muritala Mohammed in the bid to help stabilize and quieten things down so soon following the war. 

Then enter the Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida failed third Republic when Yakubu Jackal Gowon wanted to run for president and actually sought the nomination of the SDP under the ever beautiful Option A4, the only legacy which Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida can truly lay claim to as his bequeath to Nigeria. But guess who jumped out first to castigate and disparage Gowon for not allowing a new generation of leaders to emerge to lead Nigerians going forward, the same Olusegun Obasanjo. His infamous quote, "what did Gowon forget in the presidential villa that he wants to go back there to retrieve" is still so fresh in memory. But his attempt to dissuade Gowon failed, admitted Gowon suffered the worst humiliation in that his foray into politics when a school teacher roundly defeated him in the primaries. The defeat was so bad that Gowon could not win even a single Ward within Jos Township. 

Subsequently MKO Abiola won the next election but David Mark and Abubakar Umar led military resistance forced Babangida to annul the June 12th election. But instead of Olusegun Obasanjo joining forces with his Yoruba people and the rest of other Nigerians to seek redress for Abiola and restore his mandate, he allowed himself to be co-opted by the anti Abiola forces in Nigeria. He was drafted to go to South Africa to convey Babangida's message to the president of South Africa on why the Nigeria election was annulled. Responding to a reporter's question in Pretoria on why Abiola's election victory was not upheld, despite being considered the fairest and freest ever in Nigeria, Obasanjo dismissively said that Abiola was not the Messiah who Nigerians were waiting for and needed. 

Abiola's mandate was stolen. Babangida was forced to step aside. An Interim National Government with a Jonathan-lite, Ernest Shonekan, was put in charge. Sani Abacha was left behind as Defense Minister. It is also on record too that John Shagaya approached Shonekan and urged him to retire Abacha immediately in order to have a chance at success in running the country. But instead of acting on the intelligence, Shonekan merely invited Abacha with Shagaya present, to tell him that Shagaya told him that he, Abacha, was planning to remove him from office and whether that was true. 

Abacha denied culpability and promised Shonekan that he will conduct an internal investigation to find out if any such planned activity was going on without his knowledge inside the military which he was heading. The next day by 11am Abacha traveled back to Abuja and by 5pm, instead of reporting back to Shonekan on his finding, went ahead and removed Shonekan from office and that also ended Shagaya's career in the military. Abiola was arrested and jailed; but instead of Obasanjo rallying Yoruba people around to fight for what was greater than his personal selfish self, he aligned forces with the North and was constantly holding meetings in Aso Rock, with the believe that he will be appointed to head any subsequent interim government of National Unity. 

At one point, Obasanjo technically became the liaison officer between Abacha and the Yoruba Southwest, trying to find the best possible way to resolve the Abiola election that a grounded country can once again get going. But Abacha remained non committal on any Interim Government or handing over to Obasanjo, so Obasanjo fell out with Abacha and started waging his war of calumny against Abacha's government. He was subsequently arrested, tried and convicted for plotting a coup; and was awaiting execution when the late Stella reached out to Andrew Young who prevailed on Bill Clinton to pressure Abacha not to execute Obasanjo and his death sentence was commuted to 25 years prison sentence. 

Anyway, Abacha later died and Obasanjo was freed from prison, granted pardon and when the idea of the 4th Republic came up, the Caliphate remembered their friend and decided on a return favor. Atiku Abubakar and Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida were drafted to lead the effort which culminated in the Jos PDP Convention and Obasanjo was later "elected" president of Nigeria, following Abubakar Abdulsalam's exit. 

But the same Obasanjo, who once asked Gowon what he forgot in the presidential villa, somewhat himself forgot something in the presidential villa that made him to seek the office, admitted that no one knows if he eventually found it. Also, whether Obasanjo became the Messiah which Nigerians sought and needed, nobody knows as well; but suffice it to say that Baba Iyabo is a man with a kaleidoscopic personality. He is very manipulative too and he can simultaneously be different things to so many different people, all at once. 

Obasanjo served out his two terms in office, wanted to extend it to three terms by using monetary inducements to influence the National Congress into changing the constitution so that he could have his way. Sacs of Ghana Must Go bags stuffed with foreign currencies were sent to the National Congress, but A Senate President Kenneth Nnamani led effort thwarted the plot and rejected Obasanjo's cash. It is also on record that Atiku Abubakar, because of his own personal scheme to be president, aligned forces with the anti Third Term agenda. A frustrated Obasanjo then decided on a payback at his Vice President Atiku Abubakar's by denying him his succession bid to the presidency. He called Atiku a thief and the most corrupt man alive in Nigeria, vowing that it will be over his dead body that Atiku will ever be president. This is the man Nigerians are listening to without asking themselves, if Obasanjo was such a good person, why did he covet a third term in office?

Then enter Umaru Yar'Adua, who was almost falling out with Obasanjo and was once heard saying that he was tired of Obasanjo's unending meddlesomeness and that he wants to be his own man. But for his death and the shortness of his term in office, he would have also had serious problem governing Nigeria because of Obasanjo. Then Goodluck Jonathan was brought into office and he remained a good boy until he started refusing Obasanjo's dictations in his presidency. Obasanjo's barrage of attacks started and the long epistles of Saint Obasanjo started flooding Newspapers and the social media platforms with his invective Satanic Verses. He eventually led the war effort that threw Goodluck Jonathan out of Aso Rock and in came Buhari.

Let Nigerians not forget that it is the same Obasanjo who accused Jonathan of raising snipers to kill 1000 prominent Nigerians, including politicians. Nigerians were angry that Jonathan could do such and some people panicked, wondering if they were among those penciled down to be eliminated by the sniper squad. But at the end, there were no snipers nor was anybody killed by any high powered telescope-mounted rifle. To date Obasanjo has not deemed it fit to apologize to Jonathan for maligning him with such a disparaging falsehood. Yet this is the same man Nigerians are listening to his hellish outburst, right?

In 2015, the same Obasanjo conspired with his Caliphate friends and removed Jonathan from office, telling Nigerians and the world at large that Buhari was "educated enough to be president." Buhari became president and was a good boy for the better part of his first term until he cancelled the billions in Naira of Federal Government subsidies to Obasanjo's Ota Farms Holding PLC. Obasanjo once again fell out with a sitting President who dared him and wanted him gone ever since. He wrote several of his usual epistles, but an "illiterate" Buhari did not read them nor gave a damn about his gibberish. The attacks continued, but Buhari turned deaf ears. 

Then a reelection came and it was time for Obasanjo to draw his pound of flesh as usual. Who did he adopt as Buhari's replacement, the same man who he once castigated as the most corrupt Nigerian alive. A man who he once told the entire world is too corrupt and too crooked to be Nigeria's president, calling him a thief and swearing that it will be over his dead body that Atiku will be president. But unfortunately, Nigerians have a notoriety for attention span deficit disorder, the reason a person as despicable as Olusegun Obasanjo can always play yoyo with their emotions, for the purposes of achieving his usually, selfish ulterior motive. Why did those Nigerians who flocked to Atiku because Obasanjo said so, not pause to ponder why Obasanjo made his 180 degrees somersault on Atiku; and what transfiguration took place that metamorphosed Atiku from being a thief to being a would be good custodian of the country's treasury. 

That Atiku was defeated is a good thing and a commendation to all those right thinking Nigerians who ignored the perpetual manipulator, who farms disillusionment on a pay per play manner, as they prevented a thief from taking control of the country's treasures. Obasanjo, now facing the last rung of the huge embarrassment which he suffered on February 23rd, 2019, having been technically neutered as an expired milk without much clout nor relevance anymore, has resorted to doing what he does best, crying wolf where there is none. Nigerians must therefore ignore the Ota Deity's latest shout of fire in the theater, his usual antic of fire on the mountain, run, run run. It cannot be that Obasanjo has a magic wand which he uses to cast a hypnotic spell on Nigerians, that make them do and react as he prompts. 

Olusegun Obasanjo' is a mercenary politician who performs any assigned role as his paying retainer dictates. Obasanjo has a greedy attitude of "it is either his way or the highway" and cannot stand the present facts facing him of being confined into the garbage bin of political irrelevancy in Nigeria. He is no longer given a red carpet reception at Aso Rock and also no longer has limitless access to President Muhammdu Buhari. A matter made worse because Bola Tinubu has now replaced him as the Yoruba Nation's chief liaison officer to Aso Rock. Obasanjo is hurting and is simply lashing out in protestation. His antic is therefore understandable, as he is being merely reactionary and not that his alarm was founded on any patriotic fervor and/or love for Southern Nigerians or even Christians in Nigeria. 

This is a guy who slaughtered Biafrans during the war and they are majority Christians. This is a guy who killed Attorney General Bola Ige and he too was a Christian. The same guy massacred Odi Bayelsa and Zaki Ibiam people and the last time ICHEOKU checked they were not Muslims, but Christians as well. The people of Bakassi Nigerians who he pawned away to Cameroon are also majority Christians. So, what exactly is the Ota Deity talking about, complaining and raising alarm about a supposed "Fulanization" of Nigeria, when himself have repeatedly acted against Christians' interest in Nigeria and for far too long. 

Was Obafemi Awolowo not a Christian when he rigged the 1978 presidential election for a Muslim Shehu Shagari? Is Peter Odili not a Christian when he imposed a Muslim Umaru Yar'Adua on Nigerians? Is Goodluck Jonathan not a Christian when he once again brought in an Islamist fundamentalist Muhammadu Buhari as president? This is a man who appointed the effant terrible Nasir el Rufai to the juiciest portfolio in Nigeria, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory; and Nasir is a fundamentalist Islamist zealot to the core. So who is fooling who, Nigerians, or how many times must Nigerians allow themselves to be had like cheap prostitute by Olusegun Obasanjo. 

A man in his late 90s who has refused to go quietly into the night, but is tirelessly working so hard to take Nigeria along with him to his grave. When will this Obasanjo's continuing nuisance in Nigeria be abated? ICHEOKU says please Buhari, LOCK OBASANJO UP and throw away the keys. The heavens will not fall; afterall Abacha did it once and Buhari is a friend of Abacha and could as well do so. 

Enough of the Obasanjo's manipulation; as no Nigerian leader will ever be good enough in the eyes of Olusegun Obasanjo, regardless. It is not until they totally surrender their governance to him and submit to his every whims and caprices, and then he certifies them as loyal minions, that they can be considered fairly good in his estimation. Who made Obasanjo the determinant in chief of what is good for Nigeria, if ICHEOKU may ask? Who made Obasanjo the Lord of the Manor and General Overseer of Nigeria? Who gave Obasanjo the power of control over the minds of Nigerians? Enough of this unmerited servile following of Olusegun Obasanjo, a man who has caused more harm than good in Nigeria and whose time in power never translated nor amounted to anything tangible. 

ICHEOKU says anybody can try, but nobody will EVER succeed in completely and totally Islamizing Nigeria. It will not happen, not now and not at any other future time. Such zealotry idiocy belongs in the 19th century, but definitely not in this 21st century. Even Sultan-President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, despite all his best effort, and in a nearly 90% Muslim country, has not succeeded in making Turkey fully and totally 100% Islamic compliant. In Islamic Republics of Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Pakistan and Iran, Christians still exists, so Nigeria will never be an exception. Moreso, Nigeria with a population of nearly 240 million people is simply too big to be Islamized; admitted Buhari can continue appointing only his fellow Muslims to all sensitive positions and giving them all manners of juicy Ministries, but that is as far as he can go in his quest, assuming it is true. 

The only Islamization of Nigeria, if that could so qualify as one, has already taken place when Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, unilaterally took Nigeria into the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) membership, without the consent of Nigerians. So 33 long years later and somebody is now raising all this hoopla and you ask yourself when Obasanjo had the chance as president of Nigeria, why did he not pull Nigeria out of OIC? 

Simply put, this present outcry is a much ado about nothing, because even in Saudi Arabia, there are still pockets of Christians as well as other religionists. Pure logical analysis has it that the odds of Islamizing Nigeria is literally second to none, zero, zilch and nada. Bola Tinubu's wife is a Christian. Enoch Adeboye and Osibanjo are not apostates. David Mark too. Matthew Kukah and all the other Cardinals. Jeremiah Useni too, and ditto the thousands of men and women of the Nigerian Armed Forces, the police and other security agencies who are Christians as well. But somebody named Obasanjo is telling Nigerians that all these people will just stand idly by and watch a pinhead-joker like Muhammadu Buhari forcibly convert them and their fellow Christians to Islamism, really? 

How is Buhari going to do, if ICHEOKU may ask? Demolish all the Churches and Cathedrals in Nigeria or use Hisbah Islamist police to frog-march everyone into a mosque for Friday prayers? The only thing he could do, which he has technically already done, is to condition appointments and other positions under his government to one being a Muslim. In that way, he could possibly influence some weak greedy Christians to pledge a conversion in order to secure positions, as obtains in other Islamic countries. But that will last as long as his four years in office lasts and thereafter, Nigeria will revert to normalcy.

ICHEOKU is also doubtful if the Muslims population in Nigeria is higher than Christians and other religionists population. There is no place in Nigeria, no matter how remote, in which you will not find Christians including in Birnin Kebbi; but there are so many places in Nigeria including ICHEOKU's Local Government Area as a whole, with zero Muslim population. So, when stuff eventually hits the ceiling, certain projected outcomes might not necessarily turn out as thought, because reality often trumps projections and expectations. Therefore, ICHEOKU urges Nigerians to stop overheating the polity and to continue to go about their normal business; but to remain vigilant and be prepared, just in case anyone misjudges the tolerance for Buhari's silliness in making his Muslims only appointments as weakness of the rest of Nigerians, because it is not. 

It is only a reasonable tolerance which must not be mistaken, because when it comes to matters of faith, millions will die fighting. Religious wars never ends, except in stalemate and negotiated settlements; as Lebanese Phalanges Army and Ireland Republican Army  resistances showed that even when faced with a formidable force such as the British military, that faithfuls do fight to the finish. As for weapons of war, ban or no ban, when it becomes imperative to defend faith, they will be shipped in and airdropped in tons that will amaze even the biggest cynic. So provided the Yoruba Nation will stand in solidarity with the rest of the other victimized Nations in Nigeria and not sabotage the effort as is usually their stock in trade, whoever has any plans to Islamize Nigeria will find out the hard way that it is a mission impossible. But Buhari is not that naive to think that he can easily accomplish that, assuming he wants to; not even with the support of Mali, Niger, Chad and Saudi Arabia combined. 

Friday, May 24, 2019

THERESA MAY'S TEARFUL EXIT

THERESA MAY'S TEARFUL EXIT

ICHEOKU says but why, who made Tessy cry, afterall boys don't cry?

MAY QUITS IN MAY: THERESA DOES NOT KNOW THAT BOYS DON'T CRY.

ICHEOKU says British Prime Minister could not deliver on her promised pulling out of Britain from the European Union and succumbed, surrendering her office in the process. So, effective June 7th, 2019, Theresa May will no longer be occupying 10 Downing Street as her office another shall take. A prime minister whose ascension into office was heralded with fanfare as Margret Thatcher 2.0, but she failed to sizzle and wow; and has now floundered out of office. 

A victim of the Brexit boondoggle monstrosity which has no end in sight and has so far defied every solution thrown at it. But it was not for lack of trying that did her in; as she did all she could possibly do within her powers to herald an outcome that is in consanguinity with the wishes of her British people, who voted to leave the European Union. But unfortunately, her best was not good enough and facing an inevitable push, she decided to jump instead, in order to save whatever was left of her face. 

However, it seems that Theresa May forgot to read her feminist manifesto that boys don't cry as she proved herself a gal. She lost her voice, becoming emotional as she broke down while rounding off her resignation speech. Her teary and trembling voice betrayed her deep emotions as ICHEOKU wondered whether it was because she failed in her job to accomplish Brexit or that she was being unfairly forced out of such perks-laden office by the men of Britain that induced her emotions. May be nobody told those men in the British House of Parliament to be nice and kind to her because she is a female, especially in the now gender-neutral society where everybody is just a human being, without any distinctions. ICHEOKU says could it be that Tessy's emotions were just another indication that certain things are still better left with the boys. 

Theresa May started off well with great expectations and the world was excited at the prospect of a Margret Thatcher 2.0, but her maiden flight was not successfully taken airborne, it was hounded by Brexit which has now claimed her as its latest casualty. ICHEOKU likes her fashion sense, admitted the British people expected more from their Prime Minister than well accessorized, color coded and coordinated nicely tailored outfits, fancy handbags and tasty shoes. She also commanded a stage presence that equates or rather should have equated well with effective leadership, but she failed to launch. 

However Theresa May was part of the globalists conspirators that wanted to stop President Donald John Trump from being elected president. Her British Secret Service participated in the coordination of the Russian Collusion nonsense with other conspirators in Washington DC, which the soon to be classified documents will surely show. ICHEOKU therefore is not sympathetic for her ouster and prays that everyone who participated in the Russian Collusion attempted coup will yield their own stages long before President Donald John Trump completes his second term in 2024. 

ICHEOKU says not withstanding the complicit, still wishes her well with any future endeavor which she decides to try her hands on. ICHEOKU and the rest of the world, especially those who call Britain home, awaits her successor to emerge and hopefully it will be Nigel Farage, admitted Boris Johnson will also be a good alternative. So long Tessy; all the best.

Wednesday, May 15, 2019

ALABAMA ABORTION LAW 2019: ABORTION IS A CHOICE: CHOOSE LIFE.

ICHEOKU says the biggest shocker coming from all those anti life, pro abortion feminist females, who are mad at the recently signed Alabama State Law restraining abortions, is their love for illegal immigrants' children coming from across the Southern borders. How could they love other peoples children, while at the same time, aborting their own children. What an irony. 

If they indeed truly love those illegal immigrants' children, who they advocate should not be put in cages and should be allowed free express entry into the United States of America, because they are beautiful innocent children; why then do they not have their own babies by carrying their own pregnancies to full term. But they have no compunction flushing their own babies out of their wombs through abortions on demand, while they continuously pretend to love other peoples' children. How could they do this convincingly and with straight faces, love other peoples' children but hate their own smooch as to kill them through limitless abortions on overdrive? 

If all those illegal immigrants mothers had emulated them and similarly aborted their own babies, which babies coming from across the Southern borders, would these feminists females of America, who just love sex without the responsibility of pregnancy, be loving. 

ICHEOKU says having sex is not a constitutional right, but a choice. Also, having sex without condom is not a constitutional right, but a choice. Further, having unprotected sex and not taking birth control pills, are both not constitutional rights either, but choices which these American women volitionally make; admitted they have refused to accept their responsibility in the whole pregnancy narrative. It is not just men who have sex with these women that are to blame as these women share greater responsibility in preventing pregnancies and there are available tools for that. 

So, whenever a woman makes that conscious decision to spread her legs or bend over, however the preference; and without properly reading her monthly cycle of fertility, with no contraceptives or other protection, she assumed the risk that she might get pregnant. Her decision not to be careful not to get pregnant should equally carry with it, the responsibility not to make an arbitrarily decision on what happens to the innocent life incubating inside her. The baby has a life too and it's right to be carried to full term and given birth to must therefore also be respected as well. When the child is born, if she does not want the baby, she has the option to give the baby up for adoption, as there are so many childless married couples looking for babies to adopt in America. So, instead of these couples traveling to Russia, China and sometimes to Africa to adopt babies, they will have a choice to adopt them right here in America. 

But it would seem that these heartless babies killers do what they do simply because they see pregnancy as an inconvenience, which will distort their bodies and therefore it must be terminated forthwith. They do not want all the stretch marks or the protruded stomachs or added body weight, including the many years it takes to raise a child, as well as the expenses involved. To this end however, the government should consider paying baby-subsidies to some of those women, whose only reason for resorting to abortion of their babies is economic hardship. But in any other event, any woman who cannot carry her baby to full term must learn to be proactive about it by not getting pregnant in the first place, case closed. 

ICHEOKU says therefore supports the Alabama Abortion Law 2019 which seeks to put reasonable restraint on abortions on demand, as it is a good effort at ending the out of control ceaseless babies slaughtering in America through abortions. It is a sensible government intervention that will help reduce the number of the 340,000 babies killed each year in America through abortions. America needs her babies born alive, as babies are the future of any society. We all were once babies and had our mothers aborted us all, there will be no us here today; including those babies killers, who are now depriving their own children their right to live by aborting them. ICHEOKU says killing of babies is not good and this is what the Alabama State new law seeks to curtail and therefore is a reasonable measure by the government to promote life. Choose life.

Sunday, May 12, 2019

KANO EMIRATE BALKANIZATION: GOOD FOR DEMOCRACY.

ICHEOKU says every lover of democracy and people who abhor the concentration of too much powers in just one person, especially someone who was not elected by the people, should rejoice and felicitate with Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State for his bold audacity in whittling down the powers hitherto held by the Emir of Kano Muhammadu Sanusi III. 

ICHEOKU says by carving up Kano emirate into five emirates, the governor has reduced the powers once commandeered by the Emir of Kano and he can no longer be the it all of Kano State. A State with such a large population of nearly ten million people, spread across 44 Local Government Areas, which also is always a must win State for any presidential candidate in Nigeria who wants to enter Aso Rock and only just one man held sway there until now. Simply incredible ad incredulous.   

Anybody can call it whatever they like and they can also hate the governor all they like for doing what he did; but history will write him well for being such a revolutionary. That it was under his government that Kano Emirate became ordinary, just like any other chiefdom in Nigeria; and that no more shall only man be the demigod, exercising authority over such a large State and a population of that size. The beneficiaries of this great move by the governor, in addition to those people who have now been liberated through this carving up, are those Southerners who will run for office of the president in the future, who the Emir of Kano might not be favorably disposed to their candidacy. All they will now do is to try and sway at least two or three out of the now five emirs and they will become competitive in Kano State. 

Morseo the God-like status of the Emir of Kano has automatically been removed now, as he can no longer be a "God" with only 8 out of 44 Local Government Areas under his jurisdictional authority. A matter made worse because the Emir of Kano will no longer report directly to the Governor, but to the Local Government Chairman of Kano emirate. 

ICHEOKU says any such humbled Emir, who is worth his weight in gold, is expected not to accept such a humiliating diminishment and to resign from his office in protest, but will the egotistic corky Sanusi Lamido Sanusi yield the office or with him, the proverbial half loaf better than none made a great sense afterall? ICHEOKU says if Sanusi chooses to hang in there despite the whittling down of his powers and drastic reduction of his sphere of influence, the Governor should immediately commence proceedings for his removal and banishment from the emirate. 

This is the only sensible thing to do in order to effectively empower the newly installed emirs of the newly created emirates, so that all the emirs can start on equal footing, not beholding to Emir Muhammadu Sanusi III or trying to win his favor by needless servile genuflection and conspiratorial gang ups against each other. It is called a level playing field and this is imperative. It will also prevent the recreation in Kano State of the scenario of the once Ooni of Ife and Alafin of Oyo intractable feud of supremacy in former Oyo State. Kano State government must therefore take immediate step to dethrone Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as Emir of Kano and appoint someone in his stead, who is loyal and who together with the other newly appointed four emirs, will grow together under the new reality of a Kano State with five emirates. 

But for corruption, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi would not be the Emir of Kano because he is not the naturally arising heir to the throne, not with a direct son of the past late Emir Ado Ibrahim alive and fully grown up. A similar thing happened in Sokoto State Sultanate when Sani Abacha was forced to correct the misdeed of Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida who had appointed Ibrahim Dasuki to succeed late Sultan Abubakar Siddique, who had living direct heirs, who were bypassed to install Dasuko as the 18th Sultan. Abacha, by naming Ibrahim Muhammadu Maccido dan Abubakar, the son of the late Sultan, the 19th Sultan and banishing Dasuki from the Sokoto Sultanate, Sokoto regained its peace. Kano State needs a similar full sanitizing by removal of Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as Emir of Kano. 

ICHEOKU says in the interest of Kano State and in order for the newly created four additional emirate councils to have a smooth take off, Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje must remove Emir Sanusi Muhammadu III from office and banished him from Kano State forthwith. In the interest of consolidation of the newly created emirates, it is imperative that this is done; it the only thing that remains to be done urgently and it is the only thing that makes sense under the circumstances, as it will help nurture the now five emirate council status of Kano State. 

Failure to do so and in view of the soon to be constituted Kano State council of Emirs, the Emir of Kano will aspire to become its permanent chairman and by so doing recover his lost territory and powers by proxy of his chairmanship of the council. There is a need to completely sever the head of the snake and only his dethronement and banishment on a forced exile will do the magic. Governor Ganduje must quickly act now and forever close that chapter of a once was, Emir of Kano named Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Muhammadu III. Away with SLS and do it now!

Saturday, May 11, 2019

TRADE WAR: IT IS GAME ON CHINA.

ICHEOKU says a no nonsense business mogul turned president, who understands how deals are made; the man who authored The Art of the Deal, President Donald John Trump, has once again shown that he does not usually bluff. That he always says what he means and always means what he says; and that whenever he makes a promise, he intends to keep the promise. 

The promise maker and promise keeper, has once again kept his promise to make China either negotiate an acceptable trade deal or it is tariffs all the way.  President Donald John Trump, tired of Chinese foot dragging in making an acceptable trade deal, has imposed tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese exports to America. 

ICHEOKU says definitely a case of he who has the gold determining the tune and China has little to zero choice in the matter. It has a bludgeoning 1.6 billion people to feed and also provide employment for and will need all the markets it can find, including the American golden market for its products, in order to keep its factories humming and food on the tables of her citizens who are working in those production lines. So any disruption to the chain of production as a result of reduced demand because of increased prices, will surely take a serious hit on China's overall economy. 

But will the even cunning China find a way to wriggle its way out of this tariffs or be forced to come to the table of negotiation with a sincerity of purpose or completely call the bluff the United States of America? Only time will tell as China now has a choice to make as it sees fit, either to play ball or remain obstinate. 

ICHEOKU says fully and completely supports the move by President Donald John Trump to hold China accountable and force its compliance to acceptable fair trade practises and business relationship. It will also curb Chinese everlasting cutting of corners and taking undue advantage of a once skewed trade relationship with America. Enough of the cheating and enough of allowing the Chinese to get away with nearly everything they wanted, just to help them get somewhere; a privilege which they have continuously abused until President Donald John Trump came into office to say enough is enough. 

Anyway, as ICHEOKU, alongside the interested world, wait to see what happens following the newly imposed tariffs; hopefully, China will realize that their game is up and that they have only one choice in the matter, to negotiate in good faith an acceptable and fair trade deal with America, period.

Friday, May 10, 2019

PROBE THE EMPEROR.

“If Obasanjo gets away without being investigated, the bigger loser will not be Obasanjo, but Nigeria. What Obasanjo did in office, and the reason that people are calling for him to be probed was done with arrogance, indiscipline and impunity. Not to probe him is to protect him. To protect him is to betray the constitution and the people of Nigeria in favor of yet another privileged citizen, called Olusegun Matthew Okikiola Aremu  Obasanjo.” - Sonala Olumhense.
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ICHEOKU says completely aligns thought with the position above and adds that such  feeling of invincibility and a mentality of untouchability is the bane of the African leaders, especially one who prides himself as the demigod of Nigeria. 

Tuesday, May 7, 2019

OUTRAGE INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX: MUELLER'S CASE IS CLOSED - MCCONNELL.

"It's now been more than six weeks since special counsel Bob Mueller, the former FBI director, concluded his investigation into Russia's interference in our 2016 election and delivered his findings to the Justice Department. It's been two weeks since Attorney General William Barr made the 450-page report public. This investigation went on for two years. It's finally over. 

Many Americans were waiting to see how their elected officials would respond. With an exhaustive investigation complete, would the country finally unify to confront the real challenges before us? Would we finally be able to move on from partisan paralysis and breathless conspiracy theorizing, or would we remain consumed by unhinged partisanship and keep dividing ourselves to the point that Putin and his agents need only stand on the sidelines and watch us as their job is actually done for them? 

Regrettably, the answer is pretty obvious. So that's what I want to discuss this morning. Russia's interference in American elections, the work of the special counsel and the attorney general, and how we can finally end this Groundhog Day spectacle, stop endlessly re-litigating a two and a half-year-old election result and move forward for the American people. Now, Madam President, it bears remember what this investigation was actually supposed to be about: Russian interference in 2016. For many of the president's opponent opponents had quickly morphed into something else. The last hope that maybe they'd never have to come to terms with the American people's choice of a president. 

In some corners, special counsel Mueller came to be regarded as a kind of secular saint, destined to rescue the country from the inconvenient truth that the American people actually elected Donald Trump. For two years many of the president's opponents seemed to be hoping the worst conspiracy theories were actually true. They seemed to be hoping for a national crisis for the sake of their own politics. Now look, I will say it was at least heartening, heartening to see many of my Democratic colleagues and the media abruptly awaken to the dangers of Russian aggression. An awakening to the dangers of Russian aggression. Remember not long ago Democrats mocked, mocked Republicans like John McCain and Mitt Romney for warning about the dangers posed by Putin's Russia. 

Remember President Obama's quip back in 2012 when then-governor Romney emphasized his concerns with Russia. Here's what President Obama said when Mitt Romney emphasized his concerns with Russia back in 2012. Direct quote: "The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back." That was President Obama in 2012. 

Well, look, I think many of us now see that President Obama's approach to Russia could have used some more of the 1980s, more Ronald Reagan, and less Jimmy Carter. We would have been better off if the Obama administration hadn't swept Putin's invasion and occupation of Georgia under the rug or looked away as Russia forced out Western NGOs and cracked down on civil society. If President Obama hadn't let Assad trample his "red line" in Syria or embraced Putin's fake deal on chemical weapons. If the Obama administration had responded firmly to Putin's invasion and occupation of Ukraine in 2014 to the assassination of Boris Nemtsov in 2015 and to Russian intervention in Syria. 

May be stronger leadership would have left the Kremlin less emboldened. Maybe tampering with our democracy wouldn't have seemed so very tempting. Instead, the previous administration sent the Kremlin the signal they could get away with almost anything, almost anything. So is it surprising that we got the brazen interference detailed in special counsel Mueller's report? A concerted effort to divide Americans through social media campaigns, hacking into the e-mail accounts and networks of the Clinton campaign and the Democratic Party. Thanks to the investigation, we know more about these tactics. Thanks to the investigation, 13 Russians, three Russian companies, and 12 more Russian intelligence officers have been indicted. 

These are the people who really did seek to undermine our democracy. Yet curiously many of our Democratic colleagues and most of the news media don't seem to really care about that. New insight into defending America, Russian nationals indicted doesn't seem to interest my colleagues across the aisle. No interest. Just like there's been little interest in the steps this administration has taken to make Russia pay for its interference and strengthen America's hand. Election interference was just one part in Russia's strategy to undercut the United States. And this administration has taken the problem head-on. 

We have a new coherent national security strategy and national defense strategy that actually take the threat seriously. We have new sanctions. We've provided Georgia and Ukraine with weapons to better defend themselves, capabilities the previous administration denied our partners -- now listen to this -- out of fear of provoking Russia. We've worked against pipeline projects like Nord Stream Two that would further expand Putin's influence. We strengthened and reformed NATO so the alliance can present a united front. We improved Russia's compliance with the I.N.F. and walked away from a treaty that Moscow had turned into a sham. And the Trump administration has over Russian objections twice enforced President Obama's red line in Syria after Assad's use of chemical weapons. 

Now with respect to election security, Congress appropriated hundreds of millions of dollars to state governments to shore up their systems. The administration increased information sharing from the Department of Homeland Security in cooperation with the states. And according to press reports, the Department of Defense has expanded its capabilities and authorities to thwart cyber threats to our democracy. No longer will we just hope, hope Moscow respects our sovereignty. We will now defend it. 

These are just a few examples, Madam President, and there's already evidence they're having an effect. We just had the 2018 mid-term elections. Thanks to this administration's leadership, all 50 states and more than 1,400 local election jurisdictions focused on election security like never before. DHS provided resources to localities for better cybersecurity and private social media companies monitored their own platforms for foreign intelligence. Thanks to efforts across the federal government in 2018, we were ready. That clearly is progress. 

The Mueller report will help us. So will the upcoming report from the Select Committee on Intelligence, these threats and challenges are real. Our responsibility to strengthen America is serious and it requires serious work. 

But speaking of serious, seriousness is not what we've seen from the Democratic Party in recent days. Not serious. What we've seen is a meltdown, an absolute meltdown, an inability to accept the bottom line conclusion on Russian interference from the special counsel's report, which said the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities. That's the conclusion. Two years of exhaustive investigation and nothing to establish the fanciful conspiracy theories that Democratic politicians and TV talking heads had treated like a foregone conclusion. 

They told everyone there had been a conspiracy between Russia and the Trump campaign, yet on this central question, the special counsel's finding is clear: Case closed. Case closed. 

This ought to be good news for everyone, but my Democratic colleagues seem to be publicly working through the five stages of grief. First stage is denial. Remember what happened when the attorney general released his preliminary letter describing the special counsel's bottom line legal conclusion? Denial. 

Immediately, totally baseless speculation that perhaps Attorney General Barr hadn't quoted the report properly. But then, madam president, come stage two. Anger. Anger. Welcome to Washington in recent days. The Democrats are angry, angry that the facts disappointed them. Angry that our legal system will not magically undo the 2016 election for them. And they've opted to channel all their partisan anger on to the attorney general. They seem to be angrier at Bill Barr for doing his job than they are at Vladimir Putin. This is a distinguished public servant whose career stretches back almost 50 years. He's widely respected. Nobody claims he has any prior personal allegiance to this particular president. 

And why are they angry? Why are they angry? Did the attorney general fire the special counsel? Or force him to wind down prematurely? No. Did he sit on the Mueller report? Keep it secret? No. He reported out his bottom line legal conclusions and then released as much as possible for the world to see. Did he use redactions? Did he use redactions to mislead the public? No. Working with the special counsel team, he released as much as possible within standard, standard safeguards. 

So it's hard to see, Madam President, the source of the anger. Maybe our Democrat colleagues are thinking of some strange new kind of cover-up where you take the entire thing you're supposedly covering up and post it on the internet. The claims get more and more utterly absurd. Baseless accusations of perjury, laughable threats of impeachment look, we all know what's going on here. This whole angry barrage the Democrats had prepared to unleash on President Trump, except the facts let them down. 

And so the left has swung all these cannons around and fired them at the attorney general. Not for any legitimate reason. Just because he is a convenient target. So look, Madam President, there is this outrage industrial complex that spans from Capitol press conferences to cable news. 

They are grieving. They are grieving that the national crisis they spent two years wishing for did not materialize. But for the rest of the country, this is good news. Bad news for the outrage industrial complex. But good news for the country. So now they are slandering a distinguished public servant because the real world has disappointed them. Instead of taking a deep breath and coming back to reality, our colleagues across the aisle want to shoot the messenger and keep the perpetual outrage machine right on on going. Even undermining the institution of the attorney general itself in the process. 

So remember, Russia set out to sow discord, to create chaos in American politics, and undermine confidence in our democracy. But on that front, given the less total fixation on delegitimizing the president, the president Americans chose and shooting any messenger who tells them inconvenient truths, I'm afraid the Russians hardly need to lift a finger. Hardly need to lift a finger. Well, madam president, the last stage of grief is acceptance. For the country's sake, I hope my Democratic friends will get there sometime soon." - Mitch McConnell, Senate Majority Leader.

Monday, May 6, 2019

IT'S A BOY: CONGRATULATIONS!

ICHEOKU say hearty congratulations to the new mom and dad, Duchess Meghan Merkel and Duke Harry of Sussex, as they welcome their new baby boy, the newest princely addition to the British Royal Family. What an epochal development as history is continuously being made by the maverick British Prince and Duke of Sussex Harry, who has thus far, broken so many records of long held British traditions. 

First he married a foreigner, a black, a non virgin, a divorcee and a woman who is older than him and now has produced a black prince and possible heir to the British throne. This is such a trail blazing developments that, with a black prince now added to the British Royal Family, Britain might some day wake up to a black King, courtesy of Meghan and Harry fairly tale crossing of paths. 

ICHEOKU says the yet to be named prince is now 7th in the line of succession to the British Throne. Although his chances of ever mounting the throne is a distant and remote possibility, but miracles do sometimes happen, so, it is still possible that Britain could one day have a black King. The new prince and his mother, Duchess Meghan are doing well, according to an elated dad and husband Prince Harry. ICHEOKU says congratulations to the family.

Sunday, May 5, 2019

FACEBOOK CENSORSHIP OF FREE SPEECH: NOT PROGRESSIVE.

ICHEOKU says Mark Zuckerberg is increasingly acting like a despot who hates to hear differing opinions and by selectively banning some people from his portal, has made it clear that he is averse to people holding opinions which he does not agree with and therefore deemed unacceptable. 

It is the stuff despots are made of, the reason journalists are killed and imprisoned all over the world, including in Malta, Africa, Russia and China, simply because they wrote what despotic governments did not want written. If Mark Zuckerberg could do this, wield such absolute power with his Facebook, imagine what he will morph into, were he to ever become president; may be turn America into an autocratic society with him as the absolute maximum ruler. Exactly what an abuse of power really looks like, that were Facebook a public utility, many would have since rushed to court to challenge such an overkill. 

But what is free speech anyway if people are not allowed to freely express their thoughts themselves and hold contrarian's opinions. How would Marck Zuckerberg have felt if when he was starting his Facebook, he was banned by mainstream media, as a threatening contrarian, who will not only disrupt their business, but will also hold different opinions and introduce different ways of disseminating news. Query, who determines what constitutes unacceptable opinion for purposes of not invoking the wrath of Mark Zuckerberg and meeting his Facebook threshold? For example, it is not everyone that agrees and likes views expressed in favor of homosexuality, abortions and illegal immigrations; yet nobody who is advocating and championing these viewpoints was banned by Mark Zuckerberg for disseminating "dangerous viewpoints"; but others are banned for expressing viewpoints which Mark and his group does not like. Really?

What makes a society rich and free is the diversity of opinions, especially a society like America with diverse human beings. Therefore ICHEOKU says Mark Zuckerberg, by banning Louis Farrakhan, Alex Jones, Paul Nehlen, Milo Yiannopoulos, Paul Joseph Watson, Laura Loomer and Infowars, have introduced a new dimension of censorship into American free society and a sure threat to American free speech. It is condemnable and it should be condemned by every freedom loving individual, who does not want to live or exist in a gulag society, where only what Mark Zuckerberg wants to see on his Facebook is what is written or allowed and permitted on Facebook. 

Such banning is petty and quite belittling of a man who has such a huge profile and is capable of becoming a real world leader and should be able to live above board of petty partisanship and crass intolerance. Who is he to decide what is good for the world and what parameters did he use to determine that, afterall one man's meat could be another man's poison. How will Mark Zuckerberg feel if the government decides to ban Facebook or the Internet administrators decide to unhook and take Facebook off the World Wide Web net. 

As always, anybody could be a demon depending on who is doing the judging and making the assessment. Mark Zuckerberg forgot that the people he banned from Facebook have millions of people who are their followers and who could no longer get their version of news and entertainment because Mark Zuckerberg made a determination that what are offered to them is not kosher and good enough for them. Meanwhile, by so doing, he is assuming that these people lack the capacity to make their own decisions and decide what is good for them. 

Nelson Mandela was once deemed a terrorist by white South African apartheid government and their British, European and American supporters; but to his people of South Africa, he was and remains a hero. Ditto Martin Luther King Jr who the then FBI director John Edgar Hoover considered an enemy of the State, but who black Americans saw as a liberator and savor. Mahatma Gandhi was similarly once seen by British colonialists as a terrorist, but he liberated India from British occupation and entered the annals of history as an Indian heroic figure; and the story goes on of so many such people who were viewed differently, depending on who was doing the viewing. 

Mark Zuckerberg should have remained above the fray of snow flakes partisanship and see himself as an impartial arbiter, sort of a father figure of the social media world, and not take sides in the battle of ideology and allow the superior argument to win. Why ban people for speaking their minds, instead of defeating their opinion with superior counter opinions. It is like the court, you go there to argue your case and a judge does not ban a party to the case because the judge disagrees with their case, rather the judge listens to both sides of the argument and rule for the superior side to eventually win. 

ICHEOKU therefore calls on Mark Zuckerberg to review his decision and unban the banned. It is called fairness and those contrarians' were not even given the opportunity to defend their opinions before the ban. No justice, no peace. Such differing opinions enriches Facebook more than it diminishes it, because without them, content of Facebook will be too generic and too boring and its growth would have been stunted. 

Anyone who cannot stand a differing viewpoint should please not read the differing viewpoint, period. They should just turn to another WALL and read whatever makes them happy and comfortable. ICHEOKU has never visited any of those fellas' WALLS nor is a fan of theirs; but fairness and justice demand that they too be allowed on Facebook and their opinions, no matter how seemingly reprehensible, be allowed to fertilize the minds which savor them. For example, CNN is not a good news network and suffers abysmal viewership rating, but nobody has banned CNN from conducting its business. It is called change the channel. If you cannot stand the heat in the kitchen, take a break, walk away and go to the living room or patio or backyard; but do not turn off the stove, otherwise dinner will not be served.  

Enough of this lingering pandering to the leftist snow flakes because they do not own this world, admitted many of them are having their moment in the sun with the Internet driven social media. But before them, were the Ford, the Edison, the Vanderbilt, the Carnegie, the Waltons and none of these pioneers ever dictated who bought their products or was allowed into their business premises to conduct commerce, so why now Facebook? Every person must not first live a life of conformity to the snow flakes peculiar idiosyncrasy to be acceptable. We are not all the same people and therefore our thinking must not be forcibly synchronized into a chorister. Variety is vitality and without these supposed "horrible" people, the world will not appreciate the good people. 

Evil exists for good to be appreciated. God did not ban evil, but allowed a co-existence of both evil and good so that people could appreciate the good and thereby glorify God. If one has never been poor, he will never appreciate richness when he gets there. You get hungry in order to appreciate food, otherwise it will lose its value. Mark Zuckerberg must therefore be able to tolerate people who are not like him nor thinks like him and who express different thoughts. 

Anybody who cannot stand or tolerate contrary opinions has some complex problem, as a "my way or the highway" is a mark of despotism by those who lack self confidence and who cannot stand a challenge to their authority. Such intolerance leads to dictatorship and eventually foists a group think and is dangerous for innovation, as it is inimical to adventure of thoughts. North Korea, China and Russia as well as a lot of African dictatorships have such constrained thought syndrome; and unless Mark Zuckerberg is telegraphing a message that there is now a full blown Facebook dictatorship, this ban is BAD and dangerously so and must be undone.

Therefore Mark Zuckerberg must prove himself to be above all these pettiness and allow contrarians to also exist on Facebook. The diversity of thought is good for a complete and well rounded exposition. Mark Zuckerberg cannot be advocating for a diverse American society, while simultaneously muffling diversity of thoughts within the same American society. Anyone who does not like what those contrarians say, should steal their thunder by saying their own better and louder, in order to override and eclipse them; but not through unfair action such as banning them. Facebook rose to where it is today because of competition; they gave the world what the world likes and the world accepted them; otherwise where is MYSPACE today? 

Imagine if Facebook was banned then because it was contrary to MYSPACE or expressed viewpoints considered not good for society, will there be a global phenom known as Facebook today. How can Facebook be preaching bringing the world together and yet pushing millions of people out from the world of Facebook; and away from the expressed desired unity; or is Facebook's idea of a unified world only for the adherents of Facebook religion of Mark Zuckerberg an this gospel of only acceptable viewpoint doctrine. It simply does not make sense wielding the big sledgehammer on a few people on a platform that has billions of people. It is petty and it is an overkill and therefore avoidable. Mark Zuckerberg should be bigger than this and therefore should immediately unban the banned. 

Saturday, May 4, 2019

MUELLER FOUND NOTHING, CASE CLOSED - PRESIDENT TRUMP.

"Everything he wanted he got; no expenses was spared and no cap to his spending was fixed, even though I didn't have to. All the witnesses he wanted to interview, I let him even though I didn't have to. I also did not invoke any executive privilege either, even though I had it but did not use it. I gave him 1.4 million documents, even though I didn't have to. I let him interview White House counsel for over 30 hours, even though I could have not allowed it, but I didn't. 

I did all these not because I am foolhardy, but because I am convinced of my innocence and have nothing to hide. I did not do any of the things which I was accused of doing and I know that there was nothing there for them to find and they did not find anything. A full and complete exculpation, no COLLUSION and no OBSTRUCTION, case closed. Now, it is time to get back to work, doing what we have been doing for the American people since January 2017 inauguration; making America Great Again. Great job numbers." - President Donald John Trump.

Wednesday, May 1, 2019

EMPEROR NARUHITO: VERY REGAL

EMPEROR NURAHITO: VERY REGAL

ICHEOKU says may his reign over Japan, steering the Yamoto Dynasty, sitting on the Chrysanthemum Throne on his Reiwa Era, last long. ICHEOKU says congratulations His Majesty, Emperor Naruhito of Japan.