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

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

25th AMENDMENT: ITS NOW ALL CRICKET.

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

WHO WILL REBUILD UKRAINE?

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

A HERO IS BORN.

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

IT IS WHAT IT IS.

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

WORD!

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

NOW, YOU KNOW.

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

JUST THE FACT.

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

DO YOU?.

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

HEDGE YOUR CRISIS.

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

PROBLEM SOLVED.

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

OUR SHARED HUMANITY.

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

WORDS ON MARBLE.

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

REPENT OR PERISH - POPE.

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

CANCEL CULTURE IS CORROSIVE.


FOR SAKE OF COUNTRY.


MAGA LIVES ON: NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER!

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


WORD.

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

#MeToo MOVEMENT: A BAD NEWS GONE CRAZY.

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


RON DELLUMS: UNAPOLOGETICALLY RADICAL.

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


WHAT REALLY MATTERS IN LIFE - STEVE JOBS

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

EVIL CANNOT BE TRULY DESTROYED.

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


ONLY THE POOR WISH THEY HAD STUFF?

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

Tuesday, September 22, 2020

OBASEKI'S VICTORY: EDO NO BE LAGOS, A MESSAGING PAR EXCELLENCE.

ICHEOKU says President Donald John Trump did it in 2016 with his 'Make America Great Again' battle cry and Governor Godwin Nogheghase Obaseki of Edo State Nigeria proved that it works any time with his 'Edo No Be Lagos' campaign mantra which helped him win a second term. His reelection battle plan was anchored on 'Edo No Be Lagos' and it paid bigly. It is a basic rule of society that appealing to the patriotic pride of a people always helps in mobilizing the best in them, the human spirit to identify with a cause favorable to them and then fiercely battle to protect it as a collective. Barack Obama's "Yes We Can" also belongs in this genre of message that rivets. 

You can call it pandering to the human instinct to rise up and protect and defend what they strongly believe belongs to them and as always, people collectively do whatever it takes to ensure that what is theirs remains theirs and not allow it to be taken away by some strangers. President Donald John Trump successfully invoked it in 2016 and Nigerian's Edo State Governor Godwin Nogheghase Obaseki exploited it very well in his reelection victory few days ago. Both men successfully convinced their people to adopt them as their candidate, invest in their election and to have a stake in the election outcome; and the rest is now history. 

Both men made their people to identify, acknowledge and recognize their fight as a fight for them and that some people who are not of their society are trying to use renegade members of their society to steal what belongs to the people. That convinced them that the only way to prevent this from happening is to support their candidature as that is the only viable protective bulwark against the threatening invasion and assured deprivation. 

ICHEOKU says nothing stirs the human spirit more than making them believe that what is theirs is at a crisis point of being permanently lost, taken away, stolen by strangers and foreigners who are not entitled to it because they do not belong in their society and therefore shouldn't have taken what belongs to them. It is literally a mind game and it works any time it has been methodically applied. 

ICHEOKU says does not know how much of a good governance which Governor Obaseki brought to Edo State in his first term; but says that the fresh impetus supplied to him with his reelection victory should encourage him to do more, in order to show the people of Edo State that he understood and appreciates their uncommon favorable sentiment which galvanized them to vote to reelect him for a second term. 

What he didn't do or failed to do in the first term, he should do now and what he did that needs some improvements, he should improve now; and in that way help assure that he rightly earned the mandate given to him by his people of Edo State. He earned their trust and they believed in him that "Edo No Be Lagos" and fought to protect their Edo State from foreign invaders from Lagos, Kano and Abuja. He must now try to earn their respect and admiration by working tirelessly for their benefit to show them that their trust was rightly placed and that he remains eternally grateful to them. Also that the mandate which they gave him will be a mandate of benefit for Edo State and that they will not regret their decision. 

Overall it was a free, fair and non violent election. The usual election brigandry often associated with elections in Nigeria was greatly reduced to almost a near statistically non existent. ICHEOKU commends the Nigerian police and other security agencies for a good job well done by ensuring that a conducive atmosphere existed for the people to safely cast their ballots. INEC also deserves commendation for organizing a free and fair election and concluding it quickly by announcing the results immediately with no room given for manipulations. President Muhammadu Buhari equally earned commendation for not engaging in the notorious 'do or die' politics of former President Olusgeun Obasanjo who never tolerated any opposition party during his administration. 

The two candidates PDP's Godwin Obaseki and APC's Ize Iyamu and their political parties deserve commendation too for upholding their pledge to eschew violence during the election. Rivers State's Governor Nyesom WIke should also be commended for successfully leading the PDP's campaign battle to regain Edo State. Lastly, Edo State people deserves a shout out for showing greatness by conducting themselves peacefully well during the election and for sending a clear telegram to Bourdillion Avenue that indeed 'Edo No Be Lagos'. Lagos was founded by a Bini King and not the other way round, so Lagos cannot expect Edo to be Lagos; instead Lagos should strive to be Edo as in Lagos Be Edo. 

ICHEOKU says also agrees with President Buhari that democracy means nothing if the peoples votes does not count and their mandate fraudulently tampered with. Way to go Mr President. 

ICHEOKU says cannot complete this article without mentioning the hypocrisy observed by Governor Wike of Rivers State about Nigerian political elites. According to him, a case where a president without certificate is president of Nigeria and a man who was a tailor once was governor of Edo State, yet a candidate who is a university graduate but who merely secured admission into the university with a lesser credit score suitability for office was being questioned is simply hypocritical. A case made more dumbfounding because the same fella whose certificate was questioned was previously elected governor of Edo State and was only seeking a reelection and you wonder why he was qualified the first time but suddenly was no longer qualified. 

ICHEOKU says thankfully the certificate imbroglio was successfully resolved in the favor  of the reelected governor before the election and his fitness for office has now been firmly cemented with the favorable outcome of the election. ICHEOKU says congratulations is in order here and hereby congratulates the reelected Edo State Governor Godwin Nogheghase Obaseki. ICHEOKU says prays that he brings good, better and improved governance to his Edo State people in his second term. That way he would have truly earned the trust which they reposed on him by voting to reelect him for a second term. God's speed Governor 'Seki.

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