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.

Showing posts with label Abiola earned the honor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Abiola earned the honor. Show all posts

Thursday, June 14, 2018

ABIOLA'S POSTHUMOUS HONOR: HIGHLY COMMENDABLE.

ICHEOKU says President Muhammadu Buhari definitely rose up to the occasion in his decision, granting a posthumous honor to and recognition of presidential election victory of the late Moshood Kamawole Oluwole Abiola. It was an honor long overdue and which many presidents before him would have done but their pettiness, mean spiritedness and crass partisan politics prevented them from doing and they lost out. Their loss and missed  opportunity is today, Buhari's gain; and the country is grateful. 

ICHEOKU commends the president for courageously making right that very wrong, perpetrated on millions of Nigerians, whose mandate was stolen by that band of military renegades led by the midget of Oturkpo David Mark. A matter made worse because the same David Mark, who denied Abiola his democratic mandate, is today parading himself as a democrat and enjoying the benefits of the democracy which he contrived to deprive Abiola of. The presidential gesture will also help heal the festering wound inflicted by that thoughtless action, a betrayal of the people of Nigerians by some few armed thugs in uniform, who happened to be members of the military. Pitiful urchins, miscreants and bandits who stole a mandate of a people who paid for their training and uniforms as well as their guns.

Now that President Muhammadu Buhari has done what those past presidents could not do or rather refused to do, he deserves the appreciation of every justice loving Nigerian,  irrespective of their political differences with the president. The president has earned the praises of all men and women of goodwill, honor and personage that desire to see the injustices of the many decades, made right. ICHEOKU hereby extend our appreciation to the president for remedying this particular wrong because an injustice does to one, is a justice deprived all. In as much as the gesture will not resurrect Abiola nor swear him into office as president of Nigeria, a presidency which he rightly convincingly won, at least it is something done towards making right, the wrong done by the June 12th 1993 annulment. It is therefore deservedly highly commendable. 

Formally recognizing MKO Abiola as the winner of that presidential election is definitely a good step in the right direction. Nigerians overwhelmingly voted for Abiola to be their president except that some military goons decided otherwise and truncated the will of the Nigerian people. Their treasonous act of brigandage has by this magnanimous act of the president also been swept away into the sewer of horrible history which every decent Nigerian would rather is forever forgotten as if they never happened.

Awarding Abiola the Grand Commander of the Federal Republic (GCFR) is also in order for a man of his stature, who accomplished much and rose to become a presidential candidate and indeed actually won a presidential election before some crazies in uniform annulled it. Now, the June 12th Democracy Day will become a formal holiday in honor of MKO Abiola just like Martin Luther King's day in the United States of America. By this honor, Democracy Day June 12th will now be referred to as MKO Abiola Democracy Day, in memory and honor of his sacrifice for democracy in Nigeria. Although Olusegun Obasanjo, in his usual antagonistic disposition towards anybody in Yoruba land, rising above him or who dares rival him, had derisively and sarcastically said that Abiola is not the Messiah Nigerians are yawning for, but the same Abiola has now become the Messiah of Democracy in Nigeria. 

ICHEOKU congratulates the awardee, albeit post humorously; and also appreciates President Muhammadu Buhari for taking the bold initiative to remedy an indisputable  wrong which was done to this great Nigerian. That Gani Fawehinmi was also honored is a good thing; admitted Professor Humphrey Nwosu too should have also been honored for his courage and bravery that announced the election result; because without him, nobody will be talking about any Abiola winning that election. Hopefully, the president will later remedy this omission by also honoring the professor and head of then INEC. As to all those Never Buhari activists, ICHEOKU says you do not have to love Buhari to appreciate the goodness in what he did. It was a wrong that deserved to be remedied and he did his best to remedy it, and as much as he could possibly do, short of resurrecting and swearing Abiola into office. 

We should learn to appreciate the good in others, as well as good deeds done by them, regardless of out political differences. The honor was long overdue, it is a good thing; so regardless of whodunnit, it is remains good and should be commended. It should not be scoffed at or demeaned or in any other way derisively and scornfully dismissed as a political gimmickry or ploy to bait the Yoruba voters in 2019. ICHEOKU hereby denounces any expressed opinion that did not and could not rise above whatever disagreement or repulsion, to appreciate the merit in what was done. It is okay to sometimes dislike the messenger but still accept a good message which he or she may bore. 

President Muhammadu Buhari may be the Dracula of Daura or the facilitator of terrorists Fulani herdsmen killers or whatever you want him to be, that is both evil and demonic, but what he did by making right this wrong, is beyond reproach and above any condemnation. At least, for once, he exhibited a good saintly heart as he avenged the Abiola maltreatment by some despicable few members of the military who conspired to annul that election. It was a well mannered and well reasoned out act and President Muhammadu Buhari did a good thing, perhaps the only good thing he ever achieved in office, if you like to punt it that way. MKO Abiola will now finally rest and hopefully see the goodness in what the president did and ICHEOKU says it is the right thing to do and it was done. Kudos to President Muhammadu Buhari.