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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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