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.

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Showing posts with label a vice president is not good enough. Show all posts

Saturday, May 30, 2009

WE DO NOT SUPPORT DEMORACY, SAYS THE NORTH?

The man who was a sworn thorn in the flesh of Joseph Tarka; and who was quoted as once saying to him, "If you tarka me, I will dabo you" is at it again. He has spoken and told the listening world that Nigeria is not a practising democracy; but a contrived warped system of cabal approved and installed government which takes care of what the north wants, period! And the north wants to continue to milk Nigeria, dry? But is Benue State, technically speaking, even the North? Anyway that politics is for them to try and figure out as Icheoku now pivots back to the meat of this write-up.
Godwin Adzuana Daboh said the North will never allow Vice President Jonathan Goodluck to succeed President Umaru Yar’Adua were the latter to quit office either by reason of death or incapacity. In his own very incendiary words, Daboh stated, “The North cannot allow Jonathan to complete the term of Yar’Adua. The position here is that there will be an interim government within which somebody from the North will be elected to complete Yar’Adua’s term. We are not giving one day of this administration to the South.”
According to this loudmouth, in the event of the sickly President Umaru Yar'Adua kicking the bucket or resigning by reason of incapacity, the north will not allow the vice president Jonathan Goodluck to succeed him? Holly molly! What an arrant assault on democracy? But Nigeria, unfortunately does not practice democracy. Icheoku queries, what is then the use of the office of the vice presidency if not to provide a feeder slot should suddenly the president drops off the scene? If a recalcitrant section of Nigeria will not allow a smooth transition of government from a president to his vice president, what then is the use of having that office of vice president in the first place? Nigeria might as well default to a single occupier presidency to make it easier for all parties in case of a vacancy; wherein the foreign minister or senate president will step in to conduct fresh elections. This way, such a would be humiliated vice president who would not be allowed to succeed his president will have his ego in tact since there won't be any vice presidency, talk-less of being denied the opportunity when it avails itself?
Peradventure the rest of the Nigerian society and other sectional areas have allowed these mallams to always bullshit their way through, without any repercussion or resistance whatsoever. Icheoku asks, what then is the use of a vice president who cannot succeed a president, should the need arise? The North says Jonathan cannot take over from Umaru Yar'Adua and it does not matter what the constitutional provisions on succession is, after-all the north says so and so be it? The North is not a respecter of anything in Nigeria including the constitution; and despite the unequivocal provisions of the 1999 constitution that in the event of the president’s death or he resigns or is removed from office, that the vice president shall succeed him and take over the government, the north says no?
The north remains the stumbling block of Nigeria's growth and their linchpins, such as this Godwin Daboh, are always unguraded with their utterances; that you wonder what would become the fate of NIgeria were other personalities from other regions of the country become as crass and as vituperative as some of these mallams from the sahara desert? The irony of this all is that the north do not contribute much to augment the lot they are taking out from the central coffers and yet asserts themselves, like bandits into the affairs of Nigeria and unapologetically in order to guard the goose that lays their golden eggs?
Nigeria's development has stunted over the years because of the North's rudderless and uninspiring fixation with and in governance, which continues till this day. If anyone is still wondering why Nigeria is so leprous, epileptic and dysfunctional all these years; let the person search no further as in the north, lies the answer. A people who do not know and do not know that they do not know? A people, whose their very indulging lazy almajiri-culture, ill-equipped for governance and/or the running of anything; and yet they will not make way for people with the know-how to deliver Nigeria from its abys? What an obstinate and obtrusive group of people, these mallams are? The north also have continuously and consistently truncated governments in Nigeria through their military coups; fragrantly and without apologies to anyone held Nigeria hostage and shackled down to their peculiar idionsyncrsies; and for so long? It is pitiful as it is regrettable that they are that brazen and that other sections of Nigeria are too cowardly to put up any meaningful challenge to their hegemony? So if the north said 'No' to Jonathan, it remains 'No' to Jonathan; and the rest of the cowering and merely tolerated members of the Nigerian clobbered society, can only salute and fall out; case closed! What a bastard people, these Northerners, indeed are? Did you just mute to yourself, if I am angry? Yes, you betch ya! I am angry at the way things have been ran aground by these species of humanity, the Nigeria Northerners, that is!