Icheoku says it is very laughable that a beneficiary in chief of recycling of political office holders syndrome in Enugu State Nigeria is now standing against another similarly situated politician from being reappointed as a minister? Never has the saying let the bridge collapse after I have crossed it, been more a truism than the present posturing by the Nigerian deputy senate president, Ike Ekweremadu, regarding the ministerial nominee from Enugu State, Fidelia Njeze.
According to inside sources, the deputy senate president is not favorably disposed to the returning of current Enugu State ministerial candidate, Fidelia Njeze, as a minister in the new President Jonathan's soon to be constituted cabinet because he would rather have a new person step forward for the position and not a person who has been there for quite some time. Icheoku says it appears that Ike Ekweremadu suddenly had an epiphany and now the act of recycling of political candidates in Nigeria, particularly in Enugu State is no longer good nor acceptable to him; as he has vowed to derail Njeze's re-nomination. Icheoku asks, why didn't the deputy senate president remember this ongoing political atrophy when he got himself rigged back to the senate and for the third time; or were there no other candidate from Enugu State that signified interest in being a senator?
Anyway, that is atypical Nigerian factor now on steroids, that similarly saw President Jonathan breach the PDP's zoning arrangement only to later pontificate on the need for the House of Representatives to respect the sanctity of the party's zoning arrangement. Icheoku asks, are these politicians being the biblical Pharisee or are they simply suffering the hallucinatory effects of some substance that adversely impact their memory and reasoning that force their act to precede their thought? Imagine what a fool power makes of mortals that these people speak with their foot in their mouths? Icheoku admonishes Senator Ike Ekweremadu to better watch his mouth as he should have showed leadership by example by recusing himself from another senatorial term for a better spread of the political honey throughout his senatorial district? But no, he kept quiet and got himself in and suddenly there is a need to spread the appointments? Senator Ekweremadu should also remember that he who lives in a glass house does not throw stones or is it a case of the proverbial kettle calling the pot black? Icheoku is emphatic that Senator Ike Ekweremadu has benefited most as the longest lasting recycled politician in Enugu and should not be mad when another person gets close to his set records. As Enugu State's biggest beneficiary of recycled politicians syndrome, Senator Ike Ekweremadu has served in various capacities since 1999 - as head of service, chief of staff, senator for eight years and now on his third term as a continuing senator. Icheoku asks, can a man with such a trailer load of sins in terms of political recycling now be the one throwing the biblical first stone?
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Christy 'Apena' Essien-Igbokwe , the wife of Jegede Shokoya of the New Masquerade and Nigeria's lady of songs is dead; she was 51years old. Although her family claimed that "brief Illness" killed her like so many Nigerians; Icheoku retorts that it was most likely AKwa Ibom voodoo and remote control that was used to arrest her. It is on record that she had fallen out with the governor of her native Akwa Ibiom State and have been having a relentless war for political turf with the governor? So who knows whether she was sacrificed to Ekpe cult or even Alusi-Okija as an offal; afterall African science is still very much alive and portent. May her soul rest in peace.
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