A VOTE FOR BUHARI IS A VOTE FOR TINUBU, SO DON'T DO IT.

Icheoku says Nigerians must wake up fast before it is too late and wean themselves off the cool-aid they are drinking with the candidacy of Muhammadu Buhari. Muhammadu Buhari is not a man of his own and lacks the independence to operate on his own as was shown during his despotic regime with Tunde Idiagbon; and during his stint at PTF as chairman of that agency where the running of the agency's  was farmed out to various consultants. Icheoku says by the same token, a Muhammadu Buhari presidency,  in event of that nightmare, will therefore be commandeered and hijacked by Ahmed Bola Tinubu, the man who has shown his true colors running all the APC controlled Southwestern states to his personal benefit. Which true Nigerian patriot would wish this ill-will on Nigeria?

It is a fact of consequence that Bola Tinubu is super greedy, super selfish and super micro-managing in everything, with a view to specifically and optimally benefiting himself and his immediate family only. He appointed his wife senator; h appointed his daughter Iyaloja of Yoruba Market women Association of Nigeria; he appointed his son in-law councillor and he appointed one of his daughters a member of government somewhere in Agege. Bola Tinubu single-handedly appointed all officers of the APC from the chairman to the rank and file. Bola Tinubu also appointed APC presidential candidate Muhammad Buhari and his vice Yemi Osibanjo and now fully and completely, totally controls APC 110%. Icheoku bemoans that a man this powerful, with so much clout to appoint and disappoint any person in the APC as he deems fit, will rather be too powerful in a government run by APC. Anyone in doubt should take a look at how all those APC controlled Southwest States governors bow and tremble before Bola Tinubu and then imagine how it will be with a Muhammadu Buhari at Aso Rock. 

Unfortunately, the same emperor-ship and lord of manor-ship of Bola Tinubu will be repeatedly reenacted under a Muhammadu Buhari's "acting" presidency; which if it happens, would be at the instrumentation  and orchestration of Bola Tinubu. A man this greedy and rather too controlling should not be handed over Nigeria, no matter under what guise including that of a Muhammadu Buhari coming to fight corruption? The documentary "Lion of Bourdillion" is but an excerpt and tip of the iceberg of the decadence personified in Bola Tinubu; so handing Bola Tinubu the mandate over Nigeria commonwealth by proxy of a Muhammadu Buhari's presidency would indeed be very disastrous for Nigeria. Therefore, any Nigerian planning to vote for Muhammadu Buhari should think again; as a vote for Muhammadu Buhari is a vote for Bola Tinubu, the man behind the mask of Muhammadu Buhari. Icheoku says that no sane Nigerian should wish a Bola Tinubu's control of Nigeria's resources over motherland and therefore must see the struggle to stop Muhammadu Buhari as a struggle against Bola Tinubu. Icheoku prays that Nigerians will rise to the occasion and vote wisely to forestall this impending doom and pillage of Nigeria by Bola Tinubu. So on MARCH 28, vote against Bola Tinubu's hostile take-over of Nigeria, VOTE GEJ.

BUHARI NOT A GOOD OPTION FOR NIGERIA - RICHARD GRENELL

With the polls closed in Israel, international election observers now turn their attention to the Nigerian elections on March 28. The choice for the leader of Africa’s most populous country pits Goodluck Jonathan from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) against Mohammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC). 

The decision by the roughly 73 million registered Nigerian voters could have a profound impact on the future of Africa. But Western foreign policy observers pre-occupied with the rise of ISIS in the Middle East should wake up to the reality unfolding in Nigeria. Opposition candidate General Buhari wants Sharia law throughout Nigeria. In fact, he wants it everywhere. “I will continue to show openly and inside me the total commitment to the Sharia movement that is sweeping all over Nigeria,” Mr. Buhari said. “God willing, we will not stop the agitation for the total implementation of the Sharia in the country.” Agitation? Is this an indication that Mr. Buhari supports violence because the end goal of the terrorist attacks throughout Nigeria and Africa is an Islamic state? It is a legitimate question that should be asked by leaders of the Obama administration. Boko Haram has pledged its allegiance and support to ISIS. 

The Northern Nigerian based Islamic terrorist group wants Sharia law throughout Nigeria and beyond. They are also actively terrorizing Chad, Niger and Cameroon with their goal of an Islamic state. Mr. Buhari has also spoken sympathetically about members of the terrorist group Boko Haram, has cautioned against a rush to judgement on its members and has personally been selected by the terrorist group to lead its negotiations with the Government of Nigeria.  Mr. Buhari’s election as Nigeria’s head of state would be a disaster for Africa. It would also signal trouble for the West’s fight against ISIS and terrorism throughout the Middle East. Islamic radicals have Africa on their target list and young Nigerians are reported to be interested in ISIS’ messages.  Nigeria is at a tipping point. Tunisia, where the Arab Spring uprisings began, saw a deadly Islamic terrorist attack at a popular museum killing 23 people this week. ISIS attacked a hospital in Libya within the last few days and Boko Haram killed 54 people with 4 suicide bombers in Nigeria last week. The West, and specifically the Obama Administration, needs to wake up to the growing problem. The French government has been fighting ISIS in Africa for the past two years, starting in Mali but with little help from the Obama Administration. As terrorism grows in yet another region of the globe, American and Western officials should realize they are not stopping the advancements of Islamic radicals. Al-Qaida is not dead and ISIS is not a JV team.

The recent moves by the White House against Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu signal a willingness by President Obama and his team to intervene in foreign elections. The sitting President Goodluck Jonathan has committed to defeating Boko Haram and overseeing a free and fair election. The Nigerian economy has been growing faster than South Africa’s. Imagine what Nigeria could do for Africa if it was also free of Boko Haram’s violence. The Obama Administration should be doing more to ensure Africa’s most populous country doesn’t slip away.

(Nigeria on the brink, The Washington Times March 19, 2015.)

PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE, SO STOP BUHARI NOW!

Icheoku says no Nigerian needs a soothsayer to foretell the cold shroud Muhammadu Buhari will throw over Nigeria if imposed by his Western sponsors. Needless to say that his despotism is a well known fact amongst Nigerians. So since an old dog cannot be taught new tricks and a leopard does not change its spots, why try with Muhammadu Buhari. On MARCH 28, tell Muhammadu Buhari's sponsors that their voodoo did not affect you and that you still sees very 'korokoro' well, VOTE GEJ

OBASANJO JABS BUHARI, SAYS BUHARI IS HANDICAPPED?

“Only 19% of the population in Boko Haram's stronghold of North-East Nigeria are receiving education; compared to 79% in the South-West and 77% in the South-East. There is no question that the area should feel marginalized. We don’t need anyone to tell us that, that is a problem; a problem of disparity, a problem of marginalization, a problem because education is fundamental to your employability and to your living conditions. If you are not educated you are handicapped.” - Olusegun Obasanjo. 

Icheoku adds that the same Olusegun Obasanjo who claimed that Muhammadu Buhari with no verifiable First School Leaving Certificate is "educated enough" is now singing an entirely different new tune and by necessary implication, indicting the same Muhammadu Buhari as being handicapped? Nigerians, Icheoku asks, when would you stop falling 'muuguu' to this game of thrones being played over you by this cabal. Say enough is enough; ON MARCH 28, tell this people that you are smarter than they give you credit for, VOTE GEJ.

APC WILL NOT IMPLEMENT CONFAB REPORT - SHEHU GARBA.

Icheoku says still looking for a reason to reject Bola Tinubu's controlled Muhammadu Buhari's bid for Nigeria's presidency, look no further. Unless you are part of the cabal that wants to maintain its stranglehold on the estate called Nigeria and in perpetuity, you are duty-bound to push for the full implementation of the National Conference Report. Unfortunately, Bola Tinubu's controlled APC has not shifted grounds on its opposition to the conference and they are now even saying that the successful holding of the conference notwithstanding, they will still not implement its report, if elected. Icheoku says it is for you Nigerians, to decide if Nigeria must remain the way it has been all these decades; of it being milked by a very few feudalistic cabal while the majority suffer in crass subordination and deprivation. Icheoku says it should not remain so and it is for you, using your votes, to say no to these quota-assisted group of very few select Nigerians, who are continuously lording it over others. 

The National Conference was primarily set up to address some of these obvious inequalities and inequities which are deeply entrenched and institutionalized in Nigeria, foist by a few cabal with the sole aim of holding the rest of other Nigerians captive in their created large slave camp. But these very few powerful people fought back and in vain tried to derail the conference but Nigerians pushed back and went forward to embrace the conference and conclusively held it. But because power does not easily yield, they are now ganging up in solidarity behind the APC to see that the report of the conference will never be implemented. The same people who have been holding Nigeria back for so long a time are now more than ever determined to continue in this their trajectory; but only if Nigerians will let them. The implementation of the conference report is the key and every rational Nigerian must stand to oppose them by not allow them to have their way by rubbishing the effort that went into reaching this conference report. 

Icheoku says very eminent personalities from all walks of life attended the conference, deliberated extensively and then arrived at certain implementable decisions which will help move Nigeria forward. So anyone trying to sabotage this effort by threatening not to implement the report cannot be said to have the interest of Nigeria at heart and therefore must be rejected. It is of general knowledge that the man who owns and operates APC, Ahmed Bola Tinubu and his minion-APC governors, did not even want the conference to hold and somewhat boycotted the conference. So it naturally follows that the same anti-conference personalities as populate the APC, cannot now be seen to suddenly turn friendly towards implementing the far-reaching decisions of the same conference which they tried so hard to frustrate and sabotage. It does not make sense and it is illogical that the APC would implement the report which they wanted to abort its conception and therefore must not be allowed to kill it by electing them. 

Luckily, any previous second guessing of the APC over its stand regarding the National Conference report implementation has now ended. The Director of Publicity of Muhammadu Buhari Presidential Campaign Organization, Garba Shehu, confirmed and unequivocally, that his party is opposed to everything and anything, the National Conference. The director reiterated that his party, the APC is strongly opposed to anything National Conference, including its implementation and will kill it if elected. According to Garba Shehu, the report of the National Conference is unimplementable; hence the APC would not even bother trying! Mallam Shehu even went further by disparaging the effort of those eminent Nigerians who spent time and resources clobbering the report together as a charade, dubious, circus-show, sinister and indeed unimplementable? Icheoku says if the report is unimplementable to the APC, it is certainly not so for the PDP; which midwifed it and would gladly see to it that the goodies of it are fully implemented to the letters and to the general benefit of majority of Nigerians. 

Nigerians should know that there is no way the APC which wanted the conference aborted and which went as far as boycotting same, would ever implement its report. Therefore any Nigerian who desires to see the CONFAB report implemented, in order to right the wrongs of the past and make better the path of Nigeria's present off-course direction, must do the needful; by electing the man whose baby the conference is and who would gladly nurture it by fully implementing its report, there will be a guaranteed outcome. One thing Icheoku is certain about is that the implementation of the National Conference Report is on the ballot in this election. The National Conference and decisions therein reached are very important to the continued existence of Nigeria as one entity; hence its implementation is held so very dear to the hearts of millions of descent, peace-loving and real progressive Nigerians, who desire to see a better Nigeria come to fruition. Therefore it is not a "cheap blackmail" as the APC's Lai Mohammed would like to beguile some gullible Nigerians, to desire or crave or clamor for the full implementation of the National Conference Report. 

Icheoku is emphatic that so many Nigerians, including Yoruba Southwest Nigerians, are deeply troubled by the position and stand taken by the APC not to implement the report of the National Conference and would vote against the APC's position by voting PDP to authorize the implementation of the report. Millions of Nigerians who want to see a reorganized and repositioned Nigeria that works for everyone and not just a few cabal, see the National Conference as a ticket to achieving this. Therefore  any political party, including the APC, that is standing on the way of implementing the report will be swept away by the denudation that is Nigerians forthcoming overwhelming vote to have the report implemented. Or which sane Nigerian does not want to see a more functional Nigeria that works for everyone? Icheoku says since it is now obvious and beyond every shadow of doubt that the APC is against the National Conference and will not implement its report, it makes better sense that Nigerians vote for the party that will implement the report - the PDP. So on MARCH 28, VOTE to have the National Conference Report implemented, VOTE GEJ.

MUHAMMADU BUHARI HAS NO MORE STEAM LEFT IN HIM, SO VOTE GEJ.

Icheoku says in case you have so soon already forgotten and in order to refresh your memory, Muhammadu Buhari campaigned for 35 days and rested in London for 16 days? So it therefore necessary follows that if he should work as an "elected president" for four years (1,456 days), he would have to rest for 666 long days in order to enable him recuperate,  rejuvenate and fully recharge. Icheoku did this calculation not factoring in the very exacting and excruciating toll the presidency takes on its occupant; and so if that is weighted in, the number of his sick and work-free days necessary for him to b rested enough to carry on his duties might even  skyrocket to close to 1000 days? 

So Nigerians do the math and please someone tell Icheoku that some Nigerians would still indeed, actually vote to authorize such truancy and inefficiency in the presidency?  With such so much extended leave of absence, when then would he get the demands of running the state and catering to the needs of the citizenry met? Or is it going to be deja vu Sani Abacha who notoriously woke up by noon, got to the office at 5.00pm and then go to play squash at 7.00pm before retiring for night after dinner at 9.00pm? A society gets the kind of leadership it deserves BUT Icheoku is emphatic that the Nigerian society, as supposedly civilized now than before, can do a whole lot better by choosing her leadership more wisely. Icheoku says a 73 year old grandpa should be discouraged by everyone who loves him from exacting too much pressure on his very weak old heart, trying to figure out the intricacies of running a very complex society like Nigeria. Rather, like his children and grandchildren which majority of the voting electorates are, Nigerians should let him live out his golden age in peace at his country home in Daura, by refusing to punish or suffer him with tasking him with the presidency of Nigeria. Icheoku queries which descent child or grandchild would do that to his or her grandpa, asking him to put too much pressure on his heart at such a very advanced old age. 

Please Nigerians, do not be this uncaring; let grandpa Muhammad Buhari rest. Do not vote for him as that is being too mean and very uncaring and not thoughtful. Do not be a demented, wayward child that would accelerate the departure of the elderly from this planet earth. Please let the elderly take their leave when the good Lord so decides, but never as a result of massive cardiac arrest induced by overbearing pressure of governance. Icheoku is convinced that no right thinking, humane and sane Nigerian, would against every acceptable tenets of the Nigerian society that cares and caters for their elders, force this burden of the presidency on Muhammad Buhari; not at 73 years old otherwise why do people retire at 65years?  So  regardless of all the propaganda and hot air pervading the airwaves in the country about how a 73 year old grandpa is not any ordinary human but has a superhuman energy; does not age or did not age; but is rather roaring to go, just ignore it for what it is  - a mere propaganda that is meant to blindside the gullible. Just take a look at your own immediate vicinity  and figure out how that old pa or grandpa around you is figuring basic things out, talkless of the complexity of governing a country like Nigeria. 

Please Nigerians do not be a party to this perfidy, do it for your love of Buhari, do not burden him with the grueling task of governing Nigeria. Muhammadu Buhari is simply too old  to live up to the challenge and you should not be a party to any sudden interruption to his life as a result. Like Pontius Pilate, please wash your hands off this madness and tell them that your love of Buhari would not allow you do as they want you to. ICHEOKU maintains that Grandpa Buhari is simply not what Nigeria needs at this time, he is simply too old and nearing senility; his time has since came and gone with the wind of yester-years. Today's  digital Nigeria has no place for the analog Buhari, please let him rest and enjoy in peace whatever remains of his sojourn here on earth. So On MARCH 28, vote smart, vote wisely and vote intelligently, VOTE GEJ. GEJ is digital. GEJ is still youthful. GEJ has finished his presidential internship. GEJ now fully understands what needs to be done. GEJ would do better and even more during his second term.  GEJ gives it his all and GEJ will still give it more of his all.

FAYOSE AND KAYODE, PUTTING VERVE IN A PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN.

Icheoku has said it before and will say it again that only very few Nigerian politicians understand what real politicking is all about, short of their usual bribery with stuff and bare knuckle thuggery and intimidation that always get them  elected. Many of them do not have what it takes nor possess the cerebral power-punch oratory skill that effortlessly sway  electorates. This is the reason why politics is no longer interestingly fun anymore; unlike the good old days when people would be rushing to get newspapers or watch television or tune-in to their radios just to hear what Zik said again or what is making Pa Awolowo mad again or what vernacular Mallam Aminu Kano spoke again. Those were the days of politics without rancor and bitterness; but one peopled with brainiacs who fought their opponents with superior ideas and witticisms only. There was no do or die bloodletting thuggery or bribery;  it was purely politics based on power of conviction. 

Icheoku remembers the days of colorful politicians like KO Mbadiwe, TOS Benson and a few other notable political juggernauts, timbers  and calibers whose oratorical skills were such that the Nigerian electorates were held spellbound and captive by them. Icheoku nostalgically still remembers the weight of verbal bombs which these gifted real politicians threw across the land and how reverberating their thud sounded. Those days are since long gone with the wind and these days, no one can remember any thing said by any politician nor recall any politician dropping a memorable one-liner that he or she could be remembered for. No Nigerian today looks forward to hearing what any politician said again or how he said it; and none of them draws laughter from an excited audience any longer. 

In short many a Nigerian politician today is bland and tasteless; the reason they resort to bribing their way to power with useless stuff that only a hungry and deprived electorate would trade his or her vote for. No electorate is mesmerized any longer by these charlatans masquerading as politicians in Nigeria. Even MKO Abiola of late had the "with a friend like IBB no one needs an enemy" and "you cannot shave one's head in his absence" liners to remember him for? Then Godwin Daboh's "if you Tarkah me I will Daboh you' liner was equally of note, memorable. Dee Sam Mbakwe's 'the rat does not eat the food of a person who is wide awake" also counts; and then you query what statement could be credited to any of these people now parading themselves as leaders in Nigeria, some of who could hardly even string a sentence, talkless of making it count and sizzle. 

Icheoku says in the absence or paucity of such emotive remarks and "political jingoism", it is discernible why the duo of Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose and PDP Presidential Campaign Spokesperson Femi Fani-Kayode are currently making waves in Nigeria. Both men have finally come to the rescue of Nigerians,  by now giving Nigerians what they have been missing and longing for, and for a very long time. Icheoku says it is not about what you say or don't say; it is how you say it and meaningful mean to say it. It is called passion and being passionate comes with conviction, which many of these politicians lack as they are mainly interested in what accruals results from their activity rather than trying to make their mark on the landscape. Where others failed, both men have succeeded in charming the media as their new darling whose every utterance is reported and carried by the media; thus giving the campaign a much needed oxygen. 

Like an asthmatic patient, these men are the new inhaler that makes it possible for a real breath of fresh air to be reintroduced to the campaign and now it can exhale again. With both Fayose and Fani Kayode, there is quantum passion and they deploy it fully to bear on what they have to say and in how they say it. Thus people hearing them believe they mean to say what they said and they say what they truly mean to say. By so doing, they have brought back some mojo in a hitherto moribund campaign that sauntered for a long time, thus enabling the propaganda machine of the APC to somewhat control the narrative for quite some time with the ruling party playing a catch-up role with their reactionary response. But the free-reign of the duo has now placed the PDP back in contention and ahead of the pack, where they naturally should and deserve to be. So with the playing field now leveled with both parties screaming their loudest, Nigerians are once again tuned in and listening to hear what comes down the pike, next.  

Icheoku is pleased with this two operatives of GEJ2015 and says that the campaign owes everything it is presently now enjoying to the energies brought on-board by this two bare-knuckle pugilists. That's the way campaigns are wedged - take no prisoner, because short of bullets, political campaign is a war and only the brave and courageous throw  their hats in the ring. There is no room for humble gentle manliness in politics and anyone not ready to battle and tumble down and dirty, if need be, should yield because politics is not for everyone. Icheoku says kudos to Governor Ayodele Fayose and Spokesperson Femi Fani-Kayode for revamping the Project 2015 GEJ campaign and keeping git alive and bubbling. It is Icheoku's prayers that they also remain as focused and directed through the last stretch of the campaign project. Hopefully their efforts will be bountifully rewarded with a GEJ victory as well as appointments to any future offices they might desire. Way to go people; and may these guys' vocal cords never whimper nor tremble nor quaver. Governor Ayodele Fayose and Spokesperson Femi Fani Kayode are doing one heck of a very, very, good job for the campaign and Icheoku seriously means it as literally said. Icheoku says it is GEJ all the way, so ON MARCH 28, VOTE RIGHT, VOTE GEJ.

HILARY CLINTON'S EMAILGATE, A 99 PROBLEM?

Icheoku queries, is having email problem one of the worst or least problem for a politician to worry about or is this particular problem, triggered by emailing, not your ordinary Joe or Jane problem? What made this particular email problem to assume the current air of its own that it is seemingly threatening an otherwise all-coast-clear clinching of the Democratic presidential candidate nomination ticket by Hillary Clinton? Why all the ruse and ruckus being raised and generated by whether or not Hillary Clinton used a personal email or government's email account during her term as Secretary of State of the United States? Should it matter? Does it matter and would it impact her chances assuming she steps forward as the next presidential candidate of the Democratic Party? 

Just when Icheoku thought (The) Donald Trump and his hair problem is an example of one really serious problem for anyone to have, here comes Hillary Clinton with some hellish email problem and you ask yourself which of the two problems would one rather indeed have? But with everything politics, which the current issue is of course, the real question is who wants Hillary Clinton stopped and  her momentum as the inevitable candidate deflated? Who is the grim-reaper that has generated this controversy now to try and stop her intended campaign for the presidency of the United States of America - the only woman to seriously so do, if she does? These are some questions Icheoku is looking forward for answers in the nearest future; but all these heat being generated over whether or not she used private emails or server is somewhat a needless sideshow. 

Luckily she has braved it by stepping forward and answering all questions any one had regarding the matter; and hopefully the matter would now rest, barring any discovery of any illegality or a cover-up of any crime. Icheoku says the unfortunate thing serving America is that the vocal decibels of those who want to get you or pull you down always outweigh those rooting for you; admitted that at the end of the day, most would come around to support you once you show that you are not miffed up or disturbed by the pile of dirt being thrown at you. Icheoku is hopeful, that America, having elected a black-man president, is finally ready to consider the female specie for president and Hillary Clinton is or would be that one. As with voting rights, it usually appears that black people are considered first before females and so will it be with the presidency in 2017 when Hillary will be sworn in as the first female president of the United States. Or who will not be happy to see Bill Clinton playing the First Lady's role in reverse. What a problem to have as Icheoku believes many people would, any day, trade such for some other stuff troubling their lives. 

YORUBA OBAS ARE USELESS, NO WE ARE NOT - OBAS?

Icheoku says it appears that the line in the sand has finally been drawn between enraged Yoruba Obas and their wayward son Bola Tinubu, who disparaged them, calling all but three of them, useless? To demonstrate their disaffection and disillusionment for being so denigrated and called useless, Yoruba Obas have decided to rally together to show Bola Tinubu that they are still the only true custodians of the Yoruba race. To do this, they have decided to boycott Bola Tinubu and his presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari and instead, have thrown their unalloyed support for President Goodluck Jonathan. 

Yoruba Obas gathered at Ife recently and with their traditional blessings, fortified and assured Jonathan that Aso Rock is his come March 28, 2015. According to them,  they cannot afford to risk a life of ostracision under a Bola Tinubu's managed Muhammadu Buhari's presidency. A risk simply too grave to take and which they are not prepared for, especially with someone who already regarded them so lowly as to call them useless. Icheoku says to Nigerians of Yoruba Southwest, you must therefore listen to the wise counsel of your rulers and together, follow them to chastise Bola Tinubu for so denigrating your traditional institution. So on March 28, VOTE GEJ. With your votes, assure the rest of Nigerians that you are on the side of your Obas and that you are voting against Bola Tinubu and his Muhammadu Buhari as well as his denigration of you Obas. Please sons and daughters of Oduduwa, assure Nigerians that your Obasa ares till very useful, VOTE GEJ.

SACK JEGA NOW - GANI ADAMS

"Mr. Jega has failed to explain to the nation how INEC was able to successfully distribute 90 per cent of Permanent Voters Card, PVC, in North East despite the insurgency in the region while couldn't reciprocate same throughout a very peaceful Southern Nigeria region." - Otunba Ganiyu Adams, Leader, OPC.

SAE RACIST CHANT, NOT PECULIAR TO OKLAHOMA BUT WIDESPREAD?

Icheoku says until caught, it does not exist, it did not happen; but we all know that racism is a fact of life in America and it cuts across every sphere and strata of the American society. It is a fact of life and anyone saying otherwise is either in denial or is not brave enough to acknowledge a fact of daily living in a racist American society. Where does racism not exists in our American society or the better question should be, is there any place where racism is excluded in America? Is it with a Supreme Court Judge mouthing "THATS NOT TRUE" at an America president simply because the color of his skin is not the agreeable skin color of occupants of the White House? Is it a State Governor pointing her accusatory finger at an American president because as a "boy-nigger" he must do as told? Is it in a Congressman interrupting and shouting "YOU LIE" at an American president during his State of the Union address in the Congress? Is it now in the latest effort of some Senators to undermine a sitting United States president from performing his purely exclusive executive function of negotiating international treaties and foreign policies with regard to the Iranina nuclear negotiations? Is it in our everyday life in America where certain jobs are no brainer for peoples of color and when you manage to secure one, at a lower wage below your comparative white colleague? Is it in a basket ball owner ordering his paramour not to bring those NIGGERS to his game? Is it in different neighborhoods for different people? Is it in different schools for different peoples children? Please let somebody please tell Icheoku where in America is racisim not a fact of life? 

Racism is the underbelly of America which to the extent it is not discussed or spoken of, does not exist? Needless to factor in the numerous black people shot and killed nearly everyday by white police officers without any repercussion? So Icheoku sometimes get pissed off when some trivial race issue like drunken frat boys and girls having a jolly good time, are hung out to dry in this fashion merely because they are voicing what they witnessed their parents, uncles, aunties and other relatives drum in their ear while growing up. They are being hung out to dry simply because another drunk captured a glimpse with a camera phone, of what is a daily fact of life in America? Is it in our factories that colored people are not being called names? Is it on television stations that only certain color is good enough to appear?Just name it. 

Anyway, Icheoku does not buy into all these holier than thou shouters screaming that Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity of University of Oklahoma murdered sleep by singing "If you are happy and you know it, clap your hands; There will never be a NIGGER in SAE, clap your hands: You hang him from a tree but he can never sign with me, clap your hands." Yes NIGGERS were hung in America in the past and today NIGGERS are being hung by state sanctioned legal system and prsion system that is heavily skewed against people of color. Their song or action is nothing new in America, whether "inappropriate or disgusted", because this is what they learnt from their parents and surrounding environment wherein RACISM thrives and still does till today. They were raised that way and thats the only thing they know and they learnt from their parents. Many of them did not go to a mixed school or neighborhood or even church; so why would they not conclude that it is okay to put down people who do not look like them? They heard about NIGGERS being hung without consequence, so why would not think it is acceptable to hang colored people? 

Icheoku adds that even the University President David Boren is not himself innocent of the fact of consequence and is merely pandering to present emotional outburst. Those frat guys and gals, caught on the video were just unlucky to be captured on video, mouthing what is prevalent refrain in America. Icheoku says the solution is for America to accept that racisim is a clear and present danger of existence in America and then encourage its discussion among the various groups, towards finding a possibly meeting grounds on managing it as may be equitable. But for anyone to pretend that it does not exist or that he or she does not nurse racial tendencies  inside of him or her is to outrightly lie through one's teeth. Racism is part and parcel of the American society and the SAE were only being scapegoating now simply because they were caught on camera, period.

THE FIRST FAMILY READY FOR NIGERIA!

Icheoku says this is probably our most favorite picture of the Nigerian First Family. Look at how trendy and trim they are, in every inch youthful and any sane Nigerian would trade this for Muhammadu Buhari? Anyway, on MARCH 28, vote right and vote to retain this family in Aso Rock. VOTE GEJ !!!

A YAWNING BUHARI ARRIVING FROM LONDON?

Icheoku says it is probably too late for grandpa Buhari to still be awake, arriving from Heathrow so late into the night, by 9.00pm? Anyone who has had the privilege of being around very advanced in age old people knows that they, like children, need to be put to bed very early; to enable them rest enough for the day's hard work and to recover enough for the next day. But unfortunately, the  minders of Muhammad Buhari were oblivious of this fact and seem to have forgotten this imperativeness by delaying his arrival so late or better still in not advising the first class cabin crew to pamper grandpa into sleeping while enroute Abuja from London. But hey, the good news is that Muhammad Buhari made it back to Nigeria vertically and did not come back home horizontally; and will fully recover and rebound from whatever fatigue that  weighted him down upon arrival.

NO ASYLUM FOR EDWARD SNOWDEN, A TRAITOR DESERVES NO MERCY !!!

Icheoku says rumors are rife that the fugitive National Security leaker, Edward Snowden, is homesick and desperately seeking to be allowed to come back to the United States from his present hold-out in Russia. Icheoku says on no account whatsoever should that traitor be ever allowed back to the United States, not after his damaging betrayal of our national security, breaching the trust reposed on him with access to sensitive national security materials. Icheoku says his acts endangered both the United States, our allies and our very own people and the damage he caused is uncorrectable and very far reaching. 

Icheoku says except he wants to come back to the United States to die and be buried in an unmarked grave, his longing to come back must be denied and remains a wishful thinking only. The only exception however is for him to accept to come back on a one-way, death penalty indictment and trial for treason term; following which he would be summarily executed when and not if convicted. Icheoku maintains that not even a life without the possibility of parole would suffice, as then he would have to be sustained with United States taxpayers money, the same people he jeopardized their security by leaking essentials of their protection. To this is added that no European nation either should ever agree to grant the fugitive any asylum and any attempt by any on them to so do should be treated by the United States as an unfriendly act and necessary sanctions placed on such country accordingly. 

So Edward Snowden remains a fugitive from justice of the United States government and people; and stands banished from the United States and all its territories, their friends and other countries outside his present abode Russia. Away with traitor, execute the traitor upon sight and get it over with. What a spineless coward who stabbed America at the back and now wants to come back to the same country he wished untoward harm. What a shriveling son of a bastard this evil called Edward Snowden is, who doesn't belong in the land of the free and home of the brave. He neither deserves freedom nor belongs to the brave; as he did not appreciate what it takes to ensure and maintain the freedom we all enjoy in America as well as other free worlds. To hell with him and may he rot away in hellish Russia for crying out loud. Icheoku is pissed that he did what he did and more pissed that he is even contemplating being allowed back in the United States of America, which he knowingly betrayed with intent to disparage it and cause it harm. But for our resilience, he would have succeeded.

FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM, VOTE GEJ

BORIS NEMSTOV, RUSSIAN OPPOSITION FIGURE WHACKED?

'In Russia, everybody knows everything' including who the boss is and what happens to people who crosses him. So the  rule of the thumb, if you want to stay alive is to simply shut up and tag along.' That was now the late Boris Newstov speaking to CNN Anthony Bourdain last year and he was whacked for not abiding by his own admonition. Instead he talked and talked and talked about the same boss who must be feared but who he personally refused to fear, until it was too late. Bori Nemstov was shot to death on Friday night, February 27, 2015 while crossing Bolshoy Moskvoretshy Bridge near Kremlin Moscow by assailants.

ICHEOKU does not know what got the better part of him as he neither improved on his personal security nor zipped his mouth as any marked person would do; and today unfortunately he is entombed six feet under. Like other prior critics of the boss who met their respective violent ends including Sergey Yushenkov, Yuri Shchekochikhin, Paul Klebnikov, Anna Politkovskaya, Alexander Litvinenko and Boris Berezovsky, Boris Nemstov has now joined the list of those to be now known as former late critics of the boss. One good thing is that they refused to be intimidated, did not cower nor trembled by reason of the deathly threats that came their way until it became too late. It did not help his case either that he was dating a 23 year old Ukraine model named Anna Duritskaya, who might possibly be spying for Kiev? It is equally arguable that his opposition to the war in Eastern Ukraine was induced by a genuine concern emanating from matters of the heart. It would also appear that Boris Nemstov somehow foretold his death when he spoke to a Russian news website Sobesednik on February 10, 2015, quoting him, "I'm afraid Putin will kill me. I believe he was the one who unleashed the war in the Ukraine, I couldn't dislike him (Putin) more."

ICHEOKU queries does it mean that Russia is gradually sliding back to the days of the all powerful Tsars who neither tolerated descent nor criticism? Tsars, whose will must be obeyed, no questions asked? Icheoku asks is the history book ever going to someday in the no distant future record that in Russia once lived a tsar named Vladimir Putin? When that future finally comes, how would the then generation of Russians view the present happening in Russia in retrospect and with the knowledge that once on the political stage of Russia, lived a man named Vladimir Putin, who struggled and aspired to be a tsar and that he had zero tolerance for criticism? ICHEOKU says only the future hold the answer to this question as predicting or foretelling what the future holds does not factor into Icheoku's work load and/or description. 

However Icheoku laments that the fact of grave consequence that the cold hands of death keep on snatching anyone and everyone who disagrees or happens not to fall in line in today's Putin's Russia, leaves much to be desired? While most developed and many developing countries alike are encouraging limitless freedom of speech and expression for their people, in Russia, people are now living in fear and imbibing the habit of looking over their shoulders just to stay off the radar of marked for elimination and this is happening in this new millennium 2015? It is indeed a very sad commentary that in today's modern day Russia that it is a grave risk to be in the opposition, who are gradually being intimidated into silence of the graveyard? Now they know better not to sing or open their mouth against or about the big boss. This certainly  does not bode well for a transforming Russia, neither does it do the image of Russia any good. Vladimir Putin, ICHEOKU says please let freedom ring!

NETANYAHU'S DIVISIVE VISIT, AN AFFRONT PETULANCE AND VERY PUERILE?

Icheoku says Benjamin Netanyahu's un-protocol-ed visit to Washington DC is both unnecessary and uncalled for; and  has only succeeded in further polarizing Israel and driving further wedge between his wing of the Jewish nation and the rest of the wider world. Why would someone in his position not give peace a chance and first wait to see if the current effort at  a negotiated settlement with Iran over its nuclear capabilities will work before making any further move to pressure a different outcome. 

Icheoku says his current crying of wolf is unneeded at this time; and regardless, America under no circumstances would never stand by and watch Israel suffer any attack talkless of a humiliating defeat from any country including Iran? Therefore why must the governor of that 51st America state chose now that a possibility exist that a peace deal could be reached, to disturb the peace of everybody with unfounded allegations, especially one not new or different from his previous allegations? That Netanyahu is successfully driving a wedge between Jewish support in America and the world at large is equally a fact lost in his busy mind. Icheoku says his antics would only succeed in galvanizing world's opinion against the Jewish state including those previously sympathetic to it. 

The only thing that possibly came out of the Washington DC roadshow of Bibi is that he successfully pitied an American congress against an American president; and in the battle for who to show their loyalty, the Congress of the United States of America choose a foreign leader over their own leader? Icheoku says whether this is a continuum of the disrespect publicly shown to the president because of the underling racism in America, Icheoku cannot say for sure. But it is a cause for serious concern, when the Congress takes side with a visiting foreign head of government over and against the objection of an American president, who was not duly intimated of the visit as required by protocol. So now that it has been established that Netanyahu can successfully ransom the Congress to throw the president under the bus, just because of campaign contributions of the Jewish lobby group APAC, who knows what else the Israeli government is capable of influencing in Washington DC? 

But Icheoku maintains that it does not present a good image when an American Congress takes side with a foreign leader against an American leader. If Bibi Netnayahu has something to say to Americans, he could have channeled it through diplomatic contacts or emailed it to the Congress or even stayed in his Tel Aviv headquarters and lip it. But instead, he choose to defy and snub the president and came to Washington DC in flagrant violation of established protocols. A matter made worse because the same people he wants America to attack, the Iranian people, also have millions of their citizens living in America and paying their taxes as well. Taxes with which the Congress is maintained and which also buys the weapons as well as equip the military that would be deployed to go whack those Iranians, were Netanyahu to have his way? Icheoku says it is absolutely wrong for Netanyahu to try and pitch Americans against each other - Iranian Americans against Jewish Americans, and such must not be condoned by any right thinking person in America. 

A negotiated peace agreement is a preferred way moving forward and America must not be blindly led by the nose again into waging another unnecessary war that will cost us arms and legs again; not when the other two similarly unnecessary wars are yet to be decisively ended. So what if the Iranians acquire the bomb since they will not be mad enough to use it, knowing the existential threat such action would impose on their own civilization. But America must stop yielding to the blackmail of Netanyahu, who like  a spoilt child, has continuously been throwing tantrums because he did not have his way and coarse America into starting another needless war in the Middle East. Just because his wish to have America go fighting another Israeli war against the Iranian is not coming through, due to a courageous rebuff by a president, who has stood firm and resolute against another needless war when a possible peaceful solution is in the offing, he is trying to stir disunity among the Congress and the president. 

Israel knows and so does Bibi Netanyahu that an attack on America's 51st state would not be un-responded to; and just like the 9/11 attack in New York elicited a massive "shock and awe" response, any attack on Israel, be it conventional or nuclear, will be massively reiterated against too. So with this knowledge in the background, why then the needless show that Bibi brought to Washington DC? Your guess is as good as Icheoku's, totally uncalled for and needlessly petulant. What did Netanyahu say in Washington this time that is new or even simply an update of what he has said and been saying before? What aspect of his speech could he not have emailed or even text to Washington as an update of what he has rehashed in the past? But to Washington he must come to dramatize himself and whatever his phobia is concerning  an agreement that is still currently being negotiated at Brussels and not one that has been reached just yet. 

Hopefully, President Barack Obama will have a place in his heart to forgive such affront both by the Congress and Netanyahu, otherwise he should place Bibi on a permanent do not see list for the duration of his remaining two years in office; admitted he will still be catering to the reasonable needs of the Israeli people's protection. What a rabble rouser, who merely came to Washington to beat the drums of war and this is the same man who went to the United Nations some years ago to present a chart of ticking time bomb ready to go off and several years later, Iran has not exploded any atom bomb anywhere, and you ask yourself, what happened to his credibility. Benjamin Netanyahu, please check in your excessive compulsiveness as it does not endear you to anyone with rational mind as the people of Israel deserves better than a divisive figure leading and championing their cause. What a show of disrespectful shame that Bibi Netanyahu brought to Washington DC and upon himself.