AIR FORCE ONE: TOO ICONIC TO BE DISTORTED.

ICHEOKU wishes the color scheme can be left alone because of its preeminence recognition as America's presidency on wings. Just do the interiors but leave the exterior color scheme alone and undistorted.

NBA FINALS CHAMPIONSHIP: IT'S RAPTORS, AS THE NORTH WINS THE WEST

ICHEOKU says they rightly earned it and deservedly so; as they played very well, outplaying an injury plagued and depleted Golden State Warriors.  Their call letters "WE THE NORTH", Toronto Raptors has finally broken the jinx of Canada as they won for the first time a major sports trophy in a completion between a Canadian side and the United States of America side, defeating the Golden State Warriors 114 - 110. 

It was a thriller of some sort finals despite a Warriors' side that was heavily handicapped  as a result of injuries, with ace players Kevin Durant and Klay Thompson sidelined and couldn't play in the finals. It was overall a good NBA finals. Congratulations to the new NBA champions Toronto Raptors and to the MVP Kawhi Leonard; they both deserved their victories. To the defeated defending champions, Golden State Warriors, it was a battle well fought battle; and short of not moving to their new arena as champions, they acquitted themselves very well and will live to be champions again. Congratulations to them as well. 

AMERICA IS HERE TO STAY - PDJT

"Americans fill the world with art and music. They push the bounds of science and discovery. And they forever remind us of what we should never ever forget: The people dreamed this country. The people built this country. And it's the people who are making America great again. As long as we are proud of who we are, and what we are fighting for, there is nothing we cannot achieve. As long as we have confidence in our values, faith in our citizens, and trust in our God, we will not fail. Our families will thrive. Our people will prosper. And our Nation will forever be safe and strong and proud and mighty and free." - President Donald John Trump.

BUHARI SWORN IN: A PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION WITH A TWIST.

ICHEOKU says it could easily pass for the proverbial King who crowned himself, as every living former heads of State and presidents, except for the infamous genocidal murderer, Yakubu Jackal Gowon, shunned the event. Their action, telegraphed an unspoken but strongly loud message that it will not be in their name nor with their support, would a "stolen" mandate confer legitimacy on the president. 

It could have been much gracefully better and ICHEOKU strongly feels that the president also shared in the sentiments, had these former leaders showed up to support the president. That Gowon was there could be a result of lost in translation or that the memo which communicated the decision of the former leaders to stay away from the inauguration did not get to him on time. It is also possible that Gowon showed up in order to remain above the fray, curry favor and retain his place in the good books of the president and by extension, the Caliphate. 

Overall, the event of May 29th, 2019 was comparatively mediocre at best and lacked the pomp and pageantry, as well as the grandeur and glamour, usually associated with such presidential inauguration ceremony; especially for a president on his way out, who was being sworn in for his last and final term in office. The uneasiness was palpably noticeable; and the humiliation suffered by being abandoned by all the former heads of State and presidents was also noticeable. No president, given a choice, would like to be so shabbily treated as irrelevant, abandoned on his great day as a pariah by his predecessors in office. 

The ramification of such a national embarrassment will be consequential, as the president will see it an unforgivable sin and an affront on his presidency. In other words, those former leaders who did not honor the president's invitation to his inaugural ceremony might as well kiss goodbye to whatever camaraderie that hitherto existed between them and the president. But the good news is that, like they say in Hollywood and Nollywood, the show must go on and the show went on. The president was successfully sworn in for his second and final term in office, and it was without a hitch, leaving many wondering what these former leaders actually achieved with their boycott, other than making a statement of their displeasure at the president.

However, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida and Ernest Shonekan's absence could be excused as they are both medically indisposed and otherwise couldn't be available, even if they had wanted. But Abdulsalam Abubakar, Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan had no excuses whatsoever to justify their boycott of the president's special day. Theirs was a conspired absence, orchestrated to humiliate the president, but whether they succeeded, the jury is still out on that question. They were not sick and it could not have been because of any prior engagements, because the date for the presidential inauguration was literary set in stone, scheduled  several years in advance and nothing else should have trumped it, regardless. 

What the five former leaders, particularly the last three, did, was in fact, calculatedly deliberate. They intentionally wanted to humiliate and embarrass the president; so, they should be made to pay a hefty price for it. May be the president should consider taking away their pensions and other accruing privileges, including the withdrawal of their security details or even denying them access to Aso Rock, by placing them on a permanent do not visit Aso Rock list of abhorable deplorables.

Their action was probably another evidence of corruption fighting back, as some of them were involved in large scale corruption during their time in office, for which they are currently being investigated. Abdulsalam Abubakar and Olusegun Obasanjo were involved in the $16 billion white elephant power project; while Jonathan was involved in the $2 billion Malabu Oil deal scandal, for which he allegedly pocketed $450 million as his own share of the booty. So, it is understandable if the decision by President Muhammadu Buhari to curtail corruption in the country, by investigating these former leaders, led to their protest boycott of the inauguration; their way of vehemently registering their displeasure at being investigated by the president.

It is obvious that corruption is mounting a counter offensive against the president, using everything, including shunning a presidential inauguration, to make a statement that they will be unrelenting in their effort to stop the president from succeeding in his war against corruption. ICHEOKU is emphatic that corruption in Nigeria will not abate until some of these corrupt former leaders are made examples of, held accountable for their own corruption. They need to start facing consequences for their corruption, including being publicly named and shamed, paraded where necessary, arrested and prosecuted for being the criminals which they are. Once this is done, every other person below them will understand that it is no more an open season for corruption in Nigeria, because a masquerade which beat an elderly person will make a mince meat of a youth. 

ICHEOKU says that no former Nigerian leader has ever won the Mo Ibrahim Foundation Award for Excellence in Leadership in Africa is a great testament to the depth of their corruption. Their penchant for kleptomania is legendary and they stole with reckless abandonment; including the coward of Otuoke who made himself superbly rich from the office and also made out like bandit from the Malabu Oil scandal. ICHEOKU gleefully awaits the the day the president's joker on these former corrupt leaders will drop like it is hot, including putting them in handcuffs. Hopefully the president will follow through with his many promises to fight corruption to a stand still and not sparing any of these bandits in the process.

Anyway, while Atiku Abubakar is still dreaming about a phantom mandate, which was purportedly stolen; the man who actually holds the mandate has been sworn in for his second final term in office. So, while Atiku and his co-travelers to a laland presidency are still salivating about what would have been, lost in the jungle of distorted facts, President Muhammadu Buhari has officially begun his second term in office and there is nothing anyone, including 1000 Obasanjos, can do about that. ICHEOKU says congratulating President Muhammadu Buhari on his second term inauguration and also the people of Nigeria, who chose wisely on February 23rd, 2019, to reject the globally acknowledged face of corruption in Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, by sticking with the proverbial devil they know, having already adjusted to the hardship in the land, is therefore quite in order.

ICHEOKU says could care less that the president won his reelection and was inaugurated for a second term in office, despite the hardship, anger and disillusionment in the land. What is imperative here is that the president, by his election victory, stopped the gathered vultures, led by Nigeria's most crooked and corrupt person and the world recognized face of corruption in Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, who were waiting to carry on with their feasting on the carrion of Nigeria. This was the single most important factor for ICHEOKU during the period leading up to the last presidential election 2019, for which all stops were pulled to help stop Atiku Abubakar and his army of ravenous scavengers from ever again descending on Nigeria's resources and feasting on them like swarming locusts. 

The aversion and revulsion to a possible Atiku Abubakar's presidency led to the avowal to stop him by all means necessary and however possible. Such was the intensity and determination, that anyone else, including Sahara Reporters' Sowore Omole, would have been a far much better and preferred choice than Atiku Abubakar. So, ICHEOKU was indeed grateful that the president accomplished this base mission and that Atiku was stopped cold from nearing the gate of Aso Rock. With this done, at least Nigeria will have something left in its tiller for the running of the country; unlike with Atiku, where every last penny would have been looted by a band of thieves, masquerading as dopey and droopy-eye politicians, whose only motivation in politics is to steal the country blind and make themselves stupendously rich and at the expense of the masses. So ICHEOKU is grateful and thankful to God for securing victory for President Muhammdu Buhari and for stopping a threatened looting on steroid that was lurking around and waiting to begin.

ICHEOKU says does not believe in medicine after death and since God does not give second chances or an opportunity for a do over, why would anybody? Nigerians must therefore learn to adapt to their self immolating circumstances, quit whining and stop the gnashing of teeth, because of their inability to vote President Muhammadu Buhari out of office on February 23rd, 2019.  They voted him into office on March 29th, 2015 and that is the only controlling authority that counts. By voting for Buhari on March 29th, 2015, Nigerians forever lost their right to complain about any hardship as a result of the Buhari's presidency, because they knew what they were getting into when they voted for Buhari in 2015. Buhari is as constant as Mother Nature that even the Northern Star does not meet his resoluteness; he changeth not; he was the same yesterday, today and will remain the same tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. So why does Nigerians expect water out of rock, especially when they are not armed with Moses staff.

This Buhari's truism was germane in 2015 and so it was four years later in office and so will it remain in the next four years. Buhari does not change; Buhari did not change and Buhari will not ever change. So, why the hyperventilating hysteria in the land over a fully resolved man who never hid his character or who he is to Nigerians. Or were Nigerians afflicted by the repeatedly doing the same thing while expecting a different result, which is insanity defined? Therefore it is hopelessly delusional for any Nigerian to pretend that the Dracula of Daura suddenly morphed into a monster or that he is surprisingly visiting the land with great chastisement, because he is not. He did not change in 1983 through 1985 and was the same fixated individual in 2015 and continuing till this day. So, anyone expecting a different Buhari or that there will be a different outcome from the same circumstances, needs to have their heads examined for schizophrenia.

The good mantra for honest living is to always have in mind that if you do the crime, you will also do the time. Nigerians willingly invited the minstrel into their homes and must not be heard now to complain that the music is deafening. So, to all those vuvuzelas who are chest-beating that Buhari has killed them, ICHEOKU says to suck it up and pray, on the authority of 2 King 12:21, that the NextLevel will not be a more excruciating experience. Utobo, the rhesus monkey, said that the death which is starring it on the face can never kill it; but Nigerians ignored this time honored advise and invited Buhari to their governance in 2015 and should only pray he does not convert himself to a life president when his term expires in 2023. 

ICHEOKU says if Buhari decides to tighten the screws more in his second term, so be it; as it is a well deserved and rightly earned rebuke of a society which always condemns its best and celebrates its worst. If Buhari becomes the whip that would whip Nigerians into sensibleness and reasonableness, so be it; but it is definitely about time Nigerians started reasoning rationally and not remain the wildebeests which they are, who stubbornly, spontaneously charges without first thinking the ramifications of their actions through and thoroughly. What made any sane Nigerian to prefer Buhari over Jonathan in 2015 was actually what made all the difference and in fact, when the cookie crumbled; and not at any other subsequent time, including last February 23rd, 2019 when they wanted to retrieve the cup after giving an enwe water with it. 

Anyway, the deed is done and Nigerians should brace themselves for whatever happens in the next four years, including massive arrest and detention of Nigerians and their former leaders. ICHEOKU can't wait.

ICHEOKU also congratulates Nigeria on becoming a nuclear power, as the president was seen carrying his presidential "akpa nwa dibia" handbag, where the nuclear code of the country is securely tucked away. What Americans call the Football, Nigerians call the Sharia bag; but let nobody make mistake about it because it is also as deadly. Inside that handbag is a direct live communication to the Fulfude only Fulani Radio and nobody should doubt the power of issuing directives on that frequency. Its destructive yield must not be in doubt and ICHEOKU prays the president never activates that code. 

As for the Adams Oshiomhole rude awakening, if only he had read Luke 14:12, he would have been properly guided on the wisdom of not self-inviting oneself to a party; because such gate crashing always leads to unpleasant experience and other unintended consequences, including being publicly humiliated. 

The inauguration also made history as the only presidential inauguration without an inaugural address, as the president failed to inform or share with his country men and women what to expect from his administration during his second term. May be because it will be more of the same, except on a higher level or is it Next Higher Level, one may add. ICHEOKU also was not impressed by the newly acquired presidential limousine because it is not beastly enough. The best of it all is Nigeria has a president and his name is not Atiku Abubakar. So until 2023, every other agitation and vituperative invectives are but inconsequential noisy hot air. ICHEOKU says congratulations President Muhammadu Buhari for stopping Atiku Abubakar from nearing the gate of Aso Rock; and as for Olusegun Obasanjo, the president can arrest and LOCK HIM UP now for being a security risk to the country and the heavens will not fall if he does. 

QUEEN ELIZABETH MARKS HER 93RD BIRTHDAY!

ICHEOKU says congratulations Queen Eliza on your 93rd birthday celebration. May your days be longer, healthier and keeping on holding the forte for Britain. Whoever dresses the Queen is good at what she or he is doing as the Queen never failed with her fashion sense. Congratulations to Her Majesty of Britain. 

JOE BIDEN ABANDONS GOD: SIDES WITH ABORTIONISTS.

ICHEOKU says how you know a swamp dweller numero uno, a stand which he took several decades ago in 1976 and maintained out of conviction until just two days ago, June 5th, 2019, to help keep American babies out of harms way of assured death through abortions, but suddenly he somersaulted and is now in favor of killing babies on demand. 

Joe Biden, what manner of man is he? Just another flip flopping John Kerry who once voted for something before voting against it. What would men not do for power, including selling their conscience and in this case, even denouncing their faith. 

A staunch Catholic who has now summarily abandoned his long held Catholic faith and beliefs of so many decades, just because he wants to please the far left wing anarchists of his Democratic Party who are desirous of unrestrained killing of babies. But like Jesus said, if Joe Biden denies him before the world, he will also deny Joe Biden before his father in heaven. A matter that will be made worse when he finally loses both the primaries and the presidency and shamelessly seeks to return back to the Catholic Church with a pretended conviction and faith.

A 75 year old grandfather, who should ordinarily be enjoying his retirement and preparing to go meet his maker, but instead of standing firm to his “conviction” to the end, has buckled under the weight of the abortionists wing of the Democratic Party. ICHEOKU says where is Joe Biden's fortitude that he should literary just collapse and cave in, faced with these crazed out, wild eyed feminists hollering abortionists. If they could weigh Joey down and have their way with him, imagine what Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un would do to him. SAD. Please just #SAYNOTOJOEBIDEN. 

D-DAY 75TH ANNIVERSARY: WE OWE THEM OUR GRATITUDE.

ICHEOKU says for their sacrifice we have what we have today - FREEDOM and we are forever indebted. Thank yo veterans of World War II and other wars that kept us safe and protected. 

D-DAY 75TH ANNIVERSARY: WE WILL NEVER FORGET THEIR SACRIFICE.

ICHEOKU says as leaders of the free world gathered to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day Normandy landing, an appreciative world says thank you World War II veterans for your great sacrifice. 

BERNIE READS THE RIOT ACT TO THE DEMOCRATS.

“As you all know, there is a debate among presidential candidates who have spoken to you here in this room and those who have chosen for whatever reason not to be in this room about the best way forward. So let me be as clear as I can be: in my view, we will not beat Donald Trump unless we bring excitement and energy into the campaign. And unless we give millions of working people and young people a reason to vote and a reason to believe that politics is relevant to their lives, they will not vote; especially not for the Democratic Party." - Bernie Sanders, at California Democratic Party Convention, San Francisco, June 2nd, 2019.

JOE BIDEN'S 2020 PUTATIVE CANDIDACY: ANOTHER MISTAKE, WILL DEMOCRATS EVER LEARN?

ICHEOKU says probably the experiences of 2016 with Queen Crooked Hillary Clinton was lost on them as the Democrats are once again doing exactly the same thing with Joe Biden, which they did with Hillary Clinton and which cost them the White House. First they conspired against Bernie Sanders and denied him the presidential ticket of the party, giving it to a rather less popular candidate, Hillary Clinton, against the will of the base of the party and the result was devastating. 

Second, they shielded and protected her from the media and refused her a free interaction with the media and she never gave any press conference, leading to the lackluster campaign which she mounted and which eventually cost her and the party the election. But instead of the Democratic Party going with someone who was more popular as the acceptable candidate of the base of the party and one who could have won that election, Bernie Sanders, they allowed their loyalty to party's establishment to dictate who wore the mantle and the result was a resounding disaster when November 8, 2016 eventually came around. 

Now, 2020 is around the corner and it is deja vu 2016; as former Vice President Joe Biden is now being fronted by the party's establishment as their anointed one and before who every other candidate must bow. He is being protected, shielded and prevented from having any candid interaction with the party's base. The party's establishment does not want him to have anything to do with the rest of the other candidates jostling for the party's nomination, in the seemingly wildebeests-like set up of too many people who wants to be president and angling for the party's presidential banner 2020. When they go to campaign, Joe Biden feels too big to go and participate. When they are giving press conferences, Joe Biden feels too big to go and give same. When they are offering opinions on issues of the day, Joe Biden feels too good to do the same. 

This weekend, a lot of the candidates seeking the presidential ticket of the party are in San Francisco California butting heads on how to secure the nomination, but Joe Biden simply ignored them as a no show, assured that the presidential ticket is his already, so why bother? ICHEOKU says where then is the level playing field in the Democratic Party's nomination process and what use is the continuing campaigning by the other candidates when it is obvious that Joe Biden is the preferred choice of the establishment of the party and has already secured the presidential ticket, albeit technically. Where then is the democracy in the Democratic Party if primaries are skewed to favor a particular candidate to the disadvantage of the others. 

A rigged practice which is now turning into a pattern by the Democratic Party as they did it with Hillary Clinton against Bernie Sanders and are now, once again, scheming same with Joe Biden. Why go through the motions when they have a preferred candidate who they will eventually anoint with the ticket as they did with Hillary Clinton. But why all these other candidates are tolerating the scheme and letting their party do this to them is simply mind boggling. Why are they also afraid of calling out their party and Joe Biden on this continuing partiality regarding Joe's assumed inevitability status. 

ICHEOKU says this apparent bias will be remembered by the American people and they will, when the time comes, tell Joe Biden that such arrogance will not be tolerated from someone seeking the office of the presidency of the United States of America. Imagine if Joe Biden is now too big to contest for the party's nomination and so dismissive of other contestants, how cocky he will then later be, should he ever win the presidency. Why would Joe Biden not humble himself and go through all the rigors of the nomination process and if he is too old and too tired to endure it, simply bow out. But instead of the Democratic Party seriously taking issues with Joe Biden on his parading himself already as the inevitable nominee, they are, in the same manner which they did to Hillary Clinton in 2016, cuddling and encouraging Joe Biden in this his condescending behavior. 

Why anyone in the Democratic Party thinks that the result with Joe Biden in 2020 will be any different than the result which they had with Hillary Clinton in 2016, is simply convoluted. It will be an apt illustration of doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different outcome, which translated, is insanity defined. A matter made worse by the concert and conspiracy of the media acolytes of the Democratic Party establishment, which have already started cooking the polls, in order to impose on the American people a preconceived narrative that Joe Biden is the ONE since he is leading in all the polls. They want to make his nomination a fait accompli by pushing this narrative that Joe Biden is the ONLY candidate that is capable of beating President Donald John Trump in 2020; and you wonder where you heard such a similar bunkum hogwash before. 

Yes, you heard it and it was in the period leading up to November 8th, 2016 when so many of such staged polls were used to scheme out Bernie Sanders from the party's nomination process in favor of their Queen Crooked Hillary Clinton. Such arrant nonsenses continued until the morning, afternoon and evening of the November 8th, 2016 in their attempt to convince American people and by extension, the world at large, that then candidate Donald John Trump stood no chance in hell at being elected president and that he will NEVER be elected president of America. ICHEOKU says to add that they failed woefully in their attempt to influence the election outcome and that every projection and polling which they made came to naught will be rather too effusive.

The same goons are once again at work, trying this time to use the same fake polls to steer the nomination to Joe Biden; shamelessly stating that Joe Biden has the momentum and that he is the only candidate that can defeat President Donald John Trump in 2020. ICHEOKU says if this narrative is true, why then did his magic not work to stop the then candidate Donald John Trump from being elected president in 2016. Afterall, Joe Biden was Vice President to Barack Obama, whose both legacies were on the line in that election, yet the American people rejected them and voted the way they did to elect President Donald John Trump. ICHEOKU says that Joe Biden is no longer young nor ebullient anymore; and he is practically not bringing anything new to the table, so why would American people look in his direction for any future leadership of the country. 

Joe Biden has been around in Washington DC for far too long, nearly 50 years; and you ask yourself what is it exactly that still remains of him to deliver, which he has not since brought forward in his past five decades of his dwelling in the swampy Washington DC. 

ICHEOKU laments that it is the same establishment power bloc of the Democratic Party, which has refused to yield any space to the up and coming progressive Democrats, which is now fighting so hard to take back the reins of power. They are  fronting Joe Biden as their bait and using the their controlled media as the means, in their bid to wrestle back power. ICHEOKU says it will not happen regardless, as Joe Biden and Barack Obama's policies were collectively rejected by the American people in 2016 and will once again be rejected come 2020. ICHEOKU is emphatic that Joe Biden will not stand a chance at securing the party's nomination if fairly conducted. Also, that it is only the pair of Pete Buttigieg and Kamara Harris on the Democratic Party's presidential ticket that is capable of making any serious inroad with the American people in 2020. Short of which, Joe Biden or no Joe Biden, it will be an easy sailing for the reelection of President Donald John Trump, who actually, have earned his second term and should be reelected resoundingly. 

ISLAMIZATION OF NIGERIA: OBASANJO, THE MAN WHO CRIED WOLF?

ICHEOKU says there are three Nigerians who ICHEOKU prays to God daily to  terminate their residencies here on earth, so that Nigeria can be free. They are Olusegun Obasanjo, Ibrahim Babangida and of course Muhammadu Buhari, the current president of Nigeria. This trio are part of the old guard in Nigeria who strongly believes that Nigeria belongs to them; hence they must always have a say in who governs Nigeria and how the governing is done, otherwise there will be no peace. 

To them, Nigeria is their private estate and they are entitled to lease it to whoever they desire; and it must be to someone who must obey their command, listen to their dictates, comply to their stipulated terms and conditions of holding Nigeria at their pleasure, on their behalf and at their behest. Any attempt by such a chosen lessee to deviate from their strictly laid out blue print and path of travel in governance is met with earth scorching excoriations, vehemence, protests and resistance, sabotage and plotting the eventual downfall and ouster from office of such an "obstinate, wayward and strayed" lessee. So, such imposed leader will only enjoy the privileges of their office as long as they remain loyal and are in the good books of this three individuals and constantly do their bidding, as they are told. 

Coincidentally, one of them is presently in office and not behaving as any other servile puppet would, by kowtowing to every minute instruction handed down to him and this is riling a member of the triumvirates, named Olusegun Obasanjo. Meanwhile the third musketeer, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, is on the sideline silently watching, as Olusegun Obasanjo and Muhammadu Buhari duke it out between themselves. A very clever devil, who rightly earned his moniker, Maradona; and is just biding his time, waiting calculatedly, to see who wins the turf war before aligning himself to him.

ICHEOKU is emphatic that as long as these three individuals liveth, Nigeria, unlike Zambia, SHALL NOT BE FREE. Therefore, if you desire a free Nigerian society, please join IChEOKU in this supplication to the On High, by including the quick transition of this three devious musketeers in your prayer points. 

It is with this reservation therefore that ICHEOKU says Nigerians must be wary and vigilant, and to take with a grain of salt, the latest Obasanjo's alarm that Nigeria has almost tipped over, under the weight of Boko Haram and Fulani Jihadist terrorist herdsmen's push for the Islamization of Nigeria; an agenda which Obasanjo claims is already full throttle, underway. 

Olusegun Obasanjo lacks credibility and his veracity for speaking truthfully is also quiet suspect. His actions are largely in part driven by a self-serving, hidden agenda and possibly he is just being the trouble maker which he is with the current stoking of religious and ethnic feud amongst Nigerians. Obasanjo's capacity to cause mischief is not in doubt and he is very masterful at playing both sides to a dispute and could possibly be enmeshed in it right now; doing what he does best, stoking crisis. This paradigm must be factored in by Nigerians while weighing the gravity of the allegation made by the Ota Deity and not react disproportionately just on the words of Obasanjo.

ICHEOKU is not saying to cavalierly dismiss Obasanjo's latest alarm completely; but to, like Ronald Reagan once said of the old Soviet Union promises, trust but first verify. ICHEOKU is urging Nigerians to weigh it with great cautionary wisdom and then react to it measuredly, because Baba Iyabo is a proven trouble maker, who is often up to no good. He repeatedly did similar things in the past and it is not beyond him to be doing the same thing now, disparaging a Nigerian leader who he fell out of favor with and then inciting Nigerians against him. Therefore, it is with an informed logic backed by precedents that ICHEOKU says that Olsuegun Obasanjo could be raising his usual false flag by this alarm, in the hope that he could incite Nigerians to revolt against their President Muhammadu Buhari or cause the military to stage a coup. 

Obasanjo failed abysmally and woefully in his bid to install Atiku Abubakar as president of Nigeria and is now back to his Plan B; his last joker, to make Nigeria ungovernable for President Muhammadu Buhari. A plan which he intends to implement by fostering great disunity amongst Nigerians and hoping that the country blows up under the president's watch. A timing made more sinister because it is so close to the president's 2nd term inauguration on May 29th, 2019. His calculation, if he cannot dislodge the president, to make his governing Nigeria impossible or difficult at best. A case of, if he cannot dig up the cricket, to just dismantle its mound and that will be a sufficient outcome. Why Obasanjo is doing what Obasanjo is doing is a question which only Obasanjo can vouchsafe an answer; as ICHEOKU and every other pundit can only but second guess his motive.

Olusegun Matthew Okikiola Aremu Obasanjo is a man with a storied history of backbiting and backstabbing of people who he is jealous of, envies and/or does not like. During the Biafran genocidal war, he successfully convinced Yakubu Jackal Gowon that Benjamin Black Scorpion Adekunle was not serious with breaching the Oguta Front Biafran resistance and that Black Scorpion was indeed cuddling Biafrans and sharing military intelligence with them. Gowon summarily removed Black Scorpion and replaced him with Obasanjo and the atrocities which Obasanjo committed while piercing through Oguta Front and taking Uli Airport is yet to be chronicled in any written horror stories about the genocidal Biafran war. Obasanjo is a bloody vampire who has sucked a lot of Nigerian blood and the records are there which validate this assertion.

Again Obasanjo disappointed Obafemi Awolowo in 1978, after first assuring him that the second Republic election will be free and fair and organized on a level playing field, only for him to later use Richard Akinjide to come up with the phantom 12 2/3rd majority to steer victory to Shehu Shagari. Unbeknownst to Awolowo, Obasanjo had struck a secret deal with the Sokoto Caliphate to make Shehu Shagari president in order to establish himself as s permanent friend of the North. Needless to add that the same Caliphate made him Head of State over Shehu Yar'Adua following the assassination of Muritala Mohammed in the bid to help stabilize and quieten things down so soon following the war. 

Then enter the Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida failed third Republic when Yakubu Jackal Gowon wanted to run for president and actually sought the nomination of the SDP under the ever beautiful Option A4, the only legacy which Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida can truly lay claim to as his bequeath to Nigeria. But guess who jumped out first to castigate and disparage Gowon for not allowing a new generation of leaders to emerge to lead Nigerians going forward, the same Olusegun Obasanjo. His infamous quote, "what did Gowon forget in the presidential villa that he wants to go back there to retrieve" is still so fresh in memory. But his attempt to dissuade Gowon failed, admitted Gowon suffered the worst humiliation in that his foray into politics when a school teacher roundly defeated him in the primaries. The defeat was so bad that Gowon could not win even a single Ward within Jos Township. 

Subsequently MKO Abiola won the next election but David Mark and Abubakar Umar led military resistance forced Babangida to annul the June 12th election. But instead of Olusegun Obasanjo joining forces with his Yoruba people and the rest of other Nigerians to seek redress for Abiola and restore his mandate, he allowed himself to be co-opted by the anti Abiola forces in Nigeria. He was drafted to go to South Africa to convey Babangida's message to the president of South Africa on why the Nigeria election was annulled. Responding to a reporter's question in Pretoria on why Abiola's election victory was not upheld, despite being considered the fairest and freest ever in Nigeria, Obasanjo dismissively said that Abiola was not the Messiah who Nigerians were waiting for and needed. 

Abiola's mandate was stolen. Babangida was forced to step aside. An Interim National Government with a Jonathan-lite, Ernest Shonekan, was put in charge. Sani Abacha was left behind as Defense Minister. It is also on record too that John Shagaya approached Shonekan and urged him to retire Abacha immediately in order to have a chance at success in running the country. But instead of acting on the intelligence, Shonekan merely invited Abacha with Shagaya present, to tell him that Shagaya told him that he, Abacha, was planning to remove him from office and whether that was true. 

Abacha denied culpability and promised Shonekan that he will conduct an internal investigation to find out if any such planned activity was going on without his knowledge inside the military which he was heading. The next day by 11am Abacha traveled back to Abuja and by 5pm, instead of reporting back to Shonekan on his finding, went ahead and removed Shonekan from office and that also ended Shagaya's career in the military. Abiola was arrested and jailed; but instead of Obasanjo rallying Yoruba people around to fight for what was greater than his personal selfish self, he aligned forces with the North and was constantly holding meetings in Aso Rock, with the believe that he will be appointed to head any subsequent interim government of National Unity. 

At one point, Obasanjo technically became the liaison officer between Abacha and the Yoruba Southwest, trying to find the best possible way to resolve the Abiola election that a grounded country can once again get going. But Abacha remained non committal on any Interim Government or handing over to Obasanjo, so Obasanjo fell out with Abacha and started waging his war of calumny against Abacha's government. He was subsequently arrested, tried and convicted for plotting a coup; and was awaiting execution when the late Stella reached out to Andrew Young who prevailed on Bill Clinton to pressure Abacha not to execute Obasanjo and his death sentence was commuted to 25 years prison sentence. 

Anyway, Abacha later died and Obasanjo was freed from prison, granted pardon and when the idea of the 4th Republic came up, the Caliphate remembered their friend and decided on a return favor. Atiku Abubakar and Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida were drafted to lead the effort which culminated in the Jos PDP Convention and Obasanjo was later "elected" president of Nigeria, following Abubakar Abdulsalam's exit. 

But the same Obasanjo, who once asked Gowon what he forgot in the presidential villa, somewhat himself forgot something in the presidential villa that made him to seek the office, admitted that no one knows if he eventually found it. Also, whether Obasanjo became the Messiah which Nigerians sought and needed, nobody knows as well; but suffice it to say that Baba Iyabo is a man with a kaleidoscopic personality. He is very manipulative too and he can simultaneously be different things to so many different people, all at once. 

Obasanjo served out his two terms in office, wanted to extend it to three terms by using monetary inducements to influence the National Congress into changing the constitution so that he could have his way. Sacs of Ghana Must Go bags stuffed with foreign currencies were sent to the National Congress, but A Senate President Kenneth Nnamani led effort thwarted the plot and rejected Obasanjo's cash. It is also on record that Atiku Abubakar, because of his own personal scheme to be president, aligned forces with the anti Third Term agenda. A frustrated Obasanjo then decided on a payback at his Vice President Atiku Abubakar's by denying him his succession bid to the presidency. He called Atiku a thief and the most corrupt man alive in Nigeria, vowing that it will be over his dead body that Atiku will ever be president. This is the man Nigerians are listening to without asking themselves, if Obasanjo was such a good person, why did he covet a third term in office?

Then enter Umaru Yar'Adua, who was almost falling out with Obasanjo and was once heard saying that he was tired of Obasanjo's unending meddlesomeness and that he wants to be his own man. But for his death and the shortness of his term in office, he would have also had serious problem governing Nigeria because of Obasanjo. Then Goodluck Jonathan was brought into office and he remained a good boy until he started refusing Obasanjo's dictations in his presidency. Obasanjo's barrage of attacks started and the long epistles of Saint Obasanjo started flooding Newspapers and the social media platforms with his invective Satanic Verses. He eventually led the war effort that threw Goodluck Jonathan out of Aso Rock and in came Buhari.

Let Nigerians not forget that it is the same Obasanjo who accused Jonathan of raising snipers to kill 1000 prominent Nigerians, including politicians. Nigerians were angry that Jonathan could do such and some people panicked, wondering if they were among those penciled down to be eliminated by the sniper squad. But at the end, there were no snipers nor was anybody killed by any high powered telescope-mounted rifle. To date Obasanjo has not deemed it fit to apologize to Jonathan for maligning him with such a disparaging falsehood. Yet this is the same man Nigerians are listening to his hellish outburst, right?

In 2015, the same Obasanjo conspired with his Caliphate friends and removed Jonathan from office, telling Nigerians and the world at large that Buhari was "educated enough to be president." Buhari became president and was a good boy for the better part of his first term until he cancelled the billions in Naira of Federal Government subsidies to Obasanjo's Ota Farms Holding PLC. Obasanjo once again fell out with a sitting President who dared him and wanted him gone ever since. He wrote several of his usual epistles, but an "illiterate" Buhari did not read them nor gave a damn about his gibberish. The attacks continued, but Buhari turned deaf ears. 

Then a reelection came and it was time for Obasanjo to draw his pound of flesh as usual. Who did he adopt as Buhari's replacement, the same man who he once castigated as the most corrupt Nigerian alive. A man who he once told the entire world is too corrupt and too crooked to be Nigeria's president, calling him a thief and swearing that it will be over his dead body that Atiku will be president. But unfortunately, Nigerians have a notoriety for attention span deficit disorder, the reason a person as despicable as Olusegun Obasanjo can always play yoyo with their emotions, for the purposes of achieving his usually, selfish ulterior motive. Why did those Nigerians who flocked to Atiku because Obasanjo said so, not pause to ponder why Obasanjo made his 180 degrees somersault on Atiku; and what transfiguration took place that metamorphosed Atiku from being a thief to being a would be good custodian of the country's treasury. 

That Atiku was defeated is a good thing and a commendation to all those right thinking Nigerians who ignored the perpetual manipulator, who farms disillusionment on a pay per play manner, as they prevented a thief from taking control of the country's treasures. Obasanjo, now facing the last rung of the huge embarrassment which he suffered on February 23rd, 2019, having been technically neutered as an expired milk without much clout nor relevance anymore, has resorted to doing what he does best, crying wolf where there is none. Nigerians must therefore ignore the Ota Deity's latest shout of fire in the theater, his usual antic of fire on the mountain, run, run run. It cannot be that Obasanjo has a magic wand which he uses to cast a hypnotic spell on Nigerians, that make them do and react as he prompts. 

Olusegun Obasanjo' is a mercenary politician who performs any assigned role as his paying retainer dictates. Obasanjo has a greedy attitude of "it is either his way or the highway" and cannot stand the present facts facing him of being confined into the garbage bin of political irrelevancy in Nigeria. He is no longer given a red carpet reception at Aso Rock and also no longer has limitless access to President Muhammdu Buhari. A matter made worse because Bola Tinubu has now replaced him as the Yoruba Nation's chief liaison officer to Aso Rock. Obasanjo is hurting and is simply lashing out in protestation. His antic is therefore understandable, as he is being merely reactionary and not that his alarm was founded on any patriotic fervor and/or love for Southern Nigerians or even Christians in Nigeria. 

This is a guy who slaughtered Biafrans during the war and they are majority Christians. This is a guy who killed Attorney General Bola Ige and he too was a Christian. The same guy massacred Odi Bayelsa and Zaki Ibiam people and the last time ICHEOKU checked they were not Muslims, but Christians as well. The people of Bakassi Nigerians who he pawned away to Cameroon are also majority Christians. So, what exactly is the Ota Deity talking about, complaining and raising alarm about a supposed "Fulanization" of Nigeria, when himself have repeatedly acted against Christians' interest in Nigeria and for far too long. 

Was Obafemi Awolowo not a Christian when he rigged the 1978 presidential election for a Muslim Shehu Shagari? Is Peter Odili not a Christian when he imposed a Muslim Umaru Yar'Adua on Nigerians? Is Goodluck Jonathan not a Christian when he once again brought in an Islamist fundamentalist Muhammadu Buhari as president? This is a man who appointed the effant terrible Nasir el Rufai to the juiciest portfolio in Nigeria, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory; and Nasir is a fundamentalist Islamist zealot to the core. So who is fooling who, Nigerians, or how many times must Nigerians allow themselves to be had like cheap prostitute by Olusegun Obasanjo. 

A man in his late 90s who has refused to go quietly into the night, but is tirelessly working so hard to take Nigeria along with him to his grave. When will this Obasanjo's continuing nuisance in Nigeria be abated? ICHEOKU says please Buhari, LOCK OBASANJO UP and throw away the keys. The heavens will not fall; afterall Abacha did it once and Buhari is a friend of Abacha and could as well do so. 

Enough of the Obasanjo's manipulation; as no Nigerian leader will ever be good enough in the eyes of Olusegun Obasanjo, regardless. It is not until they totally surrender their governance to him and submit to his every whims and caprices, and then he certifies them as loyal minions, that they can be considered fairly good in his estimation. Who made Obasanjo the determinant in chief of what is good for Nigeria, if ICHEOKU may ask? Who made Obasanjo the Lord of the Manor and General Overseer of Nigeria? Who gave Obasanjo the power of control over the minds of Nigerians? Enough of this unmerited servile following of Olusegun Obasanjo, a man who has caused more harm than good in Nigeria and whose time in power never translated nor amounted to anything tangible. 

ICHEOKU says anybody can try, but nobody will EVER succeed in completely and totally Islamizing Nigeria. It will not happen, not now and not at any other future time. Such zealotry idiocy belongs in the 19th century, but definitely not in this 21st century. Even Sultan-President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, despite all his best effort, and in a nearly 90% Muslim country, has not succeeded in making Turkey fully and totally 100% Islamic compliant. In Islamic Republics of Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Pakistan and Iran, Christians still exists, so Nigeria will never be an exception. Moreso, Nigeria with a population of nearly 240 million people is simply too big to be Islamized; admitted Buhari can continue appointing only his fellow Muslims to all sensitive positions and giving them all manners of juicy Ministries, but that is as far as he can go in his quest, assuming it is true. 

The only Islamization of Nigeria, if that could so qualify as one, has already taken place when Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, unilaterally took Nigeria into the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) membership, without the consent of Nigerians. So 33 long years later and somebody is now raising all this hoopla and you ask yourself when Obasanjo had the chance as president of Nigeria, why did he not pull Nigeria out of OIC? 

Simply put, this present outcry is a much ado about nothing, because even in Saudi Arabia, there are still pockets of Christians as well as other religionists. Pure logical analysis has it that the odds of Islamizing Nigeria is literally second to none, zero, zilch and nada. Bola Tinubu's wife is a Christian. Enoch Adeboye and Osibanjo are not apostates. David Mark too. Matthew Kukah and all the other Cardinals. Jeremiah Useni too, and ditto the thousands of men and women of the Nigerian Armed Forces, the police and other security agencies who are Christians as well. But somebody named Obasanjo is telling Nigerians that all these people will just stand idly by and watch a pinhead-joker like Muhammadu Buhari forcibly convert them and their fellow Christians to Islamism, really? 

How is Buhari going to do, if ICHEOKU may ask? Demolish all the Churches and Cathedrals in Nigeria or use Hisbah Islamist police to frog-march everyone into a mosque for Friday prayers? The only thing he could do, which he has technically already done, is to condition appointments and other positions under his government to one being a Muslim. In that way, he could possibly influence some weak greedy Christians to pledge a conversion in order to secure positions, as obtains in other Islamic countries. But that will last as long as his four years in office lasts and thereafter, Nigeria will revert to normalcy.

ICHEOKU is also doubtful if the Muslims population in Nigeria is higher than Christians and other religionists population. There is no place in Nigeria, no matter how remote, in which you will not find Christians including in Birnin Kebbi; but there are so many places in Nigeria including ICHEOKU's Local Government Area as a whole, with zero Muslim population. So, when stuff eventually hits the ceiling, certain projected outcomes might not necessarily turn out as thought, because reality often trumps projections and expectations. Therefore, ICHEOKU urges Nigerians to stop overheating the polity and to continue to go about their normal business; but to remain vigilant and be prepared, just in case anyone misjudges the tolerance for Buhari's silliness in making his Muslims only appointments as weakness of the rest of Nigerians, because it is not. 

It is only a reasonable tolerance which must not be mistaken, because when it comes to matters of faith, millions will die fighting. Religious wars never ends, except in stalemate and negotiated settlements; as Lebanese Phalanges Army and Ireland Republican Army  resistances showed that even when faced with a formidable force such as the British military, that faithfuls do fight to the finish. As for weapons of war, ban or no ban, when it becomes imperative to defend faith, they will be shipped in and airdropped in tons that will amaze even the biggest cynic. So provided the Yoruba Nation will stand in solidarity with the rest of the other victimized Nations in Nigeria and not sabotage the effort as is usually their stock in trade, whoever has any plans to Islamize Nigeria will find out the hard way that it is a mission impossible. But Buhari is not that naive to think that he can easily accomplish that, assuming he wants to; not even with the support of Mali, Niger, Chad and Saudi Arabia combined. 

THERESA MAY'S TEARFUL EXIT

ICHEOKU says but why, who made Tessy cry, afterall boys don't cry?

MAY QUITS IN MAY: THERESA DOES NOT KNOW THAT BOYS DON'T CRY.

ICHEOKU says British Prime Minister could not deliver on her promised pulling out of Britain from the European Union and succumbed, surrendering her office in the process. So, effective June 7th, 2019, Theresa May will no longer be occupying 10 Downing Street as her office another shall take. A prime minister whose ascension into office was heralded with fanfare as Margret Thatcher 2.0, but she failed to sizzle and wow; and has now floundered out of office. 

A victim of the Brexit boondoggle monstrosity which has no end in sight and has so far defied every solution thrown at it. But it was not for lack of trying that did her in; as she did all she could possibly do within her powers to herald an outcome that is in consanguinity with the wishes of her British people, who voted to leave the European Union. But unfortunately, her best was not good enough and facing an inevitable push, she decided to jump instead, in order to save whatever was left of her face. 

However, it seems that Theresa May forgot to read her feminist manifesto that boys don't cry as she proved herself a gal. She lost her voice, becoming emotional as she broke down while rounding off her resignation speech. Her teary and trembling voice betrayed her deep emotions as ICHEOKU wondered whether it was because she failed in her job to accomplish Brexit or that she was being unfairly forced out of such perks-laden office by the men of Britain that induced her emotions. May be nobody told those men in the British House of Parliament to be nice and kind to her because she is a female, especially in the now gender-neutral society where everybody is just a human being, without any distinctions. ICHEOKU says could it be that Tessy's emotions were just another indication that certain things are still better left with the boys. 

Theresa May started off well with great expectations and the world was excited at the prospect of a Margret Thatcher 2.0, but her maiden flight was not successfully taken airborne, it was hounded by Brexit which has now claimed her as its latest casualty. ICHEOKU likes her fashion sense, admitted the British people expected more from their Prime Minister than well accessorized, color coded and coordinated nicely tailored outfits, fancy handbags and tasty shoes. She also commanded a stage presence that equates or rather should have equated well with effective leadership, but she failed to launch. 

However Theresa May was part of the globalists conspirators that wanted to stop President Donald John Trump from being elected president. Her British Secret Service participated in the coordination of the Russian Collusion nonsense with other conspirators in Washington DC, which the soon to be classified documents will surely show. ICHEOKU therefore is not sympathetic for her ouster and prays that everyone who participated in the Russian Collusion attempted coup will yield their own stages long before President Donald John Trump completes his second term in 2024. 

ICHEOKU says not withstanding the complicit, still wishes her well with any future endeavor which she decides to try her hands on. ICHEOKU and the rest of the world, especially those who call Britain home, awaits her successor to emerge and hopefully it will be Nigel Farage, admitted Boris Johnson will also be a good alternative. So long Tessy; all the best.

ALABAMA ABORTION LAW 2019: ABORTION IS A CHOICE: CHOOSE LIFE.

ICHEOKU says the biggest shocker coming from all those anti life, pro abortion feminist females, who are mad at the recently signed Alabama State Law restraining abortions, is their love for illegal immigrants' children coming from across the Southern borders. How could they love other peoples children, while at the same time, aborting their own children. What an irony. 

If they indeed truly love those illegal immigrants' children, who they advocate should not be put in cages and should be allowed free express entry into the United States of America, because they are beautiful innocent children; why then do they not have their own babies by carrying their own pregnancies to full term. But they have no compunction flushing their own babies out of their wombs through abortions on demand, while they continuously pretend to love other peoples' children. How could they do this convincingly and with straight faces, love other peoples' children but hate their own smooch as to kill them through limitless abortions on overdrive? 

If all those illegal immigrants mothers had emulated them and similarly aborted their own babies, which babies coming from across the Southern borders, would these feminists females of America, who just love sex without the responsibility of pregnancy, be loving. 

ICHEOKU says having sex is not a constitutional right, but a choice. Also, having sex without condom is not a constitutional right, but a choice. Further, having unprotected sex and not taking birth control pills, are both not constitutional rights either, but choices which these American women volitionally make; admitted they have refused to accept their responsibility in the whole pregnancy narrative. It is not just men who have sex with these women that are to blame as these women share greater responsibility in preventing pregnancies and there are available tools for that. 

So, whenever a woman makes that conscious decision to spread her legs or bend over, however the preference; and without properly reading her monthly cycle of fertility, with no contraceptives or other protection, she assumed the risk that she might get pregnant. Her decision not to be careful not to get pregnant should equally carry with it, the responsibility not to make an arbitrarily decision on what happens to the innocent life incubating inside her. The baby has a life too and it's right to be carried to full term and given birth to must therefore also be respected as well. When the child is born, if she does not want the baby, she has the option to give the baby up for adoption, as there are so many childless married couples looking for babies to adopt in America. So, instead of these couples traveling to Russia, China and sometimes to Africa to adopt babies, they will have a choice to adopt them right here in America. 

But it would seem that these heartless babies killers do what they do simply because they see pregnancy as an inconvenience, which will distort their bodies and therefore it must be terminated forthwith. They do not want all the stretch marks or the protruded stomachs or added body weight, including the many years it takes to raise a child, as well as the expenses involved. To this end however, the government should consider paying baby-subsidies to some of those women, whose only reason for resorting to abortion of their babies is economic hardship. But in any other event, any woman who cannot carry her baby to full term must learn to be proactive about it by not getting pregnant in the first place, case closed. 

ICHEOKU says therefore supports the Alabama Abortion Law 2019 which seeks to put reasonable restraint on abortions on demand, as it is a good effort at ending the out of control ceaseless babies slaughtering in America through abortions. It is a sensible government intervention that will help reduce the number of the 340,000 babies killed each year in America through abortions. America needs her babies born alive, as babies are the future of any society. We all were once babies and had our mothers aborted us all, there will be no us here today; including those babies killers, who are now depriving their own children their right to live by aborting them. ICHEOKU says killing of babies is not good and this is what the Alabama State new law seeks to curtail and therefore is a reasonable measure by the government to promote life. Choose life.

KANO EMIRATE BALKANIZATION: GOOD FOR DEMOCRACY.

ICHEOKU says every lover of democracy and people who abhor the concentration of too much powers in just one person, especially someone who was not elected by the people, should rejoice and felicitate with Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State for his bold audacity in whittling down the powers hitherto held by the Emir of Kano Muhammadu Sanusi III. 

ICHEOKU says by carving up Kano emirate into five emirates, the governor has reduced the powers once commandeered by the Emir of Kano and he can no longer be the it all of Kano State. A State with such a large population of nearly ten million people, spread across 44 Local Government Areas, which also is always a must win State for any presidential candidate in Nigeria who wants to enter Aso Rock and only just one man held sway there until now. Simply incredible ad incredulous.   

Anybody can call it whatever they like and they can also hate the governor all they like for doing what he did; but history will write him well for being such a revolutionary. That it was under his government that Kano Emirate became ordinary, just like any other chiefdom in Nigeria; and that no more shall only man be the demigod, exercising authority over such a large State and a population of that size. The beneficiaries of this great move by the governor, in addition to those people who have now been liberated through this carving up, are those Southerners who will run for office of the president in the future, who the Emir of Kano might not be favorably disposed to their candidacy. All they will now do is to try and sway at least two or three out of the now five emirs and they will become competitive in Kano State. 

Morseo the God-like status of the Emir of Kano has automatically been removed now, as he can no longer be a "God" with only 8 out of 44 Local Government Areas under his jurisdictional authority. A matter made worse because the Emir of Kano will no longer report directly to the Governor, but to the Local Government Chairman of Kano emirate. 

ICHEOKU says any such humbled Emir, who is worth his weight in gold, is expected not to accept such a humiliating diminishment and to resign from his office in protest, but will the egotistic corky Sanusi Lamido Sanusi yield the office or with him, the proverbial half loaf better than none made a great sense afterall? ICHEOKU says if Sanusi chooses to hang in there despite the whittling down of his powers and drastic reduction of his sphere of influence, the Governor should immediately commence proceedings for his removal and banishment from the emirate. 

This is the only sensible thing to do in order to effectively empower the newly installed emirs of the newly created emirates, so that all the emirs can start on equal footing, not beholding to Emir Muhammadu Sanusi III or trying to win his favor by needless servile genuflection and conspiratorial gang ups against each other. It is called a level playing field and this is imperative. It will also prevent the recreation in Kano State of the scenario of the once Ooni of Ife and Alafin of Oyo intractable feud of supremacy in former Oyo State. Kano State government must therefore take immediate step to dethrone Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as Emir of Kano and appoint someone in his stead, who is loyal and who together with the other newly appointed four emirs, will grow together under the new reality of a Kano State with five emirates. 

But for corruption, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi would not be the Emir of Kano because he is not the naturally arising heir to the throne, not with a direct son of the past late Emir Ado Ibrahim alive and fully grown up. A similar thing happened in Sokoto State Sultanate when Sani Abacha was forced to correct the misdeed of Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida who had appointed Ibrahim Dasuki to succeed late Sultan Abubakar Siddique, who had living direct heirs, who were bypassed to install Dasuko as the 18th Sultan. Abacha, by naming Ibrahim Muhammadu Maccido dan Abubakar, the son of the late Sultan, the 19th Sultan and banishing Dasuki from the Sokoto Sultanate, Sokoto regained its peace. Kano State needs a similar full sanitizing by removal of Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as Emir of Kano. 

ICHEOKU says in the interest of Kano State and in order for the newly created four additional emirate councils to have a smooth take off, Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje must remove Emir Sanusi Muhammadu III from office and banished him from Kano State forthwith. In the interest of consolidation of the newly created emirates, it is imperative that this is done; it the only thing that remains to be done urgently and it is the only thing that makes sense under the circumstances, as it will help nurture the now five emirate council status of Kano State. 

Failure to do so and in view of the soon to be constituted Kano State council of Emirs, the Emir of Kano will aspire to become its permanent chairman and by so doing recover his lost territory and powers by proxy of his chairmanship of the council. There is a need to completely sever the head of the snake and only his dethronement and banishment on a forced exile will do the magic. Governor Ganduje must quickly act now and forever close that chapter of a once was, Emir of Kano named Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Muhammadu III. Away with SLS and do it now!