OLUSOLA SARAKI HIJACKS KWARA STATE, CONVERTS IT INTO HIS PERSONAL FIEFDOM!

"Some uninformed minds have been saying a woman cannot govern a state with sizable numbers of Muslims. They have forgotten that she is not coming to be an Imam." With this statement, the fabled godfather of Kwara State politics, Olusola Saraki, endorsed his daughter and sister to the current governor, Gbemisola Saraki, as the state's next governor. She will succeed her brother, Bukola Saraki, following his termed out eight years in office. And the soon to be ex-governor is angling for the presidency and Icheoku wonders why this Saraki family thinks that they are the rulers of men.

It appears that Olusola Saraki has learnt well from the House of Saud on how to convert territories into a family entity, such that his daughter should now succeed his son as also governor of Kwara State respectively; and you ask yourself, does the Saraki family own Kwara State? Icheoku says what a pity that Kwarans have allowed themselves become enslaved by this family who have now fully and completely emasculated them; hijacking their state in the process.

Even the United States of America storied political Bush family fades in comparison with the blatancy of the Sarakis; at least the Bushes were not such impositions as Bush junior came two terms after Bush senior left office and the other Governor Jeb Bush served in Florida and not Texas; all practically on their own merits. And this hybrid Kwara State (half Hausa/Fulani North and half Yoruba West) is proud of their present sissy-status and hostile take-over by the Sarakis? Icheoku says, 'I don't think so!

NUHU RIBADU IS A FRAUD, ACCEPTS STOLEN MONEY FROM POLITICIANS?

As then EFCC chairman, Nuhu Ribadu once said concerning former governor Bolaji Tinubu of Lagos State, "Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu's corruption is of international dimension!" But now as a fake politician and a hopeless presidential candidate/president wanna be, who is being sponsored by the same 'thieving' Bola Tinubu, the skinny mallam from Taraba State has made a shameful about-turn; engaging in a somersault of gargantuan proportion.

Responding to a reporter's question on how to reconcile his previous public stand and indictment of Bola Tinubu when he was EFCC chairman and his now receiving so many perks from the same Bola Tinubu, including a planned sponsorship of his presidential crawl, Nuhu Ribadu quipped, "I won’t bother myself with the integrity of politicians that will sponsor my campaign.” Icheoku cries holly macro, and says what an irony of life that a man's tide could be so easily swayed and in this horrible fashion; sending a rising political neophyte plummeting back into the cesspool of now political untouchables? Which politician in the entire global political firmament would have answered a curve-ball question in such an unfiring-brain manner? Nuhu Ribadu just committed a political suicide as he unwittingly decimated the only thing he prides himself as having - incorruptible candor? Icheoku adds, whether or not 'the money was put in Ribadu's pocket' or used to facilitate his movement and/or his fantasy political aspiration is immaterial, since the source of the money, proceeds of Lagos State's looting; and the knowledge thereto that it was sources illegally is what controls culpability and Ribadu stands complicit.

Even the biblical Esau was not this complicit when he sold his birthright for a pot of porridge; as Nuhu Ribadu, the self-acclaimed anti-corruption 'saint' of yesterday have now turned himself into an accessory after the fact and beneficiary of Tinubu's stolen money largesse? Or should Icheoku say, a receiver of stolen goods since the money which Tinubu allegedly stole belonged to Lagos State and Nuhu Ribadu, despite being fully aware of the source of the money, is now partaking of its drunken-sailor like profligacious spending? According to necessary implication of this Nuhu Ribadu's pathetic answer, 'Bolaji Tinubu's sins of looting Lagos State's coffers has been forgiven, because some of the stolen money has now been laundered into sponsoring his (Nuhu Ribadu) journey to Nigeria's presidency; and Icheoku might as well add, only in his malaria induced fantasy dreams of sort.

Ordinarily Icheoku would not have bathed an eyelid about Nuhu Ribadu and his confused state of arrogant assumption of importance, but because this very sanctimonious, holier than thou and overtly over-ambitious mallam, Nuhu Ribadu, a duckling who thought that having feathers alone makes him an eagle, has been deceiving Nigerians with his hallucinatory impeccable character and for too long. This slip-off, an uncouth and unintelligent response to an honest question really exposes the underbelly, the constitution and the very core of this Islamic fraud, Nuhu Ribadu; who has by this particular flip-flop now undeniably proved himself to be a conman trying to pull a wool over the eyes of Nigerians. Icheoku says, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu has been living a lie as to his character traits, since he who freely partakes in crime proceeds might as well become the criminal.

Nuhu Ribadu is currently jobless and someone has been bankrolling his expenses, including flying around in Nigeria to deliver his useless talks/lectures ever since he went back to Nigeria from his publicity exile, so Icheoku wants to know who this person/s is/are; or better still the source of his funding? Nuhu Ribadu's changed position with regards to his previously investigated and indicted Bolaji Tinubu, shows clearly that he has no scruples with spending stolen money despite his claims of high morality and being above board. Icheoku queries, could it be an evidence that the resident-evil of Nigeria, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, was indeed right for once when he said that "Gani Fawehimni was the only one Nigerian that has no price tag"; and if Icheoku may, does anyone know how much it cost Bolaji Tinubu to purchase Nuhu Ribadu?

In short some of us were never deceived by the plotting, conniving and scheming of Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, as we knew since that he was no different from all those politicians and bankers he was hounding for corruption as then EFCC chairman. Now that the wind has blown and exposed the chicken's ass, Nigerians have seen how the same former anti-corruption czar Nuhu Ribadu has conveniently and comfortably joined the same corrupt men and women he was deriding on the dinning table for dinner, both of which were bought with stolen money? Icheoku flatly declares, 'he who partakes of crime proceeds is also a criminal' and Nuhu Ribadu should convince Nigerians otherwise. And this anorexic Islamic northern Nigerian mallam said he wants to rule Nigeria, what a pathetic and pitiable proposition indeed only realizable in his la-la dreamland!

SARAH PALIN GOES ROGUE ON REPUBLICAN PARTY, STEALS THEIR THUNDER!

If the statement "beware of what you wish for" has ever been true, the Republican Party are sure feeling it right now, as they helplessly watch in awe as the animal killer kills off their preferred candidates in the Republican primaries nationwide. Her latest victim is the 9th term Congressman of Delaware, Mike Castle who lost to Palin's candidate Christine O'Donnell.

The "mavericky" air-head beauty queen, who the Republican Party uprooted from her enclave in Alaskan tundra has sprung unwanted rude shock of a surprise on Republicans and has stolen their mojo right from underneath their very own eyes. Her instrument of choice - the Tea Party; which she has used now to successfully hijacked whatever remains of the soul of the Republican Party. In its stead, a Taliban-type of extremism is being foist which admits of no compromise or any meeting grounds. What a house divided between this rabid extremism and those few more rational ones in the Republican Party who would rather not voice out publicly what they are really thinking.

To Sarah Palin, Icheoku says, big thank you for now killing the Republican brand the same way you drove a dagger right through the chest of the McCain presidential ambition. Hopefully, from their ashes shall arise a full fledged Tea Party whose membership are not shy about the monolithic America they would rather reconstitute, de-javu 1773. Way to go, Mama Grizzly!

SENATE PRESIDENT KEN NNAMANI, PLEASE NOT IN OUR NAME!

Icheoku believes in freedom and that anyone should be free to associate with anybody as he or she may deem fit and proper. But the case of the former Senate President Ken Nnamani bringing the rear for Babangida at his declaration of intent for president party, Icheoku finds it extremely objectionable and unacceptable.

No one wants to relive the Ebitu Ukiwe experience again as Babangida cannot be trusted - his words is not worth any weight in gold - none, nada, zilch! Ken Nnamani represents something bigger and greater than just himself and he should have factored this in before publicly humiliating himself in this manner. Babangida is a pariah, public enemy No1 and cannot be elected, so why would Ken damage his battle-tested reputation in this pathetic way. Henceforth Nigerians and the world will see him as one of those errand boys of Babangida with its attendant odium; or is he waiting for the illusory Babangida's promise of Igbo presidency in 2015 with him as the candidate?

The good news is that his very constituency, those who believes in Babangida and would want him elected, is very infinitesimal compared to the school of smarts that are praying for his misfortune, Babangida that is. Caveat: this is not in any way our endorsement of President Jonathan; no, only that a more credible northern candidate should have been brought to complete Yar'Adua's northern turn and allow the wheel of rotation to continue to turn to a much stable Nigeria where peace, love and equity will reign supreme. But for Jonathan to appropriate the presidency just because he can is simply morally wrong, unfair and regrettable.

PALIN-BECK 2012, TEA PARTY FINALLY SUPPLANTS THE REPUBLICAN TICKET?

Icheoku says the sign is very ominous for the 'soon to go out of existence' Republican Party as the monster they created out of Alaska have now turned around to consume them. One popular word of advise usually admonishes people to "beware of what they wish for;" and Icheoku strongly believes that the Republican Party establishment must now be regretting and privately cursing Senator John McCain for unleashing an untamed tigress on the party and by extension the nation in general.

Sarah Palin, even while she was running with Senator John McCain as his vice presidential candidate always displayed through her demeanor and emotion that she was not comfortable playing a second role for anyone or capable of towing a strict party guidelines or studiously following any script. She is simply a free radical which is now threatening the very foundation of the Republican Party. This led to the failure of the flight of that Team of Mavericks to launch; and ever since that uneventful and lackluster campaign, the lady who kills animals in Alaska have been fighting a one-lady's war to establish herself for who she is and not to be continously known nationally as Senator John McCain's running mate. Since that their failed attempt to capture the White House and her denied concession speech, the moose-killer of Alaska has been crawling and gnawing to get herself where she really wants to be. Icheoku most reluctantly and with envy, announces here that Sara Palin is very much at home with the Tea Party; we urge her to jettisoned the good old white boys Republican Party and take her Tea Party to the next level - the immediate registration of it as a third party, the ultra conservative right wing party.

Icheoku is saying in essence that Sarah 'Airhead' Palin has by her induced political earthquake in Delaware that shook away Mike Castle now fully asserted herself as she over-ran the Republican Party despite its machine and cash. In its place she has institutionalized her version of a pure ultra-nationalistic conservative movement called the Tea Party. Her backed candidate in the Delaware Republican primaries, a political freshman and novitiate Christine O'Donnell triumphed over Republican backed candidate, a 9th term congressman with all the blessings and cash of the RNC. Her victory today, including other of her backed candidates victories in Nevada, Alaska, South Carolina, Kentucky says in effect, anyone in the Republican Party who is still dismissive of Sarah Palin's conservative powers better beware except he/she is merely delusional and living in a land of disbelief. Put in another way, Sarah Palin has hijacked the Republican Party and instead of keeping it, has transmuted it to the new Tea Party; on which platform she plans to run for election 2012. But with who shall Palin run, Glen Beck of course; and the Democrats might as well start planning their election 2012 campaign around this possibility and competing against the duo of Sarah Palin and Glen Beck.

'JENNY FROM THE BLOCK' AS NEW AMERICAN IDOL JUDGE, I DON'T THINK SO?

Icheoku says the rumored recruitment of Jennifer Lopez as the next American Idol judge will be the final nail on the coffin of the comatose musical talent-hunt show. When the whole world was beginning to think that Fox and co has finally got their act together with the firing of Kara DioGuardia, here comes another bummer, JLo.

Icheoku says emphatically that Jennifer Lopez with her notorious lip-singing, P.Diddy's episode and the fact that her musical appeal is not universal and can hardly pass for a natural herself will sing the final requiem for American Idol. And as stated before, until Paula Abdul is brought back

Icheoku is tuning out together with our numerous visitors. Losing Simon Cowell is already tragic enough and without Paula Abdul and now JLo, Fox should just forget about it. Icheoku says Jennifer Lopez is a very wrong choice or couldn't Fox afford the lovable and indefatigable Lady Gaga, if they really want a bounce!

IGP OGBONNA ONOVO, THE REAL REASON WHY HE WAS REMOVED!

In a short two word sentence - election 2011. Plans by the Jonathan cabal to easily retain President Jonathan in office in 2011 caused the removal of IGP Ogbonna Onovo from office and the subsequent catapulting of AIG Hafiz Ringim to the high office of the IGP.Hafiz Ringim, a man who had once, as then commissioner of police in Bayelsa State, helped the then deputy governor Goodluck Ebelechuku Jonathan successfully execute a civilian coup alongside Olusegun Obasanjo against his former boss, then Governor DSP Diepriye Alamieyesigha. Now the same hatchet-man Hafiz Ringim is being positioned to facilitate the smooth and unhindered 'election' of President Jonathan as Nigeria's president in 2011?

Icheoku says the cries and shouting of President Jonathan about an impending free and fair elections in 2011 notwithstanding, the facts on the grounds suggests that rigging of the coming elections have already begun; with this Hafiz Ringim as the icing on the cake of a rigged election. The cries of 'free and fair election' tactics is being deployed as a ruse to confuse the Nigerian public over a predetermined outcome by a president who has learnt so well from his political godfather Aremu Matthew Okikiliomo Olusegun Obasanjo. Icheoku says any Nigerian thinking that President Goodluck Jonathan is a saint or political novitiate must be delusional and might as well have landed from Mars where he has been since 1999 not to appreciate the conniving qualities of this cool as cucumber political operative from Bayelsa State now president by providence of Nigeria Republic.

Talk about rigging the forth coming elections and the hand-writing on the wall is not good; as the promised free and fair elections cannot be guaranteed nor was it meant to be achieved. With the notorious Mr. Fix It Anthony Anenih directing operations from within the "Elect President Jonathan campaign establishment," which has now led to the appointment of Hafiz Ringim in an all out bid to retain President Jonathan in office come 2011, there is no way in Hell the 2011 election will be free and fair. What other place to start in paving the way for rigging of the coming elections than to start removing every suspected and perceived stumbling blocks that might constitute a hinderance on the way to Aso Rock 2011. Bleeping on their radar of obstacle finding is the disciplined former IGP Ogbonna Onovo who has through elections conducted in Edo, Ekiti and Anambra States proved that he cannot be compromised and that free elections is still possible in Nigeria. Team Jonathan's decision, take care of this apparent "spoiler" before it is too late as they are not ready to accept or even entertain the possibility of yielding Aso Rock in 2011 and anything that poses any possible snag or threat must and should be taken care of immediately and now. Their verdict, IGP Onovo has to go and in order to make it appear normal, the service chiefs has to follow in tandem since they are not prepared to take any chances as the 2011 date with history approaches.

Convinced that IGP Onovo will stand his ground and not play ball when the time comes, they decided to shove him aside to make way for their team-player - a tested and trusted hand who have been used before on a similar assignment. Team Jonathan settled for a junior officer, an AIG, below seven other senior DIGs and an AIG; a person who is more pliable and who can be easily used to achieve a certain predetermined outcome in 2011. Icheoku is emphatic that election riggers of Nigeria who populate the PDP especially the Tony Anenih led Jonathan's campaign insiders advisory team were responsible for the sacking of IGP Onovo to make way for their malleable right hand man Hafiz Ringim. Icheoku is urging Nigerians and the Igbo nation to disregard the dummy sold to them that it was because of the young IGP Onovo's administration inability to completely reign in banditry of armed robbery and kidnapping especially in the South East that he was removed. If still in doubt, ask yourself this innocuously simple question, if truly it was because of the unabated criminality particularly in the South East that led to IGP Onovo's removal, why then on earth was it that the same AIG Hafiz Ringim in charge of South East Zone 9, who was tasked by Onovo with policing the same South East that was now elevated to the new IGP position? Where is the logic that an AIG that had direct responsibility to tackle crimes in the South East was spared the rod but his boss in Abuja was held responsible for his deficiencies of direct policing that led to the increase crimes in the South East; and to make matters worst, the same AIG is now rewarded with the post of the IGP, instead of also being fired assuming the logic and reason of high crimes and incompetence is true.

It does not make any sense and defies every logic, clear thought and common sense applied towards understanding the permutations of IGP Onovo's removal. It would have been otherwise if another AIG of another zone was made the new IGP; but for Hafiz RIngim who was in charge of the crime-infested South East Zone 9 to now replace IGP Onovo who was accused of not ridding the South East of criminalities, it smells very fishy. Nigerians will only come to find out when it is already too late after the 2011 elections with police-assisted massive rigging that President Jonathan took them for a sucker with this firing of IGP Onovo and the appointment of Hafiz Ringim. There are smoking guns everywhere which points to some other ulterior motives behind IGP Onovo's unexplained removal and the appointment of Hafiz Ringim as a replacement, except that Nigeria lacks investigative journalists who could rifle out buried facts; as many of them have now settled for news for cash or news that comes with special packaged "transport money" and have thus compromised the quality of news they disseminate. Just try to add it up and it is impossible to get a working sum.

It would also appear that the Igbo nation has not particularly fared well under President Jonathan's administration with successive Igbo men and women removed from office and replaced by other peoples of Nigeria. Also his ministerial list did away with the Igbos occupying prominent positions unlike during the late President Yar'Adua's era and even during Olusegun Obasanjo's government when Igbos featured very prominently. Foreign Minister Ojo Maduekwe was replaced with a non Igbo; NCC Ernest Ndukwe was replaced with non Igbo; INEC's Maurice Iwu was replaced with non Igbo; NSE Onyiuke was replaced with non Igbo; Chief of Defence Staff Dike was replaced with non Igbo and now IGP Onovo has now again been replaced with non Igbo. It is also on record that no Igbo person is a member of the President's inner "kitchen" advisory team such as special adviser or assistant or a minister within the presidency.

During Obasanjo time in office, Igbos were Central bank governor, Finance Minister, Foreign Affairs Minister, Special Assistants, Aviation Minister, Economic Adviser, Defence Minister just to name a few. During Yar'Adua's administration, Igbos were appointed as Ministers for Foreign Affairs, Education, Health, Commerce & Industry, etc as well as junior ministers. Admitted that under Jonathan administration, Igbos were appointed to Internal Affairs, Immigration and now Army Chief, but compared to other zones, the South East has not faired any much better under his administration. Even the expected elevation of Barthlomew Nnaji as Power Minister never materialized as a Northerner was later brought in to head the ministry after Jonathan relinquished control. The same applies to all the board and parastatals membership being filled by Jonathan's administration; and when you think that the second River Niger bridge is still a pipe-dream as well as the deplorable condition of roads in the South East including the Oji River power station which has not been activated, then the whole picture is painted of someone not particularly warmed up to the Igbo nation.

Icheoku also finds some agreement with the assessment of the former Lagos State commissioner of police Alhaji Abubakar Tsav that the "appointment of Hafiz Ringim, an Assistant Inspector-General (AIG) as the new Inspector-General of Police is insincere and a payback to someone who aided President Goodluck Jonathan to begin his journey to the presidency." According to Tsav, "we are talking of reformation of the police, and Mr Ogbonna Onovo who is doing his best to achieve this is not only removed but all his Deputy Inspector Generals DIGs and senior AIGs are being swept away by the tide to create room for an officer who made it possible for Jonathan to succeed Alamieyeseigha as governor after Obasanjo's carefully schemed impeachment." What a bulls-eye analysis of the politics behind IGP Onovo's removal; anyone still groping for the reason behind IGP Onovo's sudden removal should look no further as it lacked any plausible explanation due to who was appointed in his stead; - a junior officer tainted by then Deputy Governor Goodluck Jonathan's civilian coup in Bayelsa State and the unabated criminality in his controlled South East Zone 9.

It also does not make sense that an AIG who has less than 18 months to his retirement from the force would be a preferred choice for the office of the IGP when they are several DIGs and a senior AIG with much longer time left in their service; who would now be forced to summarily retire to make way for their junior officer to freely deliver on the assignment of a Jonathan's 2011 presidential election. The only plausible explanation for this convulsion is that AIG Hafiz Ringim is a hatchet-man being deployed for a specific assignment - to allow President Jonathan's people a free reign with rigging the next 2011 election in his favor, period! And if as some of his apologists are wont to argue that he rightly swept away all the chiefs including IGP Onovo, Icheoku asks why did he spare the Customs chief, a man allegedly working with a forged certificate? Why was Alhaji Abdullahi Inde Dikko not removed if the mass sacking is true and not a targeted removal just to cut some people to size and not allow them two voices in the security council? Why was Petrini retained, etc. But Nigerians should seize themselves of one commentator's observation that "Jonathan’s wholesale tinkering with the leadership of the armed forces, law enforcement and security agency adds to the perception that the first stages of the rigging may well be underway." And whether or not Icheoku's fears and suspicions as well as that of other commentators are well founded lies in the womb of time of the 2011 elections; and how it will go down as the most rigged election in the annals of Nigeria democratic history!

COAS IHEJIRIKA'S APPOINTMENT, GREAT BUT CAUTIOUSLY EXCITED!

Icheoku admonishes the Igbo nation not to be so overtly excited that their kinsman, Major General Ihejirika, has been appointed the new Chief of Army Staff of the Nigerian Army. Ihejirika is a professional soldier who has just been called upon to lead the Nigerian army and to them he owes his service and not to the Igbo nation. Admitted he was born Igbo but now serving the Igbo-inclusive Nigerian army, but there should be no unreasonable 'great expectations' of and by the Igbo people of and from Ihejirika.

Igbo people are here once again reminded that Major General Ihejirika is not an Igbo chief of Nigerian army staff, but a Nigerian chief of army staff who happens to be of Igbo extraction. Also what is excitable about work as Ihejirika has now been called upon to do or is it the fact that he, the workhorse, is of Igbo extraction that is throwing up such a frenzy among the Igbo nation?

The immediate past president of Ohaneze Ndigbo, Dozie Ikedife, aptly articulated the proper position which the Igbo nation should take on the appointment of Ihejirika and to which Icheoku agrees, that "there was nothing so special in the appointment of our kinsman as chief of army staff." The only exception however lies in what the current president of Ohaneze Ndigbo, Ambassador Ralph Uwechue, said, that "the appointment of Ihejirika as COAS signalled the healing of the wounds that the Igbo nation had been nursing since the end of the Nigerian civil war." Continuing, Uwechue said “his appointment is psychological. It helps to show that whatever happened after Ironsi has been put behind us. It indicates the integration of the progressives into the Nigerian system." Icheoku cannot agree more and adds that while evil-genius Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida was waiting until 2015 to integrate the Igbo nation fully back into Nigeria through a promised presidency, President Goodluck Jonathan has beaten him to that by now handing over the headship of Nigerian army to the Igbo nation. What other way to show a fully integrated Igbos than to put them in charge and let them control the chief security apparatus of Nigeria - its army. What a master-stroke by the master tactician himself, a man reputedly known for his Obama-like demeanor, placidity and calmness, President Goodluck Ebelechuku Azikwe Jonathan.

Icheoku says, finally equity and fairness has come to the seat of power in Nigeria as the Igbo nation has now become accepted as a full integral part of Nigeria with equal right to the leadership and headship of their joint army of one. Unlike the lip-service of the genocidal Yakubu Gowon whose three "Rs" of reconciliation, rehabilitation and reconstruction never took flight nor were in any form or shape implemented, President Jonathan has by this appointment made a bold statement that 40 years after the Nigerian/Biafran war ended in a "no victor, no vanquished" platform, that the subterranean feeling of 'conquerors and conquered' within Nigeria's diverse nationalities should be forever put to an end. Icheoku commends this boldness and objectivity. However unlike the thinking in the United States of America that with the election of President Barack Obama, racism and black Americans marginalization would come to an end but appears now to have become exacerbated, Icheoku hopes and prays that the Igbo nation will not mistakenly assume that it is now Uhuru in Nigeria and that their troubles are now over.

Now is the time to increase their agitation for equal treatment and fair allocation of resources in Nigeria until there is a a sixth state in South East Igboland to equalize it with the rest of other zones in Nigeria, other federal appointments, a second bridge over the River Niger, an international airport in Igbo land, good roads, federal industries, electricity including the rehabilitation of the Oji River thermal power plant, as well as an Igbo presidency in 2015. Or are these too much to ask by a people who has contributed so much for Nigeria's unity through leading the unity-way themselves by usually being the second largest ethnic settlers to any indigenous population throughout Nigeria. Their commercial prowess also helps sustain Nigeria's economic well-being and survival, so why not give them what they deserve and want in order to encourage them to continue doing what they do best - integration and enterprise.

At last the Nigerian/Biafran war could be said to have come to an end with this appointment as a man from the heartland of former Biafra nation, hitherto branded foe of Nigeria, is now put in charge of the Nigeria army. Or better still and for a comic relief, Icheoku says what an irony of fate that the victorious Nigerian army has now through the back-door, finally surrendered to the conquered Biafra by letting a former Biafran take charge of its army? How about that for some stress-relief for the millions of Igbo former Biafrans, who witnessed the atrocious war, conducted with vengeance by vermin Gowon and Awolowo; and which saw more people die of other causes than from bullets and bombs; with millions of women and children perished as a result of Awolowo orchestrated starvation and its related malnutrition ailment, kwashiokor. Congratulations Major General Ihejirika and thank you President Goodluck Ebele Azikwe Jonathan for being dispassionate with the appointment. At last a non direct partisan has ascended the seat of power and wants to redress as an impartial arbiter, the lingering disputation of the last forty years of post war Nigeria between Igbos and the rest of Nigerians.

Icheoku says the ball is now on Major General Ihejirika's court to deliver on the expectation of an ever-ready, strong professional Nigeria army of one, ready to take on any foreign aggression and such other security tasks as the commander in chief, President Jonathan, might from time to time ask them to execute. Provided Major General Ihejirika does not fall victim to the legendary banana peel syndrome which usually afflicts Igbo public officials and gets the deserved support of every Nigerian and their uniformed men and women under his new leadership; and knowing fully well that he will be the center of focal attention by Nigerians eager to see how a former Biafran would manage a Nigerian army, Icheoku believes that he will succeed and bring pride to both President Jonathan, the Igbo nation and the entire Nigeria. Once again, congratulations Major General Ihejirika and let the healing of Nigeria, through a full integration geared appointments such as this COAS, of former Biafran Igbos proceed with full steam!

AFRAID OF BEHEADING FOR BEING GAY, A GAY SAUDI DIPLOMAT SEEKS ASYLUM!

Facing an assured and certain death by beheading in his native Saudi Arabia, a Saudi homosexual diplomat in America refused to return home to Saudi Arabian on a recall and is now seeking protective asylum in the United States. Ali Ahmad Asseri, first secretary of the Saudi Arabian consulate in Los Angeles, California USA was living a double life of a closeted homosexual until he was outed and ordered home. But he doesn't want to die just yet, being very conversant with the penchant for blood-letting in the Kingdom of Saud for both trivial and mundane reasons, hence his petition for political asylum. Icheoku says, please America let this Saudi Arabia gay man remain here in America and continue to enjoy his God given gift of life and the pursuit of homosexual happiness.

MISS SAUDI ARABIA CONTESTANTS, BEAUTY PAGEANT SAUDI ARABIA STYLE!

Like all women elsewhere in the free world, these Saudi Arabian women desire to flaunt their lecherous and hot bodies. They also desire to express their sexualities and have men worked up just like other women of the free world, but the religious zealots therein would not take any of that. In Riyadh Saudi Arabia these women were captured participating in an underground beauty pageant? With their partially exposed stout legs, imagine then what their veils are covering underneath. Icheoku says, freedom for women and gays need to reign supreme in the Kingdom of Saud.

SEPTEMBER 11, 2010, ANNIVERSARY OF THE DAY TERRORISTS STRUCK!

Icheoku says until that void is filled especially with similar twin towers erected in the stead of those taken down in the act of terror, Americans will always feel the hurt. Therefore as a necessary step towards making whole what the Saudi Arabian terrorists put asunder, let there be twin towers built and the space filled up without further delay. Life needs to return and damn the terrorists who wanted and desired a different outcome. Remember what the lesson of this anniversary is - the day freedom was attacked bur was defended by Americans in their usual resilience manner. To all those we lost, Icheoku calls Winston Churchill to the podium that never in the history of mankind was so much owed to so few by so many and we say America owes so much to her bravests and finest.

9TH ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11, WE SHALL NEVER FORGET!

Nine years down the road since 9/11 terrorists attack, it still feels like it was just yesterday. Almost everyone still has a vivid recollection of where he or she was or what he or she was doing on that September 11, 2001 morning. So on this ninth anniversary of the terrorist act that brought down our twin towers among other things, Icheoku says that there are still so many unanswered questions. For example, why was Saudi Arabia not held accountable for the act since nineteen of the twenty hijackers are from Saudi. The other question is whether those terrorist really succeeded with their mission. Till date our two buildings are still missing and they are yet to be replaced/rebuilt. Also the terrorist mastermind, Osama Bin Laden has not been captured or killed. So as you mark the anniversary, do some serious introspection on demerits of rushed judgment.

IGBOS OF SOUTH EAST COSTS THEIR FIRST IGP, OGBONNA ONOVO, HIS JOB!

Icheoku severally warned lawless kidnappers and other criminal gangs in the South East that they will cost the Inspector General of Police his job. True to our prediction, the first Igbo Inspector General of Police Ogbonna Onovo has lost his job, fired due to a perceived incompetence and his inability to stop these South East kidnappers. Now that he is out of power and the Igbos no longer hold the IGP position, Icheoku wants to know if these South East kidnappers will now rest or allow themselves to be crushed by the no nonsense new IGP Alhaji Hafiz A. Ringim. The Igbo person is his own greatest enemy as they have once again destroyed their own as they forced Ogbonno Onovo on his banana peel. What a restless and restive people without a sense of self. It is a sad day for every Igboman and woman who now enter the annals of Nigerian history as the people with the shortest lasting Inspector General of Police - only one year and one month in office. It is regrettable indeed.

KORAN BURNING MERELY SUSPENDED BUT NOT CANCELLED - REV JONES!

The man behind the latest anxiety about what Muslims will do if their holy book is burned, Reverend Patrick Terry Jones, have caved in to pressure and will stave off his planned symbolic burning of the Koran. Icheoku while welcoming this about-face, urges those Muslims to also respect other peoples sensibilities and not themselves desecrate what other people hold dearly, in awe and total respect.

These Muslims should be told to stop burning our American flags as that represents a lot to every American who solemnly adore their star-spangled banner. These Muslims should also be told that they alone are not sole custodians of violence and that our stooping down for dwarfs(them) does not make us less taller. And finally these Muslims should be told that Americans are not afraid to die fighting for a good cause; and that they should come off their mistaken assumption that we Americans are too lustfully engaged to want to expend our lives fighting for causes bigger than any of us. That Americans plea and cajoling is not out of cowardice but a need to remain the gentle giant which we are. That they should stop threatening violence each time there is a disagreement either in a novel (Rushdie) or cartoon (Mohammed's Danish depiction) or as of the present Koran-burning threat. That civilized people discuss their differences and not threaten thunder and brimstone against one another. But just for the sake of argument, assuming the Koran burning went ahead as planned; Icheoku asks why would the Muslim world hold the entire America accountable for the act of one renegade pastor, when they asked the world not to hold them responsible for the 9/11 Muslim terrorists?

Or better still, since there is mosque everywhere in the Western World including in Vatican, may be Saudi Arabia should be asked to provide lands in Riyadh, Mecca and Medina for Christians to build their places of worship. That way it will be much easier to harmonize both civilizations religious outreach and ensure better understanding and friendship between them instead of this living on trigger-edge between the two. Anyway, our thanks to the wanna-be Koran-burning Reverend Terry Jones for calling off his "stunt" and we advise him never to hold the world hostage again in a similar manner. What a notoriety he has garnered for himself as the pastor who wanted to incinerate Koran.

APRIL HOLMES WESLEY, HELL HAS NO FURY LIKE A WOMAN SCORNED!

She was furious that her husband was seeing another woman who she refers to as "That Bitch". What did she do, she ran him over with her car several times and sat the car on his body to ensure that he was as dead as the door knob before help could arrive.

Only in Texas, a state notorious for their love of blood - their government frequently executes prisoners, their men are fond of hiring hitmen to kill their wives and their women kill their husbands with their vehicles.

This time it was at 1300 block of Balarama in Beckford Houston Harris County where an enraged wife April Chavez-Holmes Wesley deliberately mowed down her husband Donald Holmes Wesley in the middle of the road and sat over his crushed body in her Pontiac Bonneville until he became as dead as a door knob. She sat in the car unperturbed until the police arrived at the scene. According to the story, the couple had an argument and altercation over the husband alleged seeing of another woman who the wife had severally referred to as "that bitch'. The wife entered the car and with it backed up into her husband who was walking away from her bitching, and pulled forward and backed over him several times over again before deciding to seat the car over his limped body.

It would appear that Houston women have now adopted vehicles as their instrument of choice in the murder of their husbands? It was not too long ago in 2002 that a Houston female dentist, Clara Harris, murder her philandering husband David Harris in a similar fashion; killing him with her Mercedes car which he bought for her in front of their teenage daughter in the parking lot of a Houston hotel. She got 20 years prison term for the murder and Icheoku wonders if April will be that lucky or have the book thrown at her for not using a luxury car to commit murder of her own husband.

REVEREND TERRY JONES, PLEASE NO KORANIC INFERNO ON 9/11!

As if the crisis facing America is not enough already - a faltering economy and two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, an American Taliban and extremist right winger Reverend Terry Jones has decided to pour fuel unto a burning fire. His gasoline of choice, the Islamic Koran; which he has decided to burn in order to prove a point and knowingly provoke another anti-America reactions from the one billion strong Muslims of this world. Icheoku says if this is not one stretch of taking the freedom of speech one step too long, nothing else so qualifies and we hereby call on the government to do everything possible including obtaining an injunction to prevent this intolerant extremist from stoking an already smouldering Muslim fire of resentment. That someone has the freedom of speech does not guarantee that person the right to shout fire in a crowded theater and this Koranic inferno is one heck of such unwanted nuisance at this time; when America is trying to make good with the Muslim world.

Icheoku's position is that constitutional freedom of speech is not sacrosanct to anarchical mischief hence this scheduled burning of Islamic Koran on September 11th, must and should not be allowed to go on. But regrettably, the Republican Party and their mega-phone in chief, the man who runs the Republican Party and Tea Partier Numero Uno, Rush Limbaugh have kept mum and have failed, refused to condemn this errant pastor whose intended act is capable of endangering the lives of thousands of Americans scattered throughout the Muslim world; especially that of our soldiers waging wars in two Muslim countries of Iraq and Afghanistan. Icheoku says Reverend Jones is not in a position to know which religion is of the devil and has no right to proclaim Islam as the devil's religion since by his impending provocative act, he seems to be a devil worshipper seeking the blood of the innocence to spill from possible reactionary riots and protests. Which true man of God would be this provocative, instead of being the meek peace makers they are known for; and we hereby call on the Federal government to take a closer look at Reverend Jones 50 members Dove World Outreach Center, a church that preaches anti-Islam philosophy to make sure it is not another David Koresh Branch Davidians getting ready for their end times?

To Reverend Jones remarks, "when do we stop? How much do we back down? How many times do we back down? Instead of us backing down, maybe it's to time to stand up. Maybe it's time to send a message to radical Islam that we will not tolerate their behavior;" Icheoku says the Koran does not belong to the radical Islam wing of the Muslim world but the entire over one billion men and women who knock their foreheads on the ground in total submission to the will of Allah (God). It is such a parochial thoughtless action trying to make a statement to a few bad Muslims and they provoking the anger of the many good ones and should be discouraged. What a crass agent provocateur this supposed man of God or is it the Devil, is; and in the words of the US Attorney General his planned action is both idiotic and dangerous and should be condemned by every sane American. Except he is just trying to start another fire for the Obama administration to deal with. Lets hope that this so called Reverend was merely interested in fame or should we say rather notoriety and now that he has got his fifteen minutes of it, he should quietly back down and spare America's State department and the Pentagon added chore to their already filled plate. Go get some life Reverend Terry Jones and let sleeping dog to lie; say no to desecration of Muslim's sacred book of faith, the Koran - there should be no Koranic inferno in Gainsville Florida!

PRESIDENT OBAMA OF REPUBLICANS, "THEY TALK ABOUT ME LIKE A DOG!"

In the first song Jimi Hendrix wrote upon moving to England in 1966 tittled "Stone Free," he said, "They talk about me like a dog. Talkin about the clothes I wear. But they don't realize they're the ones who's square."

Icheoku says may be President Obama instead of just stopping at "they talk about me like a dog", would have used the entire lyrics emphasizing that it is the Republicans and their Christian far right wingers that are really "squared up" that a black man is occupying their White House and have vowed to do everything and anything to get him out. To these folks, the end justifies the means, and provided he goes, it does not matter if it means opposing all and every of his intended legislation beneficial to the American people and geared towards getting the economy out back on tracks. Their agenda, 'just get the nigger out of "their" White House and take "their" government back from "That One!"

President Obama pointed out that "some powerful interests who had been dominating the agenda in Washington for a very long time are behind the unceasing criticism of his government's agenda; many of who see them as no longer beneficial to their government as usual laisse-faire. That they're not happy with him to the extent that they will oppose anything once Obama's name is attached to it. For example, if he said the sky was blue, they'd say no. If he said fish live in the sea, they'd say no just for the heck of opposing the president which has earned the Republicans the acronym, "The Party of No".

However the jury is going to be the American people and Icheoku hopes and prays they get it right this time; provided they did not suffer from a debilitating amnesia before November so that they would properly recollect where the original source of the problem is - the eight years President George Walker Bush led Republican melt-down. Except, like the religious zealots they are they are literally expecting President Obama to rebuild the temple of a devastated economy within just three days (18months); an economy that took President George Bush eight long years to drive aground. But whatever turns out to be the case, only one possibility is assured - either Americans eventually did forget how bad it was then or that they decided to call off the Republican bluff as the architect of the original economic miasma which subsists till today. It was their President GW Bush who said, "fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me;" and Icheoku waits to see how really smart and discerning the American voter is come November. Until then, the jury stays out.