MUHAMMADU BUHARI SPELLS DANGER FOR NIGERIA!

Do not place a noose on Nigeria,

DO NOT VOTE FOR BUHARI

BUHARI'S TEARS OF A CLOWN, NEITHER GENUINE NOR REAL, SIMPLY THEATRICS.

Icheoku advises Nigerians to ignore the conman and his fake tears. A despot now desperately trying by all means possible, including shedding crocodile tears, to hoodwink Nigerians into believing that he has suddenly grown a soul and thereby enable him into Aso Rock? This is  a dictator with mountain-high baggage full of stinking skeletons who suddenly now wants Nigerians to develop amnesia that he once lorded it over them? Just don't mind him - his tears is not genuine, it is simply theatrics meant to confuse unsuspecting Nigerian electorates and thereby elicit undeserved sympathy from the gullible lot. Icheoku says, but not this time, Buhari.

Imam Muhammadu Buhari is forever politically damaged and irreparably too that no amount of his crocodile tears from his starry-eyes and cold heart of steel can wash him clean. Icheoku asks where was this piece of his humanity all these past 30 plus odd years he forcibly foist himself on the Nigerian people through a military coup against a democratically elected government of President Shehu Shagari in 1983? Why now Buhari, why now? Please Nigerians, just disregard Buhari's tears from hell as it belongs to a desperate old military dictator trying to con Nigerians that he has a soul. Please Nigerians do not fall for the show. 

Imam Muhammadu Buhari allegedly wept while delivering his presidential campaign's valedictory speech to Nigerians (Icheoku hopes this time is for real and it will sure be the last for this 'always ran presidential candidate). In the speech, the lean and mean Muhammadu Buhari said, "Ladies and gentlemen, in the life of any nation there comes a time when some people have to stand up and point out when things are moving off track, explain why they are going wrongly, demonstrate how they can be set aright, and work towards making a difference. For Nigeria, that time has come and it is now; and the people to stand up are you and me! Second, let me state categorically that I am not in this race to advance or protect any vested interest or group. We are seeking to replace a government that has done so much havoc to its people and their reputation; and we are determined, with your help, to uproot them completely. I have fought drift and purposelessness in this nation. I have fought corruption and indiscipline. I have fought indolence and the betrayal of trusts. I have fought the Nigerian civil war and struggled for the unity of this country in many other ways. I have had the fortune and privilege of managing national resources in various capacities—as a military commander, as a state governor, as a minister, as head of the Petroleum Trust Fund, and as the head of state of this great country. And in all that I have been and done, I have never touched a kobo of public funds."

In rebuttal Icheoku asks, where was Buhari when Sani Abacha ran amok in Nigeria terrorizing, maiming and killing innocent Nigerians; and drove so many political activists into forced exile? Did he speak up then, no! Did he stand up then, no! Instead he was enjoying the cozy chairmanship of the Petroleum Trust Fund to which Abacha appointed him and suddenly now he is pontificating that the PDP government is adrift and he is the 'NOW MESSIAH' to fix what was broken? Icheoku posits that never had Nigeria gone completely bunkers than during the regime of the midget of Kano, Sani Abacha, yet Buhari did not speak up nor stood up but maintained a conspiratory silence while things went completely haywire as Nigeria went to hell in hand's basket. Icheoku asks Buhari when Sani Abacha was doing havoc to Nigeria and Nigerians, where were you? This is a man who went to Kano's graveside of Sani Abacha and praised him as the most upright leader Nigeria has ever had and you wonder where an "upright" leader got the sum of $500 million dollars that was recovered from one of his personal accounts in Switzerland? Or may be Buhari selectively has his own version and definition of truth?

Imam Buhari also said that he is not in the race to protect any group or race. Icheoku says, really; yet his party's chairman is from the north, his party's national secretary is from the north, himself the party's presidential candidate is from the north too. So, what manner of a man without a regional agenda would so skewer his party's top positions to favor just one region in a country with such diverse geographical spread as Nigeria with many regions, nationalities and divides? Why did he not spread the offices and this is the same man who locked a vice president in prison while keeping his principal the president in a plush government guest house; yet he is claiming he is not parochial? Icheoku says never in the history of Nigeria has a man been as parochial, medieval and introverted as Buhari that his idea of Nigeria is a Nigeria populated by his Fulani Islamic folks only. Why did this man murder three innocent Nigerians - Barthlomeow Owo, Bernard Ogedengbe and Lawal Ojulope in cold blood, yet he is shedding tears? Does Buhari even have a soul?

Lastly Icheoku wants Buhari to get it right into his Sharia-skull that the absence of evidence is not tantamount to absence of crime; it is just that the crime has not been proved conclusively. If Buhari said he was not corrupt and did not take any kobo out of public tiller, where did he get the billions he is spending on his presidential campaign or did he mortgage Nigeria to some Middle Eastern countries bent on Islamizing Nigeria to secure their sponsorship of his campaign? if true what are the ramifications and does it include introducing their punitive Sharia law throughout Nigeria. The gist of the matter is that Buhari remains a despot, a tribalist, an Islamist, an extremist, an anti-democracy military dictator, a bigot and above all a vengeful zealot waiting to pick off on his supposed enemies. Nigerians challenges at this time is rather too humongous and needs a president who will be devoted to solving them rather than spend it hunting down his enemies with vengeance. Also Buhari has shed the blood of some innocent Nigerians before and will shed them again if empowered; so do not enable him  do not be an accomplice to his vengeful mission unaccomplished. Just disregard Buhari's tears,  apply the simple solution - DO NOT LET HIM; DO NOT VOTE FOR BUHARI.

MUHAMMADU BUHARI IS A REGIONAL CANDIDATE - an article by Ayo Osuntokun

I PUT a call through to a senior friend in Kaduna for a routine social and political chit chat. The call caught him in the thick of a mob crisis. It transpired that President Good luck Jonathan was in Kaduna to meet with a crucial pressure group and General Mohammadu Buhari also happened to show up in kaduna the same day. In response, a mob quickly materialised and took to the streets of the city chanting sai Buhari, sai musulumi, sai arewa!( nobody but Buhari; nobody but a Northern Moslem). They demanded of passing motorists to join their exhortation barring which substantial damage would be visited on their vehicles. My friend quite rightly noted that every tendency generates its own contradiction and that Nigeria was thus being set up for a national fratricidal crisis. The logic of cause and effect would probably result in counter ethno religious mobilisation in Niger delta for instance.

Buhari, without a shade of doubt, has attained the status of a cult hero among the segment of Nigerian population identified above.

Some have gone as far as claiming there has been none like him since Shehu Othman Dan Fodio. It was similarly said of the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo that there was none like him in Yoruba land since the Yoruba mythical progenitor-Oduduwa. What follows from this comparison is that Buhari and Awolowo are starting the Nigerian Presidential race with a deficit. Non caliphate and non Yoruba Nigerians are not likely to fancy Dan Fodio and Oduduwa as President of Nigeria. At different times Chief Awolowo wanted to be the Prime Minister and President of Nigeria respectively. He wanted to be Prime Minister in 1959/60 on the platform of the Action Group, AG. He scaled the first hurdle by getting elected to the House of Representatives, where he could not muster sufficient support to scale the final hurdle. Perhaps there was a contradiction in aspiring to become the Prime Minister of Nigeria from the platform of a political party that started and was largely sustained as a Yoruba political organisation(the same of course could be said of the Northern People’s Congress, NPC).

The sequence of events from 1962 to 1966 consolidated Awolowo as a Yoruba hero and martyr. In 1967 he was adopted as the leader of the Yoruba leaders of thought-hence his subsequent proclamation as Yoruba leader. In 1979 he was presented as the Presidential candidate of the Unity Party of Nigeria, UPN and came to terms with his lack of national acceptance by defiantly picking a fellow Southerner (and a political lightweight) as running mate. Unfortunately he was unable to live down this image till his death in 1987. In a vivid demonstration that non Yoruba Nigerians were more comfortable with him in death than alive, President Ibrahim Babangida and Ikemba Odumegwu Ojukwu eulogised him as the “main issue of Nigerian politics” and “the best President Nigeria never had”. Regardless, I believe these two personalities and many other Nigerian genuinely admired Chief Awolowo but their admiration fell short of preferring him for the office of the President of Nigeria. Comparatively I also would want to enter a caveat that it is possible to admire General Buhari without preferring him for the same office.

Before 1966, it was plausible to think of the Nigeria Army as a pan Nigeria institution. Subsequently it fractured along ethno regional cleavages and to a lesser degree remained as such. Roughly and generically speaking the Nigerian Army was divisible into a Northern Hausa Fulani category at one end of the spectrum; the Eastern Igbos at another and the South Western Yoruba in the middle. (A thousand apologies for the tendentious treatment of the minorities as of little consequence-of course we now know better). This was the context that produced General Olusegun Obasanjo in his deliberately cultivated image as a detribalised Nigerian nationalist.

It was on this platform and recognition that he was elected Nigerian President in 1999 albeit substantially underwritten by the Northern political establishment. Obasanjo then went on to initiate crucial political and economic reforms of Nigeria in a manner that was contrary to the perception of him as a proxy ruler for the “North”. There were rumours that he refused to sign a political MOU that would have rendered him a ceremonial President. It was not however a rumour that he caused to be retired all who qualified to be identified as political soldiers. This and other symbolic acts and gestures resulted in tension between Obasanjo and his Northern promoters so called. In this light it was believed that the sharia insurrection represented a covert declaration of hostilities.

It was against this background that Buhari went to a quranic recitation ceremony in Sokoto and declared (according to all media reports) that Moslems should vote for Moslems. It was against this background that Buhari initiated a quasi-political pressure group called the Pastoral resolve. It was as the chief ideologue and motive force of this group that he went to Ibadan to complain to Governor Lam Adesina of Oyo state about the death of a Fulani herdsman in a scuffle between nomads and Yoruba farmers in Shaki. Governor Adesina reportedly admonished that as a former head of state Buhari should not be limited to the welfare and wellbeing of Fulani. He subsequently emerged the Presidential standard bearer of the largely Northern Moslem dominated All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, in 2003 and 2007 respectively.And recently in a mood of self-adulation, Pastor Tunde Bakare, running mate with Buhari, gleefully threatened the eruption of a “wild wild North” analogous of the “Wild Wild West” if the polls are rigged against his ticket. This was in reference to the pervasive and widespread violent protest against the massive rigging of the 1965 polls in the Western region. It is indeed apt to recall this precedent but it is also a sad commentary and an unambiguous advertisement on the status of Buhari as a regional candidate.

President Obasanjo recently opined that a Buhari Presidency would make a big impression on the fight against indiscipline and corruption and I cannot agree more. The frustration of Obasanjo is echoed across the land especially among the intelligentsia and there seems to be an auto mobilisation of this frustration in favour of Buhari. On further reflection I differ to the extent that a nation must exist before we can do battle against corruption or any sickness ailing such a society. I do not believe that a nation exists in what constitute Nigeria today and neither do I believe that given his antecedents and instincts, Buhari is in pole position to advance Nigerian nationhood.

I do not believe, for instance, that the choiceof a Yoruba as vice presidential candidate within the present context of political anxieties in Nigeria demonstrates an instinct for national consensus.  Given that Obasanjo was President from 1999 to 2007, sensitivity to nationhood should require that South East and South South be given priority over the South West in constituting a Presidential ticket. This qualification is no less applicable to the AC-the extenuation being that the Party is rooted in the South West. It is fair to conclude that, of all the three leading candidates, Buhari is the least qualified for the task of welding a nation out of Nigeria.


• Osuntokun, a former Managing Director of the News Agency of  Nigeria (NAN), lives in Abuja, Nigeria.

GBAGBO, DISGRACED AFRICAN LEADER NABBED INSIDE HIS SWEATY BUNKER!

 Icheoku reiterates our earlier call that upon capture, the hold-over former president of Ivory Coast, Laurent Gbagbo, should be tried for his crimes against the people of Ivory Coast - the thousands killed by his refusal to cede power and its attendant break down of law and order. Upon conviction, he should be hanged publicly in a square in Abidjan as an example to other African wanna-be sit-tight leaders. Laurent Gbagbo deserves no mercy as he showed none to his perceived enemies; the full weight of the law should be brought down on him alongside his wife Simeone, who instigated his obstinacy and refusal to surrender power.Icheoku says that no amount of plea should be enough to mitigate his atrocities; and Gbagbo and his wife Simone should be made the African version of Romania's Nikolai Ceausescu and wife Elena. Also like the late Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, who himself was captured inside a fox-hole, Gbagbo's fat neck is only good for the hangman's noose! Look at his face of terror or should Icheoku say face of fear with an unkempt and haggard-looking wife Simone's terrified disbelief. Just another example of the curse of Africa - disgruntled leadership and Icheoku prays the West continue to be more proactive with removing these African despots from power before they plunge their countries into unimaginable crisis.

GBAGBO CAPTURED LIKE SADDAM HUSSEIN BUT WITHOUT THE BEARDS!

Ivoriens appealed but he was already deaf. ECOWAS followed suit but he threatened to convert millions of West African people residing in Ivory Coast into human shield should they follow through with their threat to use legitimate force to remove him. African Union sent a high powered delegation to urge him to cede power but he bluffed them, making a reference of other sit-tight African leaders and asking why his case should be any different. Paris called but he would not take their call and so was Washington DC. Then it was European Union's turn as well as the United Nations to plead with him to just go; but unfortunately they were talking to an already dumb and deaf power drunken African idiot, who has become another  statistics of those who the gods want to kill that he first make mad. So it became a waiting game between the rest of the world who long since recognized his rival Alassan Qattara as the duly elected president of Ivory Coast and the lone ranger Gbagbo.

After about four months of Gbagbo's illegal hold-over of the presidency of Ivory Coast, forces loyal to the official president Qattara supported by both United Nations troops stationed in Ivory Coast and the French made a putsch against the "strongman". Less than a week into the struggle, the former strongman of Ivory Coast scurried into hiding in a bunker at the presidential palace from which he was captured today. Like all common criminal, the former president looked dazed and confused as he was dragged out of his bunker and paraded before the world to see what has become of another African wanna-be sit-tight despot. His floppy bloated overhanging belly was a sorry sight to behold of a once edifying president of ivory Coast who bluffed every world leaders' attempt to make him see the futility of his lone position.

The rest as they say is now history and Icheoku prays for a speedy processing of this human garbage through the Ivorien judicial system or better still the world court at The Hague in a timely dis-positive manner. Icheoku says Laurent Gbagbo and his band of criminals including their wives should be brought to justice and immediately now that their "illegitimate claim to power has finally been brought to an end" according to President Obama. What an end to a chapter that should never have happened according to United Nations' Secretary General Ban Ki Moon. And in the words of Hillary  Clinton, Gbagbo's arrest sends a strong signal to dictators in Africa and other regions of the world that they may no longer disregard the voice of their own people expressed in a free and fair elections.

Icheoku says what a good precedent that has been set by the removal of Laurent Gbagbo; except that it was after Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe's hold over as well as Kenya's Mwai Kibaki refusal to cede power. But better still late than never as henceforth any African leader thinking about the idea of a possible hold-over presidency should just forget about it as the world would always point at the example of Laurent Gbagbo. Icheoku also learnt that Gbagbo was slapped by one of the arresting soldier and we are happy to say that the slap is from all of us too! Another bad ambassador of African leadership put out of circulation for good. The curse of Africa - a leadership that is both shameless and despicable!

BUHARI IS A POLITICAL REJECT, HAUNTED BY HIS PAST RUTHLESSNESS.

Icheoku shall make a little detour to provide some insight into the supposedly puzzling question arising from the just concluded parliamentary election in Nigeria - why did Obasanjo lose Ogun State? The loss suffered by Olusegun Obasanjo in Ogun State should not be surprising to attention-paying Nigerians who have been meticulously following politics in Nigeria. Simply put, as between Obasanjo and the sons and daughters of Oduduwa, there is no love lost - never; not now, not yesterday and not the day after tomorrow nor tomorrow for that matter. .

Olusegun Obasanjo have always lost elections in his primary constituency - in 1999, 2003 and 2007. In 1999 the Hausa-Fulani oligarchs smuggled Obasanjo into Aso Rock and subsequently in 2003 and 2007, Obasanjo apportioned political offices to himself and his cronies in a selective process disguised as an election. Majority of Nigerians knew that Obasanjo could never win and did not win any election in Yoruba land since 1999 but for the rigging and apportioning of votes which placed a facade of electoral victory on Obasanjo. So last Saturday, when President Jonathan allowed a free and fair election to take place in Yorubaland and among other nationalities in Nigeria for the first time and votes really counted; behold Olusegun Obasanjo's mask of political influence was take off and his political irrelevance in Yoruba land particularly Ogun State came to the fore. Not only did his party PDP lose in Yorubaland but his very own daughter Iyabo Obasanjo lost her reelection bid to the senate including in Obasanjo's own voting booth. A statement was then made for the umpteenth time by the Oduduwa electorates that Obasanjo is a political nobody in Yoruba-land and commands of little of no political influence therein. Icheoku says, so Nigerians instead of acting surprised that Obasanjo lost in the last election, please try understanding the political nitwit that Obasanjo is in Yoruba-land especially Ogun State. 

Now as to the matter of Buhari and his rejection by his northern people, we shall treat it state by state and emirate by emirate. Buhari lost Kano State because of his past antagonism of the traditional ruler of the Emirate of Kano, HRH Ado Bayero, who he reprimanded just for visiting Israel. It was personal as such humiliation is never forgiven and even when, is not so easily; and the people of Kano remembered Buhari's disrespect for their Majesty and handed him a dud electoral check. Buhari also went to Kano and poured praises on the late Sani Abacha, a man loathed so much by so many in his adopted home state of Kano for among other things, planning to dethrone the same Emir of Kano. In Sokoto State, Buhari lost because he overthrew their son, President Shehu Shagari government in his military coup of December 1983. Now in 2011, the Sokoto caliphate remembered for Buhari his unfriendly gesture and paid him back. with an electoral defeat. Moreover Buhari's beloved Abacha put a spanner in the Sokoto Caliphate when he dethroned and imprisoned the former Sultan of Sokoto, Ibrahim Dasuki and later banished him totally from the caliphate. Icheoku asks how can such an anti-Sokoto caliphate personality like Buhari be rewarded with a victory by the same people he has been antagonizing ever since. Lastly the rivalry for political superiority and supremacy between the people of Sokoto and Katsina is an open secret which led to the creation of Katsina State out of the former Sokoto State and still exists till date. So why would Sokoto enable a Katsina person? In Kebbi State, Buhari lost because the people hates him by proxy of their hatred for his former ADC Jokolo (the 53 suitcases smuggler); who later forced himself into the throne as Emir of Gwandu but was later dethroned and banished from the emirate. So which Nigerian in his right senses expects Buhari to turn around and win in Kebbi State where his boy was thrown out of office and asked to forever stay away? Jigawa State people are more enlightened and their beloved Governor Sule Lamido is fully grounded to let an Islamic bigot deceive his people into a parochial voting bloc.

The story is the same throughout the rest of the north and the people of Middle Belt, present day north central are tired of playing second fiddle to their Hausa-Fulani overbearing fellow northern inhabitants and made a revolting b-line in support of President Jonathan's PDP. Buhari also hurt the sensibilities of the people of Yoruba-land by assaulting their legendary political father Obafemi Awolowo, whose passport Buhari quickly seized following his military coup of 1983. Buhari also canceled Lagos State metro project without any justifiable reason other than it was simply too good to be cited in the south? Buhari also reprimanded the Ooni of Ife Sijuwade for merely visiting Israel and you wonder whether Buhari could be so easily forgiven by the sons and daughters of Oduduwa-land for disrespecting their traditional institution. Icheoku will not belabor the fact that Barthlomeow Owo, Lawal Ojulope and Bernard Ogendegbe were all sons of Oduduwa-land, who Buhari mercilessly murdered for a trifle infraction of drug peddling, a then non death-penalty offense. Then come the South East Igbos who have nightmares thinking about a Buhari presidency after the roughshod he dealt them when he imprisoned their son Vice president Alex Ekwueme in Kirikiri Maximum prison following his coup of 1983 while the president was put in a cozy guest house.

So, Icheoku asks how could a man who have wronged so many Nigerians and repeatedly rubbed them on their wrong sides and who owe so much indebtedness to Nigerians, with some Nigerians wishing for his head on a platter, ever delude himself thinking that he could be elected Nigeria president by Nigerians? Ordinarily, Icheoku would think that Muhammadu Buhari was banking on just his northern votes to put him in power;  but he no longer even have those northern votes as the result of the last parliamentary election have shown. Admitted, it does not matter to Buhari and his comrades in zealotry that northern votes alone and by itself would never have been enough and adequate to secure him the keys to Aso Rock.

On the final analysis, Icheoku makes the following declarations:- Buhari cannot win the presidential election and if an accident happens, he shall not rule a one united Nigeria. Buhari has the blood of innocent Nigerians in  his hand and if an accident happens, he shall relish more gory macabre sights. Buhari is an extremist and if an accident happens, will introduce his brand of purist Islamic codes for the rest of secular Nigerians. Buhari is a dictator and if an accident happens, he will revert to his old dictatorial ways, mannerisms and tendencies. Buhari has no wife or is not proud of her to parade her by his side and if an accident happens, who would be his modulating influence or better still, Nigeria's first lady? Nigerians, please do not be an accomplice in the hell that will be let loose in Nigeria should the accident of Buhari's presidency happen,. But the good news is that it is only a pipe-dream as hell will freeze over before Buhari's nightmarish dream ever come to pass. Not in Nigeria. Nigerians just don't do it - DO NOT VOTE FOR BUHARI. 

NIGERIAN ELECTION RESULT, LOSERS SHOULD ACCEPT DEFEAT AND MOVE ON.

As Nigerians and the world await the final result of the parliamentary election, Icheoku urges losers of the election to emulate the good example of statesmanship displayed by the speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, who himself also lost his reelection bid and accept defeat in good fate. According to the soon to be former speaker, elections should not be a do or die affair as the single most important thing is to help enable a democratic environment thrive that will spring forth development and greatness for the country. In his own words, Bankole said, “The exercise is a good omen in our national quest to entrench democracy in our nation. For me the race was not a life and death duel; of more importance is building, maintaining and developing our democratic institution and processes as a means towards true national development and greatness.” Icheoku commends this man's candor and says, since majority of Nigerians as well as contestants commended INEC for the peaceful, free and fair election they conducted, none of them should have any good reason or basis to later head to court to contest the results of the election and in essence delay the transition process. In contests, there will always be winners and losers alike and Icheoku expects such losers to accept their loss in good fate just like Speaker Oladimeji Bankole and move on. There will always be a next time

NIGERIA ELECTION 2011, HOW THE BATTLE WILL BE DECIDED OR WON AND LOST.

Icheoku says Imam Muhammdu Buhari will win the northwest Sharia states of Kebbi, Sokoto, Zamfara, Katsina and Kano states. Bola Tinubu's mask of Zorro Nuhu Ribadu's ACN will win Lagos, Ekiti, Edo and Osun states. Shekarau and his ANPP will likely win Bornu and Yobe states; while President Goodluck Jonathan will most likely win Bayelsa, Rivers, Enugu, Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Cross River, Akwa Ibom, Delta, Ogun, Oyo, Kwara, Niger, Plateau, Benue, Kogi, Adamawa, Taraba and Nasarawa states. Bauchi, Gombe, Jigawa, Oyo and Kaduna states are likely toss-up states which could swing in anybody's direction. 


Geographically and statistically speaking, PDP Goodluck Jonathan will win more states than the rest of the presidential candidates to clinch and retain the presidency; and the numerical strength of his win will encompass a broader swath of the country, spreading throughout five out of the six zones. Although President Jonathan was not Icheoku's first or best choice from the beginning, but among the present pack of hyenas, he is still the lamb that will not hurt Nigerians or who will hurt Nigerians the least. There is more safety in his presidency than in that the novitiate Nuhu Ribadu who is standing in for Bola Tinubu, the Mr-Nobody Shekarau and the bloody butcher of Daura, Muhammadu Buhari. 


The reason the political battle has not been conclusively determined this far is the civil way Jonathan is pursuing the presidency and not letting his attack-dogs turn loose on Buhari and his supposed front runner status. A man with such garbage as Buhari should ordinarily and in a civilized society not be running for any elective office, but in a land where anything goes, he is pretending to be the it. Yet this man has not explained to Nigerians his actions bothering on criminality while serving as the head of a military junta that overthrew a duly elected President Shehu Shagari government from office in the eighties. Anyway, the election is for Jonathan to lose and with little effort and some of his proverbial goodluck karma, he shall sail through; but until then never say never. Admitted that Nigerians are mad at the PDP especially the Obasanjo experience and Vincent Ogbulafor's boisterous assertion that PDP shall rule Nigeria for 60 years? Nigerians are advised to smarten up and wise up in this election and vote their conscience - JUST ANYBODY BUT BUHARI. Do not be fooled twice - first by Obasanjo and now by a contriving Buhari, as military dictators are impervious to superior arguments and/or advise hence cannot move the country forward carrying the people along.

LAURENT GBAGBO, HANG THE PIG UPON CAPTURE!

Icheoku says those who make peaceful handover impossible make violent ouster inevitable and so it is that the hold-over former president Laurent Gbagbo will soon have his fate determined, albeit cruelly. Reports reaching Icheoku has it that the embattled former president has been encircled by the liberating republican army loyalist of the legitimate president elect Quattara. One report even have it that he has since fled from the presidential palace to some non-discreet undisclosed location.

Icheoku's position is that when finally he is caught, he should be tried for his crimes against the humanity that call Ivory Coast home, especially for the over four hundred Ivoriens that have lost their lives in the democracy struggle. Without a doubt, he will be convicted and hopefully hanged alongside his wife Simone for refusing his stepping down. African dictators are all alike and not even the fate which befell Idi Amin, Charles Taylor etc was of any persuasive influence on this wanna-be sit-tight leader Gbagbo. Icheoku says, just hang him like a dog upon eventual capture! There is nothing to negotiate as Gbagbo lost every iota of negotiating chances when he rebuffed every plea to accept defeat and hand over government. Gbagbo thought that he could bluff his way through and at worst case scenario secure a power-sharing arrangement like in Zimbabwe and Kenya but the power hungry gestapo miscalculated and like Saddam Hussein is now hiding in an underground crawl space. Gbagbo has shed thousands of innocent Ivorien peoples blood and he cannot escape justice. Just try him and hang him like Saddam Hussein of Iraq - the ugly end fate which awaits all deaf and dumb dictators. Better still, hang him alongside with his wife Simone so that they will become African version of Romania's Nikolai Ceausescu and wife, Elena!

MUHAMMADU BUHARI, NOT A SANE CHOICE!

 Icheoku says Muhammadu Buhari (right) is one of the three diseases afflicting Nigeria and Nigerians must eradicate it this time by rejecting him at the polls. Adamu Ciroma consensus arrangement has taken care of disease number 1 IBB; resistance to third term agenda took care of disease number 2 OBJ and now Nigerians has the opportunity to take care and must take care of disease number 3 Buhari through the ballots. Nigerians you must now retire the last of these three old evil men forever and for good, so that they can go and live out whatever life is still left in them while awaiting their eventual painful and lonely tortuous death.

Icheoku says Imam Muhammadu Buhari has the blood of innocent Nigerians in his hands (Barthlomeow Owo, Bernard Ogedengbe and Lawal Ojulope). Icheoku says Muhammadu Buhari previously aborted democracy in Nigeria (overthrew Shagari). Icheoku says Muhammadu Buhari sponsored SHARIA in northwestern Nigeria ( Kebbi, Katsina, Sokoto, Zamfara and Kano states). Icheoku says Muhammadu Buhari abridged freedom for Nigerians (Decree 4). Icheoku says Muhammadu Buhari encouraged corruption in Nigeria (53 suticases). Icheoku says Muhammadu Buhari champions tribal and ethnic Islamic causes (his tenure as PTF chairmanship). Icheoku says Muhammadu Buhari is not a nationalist (very vengeful and his disproportionate treatment of vice president Alex Ekwueme after the coup). Icheoku says Muhammadu Buhari is of the old retrogressive school that has kept Nigeria down for too long (first ruled Nigeria in 1983). Icheoku says Muhammadu Buhari is an Islamic religious zealot and a sympathizer of Boko Haram (did not condemn the butchery of non Muslims or the Boko Haram heinous criminality of mass murder in the north. Moreover his wife if he has any, the potential first lady of Nigeria, is quarantined in a purdah).

To summarize, Icheoku says Muhammadu Buhari is BAD for Nigeria, hence his candidacy must be rejected by Nigerians in the forthcoming election. Moreso Buhari is not what a futuristic Nigeria needs in 2011 or anytime whatsoever as a leopard cannot change its spots nor can an old dog be taught new tricks. Did Icheoku tell you also that Muhammadu Buhari is NOT A DEMOCRAT (he is very autocratic) and cannot get along with the national assembly for the peoples business. If all these reasons fails to wake you up from your slumber Nigerians in your support of Buhari, then please remember how you fared under Olusegun Obasanjo and vote your conscience as Buhari is another Obasanjo on steroids. Take a look at the three musketeers in the picture above and one thing holds them together - their ruthlessness and hatred for Nigerians. They are all sadists who drive joy in seeing agonizing Nigerians groan and moan. Nigerians, you are doomed with Buhari's presidency. Be SMART and be WISE Nigerians, please DO NOT DO IT - do not vote for Buhari. 

THE CANCELLED OR POSTPONED ELECTION, JEGA FUMBLED!

 

Icheoku joins millions of well meaning Nigerian democracy enthusiasts in condemning the cancellation of today's scheduled parliamentary election. The reason given is both inadequate and insufficient to prevent voting by Nigerians as it is not such humongous intervening act as would cause an election to be cancelled. Such act envisaged include major earthquake, tsunami as witnessed in Japan, military coup de'tat or such other act of God as would make it impossible but not impracticable to conduct the election.

If due to some logistical nightmare, INEC could not conduct elections in certain parts of the country, they should have conducted it in those areas where it is feasible and then reschedule those impossible areas at a later future date; but to cancel the entire election is an affront on Nigerians and their desire for real democracy in Nigeria. Professor Jega had all these months to carry out test-runs on conducting the election and despite the billions which his INEC is awashed with to enable him conduct a free and fair election, he failed to pull it off as scheduled. Icheoku's verdict, Professor Attahiru Jega has failed to provide the required leadership that will guarantee Nigerians fair elections and therefore should consider resigning now as he had threatened in the past. Icheoku aligns itself with the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties in calling the postponement or cancellation of today's election "an unwarranted false start" by Jega's INEC.

Icheoku asks, if election materials could not be delivered since these past days, what is the guarantee that a weekend will now make any difference and that they will be ready as promised on Monday? What happens to those ballots already cast? What happens to the now leaked ballot samples which some unscrupulous politicians will now print and with them rig the elections? There are simply too many questions for Jega's INEC to answer and Icheoku says, this weekend alone will not make any difference. Such a catastrophic failure in logistics requires more than a weekend's patch-work to fix, so INEC would have postponed the entire exercise for one week or two to properly get its acts together. The implication is that this election is now tainted and any result coming out of the deferred process will be questionable with eventual losers claiming they would have won and vice versa.

Icheoku says no explanation is good enough since INEC did not suddenly realize they had insufficient time to prepare and conduct the election yet they undertook it anyway. Icheoku had warned about it while advocating for an extended time to conduct a proper election but no one listened only for this shoddiness at the eleventh hour. A credible electoral body worth its paycheck would have conducted trial runs on its logistics and even conducted mock elections to see the lapses that need to be fixed and since fixed it instead of waiting for the real thing to deliver this shocker of election postponement. Icheoku says, not in our name and we condemn INEC's action and hereby call on Professor Jega to resign for gross incompetence. Jega should have soldiered on under the circumstances but rather he chose to drop the ball on Nigerians, the easy way out. Jega should not be allowed to explain himself out of this displayed incompetence, not after the billions that he requested and got for this exercise! Nigerians had hope that he was the man for the job, but not anymore. What a pity!

MUHAMMADU BUHARI, SIMPLY NOT GOOD FOR NIGERIA.

Icheoku warns all those short-sighted and mentally challenged Nigerians clamoring for a Buhari presidency to think again. Buhari is a dictator, a fundamentalist and so pathologically fixated on Islamic doctrines that he is not what a democratic secular Nigeria needs at this time or any future time. Also remember what Nigerians went through under Olusegun Obasanjo regime and be informed that Buhari's despotism will make Obasanjo look like a Mother-Theresa. If Obasanjo was mad at Nigerians, Buhari will be madder! If Obasanjo was crazy against Nigerians, Buhari will be crazier! If Obasanjo chastised Nigerians with sticks, Buhari will chastise them with scorpions.

So Nigerians make your call whenever the election may be rescheduled, but know that a vote for Buhari is a vote for chains. Nigerians want freedom but Buhari will put them in bondage. Nigerians want a democrat with human-face but Buhari is a dictator with the face of Lucifer. Further Buhari has not told Nigerians which Muslim country bankrolled his presidential campaign and what he gave them as a trade-off; whether an Islamized and Sharia-nized Nigeria or OPEC oil politics?It is not yet too late Nigerians to save your necks from this Islamic zealot Muhammadu Buhari as the election has not been held; so DO NOT VOTE FOR BUHARI whenever the election comes. Imam Muhammadu Buhari is simply too extreme for a secular Nigeria and if you think you had it rough and tough during Obasanjo government, wait until the accident of a Buhari presidency comes to pass and you will chew gravels. Who wants such an austere and gaunt looking Imam for president, not Icheoku and not millions of our followers and visitors; so other Nigerians, what about you? Prevention is better than cure, so do not be hoodwinked by the Buhari4Change slogan as Buhari caused the problems that elicits the change being sort. Nigerians, REJECT BUHARI, DO NOT VOTE FOR BUHARI.

LIBYAN UPHEAVAL, A REVOLUTION OR AN INTERVENTION?

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Icheoku asks is the lingering Libyan crisis still an organic revolution of and by the people of Libya or has it been hijacked by some external forces:- terrorists and al-quieda being assisted by a naive international coalition with remnants of the decimated Libyan military trying to earn their payday? It gets complicated even further because some members of the so called coalition of the willing are now re-interpreting the specific mandate given to prevent possible civilian massacre to include arming the rebels. They sure want to sell weapons as a boost to their home economies and their defense-industries are doing over-drive lobby to have thousands of death-agents parachuted into eastern Libya Benghazi. They just want to sell and it does not matter who these weapons are finally trained on or whose hands they eventually find themselves.

Icheoku says never in the history of international gang-ups against a sovereign nation has fallacy of intent been so blatant like the current attack on Libya's Gaddafi. If as claimed by these coalition of the willing, the primary purpose of "Operation New Dawn" is to prevent civilian massacre and protect civilians, what then is meant to be achieved by saturating Libya with arms and ammunition that has the same potential and capabilities as was meant to be prevented by the no fly zone - killing, injuring, wounding and maiming the same civilians the world was sold as being the reason for the attack on Libya? They want to arm the rebels yet they tell the world that Libyan civilians are protesting and demanding democracy? Who are these rebels and where did they train or which civilians are we even talking about, since big guns, missiles and rockets are not toys that civilians should play with. Let the truth be told, something is going on that triggered the attack on Libya's Gaddafi which no one wants to tell the world about; and borrowing the word of one so called revolutionary, may be we should all assume that "we are waiting but we do not know what we are waiting for." 

If there is a revolution and the army still sides with the government, then it is not total or organic and it might as well pass for an attempted insurrection by some dissidents and any government worth its name cannot sit by and watch the security situation of its territory become compromised without doing something about it. Icheoku is not a fan of Gaddafi nor in anyway trying to understand his continued over-stay in power since 1968; but let the truth be told, if the Libyan people desire a revolution they should pay the price for freedom and not coerce the international community led by the United States of America to do their dirty works for them. That way they would value and appreciate it when finally it becomes a new dawn in Libya; but to instigate hostilities on a newly repentant Gaddafi is just outside the rational template; otherwise what then is the benefits of being a friend of the West or maintaining a cool head and not being obstinate like Kim Jong-iL of North Korea or Amandinejad of Iran or even the Chinese or the Russians. Mubarak was a friend of the West and he is gone? Ben Ali was a friend of the West and he has gone? Now Gaddafi who just repented from his old ways and is warming himself back to the West is now being bombarded by the same West and you wonder if such cuddling of the West is of any beneficial use indeed when they will so easily throw you under the bus at the slightest opportunity? Icheoku expected the West to stay out of the Libyan crisis and instead advise and support the revolutionaries from outside and not to in such blatant manner take sides in a supposedly internal revolution. Just for the heck of discussion, if Gaddafi goes today, would it be okay to still term what took place in Libya as a revolution or more properly called, an intervention? Also would the people of Libya have the face and be proud to celebrate their incompetence and inability to do it by themselves, an intervention by coalition of the willing which removed Gaddafi?

The only good thing out of this Libyan crisis is the futility and uselessness of all those military weaponry procured with billions of dollars that the government could have used to improve the lives of Libyans, which could not aid, protect Libya or repel the attack of the coalition of the willing. Icheoku asks what then is the use of these weapons when the same country that procured them cannot effectively use them to defend itself  from attacks by the coalition partners, who freely made a mince meat of them and without much of any resistance. May be these African governments should stop or reconsider buying these weapons from these Western manufacturers or any other person and instead use their billions to improve the lives of their people, building infrastructures and capabilities. That way the peoples lives would become so much improved they won't care a hoot about who rules them. But when money that would have been used for peoples orientated projects are diverted for procurement of weaponry and those weapons in turn could not defend the country in its hour of need, faced with coalition partners attack, then it becomes "double wahallah for dead body" - a peoples revolution and an unanswered attack from the coalition of the willing. So tell Icheoku what use are these weapons when they are not merchantable since they cannot defend a territory?.

Further, Icheoku is miffed at the incessant dictating by the West for Africans on who should rule them and who should not, particularly because they usually do not mean well. They usually abhor any strong African leader and instead support and prop up a somewhat weakling who would protect their resource interest in the continent. Yet no one tells the West what to do and only asks how high do they want them to jump each time they command African so called leaders to jump up. Moummar Gaddafi is not a saint but at least he is a great African patriot who is passionate about Africa and does not take dictation from any Western country or their minions. The West saw him as a threat, an arrogant African who has refused to know his place and now their dogs of war has been unleashed to humble Gaddafi and cut him to size. Icheoku asks where is the African Union to protest the manner of this foreign intervention by a coalition of the willing who only coalesces when an African or Arab leader is concerned but gladly looks the other way as China decimates Falang Gong, Tibet and other ethnic minorities of Ungurs including those democracy-marchers in Tienanmen Square. Not to be forgotten, the 2010 Nobel Prize winner is still jailed by the communist China for his democracy activism, yet no coalition of the willing has been assembled against China. Iran killed several thousands during their suppression of democracy yet no coalition of the willing went to protect those innocent civilians? Russia has some other peoples freedom emasculated, yet no coalition of the willing in Moscow.

The fact that Moummar Gaddafi is the "King of  kings in Africa" should have provided an impetus for a strong objection by the AU over the fate which befell him. But being also illegitimate themselves, they lack the moral fortitude to question a gang-up against a fellow African country, especially one ruled by the "King of all Kings in Africa?" Where are those African warriors of the yore to race up to Libya and protect the honor of their "King of Kings?" It is a complicated world and this coalition of the willing do not seem to have a one-size fits  all policy thrust for every country or its leader and this is where the cookie crumbled. Anyway, until the final resolution of the impasse in Libya, Icheoku maintains that an insurrection is not the same as a revolution and therefore should neither be supported nor condoned. These AK-47 wielding bearded men are not revolutionaries, assuming they are even Libyans and the West should assist them at their own risk; but must approach them with caution in their aid in order not to be eventually swallowed by their own created quick-sand. Sanctions and sabotage of the government would have been the preferred option but definitely not bombing from thousands of feet up in the dark skies of Libya. To make matters more sinister, when a devastated Japan on bended knees could use all the help it could get, this coalition of the willing is busy gleefully destroying another country and you call that being responsible?

NIGERIANS VOTE FOR ANYBODY BUT BUHARI.

Icheoku reminds Nigerians that a country with progressive ideals do not vote for a rustic past leadership; so a vote for Imam Muhammadu Buhari is a vote to take the country back to dark ages. War against Indiscipline is not enough nor sufficient, standing by itself, to qualify Buhari for Nigeria's president. Moreso Julius Caesar warned us that lean and hungry looking men like Cassius are dangerous and Buhari is the Cassius of our time. Nigerians, please think the future, do not vote the past. Reject Muhammadu Buhari's candidacy; say no to an Islamic Sharia presidency in a secular Nigeria and save your limbs from being chopped off for trifle offenses. In April 2011 presidential election, DO NOT VOTE FOR BUHARI; vote for anybody but Buhari!

MUHAMMADU BUHARI HATES THE STATE OF ISRAEL, QUERIES VISIT?

Imam Muhammadu Buhari who is running for president in Nigeria is an anti-semitic Boko Haram member Muslim zealot who plans to Islamize and Sharia-nize Nigeria if given the opportunity. This mullah while military head of state disgraced and humiliated two Nigerian Majesties, the Emir of Kano Ado Bayero and the Ooni of Ife Sijuade because they visited the Holy land, the State of Israel. According to Imam Muhammadu Buhari who is also a Hamas sympathizer and aligns himself with Hezbollah, Israel does not deserve to exist. It is being rumored too that he plans to severe ties between Nigeria and Israel if elected. Icheoku has it on strong authority that his presidential campaign is being sponsored by Iran, Libya and Sudan; and wonders what the West and Israel is waiting to come out strongly against his candidacy. Nigerians please do not fall for the bogus tale of a reinvented democrat as leopard does not change its spots and old dog do not take kindly to being taught new tricks. NIGERIANS PLEASE SHUN BUHARI'S CANDIDACY, it is leprous!

THINK ABOUT OBASANJO, DO NOT VOTE FOR BUHARI.

 Icheoku warns Nigerians not to make the same mistake twice. You can't teach old dog new tricks as it is set in its ways and so is an army man who retired as a general. Moreso coup plotting is a treasonable crime and Nigerians should never allow a coup plotting army man back in the presidency. Olusegun Obasanjo was a nightmarish example and he showed that leopards do not change their spots. Muhammadu Buhari is not good for Nigeria, he is simply too extremist for a secular Nigeria.

Further his days are long past and he has no fresh ideas to move Nigeria forward. Icheoku says, a forward-looking people do not regurgitate a spent past leadership to take them to the future. Buhari was once a head of state in 1983 and 28 years later in 2011 he still wants to become president again? Such amounts to recycling of leadership and Nigerians should tell the Imam that 150 million people is more than enough pool of people from which to pick one smart person to lead the country into the future. Icheoku says Buhari is not that person and Nigerians should therefore not vote for BUHARI. Nigerians deserve better and BUHARI is worst. Nigerians deserve a democrat and BUHARI is a dictator. Nigerians deserve a moderate and BUHARI is an extremist. Icheoku says, Nigerians say no to BUHARI, please do not vote for BUHARI.

MOUSSA KOUSSA, A LIBYAN TRAITOR?

 Libya's Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa betrayed the trust of Moummar Gaddafi as he defected to Britain; leaving the former strongman hold on power drastically weakened. Icheoku says as long as this world exists, there will always be amongst us, Judas Iscariots and Moussa Koussa has now become one as far as Moummar Gaddafi is concerned. For forty-two years, he tagged along and did not see anything wrong with Gaddafi's dictatorship until now?

Icheoku adds, what took this man this long to realize that Gaddafi is a dictator and has been in power for just too long - 42 years; or is it another case of a fair-weather opportunist who jumped ship when it started taking in water? Lockerbie PA AM bombing, Berlin night club bombing as well as thousands of Libyan dissidents - their blood flowed by the hands of this animal but suddenly Gaddafi is not good any more? A kettle calling pot black? Icheoku hates such traitors as this animal and wish Libyan agents can get to him before he takes in further sympathy or absolution from the world! All traitors deserve to hang and Moussa Koussa is such a candidate!