FETISH GOVERNMENT CHASED OUT, GODFATHER HUMILIATED - WOLE SOYINKA!

Nobel laureate Professor Wole Soyinka has commended the people of Ogun State for taking the path of honor by voting out the government of Olugbenga Daniel which he described as a fetish government. He also applauded the humiliation suffered by Olusegun Obasanjo, whom he described as the master-mafia and political godfather of Olugbenga, in the hands of Ogun State people during this election. It will be recalled that none of Obasanjo's sponsored candidates, including his daughter Iyabo won any of offices they contested.  Icheoku also agrees that this total rejection by the people of Ogun State, of the deity of Otta, is a good omen both for the people of Ogun State as well as the greater Nigerian polity. It has now dawned on the third-termer and master-mafia, 2003 and 2007 election rigger in chief that he is a political leper untouchable, who no body wants nor loves in Ogun State and Nigeria in general. 

On the Imam Muhammadu Buhari's instigated post presidential-election violence in Northern Nigeria, Professor Soyinka said it violated the rules of our mutual existence as a country and called for a code of common behavior, which prescribes distinct punishment for those elements as carried it out and those who engineered it.  While congratulating President Goodluck Jonathan on his election victory, Soyinka said, "despite the hiccups, including under-age voting and improper accreditation of voters, the polls were declared free and fair by domestic and foreign observers. It is my view that the presidential election was won by President Jonathan, based on figures collated." 

The Nobel Laureate also called for downward review of salary and allowance being paid to Nigeria legislators and implored them to consider sitting on part-time basis. Icheoku supports Soyink'a call for Nigeria to have part-time, adhoc and as at need-based legislature like India; composed of people only willing to really serve their fatherland and not who are motivated by the unholy constituency allowances and other incredible take-homes that they collect. This legislators should be paid compensable sitting allowances only when they sit.

OLUSEGUN OBASANJO HUMBLED, CHASED OUT OF YORUBA SOUTHWEST?

 

Icheoku says, from the just concluded Nigeria elections 2011, has emerged the biggest political loser of our time. Olusegun Obasanjo, the self-styled 'do or die' area-boy politician from Otta, whose failed third-term bid, permanently consigned him into Nigeria's most despicable political personalities wasteland won the award. 

The deity of Otta and chicken-farmer, was three times beaten and four times shied in the election. First, his sponsored candidate, Speaker Oladimeji Bankole lost his reelection bid back to the House of Representatives; then his own biological daughter Iyabo Obasanjo lost her Senate re-election bid as she could not sail to victory on her father's supposed mighty wings of destiny. Lastly, came the mother of all loses, the failure of his sponsored governorship candidate, Tunji Olurin, to emerge victorious as the next governor of Obasanjo's home State of Ogun. The result of a house divided among itself that was bound to fall as the fight for control of PDP machinery between Obasanjo and Governor Gbenga led to splinting of the party in Ogun State and thus further weakened an already fledgling party pummeled by an insurgent Bola Tinubu led ACN. This loss by Obasanjo's Tunji Olurin to ACN's Amosun was the biggest slap on the face of Olusegun Obasanjo and Icheoku asks with what face would this man still appear in Ogun State and in Nigeria, after being so politically decimated in his own home turf? 

Icheoku bemoans that Olusegun Obasanjo and Governor Olugbenga Daniel lost Ogun State chiefly by their infighting as neither of them, standing alone was a match to the now confirmed and crowned political successor of the late CHief Obafemi Awolowo in Yorubaland, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. Gbenga will now say blame Obasanjo for not letting me win Ogun State for the PDP while Obasanjo will be saying blame that rascal Gbenga for refusing to take my dictation. Icheoku asks how is the mighty OBJ fallen or was this a confirmation that he rigged his party into power in the Yoruba Southwest during the previous elections of 2003 and 2007?  Anyway, the playing field has now been leveled and Obasanjo has once again been rejected by his own Yoruba people of Southwest Nigeria. 

So with the ACN sweep of the five states in Yorubaland, the party has now succeeded Awolowo's UPN as the bona-fide Yoruba regional party with Asiwaju Bolaji Tinubu presiding. Bola Tinubu who, like his predecessor Awolowo, shall never make it in national politics because of certain peculiarities of Yoruba politics of not trusting anyone else but themselves.  Moreso the North will never forgive Bola Tinubu, who they blame for sabotaging Buhari's prospective presidential election; and the Igbos may still have the problem of establishing trust on another Yoruba leader after their experience with Awolowo and Olusegun Obasanjo, whose policies burnt them badly. It is equally instructive that Nuhu Ribadu is still dazed and confused at the treachery he suffered in ACN controlled Yoruba Southwest when he lost woefully in the last presidential election. It is possible that the mallam is smarting to take his vengeance on Tinubu for leaving him high and dry midstream. Icheoku says but who blames Bola Tinubu for taking his revenge on Nuhu RIbadu after the later branded him the worst financial criminal in Nigeria and still dreams of becoming a presidential candidate in the formers political estate, ACN. Anyway, so long OBJ as Icheoku and the rest of Nigeria believes they have heard the last of your scorch and burn politics; 2015 might be too long for a bad man so aged to still be around and relevant. What an election this has been!

DONALD TRUMP'S BIRTHER PARACHUTE, BURSTED MIDAIR!

 

He thought he was running away with the Tea Party Republican presidential nominee ticket; taxing for a take-off and was gradually picking speed when a debris he brought unto the tarmac boomeranged and ruptured his fuel tank. The result, a flight aborted! Icheoku asks, but will that do now? The answer is NOPE, as questioning his place of birth is just the mask of Zorro hiding their real racists motivation and intent. If only the site where Obama's white mother's water broke, as she labored to deliver the boy who later became president, were the case or the real issue here, this released birth certificate would sure do. But unfortunately, there is much more to it than these racists are ready to admit - their actions are largely in part driven by the sight of a "NIGGER" in "their" White House, period. 

Already some of them are saying that the released certificate notwithstanding, that the president inherited his father's place of birth by devolution and so he still remains "THAT ONE" - an outsider and not one of us? Icheoku says these raving cuckoos, in their raging fixation on the president, selectively forgot that so many American women are single-mothers, some of who does not even know who their baby-daddies are or their whereabouts. Icheoku asks, does this unknowns now disqualify their children from being Americans or is there something subliminal being telegraphed by this coded birther-message regarding a unique circumstantial president with an "Arab terrorist" sounding name? So, why the selective sitting in judgment on President Obama over the issue of his place of birth and/or that he supposedly inherited his father's Kenya place of birth?

To these racist birther-crowd, Icheoku says, it is un-American for you to be seeing red just because a black-man is your president and in your White House. For you, it does not matter what the president does, he can never do right by you; and even if the president produces his placenta, with born in Hawaii stamped on it, or even a video recording of his mother giving live-birth to him, it will still not matter as something else is maniacally driving their attempt at a cheap short-sale. For these people, the only way President Barack Obama can satisfactorily prove his "American-ness" is to resign from office and leave "their" White House for them. But so long as they are continuously confronted by the president's "unsightly" presence in their White House, that long will they continue to manufacture stuff after stuff to try and damage a man with a wholesome stellar records that powered his meteoric rise to power. It is racism, it is envy, it is jealous and it is all the bad intentions put together that is providing the energy which powers these people who are fond of preaching tolerance to the rest of the world? Just do what I say but never judge what I do myself. 

It is akin to someone asking another person to provide him with a snake's hind-legs or better still to give him palm-oil to enable him eat palm-fruit. No matter how you try, it cannot happen and if it happens, it is not good enough. It is just impossible to satisfy them within any reasonable conduct or act other than turning cold forever. These birther-mob just want to rid "their" White House of the "infestation of a NIGGER", period; as any other thing or attempt at explanation of different motive is an untruth. The fact of the matter is that America is still full of racist people despite the coats of "equal this and equal that" sloganeering paint they layer on themselves; so it does not matter what the president does or produces now to put paid to their 'silliness', these people will always invent one myth or another to try to denigrate President Obama. His sin is his skin-color and as far these loonies are concerned, no black man is good enough for anything, talkless of occupying their White House! And they are as loud as humming birds and as chirpy as crickets, so you cannot ignore them even if you wanted; so the president was right in throwing their downer back at them and lets see what they will pull out of their magic hats next.

Icheoku prays that these birthers, who recently found a new cheerleader in Donald Trump, will now cease and desist from further exhibition of their ignorance and lack of a comprehensive education to understand the age-long message that the president is an American-born American. Unfortunately, Donald Trump has intentionally shouted himself hoax with misleading statements, questioning the burial site of the president's umbilical cord as well as his foreskin or did Icheoku hear him question if the president was even circumcised? Some analysts opined that the real reason why the Donald Trump led birther crowd grew so loud in recent weeks was to bait the president into releasing his original birth certificate to see if his religion was listed as ISLAM so that they can run with a war-cry that the president is a MUSLIM? Yet America is supposed to be the land of the free and home of the brave where religious freedoms are respected and is no inhibition to any pursuit? Finally, with the president's birthplace-myth now conclusively laid to rest, Icheoku and the rest of the world will be waiting to see how Donald Trump's egotistic ambition survives without his birther-parachute.  A hitherto lifeline to a campaign that was DOA, now shredded midair; and you wonder how much longer The Donald will still provide some comic relief to endangered news-houses and their lazy arm-chair journalists who thrive in frivolities rather than hard-core news reporting. Libya, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia is burning and all you hear and see is Donald Trump flying the kite of birther and you wonder why you still subscribe to your television service. What a dupe this Donald Trump is, that deliberately misled those Tea Party Jim Crows into believing that at last, their knight in shinning armor has come to prove that the president's long suspected "deceit" of the American people that he was born in America is indeed false and that the president is a stranger from Mars and ineligible to be president.

BUHARI MARS AN OTHERWISE GOOD ELECTION, VOTERS APATHY REPLACED BY UNDERAGE VOTERS?

 

Reports reaching Icheoku from motherland has it that so many voters stayed away from the polling votes in the governorship/state assembly election, with less than 15% of registered voters showing up in some precincts. It was so abysmal in some areas that underage teenagers were freely handed voting ballots just to fill in the gaps. 

The low voter turnout was blamed on the violence perpetrated by Imam Muhammadu Buhari incensed almajiri-miscreants, who maimed and killed hundreds of fellow Nigerians just because their chief mullah lost the presidential election. Also the low voter turnout was caused in part because the election was fixed so close to the Easter holidays when so many people traveled out of their registered areas to be with their families for the holidays. Icheoku queries why the election was fixed so near the holiday and not a later future date to ensure a good turnout? If elections were postponed in the past, common sense dictates that the gubernatorial/state assembly election should have been similarly deferred to make room for traveled voters to come back as well as for spooked voters to come out of their shock and get a handle on Buhari's instigated violence, before coming back out to vote. 

Icheoku asks, would the result of such election conducted under the prevailing fear circumstance, with very low voter turnout hold as the true representation of the people's will? Icheoku says, we do not think so; and hereby call on INEC to consider cancelling the governorship/state assembly elections and reschedule them for a later date if that will help solve the credibility question. Lastly, Icheoku says that Imam Muhammadu Buhari should be held responsible for spoiling an otherwise good election. Buhari has by festering post-presidential election violence damaged the psyche of an otherwise enthused Nigerian populace, eagerly appearing at every past election to chose their preferred candidates. Buhari and no one else should be held responsible for the low turnout in the gubernatorial/state assemblies election and be extension, marred an otherwise peaceful, free and fair election just because he was rejected by Nigerians and thereby prevented from implementing his Islamic Sharia agenda in Nigeria. Muhammadu Buhari, Icheoku says, shame on you!

TAKE BUHARI OFF THE STREETS NOW - PASTOR AYO ORITSEJAFOR

 

"People like General Muhammadu Buhari and others like him should not be allowed to roam the streets of this country because they are part of the confusion that has enveloped the nation today. The problem the nation is currently facing is as a result of the inciting utterances of certain individuals including Buhari who, for example, called on his supporters to protect their votes and lynch anybody attempting to rig the elections" - Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor. Icheoku says Nigeria has found yet another manly-man in this Pastor Oritsejafor and prays that credible men of God like him do not falter; unlike the fake Pastor Tunde Bakare who got blinded by the smell of porridge and is following evil to doomsland. Way to go Pastor, speak up and Icheoku concurs that Imam Muhammadu Buhari caused the mayhem in the land and should be punished for that!

DONALD TRUMP IS A JOKE CANDIDATE - KARL ROVE.

Icheoku the GOP presidential wanna-bes' arena has suddenly turned into a circus, featuring another clown named "The Donald" - a political clown that is. Never in the recent history of American politics especially the Republican Party presidential selection/nomination process has personal ego been this boisterously, blatantly and vagrantly in display. A man who could easily pass for a business equivalent of a con-artist, now wants to be president of the United States of America? Wonders shall never end that made Mr. "Weird-Hair" to dream of also becoming a GOP presidential nominee in 2012. Icheoku says if Donald Trump is all that the right wing Tea Party and their greater Republican Party ally have for the 2012 presidential contest, may the election be fast-forwarded and brought forward now. Let the battle for the White House begin today! 

The irony of it all is that The Donald is hobnobbing with the extremist Tea Party wing of the Republican Party and his liberal antecedents considered, one wonders when The Donald developed enough conservative and right winger credentials to covet their presidential ticket? The 2008 Republican Party's loss to Democratic Party's President Barack Obama was blamed by the Rush Limbaugh wing of the Republican Party on Senator John McCain's RINO credentials? Their theory is that the then presidential candidate John McCain lost to Barack Obama because he is not conservative enough but merely republican by name only? His not being conservative and republican enough made it impossible for him to attract enough republican party faithfuls and their followers' votes to defeat Barack Obama. Icheoku wonders if such a party as is still nursing its loss in the 2008 presidential election will again make the same mistake of nominating a "questionable" conservative as their nominee going into the 2012 presidential election? If Arizona Senator John McCain is a RINO, then this New York City big fish and socialite extraordinaire must then be a "RINO squared" and Icheoku does not think that they will settle for such a gamble.

A twice divorced and three times married; three times corporate bankrupt and a pro-lifer wanting to be the Tea Party Republican Party's presidential nominee in 2012 is rather a wishful thinking as his chances are rather long fetched. Icheoku wonders what then would be left of these conservative right-wingers values should "The Donald", with such a liberalizing credentials, ever secures their presidential ticket. The good news however is that the word conservatism have to first change its meaning or be standing on its head before a man who have severally failed in both his family and business life would be allowed to fly the flag of conservatism into the 2012 Republican election battle.  Icheoku is however assuaged by the fact that The Donald does not stand a chance in hell among other more conservative credentialed prospective candidates, talkless of ever being allowed by the Republican Party establishment to fly its flag in the election; so Mr Loudmouth can trumpet his candidacy to high heavens but he is going no where. Icheoku says Donald Trump will not be the nominee of the Republican Party in 2012 and if, will not even win one state as he will be the final undertaker of the Republican Party's election victory funeral as we know it. 

To compound matters more, The Donald is flying a time worn 'birther-kite' that has long since been so discredited that even Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, herself a former birther, has since had her epiphany and realized that those birther-crowd are hovering on the lunatic fringe and refused to sign into law a birther bill that was recently sent to her desk. Icheoku says this is the cesspool where a presidential wanna-be is suddenly jumping in and wants to be taken serious? According to Governor Jan Brewer, "I never imagined being presented with a bill that could require candidates for president of the greatest and most powerful nation on earth to submit their 'early baptism or circumcision certificates' ... This is a bridge too far;" yet Mr. Trump is barreling along, headlong, on a course so discredited and so cliched that its apostles look more insane than insanity; and this is despite facts of consequences to his knowledge that the alleged is a falsity. 

A loan defaulter who had filed successive business bankruptcy and was once on the verge of personal bankruptcy  now wants to be president of the United States of America or is it the proverbial American Dream on steroids? A man who was barred by creditors from having any role in the day-to-day operations of his then bankrupt Trump Plaza Hotel because of debt issues, arising from poor management skills now wants to be president of the United States of America? The Donald who once owed a $900 million personal debt wants to be president of the United States of America, touting his business and financial acumen as his selling points? A man forced to pony up his Westside yards parcel of land because of money issues now wants to be president of the United States of America? A man who SEC in 1999, filed a financial reporting case against, for several "misleading statements in earnings" wants to be president of the United States of America? A man who was forced out of his CEO position in his Trump Hotels and Casino because of his mediocre-styled management wants to be president of the United States of America? A man who once avoided making payments on a loan from Deutsche Bank and who was referred to as "no stranger to overdue debt" by the creditor wants to be president of the United States of America? 

Anyway, Donald Trump's presidential run appears dead on arrival as he has already been rejected by the Republican Party establishment, with Club for Growth summarizing his candidacy thus - "Donald Trump for President? You've got to be joking." The architect himself, the oracle of Republican Party politics and the man who made a dumb, president; a highly skilled political operative who once told a Senator wanna-be witch to better remain in her coven, has opined on The Donald's plan as a huge joke. Bush's brain, Karl Rove, a man, love him or hate him, is a political genius, has given his summation on the planned presidential run of The Donald and it is not good news for The Donald. Karl Rove simply put, called The Donald a "joke candidate" and who is better to know a viable presidential candidate than the man who made GW, president against all odds?  When such an oracle speaks, those who have ears listen and fall in line; otherwise they get themselves roasted alive politically. Icheoku believes The Donald's bloated ego will not prevent him from seeing reason and listen to the candid word of advise from the man who knows what it takes to get someone elected president of the United States of America. Karl Rove said that The Donald does not have what it takes and Karl Rove is always right, especially with Republican Party politics. 

While Icheoku and the rest of America wait for this Mister Weird-Hair to finally make up his mind and pull that hare out of his stringy hair, we beg of him to stop his malicious, intentional and deliberate misleading of the American right wing Tea Party dumbs and dumbers; regurgitating a time-worn out fable that the president is a starry-eyed stranger not born in America but in some distant land somewhere in the Africa's outback. Icheoku says it is so disingenuous of The Donald to still be flying the kite of birther-theorists in 2011 three years after it first debut and was debunked, knowing same to be false and misleading, but only in his vain dream of becoming the Republican Party Tea Party nominee.  Icheoku says it is about time Mister "You are Fired", fires himself from contention by not entering the race or he will have the American people do the firing this time at the polls or even during the party's primaries. However, Icheoku strongly believes that Donald Trump is just teasing Americans with his presidential run and enjoying the attendant publicity, but will not run! But just in case he is so freaky and delusional enough to carry on and march on into the battle field, Icheoku advises the Republican Party to look for a more viable candidate but not the "joke candidate" to fly their elephant flag in the 2012 presidential election except they want to hand President Barack Obama a golden parachute to cake-walk and sail into his second term.

TO HELL WITH MUHAMMADU BUHARI, IF HE WANTS WAR LET HIM HAVE WAR!

“The fact that he didn’t win the election proves that he has been rejected by God and the people and no amount of violence, murder, arson, intimidation, court cases, or litigation can change that. We must give peace a chance in Nigeria and, no matter what, we must stop the bloodshed, calm everyone down and pull our nation back from the brink. Any attempt to rob President Goodluck Jonathan of his mandate will result in a reaction that would be far worse than anything that has ever been witnessed or experienced in this nation before." - Femi Fani-Kayode. Icheoku admires this man's courage and says, at moments like this, real men stand up and speak up and FFK is a real man. 

To hell with Imam Muhammadu Buhari and his wishful thinking of ruling one corporate Nigeria ever again. Possibly his indebted Middle Eastern Islamic countries, who bankrolled his presidential campaign, are putting pressure on him to remain adamant and impervious to reason; but it is about time Nigeria authorities told this man off or better still, arrest and try him for murdering innocent Nigerians and possibly execute him upon conviction. Army Generals have been executed in Nigeria before including Mamman Vasta and Bisalla; and heavens will not fall if a retired one is added to that list. If they want to fight war, let us fight this ever looming war now and stop deferring the inevitable doomsday any further. Or better still employ the Southern-Sudan solution to amicably solve the intractable Nigerian question NOW!

Icheoku asks, who and/or what bequeaths that particular section of the country the right to the rulership of Nigeria - from Muritala Mohammed, Shehu Shagari, Muhammadu Buhari, Ibrahim Babangida, Sani Abacha, Abdulsalam Abubakar and Umaru Yar'Adua? It is not their birthright to rule or to dictate who should rule Nigeria - never again and not this time. In a country of 150 million people with six geographical areas and one area only have had seven shots at the headship of the country and still wants more? It is mind-boggling indeed the arrogance of this people to still desire another North-westerner Buhari in power again after all these years of being in power. Icheoku says, this is increasingly becoming a worsening irritation to so many Nigerians; enough of this arrant nonsense of Buhari's claim to a none existent mandate!

SATHYA SAI BABA, THE GOD THAT EVENTUALLY DIED?

Icheoku while expressing our condolences to the followers and devotees of Hindu holy man, Sathya Sai Baba, on his loss, says what a surprise that a "God" could die? The holy man considered a god by millions of his followers and devotees worldwide, died of old age related infirmities and to the dismay of his followers who thought that he would live forever; he was 86 years old. Fondly known as Sai Baba, he was single, never married nor had children; but unlike Jesus Christ lived longer than 33years and was not crucified but died of natural causes. His ashram or base is in Puttaparthi village in southern Andhra Pradesh state India. Icheoku says may the soul of this "God" rest in peace and hopefully he was not just another con-artist who took a gullible world for a ride, hypnotizing them into believing he was what he said he was - a Living God? Except that a living God is infinite and does not and cannot die or are we expecting another resurrection in a few days time? But before that who takes care of business for and on behalf of the dead God? Icheoku asks, but now that the "God" himself has died who will then be in charge of the flock? At least if Sai Baba was only modest enough to claim that he was a messenger or even son of God, may be God would send a replacement? But when God dies what follows is nothingness - the end!

NATO AND THEIR NO-FLY (NO TANK) ZONE, WANTED IN SYRIA!

Just wondering why the foot-dragging by NATO in providing a cover for the civilian population in Syria, who are being massacred by their own government. Have enough of the civilian population not yet been massacred already to warrant such an intervention of NATO as is being witnessed in Libya? Icheoku asks, what is then preventing NATO from also acting to protect civilian population of Syria from continuously being murdered by the Assad regime or is Gaddafi's case somewhat personal and special? Icheoku says if NATO cannot extend similar protection to the Syrians, then they have lost their moral argument for being in Libya as there is no is no more justification for the ongoing bombing-runs over Libya; or are the Libyans more human than those Syrians. If NATO is waiting for Syrian protesters to graduate into armed rebels before intervening or for their population to be drastically reduced by the Assad's military machine, then the wait can go on forever, otherwise let them intervene now to save lives and protect properties. Icheoku therefore call on President Sarkozy of France and NATO to extend their Libyan intervention to Syria and equally protect Syrian civilian population as well.

HAPPY EASTER TO THE WORLD!

HAPPY EASTER NIGERIANS. REMEMBER BUHARI IS THE ANTI-CHRIST, SO KEEP HIM VERY FAR AWAY FROM POWER. REJECT HIS CPC GOVERNORSHIP CANDIDATES IN TOMORROW'S ELECTION

BUHARI, ARREST AND TRY HIM NOW FOR CAUSING BREACH OF THE PEACE.

“I would like to thank you very much for the courage and perseverance you have exhibited in enduring the long, tedious and tiring process of registration, accreditation, voting, protecting the vote and ensuring that it counts. May Allah (God) reward you abundantly. May I use this opportunity to inform you that we have commenced consultations at the highest levels to recover your stolen mandate. I would therefore urge you to continue to be patient. As I pointed out in my earlier address to you, it is wrong for you to allow miscreants to infiltrate your ranks and perpetrate such dastardly acts as the mindless destruction of worship places. Needless to say, this act is worse than the rigging of the elections." - Yinka Odumaki, spokesman for Buhari, delivering a message for calm, for and on behalf of defeated CPC presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari.


Icheoku says analysing the statement issued by the defeated CPC presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, following the alamjiri disturbances in some parts of northern Nigeria, one solution/conclusion only is reachable - arrest and try Buhari now for causing mayhem in the country. Icheoku says this gaunt-looking fundamentalist, who have terrorized Nigerians before and is now terrorizing them again through his supporters, should be arrested for inciting violence and causing mayhem in the country, period. Buhari as a coup-plotting army man had arrested, detained, tortured, tried and imprisoned Nigerian-politicians before; so now that himself is a "bloody politician", he too can also be arrested and tried for offences against the state and people of Nigeria. Icheoku says inciting violence is egregious and Buhari does not have to directly do so by himself, but it suffices if he instigates others to do so on his behalf and the later is inferable from his recent speeches, conducts and mannerisms thus far. A man who was roundly trounced at the polls is now misleading his almajiri-followers into believing that "their mandate was stolen"; and you ask yourself for what purpose other than to infuriate these street urchins and cause mayhem in the land. Who would not be incensed if his thing was stolen; but the tragedy of it all is that Buhari did not win the election nor even came close to winning it to have any mandate, talkless of it being stolen. It is therefore reckless of him to employ such inciting words of a mandate being stolen, while addressing his unreasonable fanatical supporters; who like the mob in Julius Caesar just want to lay their hands on a Cicero. 


Icheoku asks but who gave Buhari the mandate he is claiming because the last available information has it that he lost in the South-south, South-east, South-west and North-central; yet he claims a none existent mandate from Nigerians or is Buhari's definition of Nigeria limited in geography to his core Northwest and Northeastern Nigeria? A very myopic mean man, with a hideous and hidden agenda against Nigeria and Nigerians; he would like to convince himself that he was given a mandate but that it was stolen by the PDP? Icheoku bemoans that Buhari would rather Nigeria goes to hell in a hand's basket if he is not declared the winner of the election than to accept his obvious three-times humiliating rejection by Nigerians; and you wonder what hallucinatory drugs he has been taking lately to be so delusional into thinking that Nigerians gave him a mandate and elected him president? This Buhari was also ignorant of the admonition of Professor Wole Soyinka that history are not kept just to refresh a fading memory but to provide a guide for future actions and Nigerians, during the last presidential election, were correctly guided by the sordid history of the man that wanted to be their president named Buhari into once again, rejecting him at the polls. A history which catalogued his so many crimes and atrocities against the people of Nigeria which made them reject him and to vote against his candidacy at the last polls. But Buhari will not take no for an answer and is now causing trouble in some parts of northern Nigeria. If Icheoku were in a position of authority, Buhari would have since paid dearly for this disturbances and we hereby call on the authorities in Nigeria to make Buhari pay for  his insane crimes of causing mayhem and disturbing the peace in the land. BUHARI IS NOT ABOVE THE LAW and should be PUNISHED SEVERELY to send a message to other my way or the highway fanatics lurking out there!


Further, Buhari thanked his followers for protecting the votes and ensuring it counted; yet he is now ready to throw the same people who "protected the votes and ensured it counted" under the bus. He is instigating them to commit crimes of rioting, murder and arson and be dealt with by the authorities, just because his expectations of becoming president were not met but was overwhelmingly denied by the people of Nigeria. Icheoku asks, how can a man who earlier thanked his followers for "protecting their votes and ensuring that it counted" now make a sudden u-turn and claim that his praises were merely fortuitous and gratuitous; and that they were not worth the saliva he spent making it? If these almajiris "protected the votes and made sure they counted" as acknowledged personally by Buhari himself, where then is his argument of election rigging coming from; except he purposely wanted to cause political disturbance in his Islamic enclave of Northwestern and Northeastern Nigeria? It is akin to approbation and re-probation, such cannot and should not be tolerated by any sane society and for this purpose, Icheoku says Nigeria is a sane society! Such equivocation in speaking, from a supposed political leadership, especially that leading a less educated, less cultured, less civilized and less rational or irrational group of almajiris, who might misread and misunderstand it is unacceptable. 


So it therefore necessary follows that were the unfortunate "miracle" of a Buhari's win to have occurred, he, Buhari, would have by the same token, beat his bony chest in triumph that his followers "protected their votes and safeguarded their democracy?" But for another's win, no; as Buhari will have none of that as he swallowed his earlier words and now forcefully and shameless alleging rigging of an election acknowledged by Nigerians and the rest of the world as very free and fair. Icheoku says this Buhari is crazy as a fox and should be checkmated immediately in order to prevent him from causing further mischief in Nigeria. Now is the time to do it and the heavens will not fall if Muhammadu Buhari is arrested, tried and locked up or even executed for his crimes against Nigeria and Nigerians:- he did same to Nigerians before and if it is done to him now will only be a Karmic law gone its full course. 


Finally, Buhari in his statement claimed that "some miscreants infiltrated his almajiri supporters" and caused the post-election disturbances witnessed in some parts of Northern Nigeria? Icheoku asks, who infiltrated who; since practically all Buhari's supporters are almajiri-miscreants and Buhari is fully aware of this when he solicited them to cause mayhem. Icheoku says Buhari is the miscreant in chief here who had called for lynching of people and did not also frown at the misbehavior of many of his supporters who were causing havoc and even confronting other party's presidential campaigns including the President and the Vice President's. Icheoku says these almajiri-miscreants learnt very well from the master-miscreant-in-chief Muhammadu Buhari and therefore should be punished alongside their master and mentor-miscreant. 


It is also on record that Buhari did not condemn the lives that were wasted by his urchins nor commiserate with the bereaved families but only made allusion to the places of worship that were torched and you wonder if the lives of Christians and southerners meant anything to this Islamic zealot, Buhari. Severally did these imbecilic idiots wrecking havoc and causing trouble in Northern Nigeria kill, maim and burn innocent Nigerians to death without Buhari seeing such nefarious act heinous enough to elicit his condemnation. Rather he maintained his wicked and conceited indifference, calling for change when he is the one that needs to be changed, when he is the one that needs to change his character and demeanor as well as political philosophy. Icheoku like every decent Nigerian apologist is really tired of the nuisance of Buhari and says the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into the political disturbances in the north should be the tool to finally nail this alligator and permanently remove him from the Nigeria political scene. Enough of Buhari, just get rid of his skeletal ass now!

TUNDE BAKARE DISOBEYED GOD, GETS HAMMERED BY FIRE!

Icheoku says the wrath of God has already descended upon Pastor Tunde Bakare, visiting his place of abode with an inferno. It is just the beginning of the many calamities to come his way for disobeying his God, who had "revealed" to him that Buhari SHALL NEVER be president of Nigeria, yet he ran with him anyways. His legion of bad fortunes are queued up and waiting the appointed time. Bakare's Ikeja home was burnt by fire from ON HIGH to show a displeased heaven, asking a man who claims to be a prophet and pastor of God, why did he do it? Why did he run with Muhammadu Buhari against God's will and against what is in the best interest of the people of Nigeria. 

This fake prophet claims to be a God's messenger of truth, yet he could not tell Buhari his mortal sins against Nigerians and his supposed revelation from his 'God' that Buhari cannot be elected president? Icheoku asks, was Tunde Bakare not aware of Buhari's atrocities against the people of Nigeria when he choose to be his vice presidential running-mate or did he just prefer to remain an apostle of truth only when it is convenient? Pastor Bakare, Icheoku says, please confess now why you did it and ask for forgiveness of the Nigerian people in order to avoid a deluge of bad fortunes on their way to visit you. Remember the voice of the people is the voice of God and Nigerians agreed that there will be no rest for a man who sacrificed his people's overall interest just for the prospective office of a vice president of and from the DEVIL. Or was it worth it Pastor Tunde Bakare - the sellout?

BUHARI BOTCHED A REAL SHOT AT THE PRESIDENCY, DID NOT SERIOUSLY WOO THE ACN?

Icheoku says on hindsight, Imam CPC Muhammdu Buhari must be regretting now why he did not bend over backwards to accommodate Bola Tinubu and the ACN and at whatever cost. Looking at the geographical spread of the just concluded Nigeria presidential election, it showed that Buhari and Jonathan were nearly evenly divided, with each winning their primary areas of catchment geopolitical areas. Icheoku says what a difference the Yoruba southwest votes finally made breaking for President Jonathan as opposed to Muhammadu Buhari whose stubbornness prevented an alliance with the Yoruba regional party, ACN. 

So peradventure, Buhari would have been the president-elect and designate in the waiting had he co-opted Bola Tinubu and even made him his vice presidential running mate if that was what it will take. As it has been shown, the fake Pastor Tunde Bakare had no political utility to Buhari's campaign as he could not muster a win even in his Opebi constituency of Lagos State Nigeria; so Icheoku wonders why his selection? A Bola Tinubu vice presidential candidacy would have made all the difference, a whole lotta difference to the outcome of the last presidential election as Buhari would have handily won with that key Yoruba Southwest ACN votes. But hey, we all are good at Monday night quarter-backing! Thankfully, the goodluck-God shadowing every step of President Goodluck Jonathan hardened Buhari's heart and there was no alliance!

NOLLYWOOD, IT IS ABOUT TIME THEY STEPPED UP THEIR GAME.

Icheoku says watching Nigerian films for some time now reveals one thing - they seem to have stalled. Nollywood seems to have ran out of fresh ideas about their stock in trade and/or where they want to take their industry to. It appears they have lost their mojo and their road-map and now bewildered at a fork on the road.

Their stories, acts, scenes, costumes and themes all look like a clone of each other - the same, shallow, stale and sitcom-like. Our conclusion, it is about time Nollywood innovated and start blowing things up if they still want to remain relevant and competitive in the industry; otherwise they will soon peter to a stop like most things Nigerian. Icheoku is a fan and wants Nollywood to thrive and live long; but only wishes they can take their game to the next level and start doing some more serious educated and intelligent stories and not rehashing all these pseudo-dramas they saturate the stores with. Analytical and articulate stories like a terrorist criminal manhunt, Abuja bombing, the making of President Jonathan, IBB military adventurism, the Great Zik, Awolowo and Ahmadu Bello docu-drama etc just to name a few. Just some intelligent movies is what it takes to remain buoyant in the field but not all these boy meet girl sitcom-dramas that they package and repackage each time. Icheoku and the rest of the watching-world, anxiously await Nollywood to take up and deliver on this challenge!

WHEN IS NATO GOING TO PROTECT SYRIAN CIVILIAN POPULATION?

Icheoku asks, when is the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) going to protect the Syrian civilians or are their lives worthless? The President Assad massacre of his people has been ongoing for quite some time now but Sarkozy and NATO seem to be looking the other way and bombing Libya under false pretense of protecting the Libyan population? 

Icheoku asks when is NATO going to provide the same mother-hen protection for the Syrians? But just for the asking, isn't it an injustice that a group of countries ganged up and are bombing and destroying a tiny country just because they can? Icheoku asks where is the moral justification of bombing Libya while Syria, which is committing the same offense Libya is accused of, is left off the radar? Or is it really "OIL interest" as opposed to the civilian population that is being protected by NATO and their bombing. But is NATO afraid of Syria and their Iranian backers to warrant the cold feet? Icheoku asks would Saudi Arabia also come under NATO bombing or have they not slaughtered enough of their civilian population to warrant NATO's no fly zone or bombing to protect their civilians? Put in another way, NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE!

PRESIDENT OBAMA'S WHITE MOTHER IS A CHIMP, SAYS MARILYN DAVENPORT.

"Republican Party official Marilyn Davenport of Orange country California just did. She emailed around her warped version of "President Obama's family portrait," with Mom-Obama, wearing red sweater and sitting in the middle? What an unfortunate case of a deranged, bored and loveless hag trying to stir an hornet nest with such a cliched satire, several years after it first surfaced during the last 2008 presidential election? Unfortunately in her attempt to spite the face, she decided to cut off the nose too and railroaded the president's white mother as an ape or better still a white ape?Icheoku never knew that white apes existed until the treacherous heart of this white trash produced a supposed family portrait right? Or did the brain-dead racist hater Marilyn Davenport forgot that the president's mother was a white  woman like herself or was she admitting that both white and black people are all apes or better still homo sapiens? Icheoku says only an ignorant buffoon could put out such a poor-taste photo, in an attempt to mock and caricature someone but only succeeded in exposing her little to nothing porous mental acuity in making such a great guffaw as grouping a white woman, an African man and their child as apes? If racist hater Marilyn Davenport set out to be funny, she failed woefully; if Marilyn Davenport set out to caricature the president, her message was lost in translation; if Marilyn Davenport set out to upset anyone, she did not succeed as reasonable people had pity instead for her lack of debt.This latest exhibition of the far right perversion of truth only helps to buttress the argument by the sane side of society that the vehement opposition by these fringe-groups to the presidency of President Barack Obama is purely racist as they continually see President Obama through their racist lens as occupying "their" White House. The picture under advisement here is evidence of what most of them think of the president except that the poorly educated and less exposed Marilyn Davenport of Orange county California, in her infantile infatuation to outdo others on her side of the divide went to town with her inner heart recess. Racist baiter and hater Marilyn Davenport "unfortunately" forgot however that the president's mother was a white woman like herself and Icheoku says this her ignorance of that material fact now makes her the most foolish, idiotic and imbecilic white woman in America. So it therefore logically follows that if according to this racist old witch, Marilyn Davenport, the president's white-mother is now a red sweater-wearing ape, then Marilyn Davenport, herself a white woman is also a qualified ape-woman; although Icheoku does not know if she also owns a red-sweater? What a buffoon this woman is and Icheoku bets her children and friends are very proud of her now? What a racist wicked dark soul that lies underneath her wrinkly skin. Hey racist white Americans, now you know; but love it or hate it, that 'NIGGER' or baby-chimp remains in "your" White House for the rest of his current presidency and hopefully through four more years thereafter. So all the likes of Marilyn Davenport of Orange County California can now go take a dive into a cesspool or better still jump off a bridge for all Icheoku cares. What an intolerant 74 year old bitch, this white woman resident of Fullerton is; and she is a member of the republican party and an elected member of Orange County Republic Party central committee and associates with those Tea Party fringed loonies?

IT IS NOW OFFICIAL, PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN IS THE PRESIDENT-ELECT!

"Goodluck Ebele Jonathan of the PDP, having satisfied the requirement of the law and scored the highest number of votes is hereby declared the winner and is returned elected." With those words, INEC chairman and chief returning officer of the presidential election, Professor Attahiru Jega, declared President Goodluck Jonathan the official winner of last Saturday's presidential election.


President Jonathan got 22,495,187 votes or 57% of the total votes cast and secured 25% of the votes cast in 31 states as required by the constitution to win the election. His closest follow-up, CPC candidate Muhammadu Buhari secured 12,214,853 votes or 31% of the total votes cast and secured 25% the votes cast in 16 states. ACN Nuhu Ribadu got 2, 079, 151 votes or 5 percent with only one win in Osun State while Malam Ibrahim Shekarau, ANPP candidate got 917,012,000 votes or 2 percent of the votes cast without any win in any state. There was a 54% voter turn-out in the election. 


Icheoku says congratulation to Nigeria President Goodluck Jonathan on his election as the next president of Nigeria for the next four years. Admitted he was not our primaries candidate of choice; but after the primaries, he was the only one with the least sins among the pack of presidential candidates, hence our tacit support. Be that as it may, Nigerian electorates have spoken and in a voice so loud and clear, with overwhelming majority votes of over twenty million, that President Jonathan is it. Our congratulations Mr President and President-elect Goodluck Jonathan; may God continue to guide your actions through the remainder of your term and the next four years, Amen!