AMERICA WINS AMERICA'S CUP, WHAT A COMEBACK LOOKS LIKE.

Icheoku says unlike other countries like Nigeria that usually looks to God to do their heavy lifting including qualifying and doing well in the upcoming World Cup tournament in Brazil 2014, America does it the old fashioned way - dogged determination and a will to triumph. This can-do, can-win attitude saw their Oracle Team USA come back from an assured defeat to snarl victory in the just concluded America's Cup sailing competition in San Francisco California. A Team USA trailing 8-1 came back from a near certain defeat to overrun the Kiwis in the finals to clinch the championship at 9-8 thereby retaining the cup for the second year back to back. Icheoku commends the sheer bravado of the Team USA sailors who despite the odds against their winning the tournament came from behind to roar to victory. 

One derivative from the Team USA victory is to never give up no matter how herculean the tasks looks like or how rugged the road ahead seems or even how steep the climb might otherwise be or look like. Icheoku congratulates the Larry Ellison sponsored Oracle Team USA for snatching victory from the New Zealand Team Emirate under a circumstance that could easily pass for a miracle of the Bay. Admitted the defending champion, Oracle Team USA, had two points deducted from them as penalty for cheating at the beginning of the tournament, which could have impacted their morals to so easily and quickly fall 1-8 to the Kiwis; but their eventual comeback and final victory shows they are possibly a better side who dutifully defended their championship. 

Icheoku does not know if Larry Ellison would re-stage the championship again in San Francisco, but whatever he decides, the tournament did well to create awareness to a sports considered by many as the pastime of the rich and wealthy, explaining the near lack of interest of ordinary San Franciscans who almost did not even know about a tournament holding in their city. Icheoku was lucky to have watched some of the races and is marvelled at the catamarans' near levitating maneuvers on the waters of San Francisco bay; and those sailors, boy were they all buffed - fitness defined. Icheoku says that what Oracle Team USA pulled off over the much fancied and favored Team Emirate of New Zealand - the Kiwis, is indeed what a typical come back really looks like, what a feat.

MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD BAN, A WELCOME DEVELOPMENT.

Icheoku says the ban of the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist group in Egypt is a welcomed step in the right direction. We hereby congratulate the Egyptian military for doing what is best for their country regardless of what any outsider may think or otherwise feel since no one can be more Egyptian than the Egyptian security forces themselves who have devoted their lives to protecting the structural integrity of their country. 

Following the ban, Icheoku says the next step is to fire or sack any Egyptian who identifies him/herself with the now outlawed organisation from their jobs and lets see how they would continue to forcibly indoctrinate any Egyptian or cause any further upheaval with their brand of Islamic fundamentalism. Icheoku does not really care about democracy in some of these God forsaken countries where some elements of the society usually hijacks democracy and skewers it to suit their own ideological fundamentalism as witnessed recently in Egypt where then President Morsi looked the other way while foot soldiers of his Muslim Brotherhood literally ran every non Muslim Egyptian out of Egypt? 

Democracy must mean what it preaches - government of the people, by the people and for the people and not just for a few ideological class or elites. It must bear broad spectrum application to all regardless of their understanding of who God is and whether they choose to stand or knock their heads on the grounds or at a wall in prayers. If those lunatics in Egypt, who parade themselves as Muslim Brotherhood, wants to enjoy their so called democracy, it must not be at the backs of other non Muslim Brotherhood Egyptians. This is where the rubber meets the road in Icheoku's vehement disagreement with them and our support for the coup that toppled President Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood's fundamentalist government. Now this blanket ban of the terrorist group throughout Egypt becomes the icing on the cake towards Egypt's recovery from the siege that was laid on them by this Islamist fundamentalists through the Morsi government. Once again, Icheoku congratulates the Egyptian military for standing up to be counted when it mattered most for millions of Egyptians. Bravo Egyptian armed forces; long live Egyptian moderates!

2015, A THIRD TERM FOR JONATHAN?

Icheoku queries:- if President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan runs and wins in 2015, would he be then embarking on a third term presidency? The answer seems to be technically "Yes" since he would have been sworn in for the third time consecutively as president of Nigeria; except that he was not elected president in 2010 which somewhat made him a 'de-facto' president without a mandate as he was then merely completing the term of the late President Umaru Yar'Adua. Icheoku queries further, were President Umaru Yar'Adua to have instead died a day immediately following after his inauguration in May 2007, and the then Vice President Jonathan stepped in to "complete his four year remaining term," could this have also qualified as a completion of term and not Jonathan's own presidency term? 

The problem created here, which many people expected constitutional lawyers to have gone to court for determination is what number of years left in a presidency qualifies for completion of term and not a full term? At what stage in the presidency would an arising sudden vacancy create a fresh term for the succeeding vice president or a term of his own instead of just a mere completion of term? Icheoku is of the opinion that there is a lacunae in the law governing succession of the presidency in case of such unexpected vacancy arising from death or resignation or impeachment and the legislators should pull a rabbit out of their hats to fix this. Admitted that a vice president is a president in the waiting, but what happens where a conflict develops as to presidential term limit where such succeeding vice president claims as of right his entitlement to subsequent two full terms following his completion term of the departed president? Would this have inadvertently created an elongated term surpassing the allowable two terms of four years each aggregated eight years in office? So like in the poser prior, assuming a president died in the beginning of his first term and his vice president takes over and after the completion of the term seeks his own two four year term, would the law allow such a president to spend twelve years in office instead of the legal eight years? As with President Jonathan, if he finds his way and wins in 2015, he would have spent ten years in office instead of the allowed eight years, so is this legal and within the prescribed presidential terms? 

Icheoku posits that the National Congress owes Nigeria a resolution on this matter and they can follow the examples of some other countries including Venezuela where the vice president is allowed to function in an acting capacity only until elections are conducted to fill the created vacancy. Icheoku does not know what the position is in Ghana which also recently lost its President John Atta Mills and was succeeded by then vice president and now President John Dramani Mahama? When US President Kennedy was murdered in 1963 in Dallas Texas, Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson succeeded him but declined to run for a second term in 1968 when he said "I shall not seek and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president;" so the issue was not addressed nor settled then by the United States whose idea of democracy Nigeria is trying to emulate? So Icheoku says to avoid such undue advantage of benefiting extra years in the presidency, a sitting vice president should be legislated to only act as a president until a new president is elected to fill a created presidential vacancy. Just as they do in some other countries, such vice president should feel free to run to succeed the departed president and if he wins, start his own presidency de novo; as most recently happened in Venezuela when Hugo Chavez died and his Vice President Nicolas Maduro won a fill-vacancy election and became the new president. In such case, a vice president like the then Goodluck Jonathan would have held forte just as acting president for about three months within which elections would have been conducted and if he won, would have been sworn in as a freshman president who was beginning his own term. 

This would have solved all the problems now rearing its ugly head through the renegade "nPDP" that President Jonathan is going for a third term by running in 2015? According to this meddlesome interlopers, quoting their press release "What we are saying is that if President Jonathan chooses to run in 2015, it will be like the third term which Obasanjo wanted to smuggle into the 1993 constitution. What we are doing is to sensitize Nigerians that there is no difference between what Obasanjo wanted to do and what President Jonathan wants to do if he runs in 2015.." Icheoku says although this may sound plausible if weighed against some technicalities of President Jonathan having been sworn in 2010 and again in 2011 and possibly once more in 2015, but the "nPDP" and other well meaning Nigerians including Icheoku know for a fact that these disgruntled "nPDP" rebels are talking complete balderdash and gibberish with their misstated position meant only for the gullible, whom they intend to hoodwink into hating a third term agenda as they despised Obasanjo's and by extension President Jonathan's quest for his legal second term in 2015. 

These "nPDP" guys are being clever by half, they know the truth but are too coy in not speaking the truth about what transpired then in 2010 viz a viz their 2015 propaganda of a Jonathan's third term. Therefore Nigerians must rise up and tell these denigrates that they are not fools; that they know better and know exactly what the position of the law is regarding this matter and that President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan will not be going for a third term if he runs in 2015. 2015 would be Jonathan's second term if he chooses to go for it as he is rightly and legally entitled within the ambit of the provisions of the law. In 2010 when he became president by providence, he never ran, nor campaigned nor was he ever elected president and therefore had no term of his own but was merely complying with what the dictates of the law required of him as a sitting vice president to a demised president. At best the catapult which shot Jonathan into the presidency could be understood for what it is - an act of God, pure and simple. Put in another way the nearly two years succession-term which President Jonathan got in 2010 could be subsumed as a bonus to his presidential term, but not a presidential term of his own to preclude him from seeking another term in 2015, period. Nigerians be wise and do not let any of these anarchists put a ring on your nose. It is 2013 for crying out loud, so why must some disruptive usurpers do your thinking for you. 

YET ANOTHER MASSACRE IN THE USA?

Icheoku says Boko Haram or no Boko Haram, Nigeria seemingly might afterall be safer than so many countries including the United States of America? At least in Nigeria, the scourge of Boko Haram is confined within the Islamic enclave of Northern Nigeria especially Northeastern Bornu State and surrounding states. So relatively speaking, one knows where to avoid in order to still stand a chance at staying above the ground; but in America, every place could be the it - someone's last breath on earth. Everyone, literally speaking, is a potential gunman, a time-bomb, waiting to go off and at anytime with or without any direct provocation from the victim. There are guns everywhere and so many crazed out people are just pulling those triggers without first considering the irreparable harm they are causing and the damage they are inflicting on the society's general psyche with their blatant disregard for human lives and public safety. People are afraid and for a good reason, although not intimidated.

Not in the church, not in kindergartens, not in High schools, not in universities and colleges, not in movie theaters, not on the roads, not in court houses, not in police stations, not at other workplaces, not even in your own house despite the hefty mortgages and rents - just any place could be the place you take your last breath on earth. And now it appears military installations has been brought under this fog of needless massacres in America. Following Fort-Hood, another military installation, a Navy Yard in Washington DC has fallen prey to one of these lunatics of America who must take people along with them as they, tired of living, make that conscious decision enroute their exit from this earth. Aaron Alexis of Texas has entered the annals of these despicable mass murderers of America. Icheoku bemoans this latest killings in Washington DC's Naval Yard that took the lives of twelve innocent people whose only crime was that they went to do their jobs in order to earn their living wages. When shall this madness end, America? Admitted that guns do not kill people, people do, using guns; but what is the solution America? 

Also it is important to note that today's gunman is a BLACK-MAN which led one commentator to post that "If Obama had a son he will look like the gunman;" alluding to the president's remark about Trevor Martin. Icheoku says to the poster of this comment, that the gunman is not young enough to be Obama's son and that there is no need trying to input a racial undertone to this mass murder as a killer is a killer regardless of his skin color; but if you must know, Icheoku reminds you that this is the only gunman in recent history whose skin color is not pale. To some extent, Aaron Alexis's skin color does not fit the typical profiled mass murderers of America and there goes the verdict for crying out loud. To the victims of Navy Yard in Washington DC, Icheoku says rest in peace; to the families of the killed, please take heart; and to Aaron Alexis, why? Admitted that many atimes, one's button could be so often pushed and to such an extent that thoughts of the unthinkable starts gushing into one's mind, BUT you should have walked away and tried your luck elsewhere. Icheoku admonishes that no amount of provocation whatsoever justifies the taking of lives. What another bloody workplace day in America except that it will not still persuade those holding out on meaningful gun legislation from turning the corner. Quite unfortunate.

ATIKU'S NON-DENIAL DENIAL, RESPONSE TO OBASANJO'S ACCUSATIONS?

Icheoku says when evidence is so glaring, the accused can but throw things at the wall hoping something sticks. Instead of taking up Baba Iyabo's challenge that he visits America to prove his innocence, Abubakar Atiku went to town with his resume of being a deep pocket ever before his vice presidency. Further he bragged about establishing industries and companies but without telling Icheoku and millions of other curious Nigerians who are working in these industries or where those industries are located or what they are manufacturing or producing. Anyway be the judge as below here is Mallam Atiku's denial to Baba Iyabo's accusation that he is eminently a very CORRUPT person, reproduced:- 

"Following the corruption charges made by former President Olusegun Obasanjo in an EFCC magazine ‘Zero Tolerance’ that former vice-president risked jail if he traveled to the United States, the former president is wrong. It is widely known that Atiku did not enter government broke. He declared his assets at the commencement of his vice-presidency and did so at the end of his term as required by the constitution, which is a sacred document to Atiku. Atiku, who is currently returning from China after leading a private economic trade mission at the invitation of the Chinese government, travels often and has a well-documented record of building industries and putting thousands of Nigerians to work. And this record, quite frankly, has been thoroughly investigated. Mr. Abubakar has no case to answer from the American Government as he spent three months in the country before the late Nigerian President Yar'Adua was inaugurated without being arrested."

In answer to Atiku's claim of a three months sojourn in the United States before Yar'Adua was inaugurated, Icheoku says by then he probably was still covered by diplomatic immunity as a sitting vice president of a friendly country. Moreso, it was likely that investigation into his alleged corruption was still ongoing and this period was also before his USA accomplice Congressman Williams Jefferson was convicted for stashing $90,000.00 cold cash, part of Atiku's bribe money, inside his freezer. So to lay this matter to rest, Atiku should board the next Delta or United or even Arik airlines flight to JFK and prove that a clear conscience fears no accusation and that he has nothing to fear by avoiding United States of America. This is a challenge that Obasanjo has thrown for Atiku and only Atiku can disprove this through a proactive visit to Uncle Sam's and God's own country. Until then, Icheoku views Atiku suspiciously as an itching finger inside Nigeria's pot of gold and should never be allowed near the presidency, not in his life, NEVER AGAIN!

ATIKU IS A FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE - OBASANJO.

Icheoku says you heard it right from the horses' mouth - his boss and former president, Olusegun Obasanjo whose vice president Abubakar Atiku was when he allegedly looted Nigeria dry during the privatization process. Icheoku says if anyone should know the dept of Abubakar Atiku's loot of the nation that person should be Obasanjo and little wonder the Otta deity once said "I dey laugh" to a question on whether Atiku would succeed him. 

In Obasanjo's latest salvo, attacking Atiku's corruptive tendencies, the Otta farmer said "Atiku is a fugitive in United States. I don’t know if he can go to America…He travels? Travels to where? To Dubai? Let him go to America and return to Nigeria”. With those words, Baba Iyabo once again indicted his former number two and peradventure warns Nigeria to beware of the Abubakar Atiku led seven denigrate former PDP governors and their supposedly new-PDP. Icheoku says what a thieving looter in chief this Atiku is and anyone in doubt should urge or encourage Abubakar Atiku to take up the Obasanjo challenge and visit America. In short Obasanjo has dared Atiku to set his feet on American soil and go to jail. Icheoku says Nigerians are awaiting for Atiku to prove his innocence.

PDP PUTSCH, THE COUP MUST NOT STAND!

Icheoku says the Abubakar Atiku led seven vagrant governors' attempt to forcibly hijack the PDP should be understood for what it is - a civilian coup de`tat or its attempt at minimum, period. As with any unsuccessful coup, its hatchers and perpetrators should be mercilessly crushed in order to send a message that such unlawful act of moving against duly elected and constituted body is always gravely frowned at. Icheoku has nothing against anyone or any group of persons from taking a stand, advocating a position or even ganging up to push what they consider is in their best interest. They can also use or choose any platform to lender amplification to their cause or voice. BUT for the same person or group of persons to attempt to illegally hijack the machinery of a duly established, authorised and otherwise functioning political party because certain policies therein are disagreeable to them should be frowned at by all decent men and women of the given geographical entity irrespective of their party affiliations. It is not right, it is wrong, it is illegal. Such unruly behavior by a handful of dejected former party members, if allowed to stand is capable of resulting to anarchy and therefore must be crushed and ruthlessly.

Icheoku says if Abubakar Atiku and those recalcitrant governors as well as their followers want to leave the PDP they are free to do so. If they want to pitch their tent with the opposition APC they are also so entitled. If any of them wants to run for the presidency in 2015 or any other future date, they are equally eminently so entitled. If they want to form a new political party or decamp enmass to their newly registered political party, PDM, and then use that platform to oppose or challenge the president come 2015, let them be my guest. But what Icheoku as well as many other millions of discerning Nigerians will not tolerate is the latest antic by some disgruntled former PDP hacks to hijack the PDP and with it, the governance at the center. There is an elected president; there is a political party in power and there is elected party officials running the political party. Further there is spelled out manner of affecting leadership change when called for. Icheoku asks, what impetus drove these political fanatics to make a go at the party's leadership without due process and without the president's input as leader of the party, other than to summarize their action as a civilian coup or its attempt? If their illegal action is allowed to stand, what stops another group of political conspirators from hatching yet another putsch in the future? It is common amongst military coup plotters who make a go at each other with any given opportunity. 

These coup plotting politicians must not and should not be allowed to succeed in hijacking or stealing by default the party or its machinery. They should not be allowed to get away with their illegality and should be dealt with accordingly and in order to set example and deterrence against any such rascal behavior in the future. They have other legitimate means available to them but they choose otherwise and decided to take the law into their hands. If they want a change in leadership, they should follow laid down procedure - call for election, contest and if elected, serve. But any other attempt at circumventing the process or try to enter the house through the window or back door should be resisted and by all and sundry irrespective of political partisanships. Only a thief breaches a home and these marauders have breached the PDP house and should be treated with bare knuckles. This is where the rubber meets the road and where the proverbial line in the sand is and should be drawn and any leg found crossing it smashed to pieces. Icheoku stands convincingly resolute that the need to crush these rebels mercilessly exists and only such drastic response to their provocation is called for and no negotiations whatsoever is warranted. 

Icheoku says except Nigerians do not like the peace and free-reign extended to them by President Jonathan, it might be about time it ended so that fear will once again envelope the land? Unlike Buhari how many Bartholomeo Owos and co have been murdered based on a retroactive decree under Jonathan? Unlike Babangida, how many Dele Giwas have been bombed to pieces under Jonathan? Unlike Abacha, how many Saro Wiwas, Pa Rewanes, Kudirat Abiola etc have been hanged or murdered in cold blood under Jonathan? Unlike Abdusalam Abubakar, how many MKO Abiolas have been poisoned by tea under Jonathan? Unlike Obasanjo, how many Harry Marshalls, Bola Iges etc have been murdered under Jonathan? Unlike Obasanjo, how many Abubakar Atikus, Nuhu Ribadus have scampered into exile for safety since Jonathan was elected president? Unlike Obasanjo, how many governors have been removed as a result of unfavorable reports from security agencies or emergency declarations? Unlike Obasanjo, how many governors have been kidnapped under Jonathan? Unlike Obasanjo, how many governors or their relatives or aides have been harangued by the EFCC? Unlike Obasanjo, how many newspapers or other media outlets have been shuttered under Jonathan, despite printing and publishing unprintables about the person of the president and his wife? Unlike Obasanjo, how many banana peels have been thrown and that claimed victims in the National Congress under Jonathan; as Nigerians are aware of the shifting chair that was both the Speakership and Senate Presidency during Baba Iyabo's reign? Unlike Obasanjo, how many Slok Airlines, Hallmark Banks, Savannah Banks, Ibeto cement and other businesses belonging to perceived political foes have been closed under Jonathan? So why should this President Goodluck Jonathan, who have extended to Nigerians some olive branch and allowed them to roam freely, be receiving these disrespectful treatment in the hands of Nigerians, especially those disgruntled politicians formerly of his party?

Icheoku says the simple fact of the matter is that Nigerians do not cherish freedom but love those leaders who treat them as donkeys - poorly and without any regards. They prefer the cudgel and the stick like mental people who must be whipped to conform to basic instructions? They would rather their bodies and skins replaced their ears since they respond to inflicted pain more than soundbites? As a friend would put it, Nigerians are like women, you do not give them any breather because if you allow them they will start looking for allowance and before you know it they will be spitting and slapping your face as a weakling. This is the fate being suffered today by President Jonathan for being too educated and too civil to play it rough and dirty with Nigerians. President Jonathan does not belong nor was he raised in a brutish barrack environment like Obasanjo and not having this sinister experience and mentality of do or die, he is today paying dearly for because of the crass society that he is presiding over. 

Nigerians prefer being put on a leash; always told what to do; told when to wake up and go to sleep; and sometimes even when to open their mouth? Do this and Nigerians will tremblingly bid your wish and respect you out of fear. This is what is deficient with President Jonathan and Nigerians are vagrantly milking his cow without reservation. Now President Goodluck Jonathan, you know what to do - change your color, shed your sheep's skin and adorn the leopard's and watch as Nigerians fall on your feet in trepidation. Turn your dogs of war loose and let them feast on all those political charlatans and urchins who are sabotaging your presidency; especially those who have conspired and purportedly have thrown spanner in the works for your 2015 reelection effort by trying to steal your party under your nose. By virtue of your office, the Peoples Democratic Party belongs to you and you reserve the right to force anyone out of it including Olusegun Obasanjo. However, you might just start flexing your muscle by expelling Abubakar Atiku and his cohort and fellow conspirators seven governors therefrom. The security agencies are waiting to be used; Obasanjo used them, so copy a page from his book of do or die politics and regain your lost grounds. Those dissidents have already registered their PDM, so they should feel free to move over to their newly registered political party BUT they must not and SHOULD not be allowed to burn down the PDP house before raising their new flag under their registered PDM. Enough!

PDP DISSIDENT GOVERNORS, TREAT THEM LIKE OFFICIAL OPPOSITION.

Icheoku says it is about time President Goodluck Jonathan stopped treating those errant governors as his political friends and rather treat them as political foes and as he would treat official opposition like Muhammadu Buhari or Bola Tinubu and now even Abubakar Atiku, period. These guys, by their actions and utterances, are no longer anything friendly; they have morphed into political vermin of the president and are now doggedly going for the jugular of the political life of the president. The president, in order to survive their machinations, must fight back or have himself to blame when these guys would have succeeded in making a mincemeat of him come 2015 if they are not checkmated right now. 

Icheoku says it is about time now for President Jonathan to say "wait a minute", this is no longer a tolerable political jostling and the normal political horse-trading in a democracy; but a fight to finish for his political life and he must fight like his life is dependent on it. Imagine the unpalatable conditions these guys are giving the president before peace could be made in the PDP as if they are the lords of Manor with all the aces in the party? Imagine these rascally governors throwing gauntlet against a sitting president and challenging and goading him for a fight; and you wonder why any president should be so disrespected and so demeaned in this manner? Icheoku says President Jonathan lost his mojo the day he decried that he is neither an army general nor a despot to tell Nigerians what to do and Nigerians, as represented by these governors, like the sharks they are, smelled blood and are now pummeling the president left, right and center. Imagine the base treatment this president has tolerated from these recalcitrant governors and continues to allow them to mete to him? Anyway, Icheoku believes it is not too late for the president to rediscover his presidential clout and use same in order to save his face and office. The president can still do something to turn this ugly tide or at least make these guys know who is on top of the food chain. Would they have dared what they are currently dishing out when Baba Iyabo was in Aso Rock or even the then ailing and now dead weakling Umaru Yar'Adua? 

Look at the litany of the disrespect and insults they have levied on President Jonathan and you wonder if these guys have not since crossed the proverbial "red-line" in their face-off with the commander in chief and chief executive president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The gang of rascally governors first made their unapproved mutinous rounds visiting and cavorting with despicable former military coup plotters/head of states, plotting against a sitting president? Icheoku wondered why the president did not arrest them or at least raise an alarm for their planning to destabilize the country as well as his government. Then they followed it with their refusal to honor the presidents invitation to Aso Rock; then the irate Kwankwaso took it a step further by refusing to greet the president while visiting Aso Rock on a presidential function? These governors also staged a walkout on a sitting president while he was still deliberating states' matters? Most recently, the same Kano State Governor Kwakwanso while again in Aso Rock for a peace initiative, refused once again to stand by the president for a photo-up with the president and now as if they have not caused enough havoc, the same gang of governors' staged a coup and purportedly forcibly took over the PDP with their acolytes. Add these to their so many other infra-digs alongside their minders and goaders alike, and you wonder when should enough be really enough for the president before he curtails these their excesses? Icheoku asks, what manner of man has this much elasticity of capacity for tolerance of the stupidity, disrespect and challenge of his constituted authority by ordinary governors and party members of his party? Would these rabble-rousers dared during previous governments of Obasanjo and Yar'Adua talkless of military despots of Babangida, Buhari or Abacha?

Icheoku says Jonathan where is the bite of your presidency? When would you bare your presidential fangs for these guys to know who is in charge of the land? It is now time to use it or forever be gored into political and historical irrelevance as the president who was ran out of town (Aso Rock) by ordinary governors and ordinary party hacks. Could these seven rascally governors or anyone for that matter attempt such effrontery during the reign of Baba Iyabo or even the debilitated Umaru Yar'Adua? Imagine the arrogance audacity of their demands that the party chairman be sacked; that the president should forget about 2015 reelection; that the NGF crisis should be resolved in favor of Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi; and that the governors should be left to run wild with their states' fiscal allocations and that they should not be check and balanced by EFCC; as well as other sundry lists of stupid demands before there could be any meaningful reconciliation within the party? Icheoku says these guys are acting as if they have all the aces and that the president won the election because of them and is in office at their pleasure? Imagine giving absolute conditions and terms for reconciliation based on purely what they want, regardless of the party or the other side? 

Icheoku says the President won his election without carrying any of those recalcitrant governors' states except for Rivers, so why the sudden claim to political relevance by these power-grabbing governors that has made the president to allow himself to be so hog-tied to these governors dictates? What is it that really make these governors believe that without them that there can be no re-elected President Jonathan in 2015 or that the skies over Nigeria holds up by their grace? Imagine Jigawa State Governor Lamido was miffed at the president because his son was caught money laundering and now the errant governor holds it against the president? Icheoku queries:- does Jigawa State Governor Sule Lamido want President Jonathan to be like Muhammadu Buhari who allowed his ADC Jokolo to bring into Nigeria 53 suitcases filled with hard currency from Saudi Arabia without necessary Customs' clearance during the 1983 currency exchange? Also Kwara State Governor Ahmed is mad at the president because he believes that as a governor he is free to run amok with state resources and that his brother cannot and should not be questioned by the EFCC for illegal Sixty million Naira State contract which he never executed? 

Further, Kano State Kwakwanso is mad at the president because CBN Islamic Governor Sanusi will not be reappointed and was queried for doling out 500 million Naira Nigerians money to Kano State without presidency's approval. The governor is also furious because NPC Odimegwu had the audacity to query a 2006 made-up census figures that gave Kano State population superiority over Lagos? Rivers States' Rotimi Amaechi is politically too ambitious and is prepared to trade a zonal presidency for his selfish vice presidential interest and you ask yourself what has that guy been smoking lately to desire such a trade? If you were President Jonathan, what would you do for such a betrayal of regional effort and cause? Adamawa State Governor Nyako is pissed off at party Chairman Tukur and is now channeling his internal state misgivings with Bamaga Tukur at the president for standing by his party chairman? 

As for Sokoto State, Niger State and one other, Icheoku believes that religion and oil revenue sharing formula has something to do with their unfavorable disposition at the current occupant of Aso Rock. But who cares what these mullahs think or feel about President Jonathan trying to lift his Niger Delta region from abject neglect despite their God given oil wealth, afterall Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida over-developed Minna and Niger State with Gwadebe/David Mark as military administrators during his military hijack of governance in Nigeria to the detriment of other states in Nigeria? It is also important to note that possibly these governors do not like the fact that the Boko Haram Islamic upheaval situation is firmly being contained as they had wished it would have been the easiest passport to accomplish their devilish intention to take back power. 

Icheoku therefore implores President Goodluck Jonathan and the PDP hierarchy to forget their attempt at resolving the trumped up grievances and rather treat these seven governors as insurgents out to get him. They possibly are working for the opposition APC and no matter the concession they receive, they will come up with something else as their grievance. Time is now to tough it out - if they want to go, let them go. Nigeria can accommodate multiple parties and let the best win the election. Let them form their own party, then APC and then PDP as well as other mushroom parties; it is okay but this attempt at wooing these errants must stop and NOW. 

These spoilers are moles for the opposition; they do not have the interest of the party or Nigeria at heart and are doing whatever they could to bring down the house. Atiku ran away before; only to come back and is now pulling this latest joker of hijacking the party? So ask yourselves, who ever burns down a house he built except a psycho who wants to visit pain on its co-dwellers? Look at Oyinlola, a sacked former party scribe now parading himself as the new deal? Icheoku says this is simply laughable and further makes a mockery of a president who is as toothless as an old bulldog. A president who lost his fangs when he said that he is neither an army general nor a despot and cannot be expected to tell Nigerians what to do; so having made himself a mouse, is it any surprise that cats are now gnawing at his remains. Icheoku is emphatic that President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan brought his current political hardship unto himself and only him can extricate himself from the hellish fire consuming his presidency. 

Where in this world could it be told that a sitting president with all the accoutrement of office is been turned into a pinata and that his presidency is now adrift simply because his timidity has made it impossible for him to wield the big stick. All he has to do is turn loose his dogs of war and let them maul those who stand in the way - just break some knee-caps and the rest will fall in line, period. Obasanjo did it and even kidnapped a sitting governor; impeached another and removed some other via emergency declaration. It is called putting the fear of God in people so that even if they don't like you; at least they would be afraid of you which in Jonathan's case, none applies. It is indeed unfortunate that the presidency of Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has been decimated to such a laughing joke that ordinary state governor like Kano State Kwakwanso and his fellow-travelling revelers are now running circles around the president, dribbling and mocking him with their actions and utterances. Icheoku says to President Jonathan, ENOUGH should be your marching orders and NOW.

SYRIAN PROVOCATION, LET THE BOMBARDMENT BEGIN NOW.

Icheoku says America MUST now put its money where its mouth is in order to continue providing the much needed deterrence to world's dictators and would-be despots alike. The blatant dare of the Assad Bashir's led Syrian government, which defied a clearly marked line in the sand of American President Barack Obama, who had categorically stated that using chemical weapon in the conflict in Syria will be considered by America as crossing the proverbial red line, requires a punitive response. President Bashir Assad, not once but now twice since the red-line was drawn, has called America's bluff by gassing his people and daring America to show that its words is still its bond and also still bankable. Icheoku says any further inaction or delayed response to this flagrant violation by the Commander-in-Chief of the strongest military in the world will be seen as bluster, hence the skies over Damascus and the entire Syrian geography MUST and SHOULD rain down some pulverising and punitive hellfire in response; and to send a clear message that America does not bluff. 

Such a 'shock and awe' aerial assault is what the killer-government in Damascus needs to see and feel, in order to be reminded that certain actions are considered a taboo and greatly frowned at, in such civil conflict or war as going on now in Syria. It is called rules of engagement and humans are not animals to be gassed or chemically burnt and scorched. Iraq's Saddam Hussein once gassed his people and it eventually snowballed into an invasion of his country and his forcible overthrow from power; and which culminated into his neck being yanked off his shoulders in the gallows. Icheoku says President Bashir Assad has already killed enough of his people - people he is meant to protect; and by now using chemical weapons on them and spraying them with poisonous killer gas, Icheoku has no other explanation of his action than an open invitation for the world led by America to show that it can still check the excesses of such midget and petty dictators. 

An American adage says 'you do not tell a man to go to hell except you are ready, willing and able to send him to hell'; so since Bashir Assad has willingly refused to go to hell, it is about time he is hog-tied and dragged through the gates of hell into hellfire. This is the only meaningful desired and deserved response; which put in another way, is the crux of the matter with the present defiance of Syria's President Bashir Assad of a clearly laid down DO NOT CROSS LINE. Icheoku says only such a solid, devastating response is needed and called for and NOW in response to the Assad's government thumbing of nose at both America and the world. Icheoku agrees with America's Secretary of State John Kerry that what we saw last week in Damascus shocked our conscience; it also defies every code of morality. The action of Damascus despotic government led by President Bashir Assad in using chemical weapons against its own people is clearly a moral obscenity defined and cannot be tolerated or condoned. Now is time to send in the tomahawks and let the boys go do their thing with boots on the ground if that is what it will take to send a defining MESSAGE that gassing or chemically scorching civilians in a civil conflict is despotism too far. Icheoku says if Russia or China or even Iran has a problem with that, then let the third world war begin and with it, a healing of the world economy which shall inhere from massive rebuilding following massive destruction.

GOVERNOR SUNTAI SHOULD GO (PRESIDENT YAR'DUA ENCORE?)

Icheoku says those supporters of the brain-damaged governor of Taraba State did themselves more harm than good when they ferreted the vegetative governor back to Nigeria. Looking at the images of the heavily disabled governor being carried out of the aircraft, Icheoku like millions of other Nigerians, cannot but conclude that the governor is finished and grossly incapacitated to continue the discharge of his duties as governor. Except of course the governors' minders want to hijack Taraba State in the manner Mrs Yar'Adua and the cabal hijacked Nigeria in the past, Icheoku says now is time to swear the acting governor in as the substantive governor pending when elections are called to fill the existing vacancy. 

A man who cannot even help himself step out of an aircraft, who is looking so forlorn and who is staring emptily into the space is sure not a man who could be said to be in control of his faculties to continue to function effectively in office as governor. Therefore Icheoku calls on President Goodluck Jonathan to facilitate the immediate swearing in of the acting governor of Taraba State in order not to allow a situation where the disabled governor is used by interested parties to run rough-shod on the state. Icheoku says to avoid the fate which Nigeria suffered during the late President Umaru Yar'Adua's health debacle from repeating itself in Taraba State, and having seen that Governor Suntai Fulani is completely finished and can no longer effectively function as governor, the governor should therefore be quietly eased out of office and NOW.

AUGUST 24TH 2013, A DAY OF HISTORY IN SOUTHEAST NIGERIA.

Icheoku congratulates President Goodluck Jonathan and the people of Southeast Nigeria on the upcoming inaugural international flight to Enugu on August 24, 2013. The first of its kind in the history of Nigeria and into the geography of the Southeast. What a day in history it will be and somewhat truly reintegrate Eastern Nigerian Biafran Igbos back to Nigeria. Icheoku says in support of the new International airport, we shall be routing all our future trips through the new airport and hereby urge all Diaspora Igbos to make the airport a success story by routing all their future travels back to motherland via the Akanu Ibiam airport in Enugu. All Igbo highly mobile world travellers should also do the same to help redevelop our part of the country; after these years developing other peoples' part of the country. Igbo kwenu! With the new Akanu Ibiam airport, Nigerians will now truly appreciate the added value the Igbos make to both MM Ikeja and NA Abuja international airports. Igbos, this one na we own and we go make it work. Our hats also duffs for the able Aviation Minister Princess Stella Oduah, who had accomplished a great milestone where several other Igbo Ministers of Aviation of the past, including the last one from Enugu State, Akuabata Njaeze, had failed woefully. What a doer and great Amazon this princess is that successfully midwifed Akanu Ibiam International airport to fruition.

AUSTRALIAN STUDENT SHOT DEAD IN AMERICA, BOYCOTT CALL MISGUIDED?

Icheoku says the recent call by Australian former Deputy Prime Minister, Tim Fisher, for his country men and women to avoid visiting America because of the shooting death of an Australian student, Chris Lane, is rather too impetuous and made in heat of passion without much thought going into it. Boycotting America or its tourism industry is not a commensurate reaction as America did not pull the trigger that snuffed the life out of the Aussie. Three troubled kids did, who "killed the victim for fun simply because they were bored and looking for something to do." Icheoku asks, why then should Australia take out their madness on the whole country instead of making sure that the individuals who committed the crime are fully punished for the heinous crime? Boycott is usually a weapon reserved for much serious country to country matter such as a disagreement between Canberra and Washington DC and should not be deployed simply because one 22 year old Aussie student named Chris Lane was randomly shot dead on an America street. 

Americans love their guns. Americans pull their guns' triggers at will and death sometimes results as a consequence. So it is given that more often than not, a victim results from being on the wrong or other end of the barrel. But does that warrant the current outcry in Australia demanding that America be boycotted, Icheoku says we don't think so. 

Being killed by gun at anytime in America is just a price we pay for living in a gun-ho, gun-infested, gun-saturated, gun-toting and gun-loving society/culture that is America. It is the risk we run living in the freest country in the world which also allows anyone who wants, to have a gun? In America, this year alone, thousands have been shot dead before Chris Lane's killing and unfortunately, many more will be shot dead before this year 2013 ends and thousands more long after Lane's murder case assumes cold temperature and the case files starts collecting dust somewhere at the prosecuting District Attorney's case-files storage room.This is the fact of life in America and the choice is for any individual to live with this known risk of possible loss of life to a shooter at any time or simply catch the next flight out of town, but to where? 

There is violence everywhere on this planet earth including the boycott-calling country, Australia. But the good news is that in America, many of these criminal shootings and violence are solved by law enforcement, at least for closure. Regrettably however, there is no immediate or apparent plan to change this constitutionally guaranteed right of Americans to bear arms - a very touchy issue which is also very dear to millions of Americans. Moreso any attempt at managing the gun crisis through meaningful legislation and regulation is always interpreted as a ploy by the government to take away peoples' guns and no American wants his or her gun to be taken away. So gun violence has somewhat become a cancer eating up the body fabric of American society but until the National Rifle Association decides to set free state legislators, federal congressmen and women as well as senators in their bondage, to enable them do right by these victims and future victims of gun violence, gun violence will remain a vicious cycle of pain and anguish to millions of victims' families. 

Icheoku says that the death of 22 year old Aussie student, Chris Lane, is even attracting the much publicity and coverage it is getting is a big surprise as people are shot every day, every hour, every minute in America and the skies has not fallen down; and to the extent that majority of them no longer make the news. Unless the shooting to death of Aussie Chris Lane is "a death once too many," there is no cause for alarm to rile Australian people up against visiting or coming to America. Nothing in his killing warrants the excessive measure as he was not targeted because he was from Australia or because he spoke with a different foreign accent. No, his killing was random and by teenagers who claimed they were bored and looking for an outlet. So simply put, Aussie Chris Lane was at a wrong place at a wrong time which begs the question, how could his usual jogging route be a wrong place? In answer, Icheoku says living in America by itself alone is technically a wrong place for gun violence as it could erupt anywhere and at anytime - including the sanctuary of a church and other places of worship like temples, synagogues and mosques. It could also erupt in a park, in schools and colleges, in movie theatres, in army forts, in gas stations, in law offices, in medical offices, on the roads, at homes and even  in sleeping bedrooms, in grocery stores and post offices etc. Put in another way, gun violence in America have erupted in virtually every imaginable and unimaginable places that no place is safe any longer in America. So we all who call America home and our visitors run the risk of such senseless gun violence 24/7 by reason of being in America. 

America is a country that have seen its share of gun violence and continues to wallow in it till this day and without any immediate hope of future abatement. President John Kennedy was a victim of gun violence, killed in Dallas Texas. President Ronald Reagan was a victim of gun violence, survived attack. Italian fashion designer Versace was a victim of gun violence, killed in Miami Florida. Beatles John Lennon was a victim of gun violence, killed in New York. Columbine students in Colorado were victims of gun violence. Virginia Tech students were victims of gun violence. Aurora Colorado movie-goers were victims of gun violence. The White House itself have seen its fair share of guns being fired at it. Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk of San Francisco were victims of gun violence, killed in their offices at the City Hall. Martin Luther King was a victim of gun violence, killed in Memphis Tennessee. Malcolm X was a victim of gun violence, killed in New York. Tupac Shakur was a victim of gun violence, killed in Las Vegas. Biggie Small was a victim of gun violence, killed in Los Angeles. Newtown Connecticut kindergartners were victims of gun violence. Congresswoman Gabriella Gifford survived gun violence. Oikos University Oakland California students including a Nigerian mother of three were victims of gun violence. Six year old Kayla Renee Rolland of Michigan was a victim of gun violence. Oak Creek Wisconsin Indian Sikhs were victims of gun violence, shot and killed inside their temple. Then add the unabating gun violence in Chicago Illinois where over 100 have been killed this year alone; add Oakland California's plus minus 89 victims, then Gary Indiana double digits murders, then Los Angeles, New York, Baltimore and New Orleans Louisiana as well as literally every part of the country and you have a near crisis gun violence situation starring you on the face. (Just check the blog - http://killingstoriesinamerica.blogspot.com/ on some recent killings this year ALONE in America and be the judge of the scourge that is gun violence ravaging America).

Icheoku says therefore, and in as much as the death by gun of Australian's Chris Lane is lamentable and regrettable, it does not rise to such a situation as warrants a call for boycott of America. In America, at least these crimes are solved and the criminals punished for their crime or what else could be done or expected to be done where someone has already assumed room temperature other than apprehend and punish the perpetrator/s? Crimes are inevitable in any society and asking a government to prevent all crimes including random killing of a person is a near impossible task to perform. Chris Lane is just one of thousands of other gun violence victims in America this year alone and his death should not be a source of friction or unneeded tension between two friendly countries. The American government did not "drone" him nor was he targeted and killed for hate crime because he was Australian; so the call by former deputy prime minister is outrageous, presumptuous and unwarranted. Icheoku therefore call on former Deputy Prime Minister Tim Fisher to retract his unfortunate call and apologise for throwing such a sledgehammer on a fly and by necessary implication, poured gasoline on a flame. May Chris Lane's soul rest in peace and Australians should be assured that his killers will have the books thrown at them and punished severely for their crime. They should therefore ignore the boycott call and continue visiting the land of the free and home of the brave. America is as safe as any other big country with so much freedom can be, so there is no cause for unnecessary alarm.

(FYI: What the deputy prime minister said: “Tourists thinking of going to the USA should think twice. This is the bitter harvest and legacy of the policies of the NRA that even blocked background checks for people buying guns at gun shows. People should take this into account before going to the United States.” - Tim Fisher.)

EGYPTIAN MASSACRE, JUSTIFIED?

Icheoku says the military in Egypt may have done the West, especially the United States of America, a lotta good when they forcibly stopped the fundamentalist government of President Morsi and his fanatical Muslim Brotherhood cold in their tract; and it does not matter the nomenclature of their putsch - whether it was a coup or a pseudo-coup. So considering the fact that Ayman al Zawahiri, Osama Bin Laden's second in command and the man currently heading Al Querida, is the general overseer and generalissimo of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, why blame an action meant and geared towards halting this terrorist from acquiring a vital land base to export his terror around the world. Can anyone imagine the damage a closed Suez canal could do to world commerce or the conundrum which a war with the State of Israel would have foist on an already combustive part of the world's geography? Icheoku queries, why give Al Querida a staging ground with such a vital interest country Egypt by allowing Ayman al Zawahiri take total control of Egypt by proxy of Muslim Brotherhood and Morsi, and with it the Suez canal as well as the entire Middle Eastern oil? 

Unfortunately Washington and some Americans are hard of learning or rather too slow to learn the surreptitious lesson which was enthroning the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo; as that would have been the single biggest and best gift to Al Querida which their blowing our twin towers in New York could not have given them. Egypt, the land of the Pharaohs, would have become a proving grounds for terrorists in the Middle East and with it entrenched their scourge on world peace. So without gainsaying or any leg-dragging, Icheoku says instead of hanging the military in Egypt out to dry because of their patriotic act of overthrowing a terrorist-sympathetic government of President Morsi, with the threat of or withholding of our aid to them, Washington should rather increase the aid; and use them to fight a proxy war against remnants of Al Querida masquerading as Morsi and/or his Muslim Brotherhood government or any other nomenclature they devised to hide under. 

Recall that Egyptian born medical doctor turned terrorist and current head of Al Querida PLC, Zawahiri, grew his teeth as a Muslim Brotherhood activist before establishing Al Querida with Osama Bin Laden.  Icheoku says it does not require rocket science or a PhD in Logic and Clear Thought Studies to figure out that the terrorist chief's lieutenants still abound in Egypt and in the Muslim Brotherhood. So what stops him, Zawahiri, from calling the shots of what the figurehead President Morsi does in Cairo from the caves of Toraborah or Abotabad; including carrying out further terrorist acts on the United States of America as well as any other Western country in their cross-hairs? Therefore whatever action the Egyptian military takes or decides to take, including killing some of the Muslim Brotherhood foot-soldiers in order to stop terrorists from securing a firm staging grounds in Egypt, should rather be commended than chastised. 

Icheoku disagrees that what deposed President Morsi and his fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood had was a democracy; otherwise why were they burning churches and destroying other non Muslim Egyptians' way of life? Democracy as truly practiced, guarantees freedom for all; but a situation where the Muslim Brotherhood shouts democracy and yet would not allow other Egyptians to practice their own faith or conviction falls short of the word defined. It should not just be democracy as far as those fanatic Muslim Brotherhood freely run amok and visiting mayhem on other Egyptians; no, it should be democracy for all - it should be FREEDOM for every Egyptian, period. If only the deposed President Morsi had been killed during the coup or whatever it was that overthrew his government, may be by now Egypt would have moved on without the unneeded distraction of him still being around as a galvanising point with the ongoing clamour for his reinstatement. Icheoku says that Morsi's government was exclusive of other Egyptians who are not fundamentalist Muslims and therefore was bad for democracy strictly defined as freedom loving. It ought to and should go and therefore was well dispatched, case closed.

Icheoku strongly opines that the option in Egypt is simple - either there is a democracy for every Egyptian regardless of faith, including guarantee of their rights to freely worship their God according to their own understanding of Him respectively or there should be no democracy at all; especially according to the Muslim Brotherhood pigeon-holed warped description of it. To this end therefore, Icheoku is emphatic that the Egyptian military did the right thing by stopping the Islamization of Egypt and with it an imminent threat to the State of Israel and the Suez canal. By checking the excesses of these Muslim Brotherhood fundamentalists, the Egyptian military nipped in the bud what would have later proved a sword of Damocles on the entire world. The whole world including America should therefore show some understanding of the peculiar nature of the threat posed by allowing a Zawahiri tele-guided government of Morsi in Cairo and not in anyway pretend to be more catholic than the pope or be seen as being more sympathetic to known TERRORISTS. 

Icheoku says the Egyptian military are Egyptians; Egypt is their country and no one or any country can pretend to love Egypt more than its military. As chief security officers therein, they acted in the best interest of their country by checking an existential threat which the Morsi led Muslim Brotherhood government represented. Think of Israel; think of the economic importance of the Suez canal; think of other incendiary situations therein in Middle East and their potential unravelling; and then juxtapose them with the known Muslim Brotherhood's positions and dispositions towards them and it should have been more of kudos to the Egyptian military for acting when they acted than the current politically-correct knifing. Icheoku says hail to the Egyptian military for their decisive action in stopping the Muslim Brotherhood before they could cause further damage to a citadel of civilization. No sacrifice, no price, no trade, including the alleged slaughter of mere 1000 Islamist fanatics, is rather too much for what inaction and the continued existence of the Morsi Muslim Brotherhood government would have portended. ENOUGH of the chastising of the Egyptian military! 

BUHARI'S REPORT CARD, EL-RUFAI REFRESHES NIGERIANS' MINDS?

"It is strange that a Buhari who protests when allegations of N2.5 billion (about US $3billion in those days!) missing oil funds are levelled against him can gleefully elevate similar claims into facts when it concerns others. Buhari has remained perpetually unelectable because his record as military head of state is a warning that many Nigerians have wisely heeded. His insensitivity to Nigeria’s diversity and his parochial focus are already well-known. 

In 1984, Buhari allowed 53 suitcases belonging to his ADC’s father to enter Nigeria unchecked at a time the country was exchanging old currency for new.  Against all canons of legal decency, he used retroactive laws to execute three young men for drug-peddling after they were convicted by a military tribunal and not regular courts of law. Buhari was so high handed that he gave himself and his officials immunity even from truthful reporting. That obnoxious Decree 4, against which truth was no defence, was used to jail journalists and attempt to cow the media as a whole. That tyrannical legislation shows the essence of his intolerance. These are facts of recent history. 

Having seen his version of discipline, Nigerians are not likely to cherish an encore. The story of counter-trade and import licensing, the cornerstone of Buhari’s stone-age economic strategy and those whose interests it served, is a tale for another day. Now is time for a new generation of leaders with new thinking and wholesome democratic attitude to move our nation forward." - Mallam el-Rufai on why Nigerians must shun Muhammadu Buhari on his quest to rule Nigeria ever again. Icheoku says well encapsulated and states that Nigerians have already since taken NOTE of the fundamentalist tendencies of the gaunt army man.

FEMI KAYODE, THE MAN WHO TOLD ON WOMEN HE SLEPT WITH.

Icheoku says behold the man who outed several women he allegedly slept with in the past. His name is Femi Fani Kayode, here pictured with his wife number three whom he married after two previous divorces from women who could not stand his idiosyncrasies including his addiction to controlled substances? The fact that he is supposedly "happily" married with SIX grown up daughters did not give him a reason to be circumspect with his past dalliances. Now people who had slept with his wives, including wife number three, Regina Fani Kayode (pictured) and daughters are now lining up to tell their tales. Icheoku says this man is indeed mental for breaching a known cardinal rule of the bedroom - what is done behind the closed door remains just a two affair. What a basketmouth this Femi Fani Kayode is, who cannot keep the least secret about his sac romps.

FEMI FANI KAYODE'S OUTING, IN DEFENCE OF THOSE IGBO WOMEN.

Icheoku says those three Igbo women were not loose women, neither did they commit any outrageous sin including the 6th commandment sin of adultery. No, they did nothing unusual in dating a man as any young spinster and bachelor would and does before settling down. If any person is at odds here, it is that person who committed the unforgivable sin of outing a bedfellow and hence violated the cannon ethos of the bedroom. It is that blabbermouth who went to town, beating his chest that he slept with some three Igbo women, that should be and ought to be hung out to dry here and none other. Icheoku says what Femi Fani Kayode did, telling on women he slept with, is not only petty, but puerile and unmanly. Real men do not kiss and tell, nor do they run their mouths about their exploits in the sac and what happened behind closed doors with their women. 

There is certain ethical rule involved and that is why sex is conducted in privacy and usually behind closed doors where the compromising parties are usually in a world of their own, alone and all to themselves. So for any man or any person for that matter to violate this cardinal rule of engagement, intentionally breaking the sacred code of silence of don't ask, don't tell of what went down behind closed doors or curtain, is to say the least despicable. Such a person or man does not deserve the benefit of such sexual encounter and is not worthy of the quality time spent pulsating at each other's arms. If it were in certain cultures, such a person would be fed a cement solution to permanently seal off his trap for good; and where prerogative of mercy is exercised to save his life, his lips would be sewn together with thread or better glued with super glue. That basket mouth Femi Fani Kayode deserves to be so treated is a fact; but luckily for him he lives in Nigeria and in Nigeria such rats are tolerated and given accommodation. 

How dare this bastard son of Yorubaland out three decent women who merely fell for his sweet talk and went to bed with him? Not even the legendary women trap, Olusegun Obasanjo, whose exploits with women is notorious, would descend to this lowly dungeon of telling the prohibited. Certain boundaries are considered indeed sacred when it comes to issues of men and women in love or who are having sexual dalliances, as outsiders can only but guess if they are getting at it and are indulged to make all speculations as who is humping or had humped who? Icheoku therefore call on these three Igbo women to immediately consult their lawyers for an action in defamation against Femi Fani Kayode who tarnished their standing and respect in the community and before their husbands, families and friends who now consider them as women of easy virtue who so slept around that they slept with a Yoruba blabbing bastard. Imagine the torment these three women are now facing in front of their husbands and admirers just for an indiscretion of many decades ago which the drug junkie now brought to light. 

Icheoku is emphatic that the alleged sexual encounter is probably of "a he said, she said" nature without more or any real smoking gun. Since no sex video exist which incidented the alleged sexual encounters between FFK and these three women, the rat, Femi Fani Kayode cannot authoritatively and conclusively substantiate his claims. Therefore, the three Igbo women should immediately hold a press conference, emphatically deny the encounter, demand an apology and a retraction and thereafter, institute an action for punitive damages for defamation of character and maligning of their names by FFK. Until then, these ladies should consider the alleged as a minor distraction and continue to walk with their heads tall as they did not do the unthinkable as single spinsters usually date around. 

Icheoku says these women are not victims but conquerors as they have further reduced and diminished this imbecile Femi Fani Kayode in the eyes of the Nigerian public who henceforth will see him as a kiss and tell womanizer. As a consequence, Femi Fani Kayode shall be avoided by people with something dear to them to protect or hide knowing that the blabbermouth cannot be trusted to keep some confidences. If it is not these three women today being outed, it may be anybody tomorrow; and which person can still trust such a cholera/diarrhea mouth Femi Fani Kayode again? What a raving demented dingo this Femi Fani Kayode is and who deserves to be permanently silenced and shunned by the media and the public. Icheoku says in addition to losing his mind, Femi Fani Kayode has also completely and totally lost his manhood too. Femi Fani Kayode broke the bedroom equivalent of the Sicilian sacred oath of Omerta and deserves the fate which await such transgressors. What a RAT. (FYI: Icheoku has it on good authority that the late Ikemba snatched or rather took Bianca away from Femi Fani Kayode, just to set the records straight.)

GOVERNOR FASHOLA, AN AVOWED IGBO HATER?

 

Icheoku queries where Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State drives the powers to summarily internally deport fellow Nigerians from their country? His heavy handedness of Igbo dominated Ladipo Market traders is all too recent to forget; and now he has deported about 70 Nigerians of Igbo descent out of Lagos Sate under false pretenses and this law breaker is a LAWYER with knowledge of enshrined constitutional rights of these deportees? Anyway, Icheoku reserves further comments on this man until our oped is ready; but we are sure to conclude that by this latest action of the alaaye governor of Lagos State, who did not deem it fit to also deport the thousands of Hausa/Fulani almajiris in Lagos back to the North, that he sure not disposed well to the Igbos of Nigeria? His latest action when read in tandem with his precedents is a serious cause for concern as it attacks the cohesive essence of Nigeria and its viability as a one state. Icheoku asks, has religion something to do with this disparity in treatment since Fashola like the Northern almajiris are both muslims and therefore it is okay to let Northerners remain in Lagos while their Igbo counterparts are forcibly shoved out in the dead of the night and possibly in leg chains and handcuffs - shackled and manacled like slaves and in their COUNTRY? Icheoku is darn furious and calls for concerted action in protest.