ELIJAH AYODELE, A PROPHET POSSESSED BY THREE SPIRITS?

Icheoku says there are three types of spirits - the holy spirit, the evil spirit and the bottled spirit. Many a Nigerian men and women of "God" claim to be possessed of the first type of spirit; many disturbed, deranged and retrogressive Nigerians claim to be possessed by the second type of spirit; while those seeing double as a result of extended  fellowship with the bottle are said to be possessed by the third type of spirit. But when a supposed man of "God" is giving a vision which is convoluted and mangled up, and which does not in any way make sense and which also does not appear to come from the On High but from the Down Low, is it safe to assume that the man is possessed by the trinity of spirits? Icheoku says if indeed it is possible to be simultaneously possessed by the first, second and third types of spirits as this man exhibits, which spirit's vision then is he seeing when he mouths things out? Which spirit inspired his vision or under which spirit's influence is he prophesizing? 

Icheoku says this becomes a needy question because just recently, a man of "God" in Nigeria made his 2015 predictions wherein he disclosed that both President Jonathan and candidate Muhammadu Buhari will both win the election? Query:- if in a context between two candidates both candidates wins or are projected or predicted to win, is the prophet seeing an inconclusive election or one that is stalemated? Icheoku asks is Primate Elijah Ayodele saying that the 2015 presidential election will be inconclusive leading to a unity government or what? Icheoku does not know any other possible understanding or interpretation of what this man allegedly saw or what was communicated to him by some ethereal voices. But to say that both presidential candidates, who are fighting for one presidential position, emerged victorious says more than the superficial understanding can comprehend. But until Valentines day 2015 comes and goes, Icheoku will give his prophesies the benefit of the doubt since they came from three spirits instead of one. 

Now listen to Primate Elijah Ayodele prophesy on election 2015:- "I don’t see APC winning the presidential election. However, when Jonathan gets a second term, I don’t see peace; except the president obeys the word of God. There are things that will happen. Even if Buhari wins, he can’t put an end to insurgency, nor can he fight corruption. His will be worse than Jonathan." 

So ask yourself what does this prophet mean by "when Jonathan gets a second term" and also "Even if Buhari wins"; and then do the math on which spirit this man was probably possessed of, when he saw his foggy hazy double-vision. It is akin to a prophesy that a child may be a girl or boy and you ask yourself where then is the prophesy in the prophesy? But hey, in a country with so many faithless people looking for someone else to validate them before God, a man like this is being acclaimed as a man really working with God or rather whom God uses to reach out to his earthly people, especially those that call Nigeria home. As for Icheoku, we could care less whether or not he has a direct line to  his "God", regardless. But assuming anybody including this man has the power of seeing the future, why did he not see for certain who the prospective winner of the February election is instead of equivocating in this  either/or  manner? Anyway, until the Ides of March is come and gone, Julius Caesar is not safe; so until February 14, 2015 has gone into history, all these possessed pontificators can go on deceiving those gullible gobblers of what they pry as trade. What a seer indeed this is; and except he is possessed by the three spirits - holy, evil and the bottled, Icheoku has no further explanation of his prediction of two presidential candidates winning the February 14th 2015 presidential election.

BUHARI CERTIFICATE-GATE, WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE?

Icheoku says if indeed those hollering Jonathanists are serious that a scandal was triggered, implicated or in any other way  brewing by the lack of certificate tender by the APC presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, why has none of them deemed it fit and proper yet to move the court to so find and thereby disqualify the candidate? Icheoku has discreetly contacted a person supposedly connected to the seat of power in Aso Rock about this joker; but thus far, it has remained mere verbal protestation when there is a legal way of conclusively resolving or ascertaining that which is disputed. 

To date no one in Project Jonathan 2015 camp has proactively engaged the process to compel Muhammadu Buhari to show cause why he should not be disqualified for failure to produce his requisite qualifying certificate. Icheoku wonders why they have not taken this step since he who alleges has the onus of proving the alleged and by going to court thee would have the matter resolved. Therefore baring the candidate himself coming forward to establish his qualification as required by producing his necessary certificate, the only other way productive is through a motion to compel or prayer to disqualify him because of his failure to produce and thereby authenticate that he is duly qualified as required to contest the presidential election. This is he only way and only true route to once and for all rest the Buhari certificate-gate debacle and move on with the politics of 2015 election. 

Even the chairman of INEC Attahiru Jega pointed the Jonathan people to this direction but till date, they have not deemed it necessary to pursue the course; but instead they have resorted to somewhat blackmail, to try and make the man from Daura throw in the towel and scamper out of the contest. But regrettably, they forgot that they are dealing with an army man who is not used to being easily intimidated and barring a proper finding of the court on his ineligibility by reason of lack of certification, will not back down nor recuse himself from the coming election, regardless. Although as recent as few days ago, one Professor Dupe Olatubosun has turned up to say he will move the court for a  pronouncement on this; but Icheoku does not know his nexus to the election or party of the president to successfully assert a standing in order to bring the case. But at least it is a good move and a show of the way and only way forward with this issue. 

Hopefully the professor will move the court soon enough before the other party will plead undue advantage it will confer on their opponent and hardship of finding a credible replacement candidate within such a short period before the election. In conclusion, Icheoku says until the party with interest successfully moves the court to so find that Buhari is not qualified to run for the presidential election because of his certificate snafu; and/or at least "make that move right now baby" (thanks to Shalamar), Icheoku and other well meaning observers will simply regard their current busybody hullabaloo as mere hot-air. Icheoku admonishes all the Jonathanists, if they have a strong case against Muhammadu Buhari's qualification or lack thereof, to go to court and establish same. I am Icheoku and I stand by this comment 110%.

THE REAL TRANSFORMATION AGENDA IS INDEED A BUHARI TRANSFORMED?

Icheoku says if nothing else good comes out of this 2015 election, at least Nigerians watched as Muhammadu Buhari metamorphosed from the gothic, melancholic and gaunt-looking old man to now somewhat near affable and dandy. Just look at his Tom Ford shades. Icheoku kind of like his new look here, no pun intended; neither do we apologize to anyone for making our feelings known. But just his OUTFIT and pose only but nothing else, period.

BUHARI REPRESENTS THE BEST IN HUMANITY - OYEGUN?

"The Ogoni people have put environmental issues long before now, the Ogonis have been betrayed by the federal government but thank God you have finally recognized the powers in your hands.  The fortunate thing is that for the first time you are going to be talking to a man (Buhari) who represents the very best in the human race, a man who is totally incorruptible and a man whose middle name is discipline." - John Odigie Oyegun, Chair APC. 

Icheoku says never in the recent history of Nigeria and their motley "men of God", has a man, supposedly an ordained pastor of "God", purposefully misled or failed to tell the truth to a people, his party is seriously courting, wooing and trying to persuade and hoodwink into voting for their candidate? APC Chairman "Pastor" John Odigie Oyegun told the people of Ogoni how Muhammadu Buhari is the messiah they have been waiting for. How Buhari would wave his magic wand and miraculously everything ever done wrong to Ogoni people would be undone, including possibly bringing back to life Ken Saro Wiwa and the Ogoni Nine? 

However the same Odigie Oyegun failed at full disclosure, by not revealing the dark sides of the man he is desperately trying to sell to the Ogoni people. Odigie Oyegun failed to tell Ogoni people that the man who murdered their hero Ken Saro Wiwa and nine of their compatriots, the midget of Kano, Sani Abacha, was a right hand man of Muhammadu Buhari. Odigie yegun also failed to disclose to Ogoni people that while their fellow town's men were being persecuted  for daring to stand up for their oil and waiting for the noose to tighten, that the same Muhammadu Buhari stayed mute and did nothing; and neither urged Abacha to temper justice with mercy nor encouraged him to spare the lives of the Ogoni Nine; but instead continued to enjoy the booty of his office as Sani Abacha's appointed Chairman of PTF. 

Icheoku says Odigie Oyegun failed to tell Ogoni people that Muhammadu Buhari and Sani Abacah were fellow conspirators and executioners of the coup that toppled President Shehu Shagari's government in 1983? Odigie Oyegun failed to disclose to the people of Ogoni that the same Muhammadu Buhari, while on a visit to the Kano grave site of Sani Abacha few years ago, eulogized Sani Abacha as the best leader Nigerians ever had? Icheoku therefore queries, if a man, whose one most heinous executive act as head of the military junta was the murder of Ogoni finest, was described by Muhamadu Buhari as the best leader Nigeria ever had, what exactly did Odigie Oyegun then mean when he said that such a man who could describe a murderer as the best leader Nigeria ever had, as "representing the very best in the human race? 

Icheoku says although talk is cheap and words often mere jiving turkey, but Odigie Oyegun certainly lost Nigerians on this. How dare the Bini Pastor insult so many sensibilities by describing a man with Buhari's putrefying pedigree and quantum afterburners of despicable behavior, as the best the human race could offer? Icheoku laments that if this human excrement, who murdered three innocent Nigerians, who overthrew a duly elected democratic government, who foist the most draconian regime on Nigerians, who drastically abridged freedom of speech and who censured even honest and fair comment and criticism of his regime, is an epitome of the best of humanity, then that word must have lost its true meaning. 

Icheoku says with a "very best" like Buhari, no one needs the "very worst"; so Oyegun please give Icheoku the very worst instead. But if only this man of "God" Pastor John Odigie Oyegun knew that "dar is god ooooo" and that HE was in his midst when he wantonly offloaded this bundle of lies on a mesmerized and stupefied people, hopelessly waiting for salvation, but who were looking at the wrong source, Icheoku is certain that he would have at least somehow mitigated the gaffe by qualifying the unmerited encomium that Buhari is the face of the best humanity could offer. But unfortunately, politicians are all the same - a bunch of lying whoring lot, regardless.

'ORDINARY MOTOR PARK TOUT' COMMENT, NOT NEEDFUL AND NOT DIGNIFYING?

Icheoku says it is only a foolish person that challenges his God to a fight - "nwanza rijue afor ochele CHI ya aka ngba", says the well known Igbo adage. This is now a given truism in the matter of President Jonathan fight with his godfather, the man who made him president, Olusegun Obasanjo. Icheoku says what President Jonathan keeps on forgetting is that Obasanjo is not on the ballot for anything this 2015 or any other future time; and that the bleeding resulting from their continuing and un-abating face-off, can only hurt one person and one person only and that is the President himself and his 2015 second term ambition.  So Icheoku asks  President Jonathan why join issues with a man who is not afraid to fight tough and dirty and who indeed has nothing to lose and is therefore salivating at the opportunity to throw more dirt on the president. 

But unfortunately the president may not be as wise as is befitting of the office which he is occupying to know; and short of calling him foolish, Icheoku says his current desire and drive to go to the mattress with the Ota Deity is ill-advised and ill-timed, especially coming too close to the 2015 election. A wise President Jonathan, would have continued to maintain his dignified silence and let his underlings do the rumble and tumble tug of war with Obasanjo on his behalf. Nigerians already know the mischief-maker called Obasanjo and does not need the president reminding them once again about the man who did so many bad things including having sexual relations with his son's wife Mojisola Gbenga Obasanjo. What the president did by calling Obasanjo name in return is akin to a man taking his shower when a naked mad man came and took his hanging clothes. The man then came out of the shower and started chasing the mad man down the street to recover his clothes. As far as onlookers are concerned, they are two mad men running down the street naked.

Icheoku maintains that President Jonathan lost every right to attack Baba Iyabo the day he accepted the gift of Nigeria's presidency from the Deity of Ota. A more forward thinking President Jonathan would have either declined the offer or accepted same with its attached lurid conditions. The presidency of any country is neither cheap nor easy and many the world over have died trying to gain it. Many are also equally in prison lamenting their unsuccessful attempt at the presidency.  But here is President Jonathan, who got it the easy way - FREE. He had it literally bequeathed on him by the magnanimity of just one man, a mentor with whom he has now fallen apart and currently engaged in a market-women styled brickbats of rapid and vapid words exchanges, sort of artillery/mortar fire exchange. Icheoku says what even led other countries into a civil war, President Jonathan got practically for free and on a platter of platinum; or is it possible power got into his head too soon as to forget how he was reared to become Nigeria's president? 

Icheoku says all said and done, at the end of the day, President Jonathan will likely eke out a victory in the February 2015 presidential election; but it will not be without first being bloodied and rendered battle weary. The  president's anticipated victory is hedged on the fact that  Bola Tinubu offered Nigerians a counterfeit candidate who is not good for the current democratic dispensation in the  country, an anathema called Muhammadu Buhari, otherwise the current hydroplaning of Project Jonathan 2015 would have been a non salvageable crash. Imagine what a battle royal, a contested election between APC candidate Rotimi Amaechi and Goodluck Jonathan would have been? But for the APC fatal mistake, the fate of 'Jonathan-OUT 2015' would have been a fait accompli - signed, sealed and delivered, in an election lost and lost woefully come Valentines day 2015. But it will not be so anymore as President Jonathan will win a second term, no matter how narrowly, and tens of Olusegun Obasanjos notwithstanding. 

However the 2015 election would go down in history of Nigeria as the first time an incumbent president would be going into an election without carrying a resounding controlling lead in any of the regions in the country. Also neither could he be said to be enjoying a full 100% control of any of the six political regions including his Southsouth zone.  Icheoku laments that even his home state of Bayelsa State, is now apparently in play because of the alleged power tussle between the State Governor Dickson and the president's wife Dame Patience. Then add Rivers State and Edo State which are both in the hands of opposition party governors. 

The president is also not in solid control of the Southeast region either as the people are gradually becoming disaffected with the Jonathan experiment because of too many promises not fulfilled. Ditto the Southwest where his enraged godfather is from and which is also the opposition's strong base. When Icheoku adds the North Central region which the president no longer fully controls as was the case in the past; and his irredeemable very low rating in both the Northeast and Northwest regions, then Icheoku wonders why he is further adding gasoline to the fire with him on the skewer by further drawing Obasanjo and his acerbic mouth further out? 

But still, a fledgling weakling Jonathan is a far better and more preferred option than the Nigerians' nemesis numero uno, called  Muhammadu Buhari.  Nigerians therefore would vote under advisement of this consequential fact, as a change from democracy to a dictatorship is not a good change and not the type of change already free Nigerians would take or accept at this time.  Nigerians are too far gone into enjoying their democracy-bred freedom and liberty, to now willfully submit themselves to a slavish chains and shackles under the other guy. Icheoku agrees that Nigerians would rather live free than live like rats in dark tunnels, hiding for fear of being run-over as roadkill by a government out to prove it is tough enough. Nigerians have travelled through the road to perdition before and would not gladly jump up at the offer of a repeat experience. 

Finally, with a 2015 Buhari's defeat, Nigerian would have forever sealed the faith of the last man standing, of the three retired trouble making army generals, who think and see Nigeria as their private fiefdom with which they can do as they please. Obasanjo is forever gone and now wandering in confusion into his sunset; Babangida is permanently retired by June 12 from any and every national political participation in Nigeria and with only Buhari now left, he deserves to be similarly permanently retired too. So February 14, 2015 will be a good time to 'mission accomplish' this objective so that Nigerians can thereafter truly live free and independent of these men's machination. Icheoku says President Jonathan, no more verbal attacks or exchange of words with Obasanjo; just leave the old man alone!

JE SUIS CHARLIE, ISLAMIC TERRORISM TOUCHDOWN PARIS.

Icheoku says the gory dishes being served all over the world by Boko Haram, ISIS, al-Queida as well as other Islamic terrorist groups is finally now available on the menu in France. Icheoku is expectantly waiting to see how President Francois Hollande and his French security outfits decisively deal with it, admitted the French has had extensive experience dealing with those Islamic crazy-dogs and for so many years. Unfortunately the West including France would neither help in the fight  against nor sell arms to Nigeria as they grapple with their own Islamic terrorism, version Boko Haram? Instead they look the other way as Boko Haram mercilessly massacre innocent Nigerians including high school kids, children and their mothers as well as their fathers. Icheoku says it is the same morphing global Islamic terrorism that has now touched down in Paris, admitted an entirely different Version Hit and Run. The French has now tasted what living in fear actually feels and looks like as Nigeria and other Islamic terrorism infested countries of the world have come to accept as an unavoidable cost of living?

Icheoku says terrorism anywhere is terrorism everywhere, whether in Nigeria's Northeastern Sambisa Forest and Chibok, America's New York City, Russia's Chechnya, Syria's Damascus and/or now as witnessed in Paris, France. The world should come together to collectively and jointly  root it out through a more determined fight to the finish.  In the final analysis, the Paris incident shows that nobody is immunized or inoculated from these random acts of terror by the hate-driven ideology that is Islamic terrorism. Their sadistic perpetrators perceive people of other faiths as infidels that should be put out of their misery by killing them; hence they see themselves doing one heck of a big favor to these victims in order to free them from their sins being alive? Icheoku says nobody is safe from their murderous rampages and not geography or acceptance or tolerance or even attempt at understanding their warped thinking, provides any shield to this their wanton lawlessness; thus leaving the other questions still unanswered, what else can be done to either re-orientate them or decisively defeat them. 

They are daring, they are determined and because life have stopped having any meaning to them , they visit their havoc on both the innocent and the unsuspecting, using the most vicious attack possible and without any care about  the consequence of their act whatsoever. Icheoku says may be the West is not killing them enough or is it about time the West find out from those Israelis how they managed to successfully contain them for so long while living in their midst. It would seem that the more the West ignore them or try to show some understanding, the more impetuous and audacious these scoundrels become. In revving their poisonous pistons, they have managed to put the West in a pickle of not knowing exactly how to completely stop them or when another one of their tragic signature is going to unfold somewhere around or near or that might even consume any person. They are transnational, well financed and well coordinated, determined to the death and seems to lack fear or cowardice while driving this their agenda of fear on the West as the Paris daylight attack attests.

On a final note, Icheoku says to the murdered Stephane Charbonnier and crew of the Charlie Hebdo stable, the world will defend your cause. To the grieving bereaved families of those killed, our sympathies. To the French people, whose leisurely living style, liberty and inviolable freedom, were senselessly and violently violated by this band of jihadist brothers, Icheoku, borrowing the words of President GW Bush, says, the whole world hears you and soon the people that pulled those triggers on those twelve French people would hear from the French law enforcement. They would also get the justice they deserve; which Icheoku hopes would be instantaneous and not litigated out for so long and needlessly wasting additional resources. Like Ismaayi Brimsley, an immediate execution upon contact or sight, would strangely not be out of order and is ideal in the circumstance. 

To the hands of global Islamic terrorism that were used to strike Parisians today, the Kouachi brothers Said and Cherif and their 18year old friend Hamyd Mourad, Icheoku says the hand you dealt Charlie Hebdo is an attack on freedom of speech. But please know that freedom of speech is going nowhere otherwise ask North Korea's Kim Jong-un why The Interview showed. You did not succeed in your cowardly sneak attack to cower freedom of speech; it is here to stay. If you love your Mohammad so much as to perpetrate such heinous mayhem because of what was drawn or written, what the heck are you still doing in Paris? Why not just crawl back to whichever country or cave that you yearn for, which possibly imparted this idiotic, imbecilic convoluted ideology on you and leave the peace loving Parisians alone. Icheoku says what a big tragedy in Paris this Charlie Hebdo massacre indeed is. 

NIGERIA IS A FRAUD - ISIWELE

"Anybody trying to play sectional politics with this is a coward. I was posted to Kano State in 1985 as a police officer. I have spent over 30 years there, even after my retirement. Some of my children do not even speak my language. When I relocated to Kano State, it had 44 local government areas. After creating Jigawa out of the state, it still remained 44. The whole nation saw this as a fraud. There was nothing anybody could have done then because it was during the military." - Alhaji Musa Shehu Isiwele, Uromi Kingdom.

HAUNTED BY SHOELESS PAST, HIS NIGHTMARE BEGAN?

"How Mr President fell madly in love with corruption and brought himself firmly in touch with mediocrity is out of touch with the taunted story of his humble background and the shoeless narrative. It is either that corruption was imprinted on his receptive mind or his sensitive soul veers relentlessly to his earlier shoeless state. Which ever way, President Jonathan's sun has set at midnight in the Eastern part of Nigeria, at the Adoration Ground, where he holds a portion of the nation to a grand illusion of oneness and slavish governance." - Erasmus Ikhide

NIGERIA INSECURITY PROBLEM, JUST WIPE THEM ALL OUT - NALLAH.

"Since Nigeria is a populous country with over 160 million people, we will not mind so much if the 20 million people of the Niger Delta who are giving the rest of the people of the country so much headache in the exploitation of the crude oil in the place are exterminated so that the rest of Nigeria can have peace. 

There is nothing morally wrong in sacrificing just only 20 million people in the interest of the remainder 140million people; otherwise why would they continue to hold the rest of Nigeria hostage and continue to demand ransom for the oil which God of Nigeria merely placed there. Meanwhile I just took delvery of my private jet and discovered it is cheaper to maintain my aircraft than my cars. Can you imagine the return flight from Abuja to Zuru, my village, will cost me only 50liters of petrol whereas my jeep consume 200liters for the same journey; Ba Magana Yaka ri". - Hon Bala Ibn Na'Allah, (PSP, PDP) Representative Zuru/Fakai/Sakaba/Wasagu District of Kebbi State. July 2, 2009.

Icheoku says wondering how Muhammadu Buhari would tackle insecurity in Nigeria if elected? Wonder no more, as one of the Miyetti Allah has revealed how they usually deal with such disturbances. This is an elected member of the House of Representative from Kebbi State, proffering solution to the then Niger Delta crisis. Icheoku says Abubakar Shekau and Asari Dokubo must beware because these mallams are dead serious and not joking. They live and breath ruthlessness and if they encouraged Olusegun Obasanjo to carry out such scorch-earth annihilation in Odi and Zaki Ibiam, what stops them under their own despotic Muhammadu Buhari, from similarly doing the same in the event Asari Dokubo and his original Niger Delta oil terrorists decided to carry out their threat should their Jona not be returned? Icheoku is only positing the thoughts, so now you decide; but with these Miyetti Allah, it is always a one way straight ticket out of here, no mercy!

BUHARI GOES TO CHURCH, ADEBOYE'S LAYING OF HAND ON JONATHAN OVER?

Icheoku says even Pastor Enoch Adebayo seems to have also shifted side in his support for a presidential candidate, from the embattled President Jonathan, whom he previously laid his hand on before the last election, to now Team Buhari? Query: based on what is on the grounds now, would the president still be similarly privileged of receiving the man of "God"s blessings this time around or is it move over Jonathan, please enter OsiBuhari? Icheoku says but wouldn't that be a sort of conflict of interest, blessing both OsiBuhari and President Jonathan, since both parties are seeking the same one presidency of Nigeria and Enoch Adeboye has to decide in whom he is more well pleased? Icheoku does not know about you, but any man would be similarly conflicted, with one of his own pastors on a ticket contesting with a person that used to be a favorite? So ask yourself if you are Pastor Adeboye, what would you do? 

Previously when it was the Islamist and President Jonathan, it was not difficult with the pastor deciding in whom to pitch his tent with. But with the curve ball of one of his own pastors, Yemi Osibanjo, thrown in the fray, any humanbeing, believing the pastor is still human, would certainly be internally conflicted deciding whether to abandon the ship of Jonathan to welcome the attachment that is one of his pastors to the ship of Buhari or choose to do nothing? But this election 2015, sitting on the fence or doing nothing is not on the ballot and will not cut it, as every Nigerian has a skin in the game. So it will not be out of place if the pastor has fallen in love with Team Buhari for nominating one of his men as a vice presidential candidate; and from now it is Kumbaya the Islamist and so long President Jonathan? Icheoku says imagine the incredible "love and affection" that was developed with the selection of Junior Pastor Yemi Osibanjo that Muhammadu Buhari, of all persons, was persuaded to attend and fellowship in a church service; and for the very first time in his entire fundamentalist Islamic Muslim life? 

Icheoku says if nothing else good comes out of this 2015 presidential election, the fact that Muhammadu Buhari was cajoled into entering a place where God and not Allah is worshipped, is one heck of a very bid deal and it is commendable. Who say "e no go betaa for Nigeria" with this kind of an earth-shattering do-over of the fundamentalist Islamic zealot and made him accept to honor an invitation to step inside a Christian church? However, provided Buhari was genuine in giving Osibanjo the benefit of the doubt finding out how they worship their own God, and that his intentions are good and not merely another one of his 'fake it until elected' maneuvers, Icheoku declares it is a new dawn in Nigeria in inter-religion relationship. Otherwise, who knows what the former head of state is hiding in the bosom of his heart including to just use any and every means of tactic and cunning, necessary to acquire power and then bare his infamous fangs? 

But if only there is a way to read the mind's construction by merely looking at one's face, except that William Shakespeare warned us that such is not possible. Icheoku asks are Nigerians going to soon see President Goodluck Jonathan knocking his head on the grounds at a Friday's Jumat Islamic prayers next? Icheoku says until it is over, it is not over and anything is still possible. So give it up to all the different shades of chameleon which politicians are capable of taking and can take just to hoodwink unsuspecting voters to cast their ballots their way. But hey, Nigerians are  waiting and watching to see who they will eventually fall in love on Valentine's day 2015. Icheoku adds, it is also good to see the almighty despot Buhari being humbled around in this manner and instead of barking out orders, he is surreptitiously crawling about begging for votes and asking to be allowed into power instead of forcibly armed robbing power in coup d'etat. And instead of   'WE DECREE this and that', including murdering three innocent Nigerians with a retroactive decree, now goes to church to seek votes. But 'dar is god ooooo!'

THE LAGOS FYING BIRD-WOMAN BY OKEY NDIBE?

"It’s no secret that some unscrupulous tricksters who mask themselves as men or women of God have helped foster this shocking culture of credulousness, this willingness to cleave to any superstition or tale, however absurd. It is a deadly, deadening phenomenon. It enables people to see a scalded victim of an obvious savage attack, and to watch her die, having stigmatized her as a diabolical, flying witch. It deadens the humanity of those who stand by and watch a miserable human expire before their eyes. 

What has happened—what is happening—to the minds of some Nigerians? Why do some of us rush to believe any balderdash? Do we even have any glimmer of hope of becoming an enlightened society when we believe that some of our fellows are literally flying objects, witches and wizards out to wreck us? This kind of ignorance redounds to the advantage of the few who exploit the rest of us. They relish it when we gather in glee around a hapless, helpless dying woman at Oshodi, mistaking her as the source of our woes. The real witches and wizards sit in the halls of power—yes, with many priests, pastors and imams as their guests—gorging on the commonwealth. And these real witches and wizards deepen Nigeria’s misery, and some Nigerians’ susceptibility to superstitions." - Okey Ndibe

FATHER MBAKA SAYS JONATHAN MUST GO!

Icheoku says please, irrespective of your political leaning, watch this video and make up your mind accordingly as to whether there is any meat to the bone in the current ruckus about what Father Mbaka said or did not say concerning Project Jonathan 2015. Icheoku agrees that sometimes a motive could be subjudice and prejudice combined, but oftentimes a messenger could also be at variance with a message. Therefore it is good to have the discipline to listen to the message despite ones dislike for the messenger; because truth can also come from an imbecile too. 

Icheoku agrees with the message that President Jonathan usually assumes the names "Azikwe and Ebele" when campaigning in Igboland but quickly reverts to his original names once the election is over. Further that the citizens of Nigeria have been overstretched and now deputizing for the government, doing projects which is a meaningful government's lawful duty, but which it neglected or rather failed to do. 

Icheoku implores Nigerians to understand the magnitude of failures recorded under the Jonathan's presidency as they cast their votes, admitted that APC screwed up with their choice of a presidential candidate, thereby not giving Nigerians a meaningful choice either? A man carrying as much baggage as Muhammadu Buhari should have no business being presented as a presidential candidate by any major political party, which truly wants to give Nigerians a real choice in an election; because no true and sincere Nigeria would conscionably cast his vote for such an anti-democrat despot. So Jonathan must be made to understand that his first term was a BIG failure and he must be prepared to do better next time! But hey, you decide!

NIGERIA ABORTS PALESTINE STATE, FOR WHAT?

Icheoku says amidst the nitty gritty, quid pro quo, wheeling and dealing that is international diplomacy, Nigeria was forced to vote against the emergence of a Palestinian state and for FREE? The country got nothing in return for her golden vote and Icheoku asks why not? Icheoku queries why did Nigeria blow away such a pivotal and beautiful opportunity they would have used to leverage so many things they need from the international community including support and obtaining weapons for the Boko Haram struggle? Why did Nigeria not premise their vote on a precondition that United States of America as well as their 51st State Israel, first furnish a binding commitment to sell Nigeria weapons before casting their absentee vote? Why did Nigeria not strong-arm the United States into first committing their full support with weapons and cooperation on intelligence in the fight against Boko Haram before ceding that vote to deny the Palestines' Statehood?  

Icheoku says but unfortunately, a lackluster and clueless Jonathan government, too timid to look these white people in the eyes and tell them what he is indeed thinking, sheepishly voted by default of their abstinence and today Palestine once again hit the wall in their attempt to secure a homeland for their people? There was no promise or commitment to help fight the Boko Haram insurgency nor was there any promise to supply or sell the much needed weapons and one wonders what motivated this Nigeria's international goof and golden lifetime opportunity missed? All Jonathan got for his no-vote vote was a mere commendation from Bibi Netanyahu, who said "I would like to voice appreciation and thanks to the United States and Australia and also special appreciation for the president of Rwanda, my friend Paul Kagame and the president of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan. I spoke with both of them and they told me and promised me personally that they would not support this resolution. They kept their word and thats what clinched this matter. I think this is very important for the state of Israel." Icheoku says funny enough, Netanyahu did not even acknowledge Jonathan as his FRIEND and also mentioned him last? 

Icheoku says ironically even those pontificating the religious angle as reason why Nigeria under a Christian President sided with the Israelis, fail to understand that Israelis are not even Christians? They failed to understand that the people of Israel are not followers or admirers of Jesus Christ; that they even killed Jesus, admitted they now deny what is even recorded in the Bible as they blame Italian Pontius Pilate for Jesus' death?  These Nigerians forgot that as Jews, they practice Judaism - the religion of Abraham and Moses but not Christianity and they don't even go to church? But the Palestine, admitted they are Arabs, but they are majority Christians including their President Abbas who regularly goes to church; and even the murdered Arafat was married to a Christian from Morocco? So is it not a logic on its head that a Nigerian Christian President Jonathan should take sides with people who are anti-Christ as opposed to his Christian brothers, the Palestine, who are majority Christians? 

Anyway it is all international politics and President Jonathan of Nigeria should have mined the given opportunity optimally. But because he is too timid to stand up to these foreign leaders in his mad quest to get some level of acceptance, he hurriedly caved in to their pressure or rather slight push. Icheoku is not saying any other Nigerian president would have done otherwise or stood in the way of the Americans, but at least he should have made that vote count, and very expensive, if need be. They needed Nigeria's vote, Nigeria needed and still needs arms and intelligence to fight Boko Haram; and as a quid pro quo, Nigeria should have dealt accordingly. But to just gratuitously cave in and gave them that hefty default vote in return for nothing, is what Icheoku calls selling out or rather buckling under. Possibly Nigeria has now made Saudi Arabia doubly-mad and they might decide to slash oil price further down to even below $20 per barrel and let Nigerians eat their vote against the Palestine Statehood, which the Saudis so much wanted. Icheoku says the Nigeria no-vote  abstention against Palestine Statehood was a vote thrown away and at best was given for nothing, which defeats the whole essence of international diplomacy. But this President Jonathan sef, who is neither providing leadership at home nor abroad yet desiring a second term? If only the APC had given Nigerians a choice they can live with and the Niger Delta original terrorists not threatening to send Nigeria to hell, 2015 would have been a mere pipe dream for him. But, hey....

HID AWOLOWO BAILS OUT ON JONATHAN, ANOTHER SUPPORTER LOST?

Icheoku says is it possible that another prominent former Jonathan's supporter has deserted the president? Just few short days after the pentecostal reverend father in Enugu Father Mbaka offloaded President Jonathan from his 2015 support train, it appears that the Yeye Oba of Yorubaland Chef Mrs HID Awolowo has also made her exit from the Jonathan 2015 train to Aso Rock? Icheoku says it appears the woman has decided that "MINE" is a far much better alternative to "OURS" by pitching her tent with her son inlaw, APC Vice Presidential candidate Yemi Osibanjo  in his ticket with Muhammadu Buhari. 

Responding when the candidate paid her a courtesy visit, Hanah Idowu Dideola Awolowo said "I am very happy this morning to see that Yemi Osibanjo is going to higher ground and it is my prayer that he will get there. I urge you all to support his aspirate; God will take you there."

Icheoku says such public endorsement by Awolowo matriarch surely does not bode well for Team Jonathan 2015; a matter made worse as it will be seen as people beginning to take their exit from his campaign. Admitted that die-hard Jonathanists might dismiss such as inconsequential, but any keen political analyst would agree with Icheoku that more is always merrier in politics. The loss of any support is a serious matter politically speaking, especially under the circumstances Jonathan found himself going into the 2015 election. Now Jonathan seems to have been boxed into a tighter corner, defending his lackluster records, contending with a Yoruba Southwest with a vice presidential candidate slot, as well as a threatening bloc-votes in the North. But hey, Icheoku dey only watch ooo; but things are certainly not looking very good for Team Jonathan and his prospect today, is rather gloomier than  it was yesterday with this switching of sides of the Yoruba Chief Madam, if the truth must be told.

FATHER MBAKA MAKES U-TURN, GIVES JONATHAN A RED CARD!

Icheoku says what suddenly changed  to make this supposed seer and man of "God" change his prophesy for the Jonathans regarding their stay in Aso Rock? Is it possible that may be his "God" never indeed really told him anything nor  revealed any vision to him, when a few short weeks ago, on November 9th 2014, he prophesied to a gathering in his adoration center, which included Dame Patience Jonathan and her entourage, that "Those fighting Jonathan would meet their down fall!" In his own very words, Reverend Mbaka said “I want to ask those saying that Jonathan must bring back the Chibok girls. Is Jonathan holding the Chibok Girls? When you, First Lady went to Borno, you said there is God oh! Jonathan is not a kidnapper. We are giving you our support. You have done a lot for this country. You have done it with distractions. We wonder what you will do without distractions. We know what you will do. Adoration will support you and your husband."  

Now before the year 2015 could even be cleaned off its after birth, the same man of "God" has changed his tune and instead of affirming his praise and resolution on the Jonathan 2015 project, has made a dramatic 180 degree turn, now saying that is finished for the Jonathans? In his sermon during the new year's eve night mass at the same adoration center titled "From Goodluck to Badluck", the same preacher said, “Jonathan has ruled for six years. We need change. NEPA is not working because of corruption. We need change. The privatization of public companies has not yielded any fruit because of corruption. We need change. Jonathan surrounded himself with very corrupt officers who advise him. We need change. Nigerians are sick and tired of wasting innocent lives without government doing enough to stop the destruction. We need change. Up till now, nobody knows the whereabouts of the innocent Chibok girls kidnapped by Boko Haram and we say we have a government that cannot guarantee the welfare, safety and security of the citizens. We need change. Nigerians are calling for change. We need a change.” 

Icheoku is visiting this matter because we have always known that these self-prescribed men and women of "God" are preying on the gullible of Nigeria who are too afraid to stand up and face their demons; but instead are finding succor in all manner of prayer houses and babalawos shrines throughout Nigeria? Query:- if indeed these men communicate with "God", as they proclaim, why haven't they begged "God" to please solve all Nigerians' problems or at least those of their suffering congregants. Icheoku says this is the same man of "God" who went to Imo State government house few years ago to pour encomiums on Governor Rochas Okorocha as what Imo State has been waiting for; but following a bounced check snafu, now is praising Ikedi Ohakim as the true man of wonders Imo State missed for Okorocha? It is also on record that all the goodies Imo State is supposed to receive as a result of Okorocha's becoming a governor as predicted by this very man of "God" has not yet manifested. 

Anyway, you be the judge but for any supposed man of "God" to say one thing and within few short weeks changed his mind and started singing an entirely different tune is suspect. Icheoku's opinion is that possibly the check from Aso Rock similarly bounced and now an incensed man of "God", feeling betrayed and not paid his wages for the prescribed vision he rendered, now decided to take his vision back or hold its beneficiaries hostage? But why not, after all in the bible there are prophets of prosperity as well as prophets of doom and today depending on who is n attendance at their respective mountain of fire miracle roughing sermons, they could always tailor their prophesies to the exigency of the moment. Icheoku is convinced that this latest prophesy must be causing a whole lot of jitters at Aso Rock at this moment? The Jonathans, being who they are - well known for their belief in these mundanities and serious reliance on them just like Abubakar Atiku  relies on his Cameroonian marabouts and fortune tellers, must have dispatched an assistant to Emene Enugu to make peace with this enraged man of "God" by redeeming his bounced check? Icheoku says Nigerians will not be surprised to wake up within the next few days with another changed prophesy about Jonathan come 2015. But hey, only the so called man of prophesy, Reverend Father Camellias Ejike Mbaka, knows what indeed actually works and what does not work. As to whether or nor any "God" speaks to him, will be better left fora trained psychiatrist to determine as that is above Icheoku's pay grade. FYI" Picture below is Dame "dar is god ooo" receiving the prophesy of November 9 at the adoration center.

CHANGE, WHAT CHANGE - LAMIDO

"How can a child begotten by a leper, breastfed by a leper, then now grow up saying the leper is dirty and smelling? People like Kano State Rabiu Kwankwaso, Rivers State Rotimi Amaechi, Makatakarda Wamakko of Sokoto, Nasiru El-Rufai, former speaker Aminu Bello Masari are all PDP-born politically, who have everything in common with those in the party. But because they were frustrated out of the party, today are talking of change, which change. Nonsense." - Governor Sule Lamido of Adamawa State.

NEW YEAR RESOLUTION 2015, MAKE NIGERIA A FUNCTIONING SOCIETY.

Icheoku says a well functioning society is like a well choreographed orchestra; each musician playing his or her  instrument in accordance with prescribed notes and directed by a conductor; and together they produce a harmonious melody. But a dysfunctional society, where everybody wants to lead at the same time is like an orchestra with too many conductors and in which nobody even wants to be an instrument player. Icheoku asks who then plays the various family instruments from the percussion, string, woodwind, brass, keyboard, and of course voice including accordion, flute, tambourine, trumpet, clarinet, cello etc when every person wants to only be the conductor and nothing else? The result is disharmony, confusion, chaos, dysfunctionality and often times, mayhem; as the conductor's position which is supposed to be occupied by solely one person now has a motley of disparate people, each trying to drive the musical discourse which results in discordant tune and/or no music at all. "Fela's Confusion Break Bone, yee kpaaa" readily comes into mind discussing Nigeria's problem.

Icheoku says Nigerians must learn that somebody must lead and others must follow in order to achieve the desired objective of having a functional country. The true test of a leader is one who has ably, previously followed as an understudy; otherwise where did he learn or take his pupillage on how to lead if he has never been led to know how it is done? It is the school of hard-knocks and their lesson is superbly very instructive. This is one reason why Icheoku regrets the lack of continuity in some government programs in Nigeria like the laudable WAI and MAMSER. Take for example MAMSER which was in the process of making every Nigerian begin to take pride in whatever type of work they did which is no more. Remember the Jerry Gana's famous campaign "if you are teacher, teach well", "if you are a tailor, sew well," "if you are a bricklayer, layer well", "if you are a doctor, doctor well," if you are a lawyer, lawyer well" and "if you are a president, preside well" etc? 

Icheoku reiterates that every person cannot be the president or governor or senator or local government chairman or councillor or even anything at the same time. MAMSER was trying to make every Nigerian be comfortable with whatever they did or are doing and encourage them to do it so well it sizzles. For instance in the clime where I call home, not many people even care about politics enough to give a damn who is where that many people don't even know who their governors are? Even one Hollywood actress was asked on national television who the vice president is but she does not know and did not care either. But in Nigeria, because it is the means to an end and the be it that makes it all, every tug and tout head-dive therein to steal themselves blind from the common wealth. Otherwise why should anybody be that desperate to "serve" anyone to warrant all the do or die that comes with politicking in Nigeria. 

If only Nigerians would ask themselves when did it become fashionable for someone to kill another person simply because he wants to provide service for the people?  It does not make any sense at all and if Nigerians could imbibe this lesson in the New Year, it will help them make and have a good life for themselves, devoid of all these stress and tension, simply because one man wants to be president and another wants to be governor and another wants to be senator and another wants to be local government chairman. If everyone becomes this and that who then becomes the other things in the society? Just be the best you can be in your department and make others so jealous they want to imitate you and be like you. There is honor in labor and as a laborer, you will surely get your wages doing whatever you do, provided you do it well. 

If only MAMSER had succeeded, by now many of these people struggling and killing each other to be elected for one office or another would not have abandoned their original trade or professional calling for politics. So Nigerians, Icheoku calls on you to make a new year resolution to be the best in whatever you do and help make Nigeria a more functioning society. Realizing too that for many of these political offices, there are limited number of occupants at one time; and that you don't have to be the one in it. But in any event, if you must, please go about it in an orderly and civilized manner and also learn to take defeat like a sportsman. All the best in the new year Nigerians and may the lesser of the two evils, running for president, emerge victorious on February 14, 2015.