MMM: A PONZI SCHEME MONEY PYRAMID TAKES ROOT IN NIGERIA.

Icheoku says one of the signs of a tanked and struggling  economy is the desperation of the people to find anything that gives them some sense of hope that things are still under control; that they will survive; regardless of the foolishness and/or unrealistic their hope or venture might sometimes be. Like a drowning person, the people are forced into a survival mode, clinging and grappling, looking for, doing things and holding unto things which other more rationally saner observers would consider rather foolish and/or not thought out through properly. They become easy preys, sitting ducks, for these predators masquerading as saviors who approach them with mouth-watering schemes of a paradise on earth. Being desperate, they easily bite the bait and before you could say Jack, they would be wishing the earth had opened up and swallowed them earlier before they were prospected, rather than remain in the place where they subsequently found themselves.

It has happened severally in the past, both in other climes and in Nigeria as well; and it is once again happening in Nigeria with proliferation of so many of those 419 "miracle-working" men and women of "God" and their fakery. These 419 false custodians of heavenly grace are promising hopelessly frantic gullible Nigerians miracle of riches; and when these victims cannot wait long enough, even after twenty years, for their own miracle of riches to come to fruition, they turn to other lurking exit route from their life's situational problems. This is the yawning gap which MMM seeks to and has come to fill and they are succeeding in ensnaring a population that is both desperate and nearing despondency and which is increasingly tethering on edge. A population which is in a mad rush to make it big and without necessarily putting in the required hard work which success always requires. Icheoku says the Mavrodi Mondial Moneybox phenomenon is one such huge scam and is exploiting the two conditions which predatory scam artists are always looking for in their potential victims - need and desperation, which translates to vulnerability. 

The Russians Ponzi scheme MMM has invaded Nigeria and is currently making mince-meat lunatics out of millions of Nigerian desperadoes who fantasize about hitting the big pay day.  They have their dream cars, houses, lifestyles mapped out but do not want to travel the often thongs-strewn beaten path that yields such. This very gullible forget that there is no free lunch anywhere and that if it looks too good to be true, it might as well be so. They also forget that when you go to Las Vegas or Macau, you go there just for fun; but if you happen to land a jackpot, then it becomes an additional blessing but never the expected norm because the odds are always in favor of the house. They forget the rule of life that if you want it, you either earn it or you steal it and that bank robbery or drug pushing will not be in existence if there is any money scheme that truly doles out such fantastic largess. But regrettably, such scams usually come with sugar coated and mouth-watering promises that too often prove irresistible to their victims. This ensnaring tool, the beautiful promises, they normally fulfill to the primary baseline first responders; which they would then use to bait their intended target, the other millions of people, who would then be left holding the plate and through whom the promoters would have their payday. 

Rule number one to three of making money, there is no cheap or easy money anywhere on planet earth; so if you want it, you have to either work for it or take the high stakes risk associated with getting it. There is no shortcut or Father Christmas who loves you enough to want to double or triple your money. But the gullible and easily swayed, hopelessly overtly excited people, who usually fall prey to such bait and switch scam, often act with suspended intellect. These are the people possessed by the fantastical nonsense of get rich quick scheme, the MMM mania which is sweeping across Nigeria. Some of the people are also in dire need of staying alive and to keep hope alive, have found themselves so vulnerable that they have fallen victims to these predatory scammers. A country people which have found themselves in a state of extended miasma and are looking for any way out, are unfortunately lining themselves up for the inevitable heartbreak which will come with an assured burst of the current MMM bubble. It is the same reason the 419 men and women of "God" are cashing in on Nigerians with their pretentious miracle of riches that have provided such an instant anchor for MMM - gullibility and crave for instant riches without working for it. 

If only these Nigerians have heard about the notorious Bernard Maddof of the United States of America who made off with nearly $150 billion of other peoples money in a similar Ponzi scheme before he was finally nabbed and now serving 150 years in prison. The arrangement is simple - it is called other peoples money collective with pittance paid out as interest from the same money deposited to entice enough customers before they eventually cash out and crash the scheme. It is not if but when MMM will crash because as with every such money Ponzi scheme, the intention of the operator is simple - maximize the outtake and get out fast. That Nigerian government has not shut down MMM shows the rot that is the country's leadership; although it is practically a way of life now for so many, but a government that is worth its duties and responsibilities to the people would have since saved them the inevitable future heartbreak with a little inconvenience now of shutting it down. Icheoku says if their promised returns were realistic, there would be no banking industry in existence as everybody would empty their accounts and turn their money over to MMM. But no, the desperate deaf poor wants to cross over the great divide between haves and have nots, and are prepared to do whatever it takes. 

Those who were around in the mid eighties to early nineties, before 419 took hold and over everything, would remember that similar money schemes existed and were everywhere in Nigeria, but where are they today. The same fate awaits MMM and all those hopelessly possessed Nigerian "investors" waiting to hit the jackpot the easy way. That MMM have crashed in other countries including Zimbabwe is not enough to dissuade these vulnerable Nigerians from putting their money into such a burning fire that will consume it. In the final analysis, wonder banks never work the wonders they promise; therefore knowledgeable people do not patronize such schemes because experience shows that their activities are not sustainable and that if you get involved, you will be burnt somewhere down the road. Please fellas, if you can avoid the temptation, avoid the money virus that is now feeding off the vulnerable and gullible Nigerians who are hoping to make it big and make it out like bandits. It has hurt before and it is going to hurt again, so please get out before you go down. As PE DJT would say to people acting out, ICHEOKU says to you, please STOP IT and now.

YEEZUZ MEETS PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMP

Icheoku says there is nothing with that, especially for a President-Elect Donald John Trump who pledged to be president for everyone; and nearly fifty million Kanye West's followers are a great percentage of the American population who make up the everyone. Coincidentally, both highly accomplished men dyed their hair golden for their epic meeting; athough what they discussed in the meeting is pretty much not known; but whatever it is, it has kept social media buzzing and humming.  Icheoku says such outreach is great and should be encouraged among the polity and as often as possible as it will help President-Elect Donald Trump towards making it great again. Icheoku says, approves. Salute.

RUSSIAN ELECTION HACK, SIMPLY RIDICULOUS.

Icheoku says for the umpteenth time, the world is being inundated with Version 'Russians Hacked the Election' excuse by a people in denial, in their woeful attempt to explain away the shellacking they received  in the last election. A shameless people who are not tired of manufacturing excuses after excuses of why they lost the election;  and who have refused to actually focus the searchlight on the culprit for their loss, the irreparably damaged and deathly flawed candidate they field, Hillary Clinton. Icheoku says they can play the field all they want; they can also, like Houdini, try to pull one rabbit after another from their magic hat of explanations; but until they boldly and courageously look inward to see their nemesis wearing a form of a woman, named Hillary Clinton, their search will continue to come up empty.  

Once again, Americans are being bombarded with tales by the moonlight of Russians hacked the election and influenced the outcome of a Donald Trump's presidential victory. Icheoku queries, why did these security agencies, whose job is to protect and guard against such external intrusions, not act to preempt the Russians and stop them cold when they tried? Why are they now shouting thief, thief, after the bull has bolted out of the barn. Why did they not catch them red-handed when there was still smoking gun residue in their hacking fingers. Why now, especially without any convincing evidence other than mere speculative guesswork? But some super egotistic personalities who are still traumatized and still in a suspended state of shock that Donald Trump wiped the floor with them, all of them; including an entire world that was marshaled against him; are raising hell with allegations trying to de-legitimize an election victory that was secured fair and square. They are in denial and have refused to allow the process of recovery to commence by still holding out false hope that perhaps, by some magic, the election result will change to produce a different outcome. 

Their ego was simply so much going into the election that they concluded the election won even before the campaign ever started; which saw Hillary Clinton not taking her campaign seriously enough and did not even care to campaign in so many states, having assured herself that the election was already in the bag. She also refused to hold press conferences nor answer reporters questions demanding to know certain explanations to some of her criminal activities, especially as related to the 33,000 deleted and bleach-washed emails. Even when questions were shouted at her, her minders stills stonewalled and prevented her from answering them. Then add her Wall Street speeches and what they contain, which she refused to shed lights on. This is a woman who had no new nor bold idea on what her presidency will do to turn things around; whose campaign was mostly based on "Do Not Vote Trump because he is this and that", but never told Americans why they should vote for her? That she has no love lost between herself and the wider American people did not also matter to these guys who are now spewing this Russian hacked the election nothingness.

Ichoeku says a people have never been as arrogant as these folks who are pushing this Hillary Clinton should have won the election nonsensical. They expected her to win regardless of her flaws and the lackluster campaign she mounted. They expected her to win because it was her turn or rather women's turn to be president, whether or not this particular woman was that woman who American people would have wanted to elect as their first female president. A woman who is so despised that even women issues champion in chief Oprah Winfrey could not give her a full throttle endorsement and said to vote for her even if you don't like her. So, query, who ever empowers someone they do not like into a higher position of authority? If one does not like Hillary Clinton, how could that one be expected to vote for her for president? Meanwhile all these high negatives are of no interest to her apologists who were only interested on her coronation, regardless. So instead of these people pushing this "she would have been elected narrative', the correct and proper inquiry should have been who would vote for such a high negatives candidate, especially one who deleted 33,000 emails and went to brand nearly 34 million Americans irreparable deplorables. Funny enough too, these apologists are not concerned that Bernie Sanders fell victim to the conspiracies unearthed by some of the leaked emails; but are only interested in who made their content public. A crime was committed, but instead of investigating the crime, they are rather interested in who ratted the crime out.

Anyway, it is rather interesting that the current frenzied 'Russians Hacked the Election' is coming on the heels of the fluttering recount effort which they equally orchestrated. They thought that recounting the votes was going to change a thing; but now that Donald Trump is gaining votes ahead of Hillary Clinton, to plus 168 now, they figured the reason for her defeat was not in miscounted votes and have now changed gear, pivoted back to the Russians. It would be recalled that they have so far pushed so many narratives as to why their Hillary Clinton was demolished in the last election. From FBI's James Comy letter to Congress; to Black people failed to show love to Hillary Clinton by turning out votes; to White women did not support their fellow woman; to Nate Silver 538 depressed voter turnout by too much optimism and confidence; to miscounted votes as well as to all manner of silliness including coming back once again to Russians hacked the election. Icheoku says surely these people are turning themselves into laughing stock of sore losers who do not know how to accept defeat honorably. If the Russians did it, at what point did they know or find out it was actually the Russians and not any other group of hackers? if the Russians did it, did they magically too coarse voters to vote for the other guy? If the Russians did it, did they make the Clinton campaign write all those emails that showed them as wearing two faces of Janus - one which they show publicly and the other one which they wear in private? 

For whatever it is worth, this latest craziness is both pitiful and shameful and should be stopped forthwith. President Elect Donald John Trump won the election fair and square, admitted it surprised so many people world wide and that it was a deathly blow to the bloated ego of some people who swore that Donald Trump will NEVER be president. Icheoku understands where they are coming from; their ego was mortally damaged and now they are desperately trying to put a band-aid on. The same people mocked Donald Trump into running for the presidency and unwittingly motivated and engineered the outcome of his being today's president elect of America. Ego is one funny thing and ego has ruined so many things including lives and it is this ego that is currently in the way, meddling in an otherwise decidedly concluded presidential election. The good news is that America is not a banana republic nor is it one small African country where elections are easily manipulated and annulled; otherwise at the rate these people who are pushing this false narrative against Trump are going, they would have since taken the laws into their hands and overruled the peoples wish. Their trajectory is frost with danger and the earlier they pulled back the better for everyone including American democracy. Therefore, it is about time they accepted their defeat and lick their wounds and then get ready for 2020. Hillary Clinton lost the election because she was not a good candidate and Donald Trump ran a better winnable campaign and he won.  

WOLE SOYINKA: SELF DEPORTS FROM THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

Icheoku says President-elect Donald John Trump has not even been sworn in yet but he is already affecting changes in so many spheres including immigration. In addition to building the Great Wall of America, he promised to also remove immigrants who should not ordinarily be in the United States of America. These include immigrants who are in America illegally as well as those whose legal stay are somewhat questionable. It would seem that Nigerian Professor Wole Soyinka fell into this last category and decided to preemptively remove himself before Trump's men would strike and bundle him out of America. According to sources, the Professor of Literature and Nobel Prize Laureate, in fulfillment of his vow never to enter the United States of America again should Donald Trump win the presidency, has "thrown away" or rather destroyed his Green Card residency permit. 

Icheoku says if indeed it is true that Wole Soyinka has destroyed his Green card and thus technically, self-removed himself from the United States, it is one problem solved for the newly appointed immigration tzar, who will now have one less of an immigrant to worry about. But who is this Wole Soyinka to think that it should matter whether or not he entered the United States again and whether anyone will miss him anyway? Did he actually destroy his Green Card and if he did, does he have right to destroy a property which does not really belong to him but which belongs to the United States of America government? Why did he not publicize the destruction and why did he allegedly "throw it away" unceremoniously since it would have had more impact if done publicly; afterall his threat to never enter the United States was made publicly. Icheoku truly believes that Wole Soyinka did not destroy nor "throw away" his Green card and was merely posturing by stating so. First he needs the Green Card more than America will ever need or miss him if he actually removed himself from the country. So who hurts more if Wole Soyinka does not enter America anymore; Wole Soyinka of course and so in whose interest is it to maintain his residency eligibility, same Wole Soyinka.  

Woke Soyinka used to be the beloved of many Nigerians who loved him for being a stand-up guy until he started cavorting with some leprosy-ied Nigerians including invertebrate politicians whom he jumped into bed with. Suddenly the man who was once showing the light of way started speaking in bifurcated tongue, flip-flopping on issues and bold-facedily started telling untruths and becoming dodgy. A man who once wrote a treatise on why Buhari must never be elected president, suddenly somersault into an apostle and itinerant campaigner-advocate of elect Muhammadu Buhari president because he is the now messiah of Nigeria sent from On High. That this claim has since turned false is a testimony every living Nigerian is prepared to give because Wole Soyinka has since been proved to have lied by vouching for Buhari. The same Wole Soyinka also accepted a N80 million Naira 80th birthday bash from a government which was owing its workers several months arrears of payment; again questioning his wisdom or rather when he sold his soul to the devil or mortgaged his conscience to the oppressors of Nigeria. 

That Wole Soyinka has become a totally different person in recent years is a fact; suggesting that the man in him died a sudden death and that what is now left of him is but a ghostly apparition of his former brave self. This is a man who once entered into a radio station armed with a pistol to try to effect a change. A man who once went to prison because of his convictions during the Biafra war and who has been on the side of the oppressed peoples of Nigeria, battling the inept leadership that have held the country in a stranglehold. But without any warning signs whatsoever, he decided to join up with the same people he has been fighting all his adult life against and you wonder what was his purchased price? Icheoku says to still call a man who has stood silent in the face of the tyranny that is President Muhammadu Buhari's presidency a man, is a great disservice and dishonor to the word, manhood. So what happened to our dear Wole Soyinka and why has he changed into this new wimpy condoner of impunity, having remained silent ever since the despotism of Muhammadu Buhari crept into the land. The same noticed change in personality is equally to blame for his outburst over inquiries about his Green Card by people who want to know if he has acted on his promise.

Icheoku says like those who fetched ants infested firewood who should not complain when lizards pay them a visit, Wole Soyinka brought every inquiry about his Green Card unto himself; because if he never uttered those words, nobody would have followed him up, trying to ascertain if he carried it through. Therefore, castigating such inquirers is a disservice to Wole Soyinka himself because that is exactly what he would have done were the shoes to be on the other foot. Further, he overreached himself calling people names and once again threatening to also leave Nigeria never to come back; but where he wants to go from Nigeria he did not disclose? Icheoku says if Wole Soyinka leaves Nigeria, no one would miss him either; just like no one would miss him if he never entered the United States of America again. In this world we live in, no one is that important or indispensable, no matter how highly placed or how important he or she thinks of self. The only attempt at fathoming any possible explanation that somewhat makes sense is that something has changed or is changing in Wole Soyinka's neurons. At his very advanced age of 83 years old, it is possible that the once very erudite professor is beginning to show early signs of old age related infirmities of the mind. It is possible that his increasingly weird talks and actions are early signs of Alzheimer's disease including dementia; all suggesting a depreciation of his lucidity of mind? 

Query:- why would any sane person so publicly threaten to destroy his Green Card and regardless of how riled up he may have been with the possibility of a Donald Trump's presidency, what is in it for him that he should vow never to enter America again? Did he think his threat was going to change or effect any vote; or that anyone was going to beg him to please not leave or enter or remain in America? At least, he could have recused himself from America and never come back until the end of Trump's presidency if he wanted; but without making it public as no one has ever been barred or stopped from leaving America if they want. As with the saying beware of what you wish for, Donald Trump has won the election and Wole Soyinka was asked if he has carried out his threat to destroy his Green Card and then his outburst. Icheoku says his outburst is simply inexplicable, unwarranted and uncalled for. If Wole Soyinka did not mouth off his intention to destroy his Green Card, nobody would have known about it nor border him by following up to know if he has performed his bargained. 

It was a voluntarily made threat which condition arose with Trump's winning the presidency, it is therefore incumbent on him now to perform as any honorable person would; admitted he is not under any obligation to so do. But we are talking about honor and a Professor and Nobel Prize winner is supposed to be honorable, otherwise how does anybody take him seriously going forward. Icheoku says Woke Soyinka owes it to the world, including Americans and Nigerians, the destruction of his Green Card and hereby calls on him to destroy his Green Card forthwith. To just chicken out or do otherwise or lie about destroying it when he did not in fact actually destroy it and/or there is no evidence of its actual destruction, will only make Wole Soyinka a lilly-livered boastful individual, who runs his mouth just for the heck of running his mouth. Be that as it may, it is safe to assume that Wole Soyinka made the boastful threat just to remain in the limelight of relevance during the last American presidential election and is not a man of honor who puts his money where his mouth is. So paraphrasing President Ronald Reagan, Icheoku says, Wole Soyinka tear up your Green Card or forever remain a shriveling loudmouth.

GHANA ELECTS A NEW PRESIDENT, NANA AKUFOR-ADDO

Icheoku says the wind of change blowing across world's political landscape has swept across through Ghana, sweeping away the incumbent president and in his place, a new president has been elected to lead the former Gold Coast territory, now Ghana. President-elect Nana Akufor-Addo defeated incumbent President John Mahama in a well conducted free and far election; and his third time trying for the presidency, thus putting some credence in the aphorism, third time is the charm. 

Good enough the outgoing president, who lost his reelection bid, has accepted the result and has conceded the election. It is encouraging to watch peaceful election and power transfer in a continent plagued by sit-tight leaders who hardly lose election nor ever accepts defeat and would rather plunge their country into internecine bloody war than allow the expressed wishes of the people hold supreme. President Jammeh of The Gambia is now proving to be one such sit-tight lout, who previously conceded an election that threw him out of power only to now make a u-turn, recanted and is making a bid not to quit. 

Icheoku says congratulations to both the newly elected President Nana Akufor-Addo and the outgoing President John Mahama for their victory and concession respectively. They are both noble statesmen and they are showing their countrymen and women the right way and how to move a country forward politically. It is a new dawn in Ghana and as usual, the face of victory is always radiant as is the gleaning face of the victor, Mr Nana Akufor-Addo. Congratulations also to the people of Ghana for a peaceful election and may God continue to bless and keep them safe.

SOYINKA DEMYSTIFIED: THE TRIAL OF BROTHER JERO - CHARLES OGBU

If the 82 year old comparative literature professor Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka could use words such as "Imbeciles",  "Barbarians", "Morons", "Stupid", "Internet Millipedes" etc on Nigerians simply for reminding him to tear (not throw away) his green card as he promised he would if Donald Trump emerged winner in the U.S. election, assuming he was the one sitting in that office currently occupied by the Daura-born political hurricane called Muhammadu Buhari, what do you think he would do to his political opponents, members of the opposition and young Nigerians criticizing him on the internet. 

This is a man who has spent the greater part of the 82 years he's spent so far on this earth 'chuking' his mouth into the affairs of others. The same man who once called the wife of his president a "Shippopotamus". We were told that Soyinka hates military dictators. Never mind that he quickly accepted the position of the FRSC chief from IBB, a military dictator. We were told that Soyinka fought tyrants from Fernando Po to Bermuda Triangle. Never mind that he recently helped enthrone another tyrant, Muhammadu Buhari as the president of a 21st century Nigeria. 

My question is, what exactly is the difference between those military dictators who jail their critics and a Wole Soyinka who haul invectives at his fellow citizens simply for reminding him to keep his word. And what is the difference between those who turn reason, commonsense and logic upside down to defend dictators like Idi-Amin, Adolf Hitler, Muhammadu Buhari etc and people like Pius Adesanmi and co who have been standing commonsense on its head in a desperate bid to portray Wole Soyinka as a God who can do no wrong? So because a man is a Professor, people should no longer criticize him if he progresses in error? 

Something is criminally wrong with a people who think that certain academic achievements confers one with immunity over criticism. Professor Wole Soyinka is not exactly the problem. The horde of hypocritical alleluia boys giving him the God status are the real problem. The mindset of "my hero can do no wrong" being exhibited by people like Pius Adesanmi and co in this Soyinka issue is the same mindset exhibited by supporters of tyrants all over the world. 

Dictators are made, not born. If you love a man to the point where you cannot stand anyone expressing reservations about such a man, trust me, you need to watch  it. What you have for that man is blind love which is no love at all. If you only condemn 'wrong' when it's done by your enemy and praise it when its done by your friends, trust me, you are part of the problem, not the solution. 

Big lesson: Don't get carried away by big titles such as "professor", "SAN" and other etcetera etcetera stuff attached to people's names both on social media and in real life. Engage every man according to what he brings to the table. Some of these men with those big titles are as morally-bankrupt and integrity-challenged as they come. I think the law of diminishing return is taking its toll on our dear Prof. Wole  Soyinka. Just like many Nigerians, he is a victim of this thing called God complex. Journalists should help our Prof. stay away from the camera and microphones. Just like the big masquerade, Ijele, he has overstayed in the village square, he now stand the risk of children mistaking him for a mere mortal wearing mask. This is indeed the trial of 'brother' Soyinka!"

TRUMP WINS YET AGAIN, TIME'S PERSON OF THE YEAR 2016.

Icheoku says those whom the Gods bless, glows in every sphere. President-Elect Donald John Trump is proving to be one such person, the new Messiah from On High, who can now proudly add a Person of the Year to his many blessings this year 2016. 

It is an honor rightly merited and well earned, as his presidential election victory defies every known logic and could, simply put, be described as ordained. He won the presidency and his first time foray in politics and as an outsider; and now the Person of the Year. Hopefully the Nobel Prize will follow.

Icheoku says congratulations to PEOTUS Donald John Trump and also to the Times Magazine editorial board for getting it right; as nobody impacted the entire world this year more than the man whose bold audacity secured him the White House. Well deserved. 

MARIAH CAREY: WHEN A BILLIONAIRE CANNOT AFFORD A WOMAN?

Icheoku says once again the theory of relativity is called into question on how much a man necessarily needs to make or have in order to be able to support a woman? Icheoku used to know this man who said, if a woman is a good woman, she can make a meal out of mere vegetables, starch and bones and feed her family with that. But if a woman is a bad woman, give her one half of a cow, the family will still go to sleep hungry as she might either give the meat away or refuse to cook it because it was not enough? This is one such case where a woman proved impossible to keep or rather did not like or love the man but was in it for what she can gouge from him - binge spending. 

So many women have issues about what their husband makes or brings home and sometimes, complain that their man does not make enough to keep her happy and satisfied. Sometimes this complaining lingers on until it becomes a wedge in the marriage or relationship, often leading to divorce and breakups as the woman walks away complaining that the man can no long support her. For this type of women, the ever needy and ever wanting for more women who see their men as cash cow or ATM, how much exactly is really enough for them to be happy or at least agree that their man makes enough and is taking care of them adequately? If one hundred dollar is not enough, would one thousand dollars? If twenty thousand is not enough, would one hundred thousand? Icheoku says how much a man needs to bring home or make in order to keep or maintain a woman entirely depends on the woman in question; as any woman could decide to make due with what is available and in some cases like the latest Mariah Carey shenanigan with her former billionaire fiancee, no amount is ever enough. 

Query: if a billionaire with no apparent screaming money problem could cry out for help and ask for intervention by calling off an engagement to a woman, because the woman was going through his money like wildfire in a dried out summer grassland, what does this tell anyone. It says that no amount of money is actually enough to keep or afford a woman who is not there to help you grow; but to suck and drain you dry to the bone and separate you from your money. Icheoku says it actually is not how much a man makes or brings home that is important, but whether the woman loves him enough to want to make it work. Does the woman like the man enough that she is prepared to discipline herself enough to stretch whatever money he brings home or which the family have to meet the needs of the family? That Mariah Carey and her Australian beau, James Packer have gone their separate ways is now history but what put them asunder is the news - Mariah Carey utra-extravagant spending. When a man with such a deep pocket, about $3.6 billion, could not afford a woman, it spells utter ridiculousness. The proper narrative should be whether this particular  woman does in fact want to be taken care of, or was she a mere mercenary. 

Icheoku says even Bill Gates would have felt the heaviness of his pocket dropping low at the rate Mariah was spending James Packers' money: including renting a $17,000 a night private mansions, to flying in private jets; throwing private yacht parties, charter flights and a $10 million engagement ring; as well as indulging in other very expensive habits and vanities of a very high maintenance diva. Icheoku says luckily enough, James Packer still listens to his financial advisors and offloaded her immediately; otherwise, at the rate she was going through his money, he would have needed all the gold in Fort Knox to be able to keep, maintain and support her. The only good thing to come out of their breakup is that the matter conclusively rests the hitherto narrative that a man needs to first have money in order to find, keep and maintain a woman. The better narrative should be that a man needs to find a woman who really likes him enough, regardless of his financial standing, and together they can join forces to build whatever future they desire. Mariah Carey, definitely not a woman any responsible man should sweat a droplet for. She is not worth it; simply too expensive to keep. Also no other woman is worth it who wants to bring a man down by eating through his finances like it was going out of fashion. It would have been a case of 'behind the downfall of a billionaire was a woman,' instead of the usual 'behind every successful man there is a woman.' Good riddance. 

BOLA TINUBU: THE VILLAIN WHO FOIST BUHARI ON NIGERIA.

Icheoku says the reason sureties and guarantors are required in certain circumstances is to have somebody to hold responsible for a primary person's actions and/or misdeeds. Bola Tinubu stood in as guarantor and surety of Muhammadu Buhari before Nigerians agreed to elect him president; and now that Nigerians are being shafted and getting what they did not bargain for, the natural cause of action should be for them to seek out the person upon whose vouching, they elected President Muhammadu Buhari and find out exactly what is going on? That Nigerians have tunnel-visioned their focus only on President Muhammadu Buhari and seem to have forgotten Bola Tinubu or to have unwittingly given him a pass is the problem here. Bola Tinubu is as guilty and responsible, if not more, for all the hardships Nigerians are going through right now and should be summarily held accountable too. Therefore the current aggression directed at only President Muhammadu Buhari is not far-reaching enough, because Buhari alone did not bring about the Buhari nightmare. Buhari did not put himself in Aso Rock, Nigerians did; and Nigerians did because somebody made them to. That somebody is Bola Tinubu. 

Three times did Buhari run for president and the three times did Nigerians overwhelmingly reject his candidacy respectively. Then on the fourth occasion, the snake turned to a gullible and hate-filled Bola Tinubu and convinced him to sell him to Nigerian electorates, who bought into Bola Tinubu's judgment that Muhammadu Buhari was a changed or rather repented democrat and voted accordingly. The result of this decision is a country that is now desolate, with hunger and starvation ravaging the land and stagnation is the new order of things. That the person, who conned Nigerians into accepting the person they had previously rejected on three occasions and for good reason, is not being harpooned for driving them into the current quagmire is rather surprising. This guy, Bola Tinubu, is the rightful person to whom all these anger in the land should be directed to; and not necessarily the fall guy who is in mere occupation of Aso Rock and who is at the tip of the spear of the current anger in the land. Nigerians knew Muhammadu Buhari very well as a despot without a heart and would have again rejected him in 2015 if not for Bola Tinubu, who successfully convinced them that Muhammadu Buhari is a changed person - a converted democrat and a safe choice for president. 

Why Nigerians are not attacking Bola Tinubu or taking their frustrations out on him, knowing fully well that but for Bola Tinubu, there would never have been a President Muhammadu Buhari to drag everything into the cold doldrums, is mind boggling. Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu showed up in 2014 to assure Nigerians that they are safe with a Muhammadu Buhari's presidency and that they should have no fear electing him president. Nigerians listened to Tinubu and now the result. It did not occur to those Nigerians who shouted change and held broom sticks high that a leopard hardly changes its spots and that an old dog cannot be taught new tricks. A known quantum despot with glaring record of despotism, suddenly became beatified a democratically elected president just because Bola Tinubu advised so? Unbeknownst to these gullible Nigerians who elected Muhammadu Buhari president, Bola Tinubu himself did not even believe that Buhari was a changed man, but his hatred for Jonathan Goodluck with whom he had some disagreements with, propelled his incensed desire to get him out of Aso Rock. President Jonathan buckled under intense pressure and now Nigerians are reaping the whirlwind which they voluntarily sowed by electing a draconian sadist, president. 

The good thing about time is that it has a very indeterminate way of playing cruel irony on  human beings. Bola Tinubu was intoxicated and possessed with a "Jonathan must go change agenda" and traversed the length and breath of Nigeria to spread his gospel of change. Bola Tinubu put it all to make sure that his hand man Muhammadu Buhari won the election; Buhari defeated Jonathan and is now the president of Nigeria. That it turned out Bola Tinubu swindled Nigerians with his parade of Buhari as the now messiah Nigeria needed, is a fact of consequence. Bola Tinubu knew all along that Muhammadu Buhari is very obtuse and more adamant than a donkey and that it will be difficult to keep him conformed; but his thinking that he will be able to keep him on a leech beclouded his honest assessment of the man Buhari. Unfortunately too for Bola Tinubu, he forgot the time honored saying that it takes only a gentle man to keep his promises and honor his word; and that a military man and a former coup plotter does not qualify as such a respectable person whose words is his bond. The ever cunning Fulani fox, having secured and consolidated his hold unto power, decided to push away the ladder with which he ascended Aso Rock and as far away as possible, hence Bola Tinubu became marked for demolition. 

First he rejected Tinubu's nominations for cabinet positions and kept his vice presidential nominee and vice president Bayo Osinbajo out of the inner circle of power in Aso Rock. He also made sure that all Tinubu's candidate for National Assembly officials were all roundly rejected and had to make peace with Saraki to further isolate and keep Tinubu out. As if that was not enough, he took sides with APC chairman John Odigie Oyegun and together they have ran rings around Tinubu to completely emasculate him and render him inconsequential.  To this effect, they rejected Tinubu's candidate for Edo State governorship and won the governorship with their own preferred candidate. Again, they dealt similar cards  on Tinubu in Ondo State and once again, they won the state with their own choice candidate and without his help; thus further demystifying Bola Tinubu as not the fabled political godfather of the Southwest. This is 'Politicking 101' and it is all about power and control of the political structures in the Southwest of Nigeria and so far, Bola Tinubu is losing the fight. Fortunately too, Bola TInubu will not be the first politician to have ever been used to get to power and later discarded. It comes with the territory and politicians are not men of honor and no honor should be expected from the current players in Nigeria, particularly in the APC. 

Query, does Bola Tinubu's current tribulations elicit Icheoku's sympathy? Hell NO; as Icheoku would rather his traducers tighten their vice more and more until he has no more juice to give up. Does Bola Tinubu deserve what is coming his way? Icheoku says HELL YES, because that is exactly what it will take to teach him a lesson that a weak benevolent democrat is better than a 'repented despot' or rather democrat as he would rather call himself. Icheoku was particularly miffed at Bola Tinubu when he ran around during the last election, campaigning for Muhammadu Buhari for president; despite his storied history of brutal dictatorship. That subsequent military men who ruled Nigeria after Buhari's first coming did not show mercy but ran amok in the land was also a consequential fact; but Tinubu was blinded by his sheer hatred for the man from Otuoke and his desire to bring him down and replace him with an avowed military man; and now here we are Nigerians. Bola Tinubu therefore owes Nigerians certain explanations for why the man he vouched for, who he said would lead Nigerians to the promise land, is just a few miles away from leading them to the gates of hell. Bola Tinubu has a lot of explaining to do because he is the reason why Buhari is Nigeria's president today and cannot be seen or heard pleading not his act. 

Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu is the only person responsible for the current Buhari-nightmarish situation in Nigeria. The Buhari-nomics stifling economic condition was midwifed by Bola TInubu; the Buhari-lost in the woods of Nigerians was Bola Tinubu's making too and therefore he should accordingly be held accountable for all of them. But for Bola Tinubu, there would never have been a Buhari's presidency. The only prayer now is that John Odigie Oyegun and President Muhammadu Buhari continue to squeeze Bola Tinubu and possibly take away his Lagos State from him too. Nigerians should pray that Bola Tinubu be made to feel the full weight of the government including the EFCC looking into some of his businesses; and then, remind themselves who made Buhari president. What a smack on the mouth of Bola Tinubu it would be, to someday, see him in handcuffs with a litany of corruption charges leveled against him. But will he learn his lesson? In conclusion, Icheoku shares in the sentiment of Lagos State APC Chairman Henry Ajomole that Asiwaju has been left out and marginalized; that he has been somehow taken out of the caucus of the party and its leadership. Icheoku agrees that nothing can be closest to the truth in the matter of Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu's current tribulations than this assessment, which shows that either he is been cut down to size or at least greatly diminished to the point of do no harm. 

ONDO STATE ELECTION AND THE DENUDING OF BOLA TINUBU.

Icheoku says exactly what a strategic smackdown takedown really looks like. The Jagaband of Borgu Land and the hitherto go to demi-god of Yoruba-land politics has been neutered, completely diminished and totally emasculated on his own political turf, his backyard and by the more powerful and more politically adept political tacticians from the far North. He was sidelined as ordinary; his preferred candidate for governorship rejected and the APC still won the governorship election without his help or contribution. The political giant of Yorubaland, although physically a midget himself, must now be feeling what lilliputians and midgets feel in crowded places when stepped on the head - unseen and very inconsequential. 

Icheoku says whether or not Bola Tinubu deserves the fate which has recently befallen him in the political arena of APC party politics depends on who you ask. As for Icheoku, any politician including Bola Tinubu always deserves whatever they get. It is politics and politics is a game of positioning for power and anyone threatening another's power-hold is always marked for destruction. Bola Tinubu's ever growing influence probably needed to be curbed and hatchet men went to work and they succeeded. Bola Tinubu is well deserved of all the political conspiracies that gathered to pigeonhole him and consign him into irrelevance on the scheme of things in the All Progressive Congress. It is politics and in politics, the long knives usually do come out and Bola Tinubu has previously, severally wielded the long knife himself too. So with the trial run that was  Ondo State now successfully completed; proved that the party can make an inroad and even win election without Bola Tinubu's help, the final countdown to his removal from the party has indeed really begun, albeit surreptitiously. 

Here is a Bola Tinubu, a man who is supposedly a democrat and who had fought several democratic battles himself in the past and continuing, but who suddenly decided to cross over to the dark side and conspired with non democratic forces to impose an avowed dictator on Nigerians. So which type of a democrat would prefer a dictator over a civilian for the presidency of Nigeria, except one who is not truly committed to the ideals of democracy but is flying the flag just for his own selfish beneficial interest. That Bola Tinubu has enormously enriched himself in politics, both financially and politically, is a fact; but short of what is in it for him, his championing of democratic politics is to say the least, rather  very superficial. Like the saying goes, he who rides the tiger should not be surprised if someone day he too ends up in the belly of the beast as Bola Tinubu is now finding out in a bitter crestfallen way. Icheoku says Bola Tinubu got exactly what he deserves by losing face in Ondo State and hopefully his own very Lagos State will soon follow, falls out of his vice grip and control as it goes under the weighty jackboot of the dictator aka "repented democrat", to completely rout Bola Tinubu out of relevance. 

Icheoku has no sympathy for the little Tinubu and says may his political humiliation never ends nor ceases, but continues to pile up. Bola Tinubu thought he was all this and all that and that he has now grown into an almighty Iroko tree that cannot be easily chopped down with a machete; except that he forgot that no tree, no matter how big, contends with a bulldozer. Now it is two states to nothing, he lost influencing Edo State governorship and now Ondo State and it is out there that other Southwest Yoruba states are mumbling against his authority and might soon similarly revolt against him. Icheoku says congratulations to governor-elect Rotimi Akeredolu and the APC machine that successfully put him there. As for Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, he can pine away in misery for all Icheoku care as what he did to sabotage President Jonathan Goodluck in preference of Muhammadu Buhari can never be forgiven or forgotten by all true democrats in Nigeria. What an interesting time we live in and may the surprises keep on piling up. 

GENERAL MAD DOG MATTIS, OFFICIALLY NOW MEMBER OF TEAM MAGA.

Icheoku says in the middle is the man who will help transform the Pentagon, the new Secretary of Defense, General James Mad Dog Mattis, sandwiched between PE Donald John Trump and VPE Mike Pence. What an amiable Team Make America Great Again that is being gradually and meticulously assembled. Icheoku says simply terrific and congratulations to the general of generals. 

FIDEL CASTRO OF CUBA, DEAD AT 90 YEARS OLD.

Icheoku says he was a great man who stood firm for what he believed in; admitted his critics and detractors would rather diminish him as a despot and human rights violator in chief. Whatever may be anyone's opinion, he maintained a presence in the world stage throughout his 32 years hold unto power in Havana. He loved his country.

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz aka Fidel Castro was born in August 13, 1926 and died on November 25, 2016 of old age related infirmities. He was Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and then elected president of Cuba in 1976 until 2008 when he voluntarily stepped down for his brother Raul Castro who is the current president of Cuba. Like all mortals, he has now gone to join those who transited before him including his friend and former president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez. Icheoku says rest in peace Castro.

MITT ROMNEY: UNASHAMED AND COVETOUS, NOT THE RIGHT GUY.

Icheoku says the current talk about uniting the Republican Party as reason for the push of Mitt Romney for Secretary of State is not necessary nor merited and at least, not at this stage. There is a reason why elections are fought and won; and had every person towed the line of Mitt Romney, there would never have been a victorious President-Elect Donald John Trump to begin with, talkless of uniting a Republican Party nor offering any position to anybody including Mitt Romney. To the victor goes the spoils and to the vanquished, the bitter deprivation. Mitt Romney should rather be in the dog house begging and pleading for forgiveness and mercy but not being just a few short steps away from being admitted into the innermost part of the sanctuary of the incoming Trump government which a Secretary of State eminently bequeaths on the holder of the office. 

Mitt Romney did not work for the election campaign but instead sabotaged the effort in every way and manner possible including calling the President Elect names, some of them unprintable and unpardonable. He therefore did not earn the membership of the administration, the position notwithstanding and therefore the current flurry about his candidacy for the Secretary of State should be a non sequitur and should not by occupying the front burners of the Transition Committee agenda. Mitt Romney is not trustworthy and should not be trusted with any position in the government, not even a dog-catcher position. Had he left his disavows of PE Trump to just refusing to endorse him or even endorse another different candidate without more, that will be understandable; but to fully wear the toga of a partisan anti-Trump and Never-Trump hatchet job man he was is not something that should be forgiven; not so soon. He called Trump a "phony and a fraud", imputing criminality on the person of the president elect. That he also falsely alleged that every thing Trump ever touched turned into dust, dramatizing some failed business and intentionally ignoring the thriving ones, shows that this man cannot be trusted because if he could be persuaded or influenced to do what he did then, what is the guarantee that he will not once again go rogue and sabotage Trump as Secretary of State. 

Even the fact that Mitt Romney is seriously canvassing for the position, knowing fully well that he did not earn it, shows that his intentions are not genuine but clandestine. Possibly he is just looking for a way to get closer to Trump and cause or do him harm, either politically or even physically. If hired, he might become the Trojan horse that did the administration a great disservice from within. Mitt Romney is not a good person, he is evil, vengeful, jealous, angry and envious. He is too full of shit as he sees himself as the only one ever qualified for anything and none other. He will definitely deployed these his bad traits against PE Donald Trump which could lead to either non performance or downfall of the Trump government. Mitt Romney is not a happy person and is still jealous that Trump won the election despite his direct sabotage of his campaign, He also did not vote for Trump and instructed thousands of his followers including members of the Mormon church not to vote for Trump. He is also angry that Trump beat him to the presidency, having lost his own God-given opportunity when he could not beat Barack Obama in 2012 despite Obama's then high negatives. 

Icheoku says Mitt Romney does not like Donald Trump and he admitted to this much, when after seeking and securing Trump's endorsement when he ran for presidency in 2012 and also getting additional one million dollar donation from Trump, still came out full throttle to condemn Trump as a fraud and phony. Possibly if he get the opportunity to poison Trump he might readily take it, hence he should be put as very far away from Trump as is humanly possible.Icheoku says possibly William Shakespeare had Mitt in mind when he penned Julius Caesar, substituting the name Mitt with Cassius. Mitt is lean and mean and Julius Caesar warned us to stay away from such men because such men are dangerous and Mitt Romney shares these characteristics and Mitt Romney is dangerous and should be kept away from. 

What PE Donald Trump need to do is to find an opportunity to publicly humiliate Mitt Romney and tell him "You are fired" and in a setting that will cut off his legs from under his body. Mitt Romney does not deserve any other thing than this public humiliation because  alongside Ohio John Kasich, were among the worst anti-Trump forces in this election.  In a way what they did amount to treason against Donald Trump and the Republican Party. While other enraged Never Trumpers refused to endorse Donald Trump and stayed out of the way, Mitt Romney was front and center in his anti-Trump campaign and you ask yourself why should this hater be now admitted in the banquet to freeload where he did not contribute a thing. His activities were heinous, devilish and demonic and he does not deserve pity or forgiveness neither should he be rewarded with any position talkless of the Secretary of State. What he deserves is rather the coldest doldrums in this administration and not such a highly elevated office of the Secretary of State. He did not support Trump nor campaigned for him; instead he was the attack hound dog that barked at and nipped Trump all the way, trying to effectively undermine his campaign. Icheoku also understands that President Elect Donald John Trump rewards loyalty and he knows that Mitt Romney is not a loyal person. 

KANYE WEST: A PSYCHOTIC EMERGENCY IN THE HOUSE OF PABLO

Icheoku says every observer and keen watcher of Kanye West knows that all is not well with him. The life of Pablo character is under some weighty things which only him with the help of a shrink can unburden. He is a man under a tremendous burden which he sometimes acts out as tantrums and incendiary comments as well as actions. He is angry and sad at somethings which he expresses with his sudden outbursts. His latest rapid-fire stopping of several of his concerts halfway, followed with his total cancellation of all remaining concerts scheduled this year and taking a loss of over $10 million, says it all that all is not well with him. 

It did not start today as it has been a cry for help gone too far, either unnoticed or ignored; starting with the yanking of the microphone from Taylor Swift a few years ago.  Since the death of his ever doting and very protective mother to plastic surgery gone wrong, his greatest confidant and protector, the rapper has never truly fully recovered from her loss. The rapper and fashion designer has not been able to fully place a handle around his mental, psychology and emotional wellbeing. A situation compounded further and made even more worse by the choice of wife he made in Kim Kardashian, who is more obsessed with showing her naked body to the world than being a real caring wife who is interested in the welfare of her husband and family. 

Icheoku says such a dramatic hire-wire family as the Kardashians is not a wholesome environment for a man already on borderline to find himself in, still very much lonely amidst the general cacophony and  restlessness of never-ending 24/7 camera, lights and action. That Kanye West would have chosen differently if he were opportune at a do-over is highly probable; and had his mother not died, she would never have permitted his marriage to such a worldly Kim Kardashian as there is more to a wife or husband than mere money and fame or the ability to get someone pregnant or for someone to carry pregnancy to full gestation and give birth. Someone as hyper-active as Kanye West needed a much more mellower woman for a wife; a more traditional wife; a woman who would be a calming balm to him and who could step in and baby him whenever his restiveness goes into an overdrive. Kanye West is also too busy and so also is probably his wife Kim Kardashian and there is no real anchor in the family to ground him and take care of him after the day's hustle. 

Icheoku understands his recent lashing out at JayZ, who locked in in his choice of a wife, the more well grounded wifey Beyonce; who despite her fame and riches still knows what it takes to be a wife and mother. She has carried herself out very well and has by so doing, earned the respect and admiration of millions of people world-wide. Beyonce knows there is a line between business and family and hardly ever mix the two together and her life is not full of drama, unlike Kim Kardashian whose middle name might as well pass for dramatic. Icheoku says Kanye West will never recover from whatever he is going through as long as Kim Kardashian remains in his life and carrying on the way she is. The two do not compliment each other, rather, they are competing against each other and such is not good for any healthy marital relationship or any other relationship for that matter. Something has to yield or make way, particularly Kim stepping it down a little notch or they should just part ways in the interest of their health. 

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt just parted ways and so could and should any couple not in a healthy relationship, including Kanye West and Kim Kardashian. Their world will not end and both will make a full recovery after a short time. A real wifey woman would have since found a solution to Kanye West's erratic and frequent outbursts; a real wifey woman would have since tempered down Kanye West certain impulsive behavior, including walking off concert stages and ranting about things that has nothing to do with his art. Icheoku only hopes that this his latest scare was only "exhaustion and severe sleep deprivation" as claimed by people around him and not something more scarier like real psychotic and total mental breakdown. May be it is about time, Kanye West and his family, Kim and their two kids, peeled off from the Kardashian clan and become somewhat independent in the true sense of it, starting with a private vacation somewhere in the Pacific for some down time retreat and stock taking. Icheoku wishes Kanye West a full recovery and prays he gets the rest as well as help he deserves and needs.

LETS GO THERE: CLINTON OR TRUMP, WHO ACTUALLY IS THE RACIST?

Icheoku says may be the better question to posit is which of them is not a racist? In a world where every one race is dug in, in the "we and them" battle of supremacy raging on among the races, it is a great disservice to just single one particular individual as being a racist while by the same token exonerating another as not a racist. A situation compounded more because there is no particular litmus test for determining who is a racist and who is not a racist; and what indeed qualifies or makes one a racist. 

Every race and its people are engaged in a tug of war with each other over who is superior and who shall dominate the other and in a small world that seemingly have little to no room for everyone. A world which is increasingly shrinking in size, with scarcity everywhere - in habitable spaces, in arable agricultural lands and water resources; and where people want to acquire everything for themselves and their kind, before allowing whatever is leftover to be scrapped by the others. This "we and them", "ours and theirs" philosophy is what drives people of the same race to bandy together to defend themselves from the others and in order to ensure their survival. This protectionism, which to the other side from which the protection is sort, manifests in the form of prejudice, discrimination, antagonism and exclusion, gives rise to racism. Racism is a belief that members of a race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race; especially as to distinguish it as superior to other races. A racist therefore is a person who believes and espouses this ideological philosophy that his or her race is superior to the other races. 

Icheoku says based on this premise therefore, who indeed is truly not a racist in this world; and does it therefore make any sense whatsoever pointing accusatory finger at another person or people as racist when we all nurse certain prejudices against people who do not look like us. Sometimes it is overt and some other times covert, but inside us all, there is always present this resentment against other people who are different from us and it manifests in one form or the other. It is also a given that while some people are good at masking their prejudice publicly, others are not so subtle about theirs. Even within our closer communities, discrimination exists including cronyism, nepotism, tribalism, sexism and other isms which are all forms of micro or quasi-racism, because it is implicated among the same racial group, sort of intra-racial but not inter-racial. What should be desirable or rather imperative is for people not to be the bad or horrible racist who wants to do harm or hurt other people who do not look like them. That way we all can learn to navigate the maze of racism as we all try to survive a very racist world.

This analysis is necessary in order to understand the futility of the current narrative by the Hilary Clinton's camp which is trying to pigeonhole Donald Trump as somewhat different from their Hillary Clinton or her husband Bill Clinton or even Chelsea Clinton or her husband Marc Mezvinsky. All these four people are whites, admitted Mr Mezvinsky is Jewish white while the other three are caucasian whites. Donald Trump shares similar if not the same racial equation as Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton is a white caucasian and married Bill Clinton who is also a white caucasian; and so did Donald Trump, himself a white caucasian who was previously twice married to two white caucasians and again for the third time, married to another white caucasian, his present wife Melania. Hillary Clinton's daughter Chelsea Clinton, a white caucasian married a white Jewish guy named Marc Mezvinsky; and so also did Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka, a white caucasian who is married to a white Jewish guy named Jared Kushner. 

It is also on record that Hillary Clinton's closest and best friends are mainly white caucasians and the neighborhood of Chappaqua New York where she calls home is populated largely by white caucasians too. Donald Trump's best and closest friends are mainly white caucasians and the neighbor of Fifth Avenue New York and Trump Towers in particular where he lives is also largely occupied by white caucasians. Then factor in the fact that Hillary Clinton, by marriage, is a Southerner and the Deep South is known for being more racist than the rest of the country; compared to New York which is largely cosmopolitan and more diverse and more inclusive. 

Further, both candidates ran for the United States of America presidency and had an opportunity to distinguish from each other their racial inclinations. To the chagrin of many people in the African American community, Hillary Clinton rejected the recommended black Senator Cory Booker as her running mate. Instead, she settled for her fellow white caucasian, the hillbilly from Virginia, Tim Kaine, leaving many wondering how deeply rooted was her fabled love for African Americans. A matter made worse because Tim Kaine did not bring anything spectacularly wonderful to the ticket other than that he speaks Spanish. If Hillary Clinton was courting Hispanics and not African Americans, why did she not pick someone like HUD Secretary Julio Castro who is 100% Hispanic American? But no, the same disdain she has for African Americans she also has for Hispanics who she once described as "needy Hispanics." Yet this is a woman many of her supporters claim is not racially biased, yet when an opportunity called to prove this, she failed and this is despite the fact that such a masterful choice would have galvanized the Hispanic or African American bloc to her side. 

As for Donald Trump, he is a straight shooter and the outcome of the presidential election shows that he was very pragmatic in choosing his vice presidential running mate and that he chose wisely. That Donald Trump recognized the gap between African Americans and their caucasian counterparts and made a direct appeal to African Americans to give him a chance is also very instructive. His slogan "what do you got to lose" has now entered the annals of political sloganeering and more African Americans voted for Donald Trump believing him, than ever voted for any other previous Republican Party's presidential candidate. As for Hillary Clinton, she made a calculated decision not to go there, not to provoke the discussion of inequality of races in America. As far as she was concerned, African Americans are satisfied with their place in America and they are not complaining nor have they threatened to jettison their support for the Democratic Party. 

Like her double-faced Janus character and her trait of bifurcated double-speaking, she lied and lied and lied, thinking to safely ride the campaign to the White House in her usual way of getting things on the cheap and without breaking such sweat. Her claim of always carrying hot sauce in her purse and speaking black whenever she is addressing black audience was the height of condescension ever witnessed in any modern political campaign. But black people saw through the sham phoniness and refused to troop out in numbers and thus helped saw to the election of Donald Trump instead.

It is also quite telling that neither Donald Trump nor Hillary Clinton has a personal assistant who is black or colored. At least Donald Trump was not pretentious about it but promised to help improve the lot of African Americans; while Hillary Clinton was coy about it and would rather ride it out than commit to doing something tangible about the glaring disparities. Icheoku says with the much that is known about Hillary Clinton and her relationship with people whose skin color is different from hers, there is no ground nor basis for emphatically stating that she is color blind, because she is not. Nothing she has done either by marriage or relationship or association categorically depicts her as loving the other people as equally as herself. She is a typical white caucasian who believes that her race is the superior race, hence her associations with mostly people of her kind only. She had several opportunities to prove otherwise but did not and having passed on them cannot pretend otherwise now. Her case is the worse type who pretends superficially that they are down with black causes but behind the close door are the cheerleaders of KKK and such other minority hating groups. 

In summation therefore, Icheoku says that Colin Kaepernick captured it very succinctly when he said as between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, they both were struggling to see who is the lesser racist than the other. Icheoku agrees with Kanye West too that everybody, whites, blacks, Asians, Hispanics, etc are all racists as each group is trying to be on top of the race ladder in this racist world. It is therefore not right nor correct to isolate  Donald Trump as the racist here, because he is not. And assuming he is, he is not the only racist in America nor the entire world. Hillary Clinton as well as the over 320 million people that call America home are all racists, in one form or the other. The better approach should be finding a way on how everyone could just get along despite our varied skin pigmentations. This way, it will be possible to avoid creating the bad racists who would wish death on other people who do not look like them. This is what is more important and not the failed attempt to paint Hillary Clinton as the color blind loving Mother Teresa of African Americans and other people of color; and then use a different brush to paint Donald Trump as the new African Americans-hating Jim Crow because he is not. 

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 2016, THE POST MORTEM.

Icheoku says except for those who fell into coma on Monday before the Tuesday election, the entire universe knows that Hillary Clinton has once again failed in her mad ambition to become the first elected United States of America's female president. First defeated in 2008 by then candidate Barack Hussein Obama and again now in 2016 by Donald John Trump; finally burying deep six, whatever was left of her chances of ever breaking her fixated on proverbial marble ceiling. Many people saw through it that Hillary Clinton's only major driving force was her desire to acquire the bragging right of being the first female president of America and nothing more. A conclusion which forced one woman to say that she did not vote for Hillary Clinton simply because she was in it just for the show and not because she truly has any plans to fix anything or has anything new to offer. 

So with Hillary Clinton and by extension, the Clinton Clan, now permanently retired from American political landscape, let us now examine which other things were simultaneously retired alongside the Clintons. The things which rode her coattail into sunset and were summarily consumed in the fiery afterburners of the now dead Clinton's meteorite,  simply vaporized into eternal oblivion. Needless to add that the Bush family was also similarly retired from American political landscape by the masterful stroke of the now newly enthroned political genius of our time named Donald John Trump. So the two political families, who like Colossus, have bestrode American political discuss for nearly three decades have now been permanently retired and consigned to historical dustbin. The Clintons and the Bushes are gone with the wind of the election victory of Donald John Trump.

The other thing that also went away with the Clintons into history is the first and last minority  president of America, ever. The fact of the matter is that never again would another minority be allowed to be president of America; at least not in this life time. The Barack Obama experiment did not work out well and it jolted the majority white people into thinking what did they do to themselves, watching as their country nearly drifted out of their control. Many of them also regretted that their very attempt at finally ending racism in America by voting for an African American president, nearly became their greatest undoing, their Frankenstein Monster. That Barack Obama went too far in trying to dilute the culture, religion as well as the population spread of America is without a doubt another anti-American disposition which rubbed Americans wrongly. Barack Obama sometimes appeared to be championing causes which are polar opposite to and detrimental to American people, whose president he is and supposed to be aggressively pushing. A case in point was the massacre at Pulse nightclub in Orlando when the president was busy rationalizing the Muslim connection and warning against any retribution; instead of fiercely condemning the slaughter and whatever jaundiced motive that was behind the perpetrator. 

To buttress the point that there was somewhat an understanding among white Americans never again to toy with who is the occupant of the White House,  Hillary Clinton refused to choose a minority vice presidential candidate but settled for a hillbilly fellow caucasian who had nothing to contribute to the ticket other than his fluency in Spanish. This was despite the attendant beneficial boost such a move would have had for her campaign, by galvanizing such minority blocs for her. First there was Julio Castro the HUD Secretary who is of a full Spanish ancestry who Hillary Clinton should have picked but as far as she was concerned a white man who speaks Spanish was good enough to placate the Spanish people. Then there was the black Senator Cory Booker who would have swayed black voters to her side and helped drive the bloc to vote for her massively; but again, her disdain for black people made her to run away from such proposition. 

What Hillary Clinton did in rejecting minority vice presidential candidate sends a strong direct message to all minorities of America that white Americans are done with them and will never trust them near their White House, not again. Obama was a chance they took which nearly cost them a lot and they are not ready to gamble again with losing their relevance as well as their stranglehold on political as well as economic powers. Icheoku says it will not happen again, at least not in the distant future or our lifetime. instead they will implement a lot of immigration reforms and enact laws to guard against their becoming the new minority of America. If that does not work, they will outrightly legislate it that American White House is for Whites only through one way or the other.

Further, the election of Donald John Trump president shows that white people are still the majority race in this country and they were woken up and they responded mightily to elect Donald Trump president. White people were like the proverbial giant who was asleep while the midgets were running around and mouthing off, but suddenly woke up to reclaim what was rightfully theirs. Icheoku without mincing words says that white people, irrespective of what their pretentious outward posturing is, indeed are delightful at the outcome of this election of Donald Trump. They are truly excited that they have regained what was nearly slipping out of their control, which would have slipped further and may be irrecoverably, had Hillary Clinton and Obama gotten their wish to completely annihilate white males' influence and control over America and by extension the world at large. Donald Trump sounded the alarm bell and sat on it until all of them woke up from their slumber and rushed to save the day for themselves and their future children yet unborn. It is like the revenge of the nerds and the white people just had their revenge against minorities of America who have been running around acting like they are now the new sheriff in town while the real owners were away trying their hands on other things.

Then add all the people who have forever lost their relevance in the Republican Party equation including Mr Stiff Penguin Mitt Romney, Mr Misery John Kasich; Low Energy Jeb Bush; and to some extent Paul Ryan and Lyin' Ted. The worst in this row is the Mitt Romney who has become so irrelevant that even his Mormon flock in Utah ignored him and voted for Donald Trump. A man who crawled on his knees to secure Donald Trump endorsement when he ran for the same office in 2012, including receiving one million dollar donation from Trump, to later turn around and drive the Brutus dagger on Trump's back, is the height of treachery and betrayal which shall never be forgiven. Mitt Romney went on to selectively attack Trump for some of his businesses that did not flourish, refused to endorse him even when the candidate he formerly endorsed lost and continued to attack him, refusing to campaign for him and even threatened to vote for a third party and said all manner of bad things against Trump. Mitt Romney's relevance going forward in American politics is suspect as millions of Trump's supporters including those in the basket of deplorables might not be ready to forgive Mitt, at least not so soon.

Among the group of those now gone is the crooked and corrupt media which were heavily biased and vested in the outcome of a "Madam President Hillary R. Clinton" and which went to the ends of the earth to carry her water in order to actualize this. Icheoku says if any Never-Trump group ever felt hopelessly useless, it was definitely the useless American media which was spewing hate and jaundiced vomit against Donald Trump while neglecting the rotten sewer that was Hilary Clinton. The media became possessed with what was allegedly said by Donald Trump rather than focusing their searchlight on criminal activities of Hillary Clinton. Anyway, American people saw through the charade and voted with their clear heads and today America has a new president-elect named Donald John Trump. The media has in the process been unmasked as a very biased cesspool of reprobates who are now degraded as irrelevant and nauseating enterprise. Gone with the disgraced media was also pollsters and useless pundits and political talking heads who were blown away into oblivion of irrelevance, having all their projections laid to waste. The media also damaged their credibility beyond redemption which has forced so many people to since tune out.

Icheoku says the other thing that took a heavy drubbing is the continued watering down of society's values which was voted down in this election as people were tired and embarrassed at watching the president of America discussing bathrooms laws and gay marriages. Two very rudimentary things that should be left where they belong - at state level and not made a national issue and preoccupation of the president. Icheoku says there are so many other things which also rode with Hillary Clinton into sunset but which would rather be left for future historians to capture them completely and concisely. Overall, what a far-reaching election it was that threw a complete spanner in the wheels of entrenched politics and now plans to drain the swamp and Make America Great Again. Icheoku says, can't wait.