WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM: PRESIDENT TRUMP'S ADDRESS.

Thank you very much. 

It’s a privilege to be here at this forum where leaders in business, science, art, diplomacy and world affairs have gathered for many years to discuss how we can advance prosperity, security and peace. 

I am here today to represent the interests of the American People, and to affirm America’s friendship and partnership in building a better world. Like all nations represented at this forum, America hopes for a future in which everyone can prosper, and every child can grow up free from violence, poverty, and fear. 

Over the past year, we have made extraordinary strides in the United States. We are lifting up forgotten communities, creating exciting new opportunities, and helping every American find their path to the American Dream—the dream of a great job, a safe home, and a better life for their children. 

After years of stagnation, the United States is once again experiencing strong economic growth. The stock market is smashing one record after another, and has added more than $7 trillion in new wealth since my election. 

Consumer confidence, business confidence, and manufacturing confidence are the highest they have been in decades. 

Since my election, we’ve created 2.4 million jobs. Small business optimism is at an all-time high. New unemployment claims are near the lowest we’ve seen in almost half a century. African American unemployment has reached the lowest rate EVER RECORDED in the United States. So has unemployment among Hispanic Americans. 

The world is witnessing the resurgence of a strong and prosperous America. 

I am here to deliver a simple message: There has never been a better time to hire, to build, to invest and to grow in the United States. AMERICA IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS AND WE ARE COMPETITIVE ONCE AGAIN. 

The American economy is by far the largest in the world and we’ve just enacted the most significant tax cuts and reform IN AMERICAN HISTORY. 

We massively cut taxes for the middle class and small businesses to let working families keep more of their hard-earned money. 

We lowered our corporate tax rate from 35 percent, all the way down to 21 percent. As a result, millions of workers have received tax cut bonuses from their employers in amounts as large as three thousand dollars. The tax cut bill is expected to raise the average American’s household income by more than four thousand dollars. 

And the world’s largest company, Apple, announced it will bring $245 BILLION DOLLARS in overseas profits home to America. Their total investment into the United States economy will be more than $350 billion over the next five years. 

Now is the perfect time to bring your business, your jobs, and your investments to the United States of America. 

This is especially true because we have undertaken the most extensive regulatory reduction EVER CONCEIVED. Regulation is stealth taxation. In the United States, like in many countries, unelected bureaucrats have imposed crushing anti-business and anti-worker regulations on our citizens with no vote, no legislative debate, and no real accountability. 

In America, those days are OVER. 

I pledged to eliminate two unnecessary regulations for every one new regulation. We have succeeded beyond our highest expectations. Instead of two-for-one, we have cut TWENTY-TWO burdensome regulations for every ONE new rule. 

We are freeing our businesses and workers so they can thrive and flourish as never before. We are creating an environment that ATTRACTS capital, INVITES investment, and REWARDS production. America is the place to do business – so come to America where you can INNOVATE, CREATE and BUILD. 

I believe in America. As President of the United States, I will always put America First. Just like the leaders of other countries should put their countries first. 

But America First does not mean America alone. 

When the United States grows, so does the world. American prosperity has created countless jobs around the globe and the drive for excellence, creativity and innovation in the United States has led to important discoveries that help people everywhere live more prosperous and healthier lives. 

As the United States pursues domestic reforms to unleash jobs and growth, we are also working to reform the international trading system so that it promotes broadly-shared prosperity and rewards those who play by the rules. 

We cannot have free and open trade if some countries exploit the system at the expense of others. We support free trade, but it needs to be FAIR and RECIPROCAL.

Because in the end, unfair trade undermines us all. 

The United States will no longer turn a blind eye to unfair economic practices, including massive intellectual property theft, industrial subsidies, and pervasive state-led economic planning. These and other predatory behaviors are distorting global markets and harming businesses and workers—not just in the United States, but around the globe. 

Just like we expect the leaders of other countries to protect their interests, as President of the United States, I will always protect the interests of our country, our companies, and our workers. 

We will enforce our trade laws and restore integrity to the trading system. 

Only by insisting on FAIR and RECIPROCAL trade can we create a system that works not just for the United States but for all nations. 

As I have said, the United States is prepared to negotiate mutually beneficial bilateral trade agreements with all countries. This includes the countries in TPP 11, which are very important. We have agreements with several of them already. We would consider negotiating with the rest, either individually, or perhaps as a group, if it is in all of our interests. 

My administration is also taking swift action in other ways to restore American confidence and independence. We are lifting self-imposed restrictions on energy production to provide affordable power to our citizens and businesses, and to promote ENERGY SECURITY for our friends around the world. NO COUNTRY should be held hostage to a single provider of energy. 

AMERICA IS ROARING BACK – and now is the time to INVEST in the future of America. We have dramatically cut taxes to make America competitive. We are eliminating burdensome regulations at a record pace. We are reforming the bureaucracy to make it lean, responsive and accountable—and we are ensuring our laws are enforced fairly. We have the best colleges and universities in the world, and we have the best WORKERS in the world. Energy is abundant and affordable. There has never been a better time to come to America. 

We are also making historic investments in the American military—because we cannot have prosperity without security. 

To make the world safer from rogue regimes, terrorism, and revisionist powers, we are asking our friends and allies to invest in their own defenses and to meet their financial obligations. Our common security requires everyone to contribute their fair share. 

My administration is proud to have led historic efforts, at the United Nations Security Council and around the world, to unite all civilized nations in our campaign of MAXIMUM PRESSURE to denuclearize the Korean peninsula. And we continue to call on partners to confront Iran’s support for terrorists and to block Iran’s path to a nuclear weapon. 

We are also working with allies and partners to destroy jihadist terrorist organizations such as ISIS. The United States is leading a broad coalition to deny terrorists control of their territory and populations, to cut off their funding, and to discredit their wicked ideology. I am pleased to report that the Coalition to Defeat ISIS has retaken almost 100 percent of the territory once held by these killers in Iraq and Syria. There is still more fighting and work to be done to consolidate our gains. And we are committed to ensuring that Afghanistan never again becomes a safe haven for terrorists who want to commit mass murder of our citizens. I want to thank those nations represented here today that have joined in these crucial efforts. You are not just securing your own citizens, but saving lives and restoring hope for millions. 

When it comes to terrorism, we will do what is necessary to protect our nation – we will defend our citizens, and our borders. 

We are also securing our immigration system, as a matter of both national and economic security. 

America is a cutting-edge economy, but our immigration system is stuck in the past. 

We must replace our current system of extended-family chain migration with a merit-based system of admissions that selects new arrivals based on their ability to contribute to our economy, to support themselves financially, and to strengthen our country. 

In rebuilding America, we are also fully committed to developing our workforce. We are lifting people from DEPENDENCE to INDEPENDENCE – because we know the single best anti-poverty program is a PAYCHECK. 

To be successful, it is not enough to invest in our economy – we must invest in OUR PEOPLE. 

When people are forgotten, the world becomes fractured. Only by hearing and responding to the voices of the forgotten can we create a bright future that is truly shared by all.

A nation’s greatness is more than the sum of its production – a nation’s greatness is the sum of its citizens: The values, pride, love, devotion and character of the people who call that nation home. 

From my first international G-7 summit, to the G-20, to the U.N. General Assembly, to APEC, to the World Trade Organization, and today at the World Economic Forum, my administration has not only been present, but has driven our message that we are all stronger when free and sovereign Nations cooperate toward shared goals—and shared dreams. 

Represented in this room are some remarkable citizens from all over the world—you are national leaders, business titans, industry giants, and many of the brightest minds in many fields. 

Each of you has the power to change hearts, transform lives, and shape your countries’ destinies. With this power, comes an obligation—a duty of loyalty to the people, workers, and customers who have made you who you are. 

So together, let us resolve to use our power, our resources, and our voices, not just for ourselves, but for our people—to lift their burdens, to raise their hopes, and to empower their dreams. To protect their families, their communities, their histories, and their futures. 

That’s what we’re doing in America, and the results are unmistakable. It’s why new businesses and investment are flooding in. It’s why our unemployment rate is the lowest it’s been in decades. It’s why America’s future has never been brighter. 

Today, I am inviting all of you to become part of this incredible future we are building together. 

Thank you to our hosts, thank you to the leaders and innovators in the audience, but most importantly, thank you to all the hardworking men and women who do their duty each and every day – making this a better world for everyone. Together, let us send our love and gratitude to them—because they make our countries run.

Thank you, God Bless You, and God Bless you all

TERRORIST HERDSMEN: SOAKING BABOONS AND MONKEYS IN BLOOD - Chima Ubochi

The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue - Edgar Rice Burroughs. 

If urgent steps were not taken on the issue, it would get to a stage when people would resort to self-help. I say it again, we are moving towards the precipices and the earlier we pull back (the better), and it requires all the stakeholders from the President and this is a bi-partisan issue, all major stakeholders must come together on how to resolve this issue - Governor Mimiko of Ondo State. 

Given the brutality of the slaughter and the intensity of the destruction of homes (including churches), it was clear the Enugu attack was carefully planned and clinically executed. Strangely, the president only broke his silence on Wednesday after the deed had been done. It apparently took the outrage expressed from a section of the country over the latest killings before the Commander-in-Chief formally deemed it necessary to direct a crackdown on these killing gangs - Louis Odion. 

It's very unfortunate that human lives are now worthless in Nigeria. The animalistic killings going on in the country have gotten out of hand. This article is not about the atrocities the Fulani herdsmen are unleashing all over Nigeria, as a lot has been written so far. This article is about unmasking those behind the invasion, the killings, the destruction, and then, deciphering the motive behind all these. Most of those causing pandemonium and deaths everywhere can't be the real Fulani herdsmen we used to know. 

For the undiscerning mind, the upsurge in violent destruction of lives and property are being committed by Fulani herdsmen looking for grass to feed their cattle. But, in reality, those committing those atrocities are not real Fulani herdsmen, but, fake Fulani herdsmen trained for a purpose. This group has nothing to do with cattle. I will explain soon. 

We all know that there have been isolated clashes between the Fulani herdsmen and farmers from time, but, the clashes have become deadly and heightened since Buhari became the president. What's the connection here? Before looking at this point, let's remember that in the 1970s and 1980s the Fulani herdsmen, as nomads, were always moving with their cattle from place to place, and in some places, the nomads made friends and stayed in peace with their host communities. Even children loved to rush out to watch them whenever they roamed across the villages with their cattle. Clashes then were seldom. 

Nowadays, there are frequent clashes between the herdsmen and farmers or villagers, and they are all ending in an orgy of killing, and the innocent farmers or their fellow villagers are always the victims. We're told that the Fulani herdsmen will enter people's farmland by force, and when challenged, they will get belligerent and will go on killing spree. But, most of these attacks took place at night, so nobody will tell me that the so called herdsmen were grazing their cattle at night, and, I'm not convinced that they were moving their cattle at night, because, we were told that the attack in Enugu State happened at night, and when the military arrived after the so called Fulani herdsmen have finished their killing spree in the community, they, the herdsmen, escaped. There's no way the herdsmen could have easily escaped, if they had their cattle with them, it then means that those who carried that attack in Enugu State had no cattle, and, are not herdsmen, but, people on a mission. 

President Buhari only condemned the attack days afterward, and his condemnation was too little and too late, it wasn't a serious one; and, it was only meant to fool gullible Nigerians. The president has failed until now to condemn the actions of his kinsmen. If he did what he was supposed to do all along, may be what happened in Enugu or Benue State could have been avoided. The president has also refused to visit any of the communities where mayhem was perpetrated by his Fulani kinsmen; and, his silence until now spoke louder than words, and, might have meant tacit approval of what his kinsmen have been doing. 

Do I have points to support my assertions that those carrying out the destruction of lives and property are not real Fulani herdsmen? Yes of course! The destruction we are seeing surpasses what ordinary cattle rearers can do. These are trained men unleashing their professional expertise on innocent people. On Wednesday, April 27, the Head, Defence Headquarters Committee on Persistent Clashes between Herdsmen and Farmers, Major General Edward Nze, paid a courtesy call on the acting Governor of Benue State, Benson Abounu, at the Benue Peoples House, where he rightly said that attacks on some communities could assume the menace of the Boko Haram dimension if not checked. If those marauding bands of killers and rapists are not stopped, they will metamorphose into something more sinister than Boko Haram, because, they will be using the claim of being herdsmen to penetrate everywhere and run roughshod over all parts of Nigeria. 

Just as General Nze noted, the clashes between herdsmen and farmers were beginning to threaten national security. And then, Abounu, the acting Benue State governor, made the point that the atrocities committed by the so called herdsmen; and, the dimension of the damage caused in Agatu and other communities in the state could not be said to have been perpetrated by the ordinary Fulani herdsmen, calling on the authorities for more investigation. In his words, according to newswire: "In Agatu LGA, more than six large communities were razed down and taken over by the herdsmen; we believe this is beyond some group of people seeking grazing land. We know that the constitution guarantees freedom of movement, it does not warrant burning of houses, killing and taking over the people's land. As we speak, same devastation has taken place in Tarka, Kwande, Logo and Buruku local government areas of the state. They kill in a most brutal manner. They are in black uniform, with AK 47 rifles. They are well trained; we believe they are from beyond Nigeria". 

Killers in black uniform can't be real Fulani herdsmen; and the AK-47 rifles they are brandishing were given to them for a purpose! 

The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), on Thursday April 28, while condemning the attack on Ukpabi Nimbo Community in Enugu State, which it described as most unfortunate and barbaric, confirmed that the attackers are not real Fulani herdsmen, when it stated that "the traditional Fulani nomads have coexisted peacefully with their host communities and have been grazing their cattle for decades all over Nigeria without any such attacks". The ACF also called on security agencies to unmask the perpetrators of the heinous attacks, and warned that "Nigeria cannot afford to graduate from Boko Haram insurgency to an unwarranted attack by unknown gunmen alleged to be Fulani herdsmen". 

Remember that I wrote this excerpt few weeks ago: "Goodluck Jonathan said that his ambition is not worth the blood of any Nigerian, and by conceding victory, Jonathan disarmed those, on both sides, who have geared up to fight no matter the outcome of that (2015) election. Those on Buhari's side wanted to go on in their killing spree, if, Buhari didn't "win", and, also, those on Jonathan's side wanted to fight, if, he didn't get a second term. But, Goodluck Jonathan disarmed the two groups by conceding early enough, and, no blood was shed". 

The point is that Buhari never thought he would win the 2015 election; he never dreamt of being the president of Nigeria. Even if Buhari saw the possibility of winning the election, by fair or foul means, but, it never crossed his mind that an incumbent president would concede victory, as that has never happened before in Nigeria, and, not being sure that he will ever be the president of Nigeria, even if he wins the election, was the reason Buhari was unprepared for leadership up till now. So, all Buhari's plan was to wreak havoc after the 2015 election. That was why he created this another group masquerading as Fulani herdsman, when in actual fact it was created and trained to raise havoc with Nigerians immediately after the election. 

Buhari has contested 3 presidential elections prior to the 2015 one he "won". Buhari also claimed that he won all the 3 previous elections he contested (2003, 2007 and 2011) but was rigged out. On May 14, 2012, Buhari, while addressing members of the CPC (his former political party) from Niger State, who paid him a courtesy visit in Kaduna, warned that 2015 would be bloody if the elections were not transparent. 

We leant that Buhari painted a gory picture of Nigeria as that of a hound and a monkey engaged in a battle for survival, and, he said: "God willing, by 2015, something will happen. They either conduct a free and fair election or they go a very disgraceful way. If what happened in 2011 (alleged rigging) should again happen in 2015, by the grace of God, the dog, the baboon and the monkey would all be soaked in blood''. These groups masquerading as Fulani herdsmen are those Buhari trained to soak the dog, the baboon and the monkey in blood, if he wasn't declared the winner in 2015. 

What happened was that after the groups were trained and equipped for the onslaught on Nigeria and Nigerians after the 2015 election that he, Buhari, was sure of losing, the groups were ready to strike, but, INEC rigged the election in favor of Buhari, and, he was on the verge of "winning" the election. Till this point (before Jonathan conceded through a phone call to Buhari), these heinous groups created, trained and equipped by Buhari to unleash mayhem were gearing up for action, but, were put out of use or were disarmed when Goodluck Jonathan conceded victory even before INEC announced the result of the election. What happened was that the members of the groups became disappointed and dejected, as they will not be useful again to their creator, and, will lose all they have been gaining and would gain from him. The group got disbanded. 

While Buhari still retained control over some of them, majority of the members of the killing groups scattered far and wide and out of Buhari's control. Many of the destruction we have witnessed or heard about were carried out by some members of those groups on the loose and out of Buhari's control, because, they are now fending for themselves, as they are not being taken care of again by the man who wanted to use them to wreak havoc. 

But, the members of the groups still under Buhari's control were those who carried out the attack at Ukpabi Nimbo, a community in the Uzo-Uwani area of Enugu State. The attack was well planned and well coordinated and couldn't have been carried out by ordinary Fulani herdsmen. We just read that the Caretaker Chairman, Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area, Mr. Cornel Onwubuya, said he personally alerted the governor, the commissioner of police, and, heads of other security agencies after he received a confirmation from some Fulani leaders in the area that the herdsmen were going to attack the community. 

Hear him: "We had a security report that this was going to happen and I convened a meeting with Fulani stakeholders in Enugu State. Some Fulani leaders told us that the herdsmen were camped very close to our community. I informed the Commissioner of Police, Enugu State, who assured us that the attack would be stopped. He (Commissioner of Police, Enugu) said he would get in touch with the Commissioner of Police in Kogi State to prevent the attack. The information we got was credible but unfortunately, they still attacked us". 

You can see, from the above statement, that the real Fulani herdsmen co-operated with the people of the area, and, were not part of the murderous group that attacked the community. Moreover, the governor (I have issues with him here. I will deal with that later) said that even as the governor, he was not in control of the security agencies. Hear the so called chief security office of Enugu State (Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi): "At the emergency Security Council meeting, which I convened, we were given all the assurances that the attack would not happen. 

According to information available to the government revealed that the attack was initiated from Kogi State. Two lorry loads of herdsmen landed in parts of Kogi State before the attack". 

That's it: To prove that those who attacked the Enugu community were fake Fulani herdsmen with an ulterior motive, we have to ask why and how they were transported, and, who provided the two lorries which conveyed the killers? Tell me, where were their cattle, if, they were conveyed to do the killing? Where were their cattle when they were unleashing the mayhem? 

The community complained and put the security agencies on alert about the attack, but, nobody came to help them until the damage was done. They noted that the attack would have been prevented had the security agencies acted on information made available to them by the villagers. It then means that those behind the attack also ordered the security agencies not to act to prevent the attack but to do everything possible to prevent a reprisal attack. We read where the people of Ukpabi Nimbo blamed the security agencies for failing to act on "credible" information they provided before the attack. 

The villagers, through their spokespersons told the Enugu State Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, when he visited the community, that they were abandoned even after they alerted security agencies to the plan to attack them. But immediately the attack was done, the army and police, which were waiting orders from above before reacting, flooded the area with their personnel to prevent reprisal acts. 

Also, when the General Officer Commanding, 82 Division, Enugu, Major General Attahiru Ibrahim, and, the Commissioner of Police, Enugu State, Nwodibo Ekechukwu, who refused to act or give orders to their men to stop the attack because Aso Rock didn't say so, were in the village on Tuesday April 26, security was beefed up in the community, during that visit, with heavily armed military and police personnel positioned at strategic locations. 

Where were those security operatives during the attack, and, why didn't Aso Rock give the order to stop or prevent the carnage, if, it wasn't a complicit? The GOC of 82 Division of the Nigerian Army, Enugu, and, the Enugu State Police Commissioner should tell us if they received the order from the presidency to use those security operatives to protect themselves, during their own visit to that community. So, the presidency did allow the use of military and police personnel to protect two "important" individuals, but, denied such to the people of Ukpabi Nimbo, when they sent out an SOS (a community that was in distress). Who's fooling who here?

POPE CALLS OUT PURVEYORS OF FAKE NEWS: SAYS THEY ARE SNAKES

Fake news is a sign of intolerant and hypersensitive attitudes, and leads only to the spread of arrogance and hatred. That is the end result of untruth. Spreading fake news can serve to advance specific goals, influence political decisions, and serve economic interests. 

This false but believable news is ‘captious’, inasmuch as it grasps people’s attention by appealing to stereotypes and common social prejudices and exploiting instantaneous emotions like anxiety, contempt, anger and frustration. 

False stories spread so quickly that even authoritative denials often could not contain the damage done and many people run the risk of becoming “unwilling accomplices in spreading biased and baseless ideas. There is need for “education for truth” that would help people discern, evaluate and understand news in order to recognize the “sly and dangerous form of seduction that worms its way into the heart with false and alluring arguments. 

Fake news is like the Bible story of the devil, who, disguised as a serpent, persuaded Eve to eat the fruit of the forbidden tree. She was fed wrong information by Satan. She was given  a fake news that the fruit would make her and Adam as all-knowing as God. We need to unmask what could be called the ‘snake-tactics’ used by those (purveyors of fake news) who disguise themselves as journalists in order to strike at any time and place. 

The role of journalists was “not just a job, it is a mission” and they had particular responsibility to stem fake news. Amid feeding frenzies and the mad rush for a scoop, they must remember that the heart of information is not the speed with which it is reported or its audience impact, but persons. Journalism should be “less concentrated on breaking news than on exploring the underlying causes of conflicts ...a journalism committed to pointing out alternatives to the escalation of shouting matches and verbal violence. - Culled from Papal document on Fake News:- The truth will set you free - fake news and journalism for peace."

ICHEOKU says this certainly touches and concerns the known purveyor of Fake News in chief, CNN. Hopefully they will do some introspection, change and mend their ways, after reading this papal opinion aka admonition of what they do to falsely mislead the gullible. Yes, fake news is damaging indeed. 

POPE CONDEMNS FAKE NEWS (CNN): SEES EYE TO EYE WITH TRUMP.

ICHEOKU says President Donald John Trump, the man who saw tomorrow has a new ally. Pope Francis has finally been charmed by the president as the Holy See has now come around to appreciate what PDJT went through in the hands of Fake News purveyors. The pope called them evil and compared them to the Biblical garden of the serpent feeding Eve with Fake News about what will happen if they eat of the fruit. ICHEOKU commends the pope for finally turning around the corner. Well done papa.

OBASANJO'S SATANIC VERSES 2.0: A LETTER TO BUHARI

ICHEOKU says in a scathing public letter to President Muhammadu Buhari, the man known for his hard charging tactic of take no prisoners, the brash and bold former President Olusegun Obasanjo, has warned the president not to stand for reelection in 2019. According to the letter, President Muhammadu Buhari has not performed creditably well enough to deserve a second term, hence he should do the honorable thing and bow out and not force Nigerians to disgrace him out of office. 

ICHEOKU says love him or hate him, one thing friends, admirers and critics alike all agree to is that Olusegun basanjo is a leader who knows how to truly drive the train of leadership,  decisively, doggedly and determinedly.  His overall understanding, command and control of the political structure of the society is legendary that were it not for the Constitution, many Nigerians would wish he could run again and continue as president; the bad experiences of the other three who happened since he left office, considered. 

But the former president certainly has his own flaws, including his often lack of good judgment; otherwise the question of Buhari running or not in 2019 would have been otherwise mute. It would not have arisen as there would have never been any Buhari in the first place to advise now not to run. The Ota Deity, alongside other accomplices, beguiled Nigerians into voting for the man who now turned out to be their worse nightmarish nemesis, since the inglorious days of the midget of Kano Sani Abacha. 'He was educated enough to be president' was a popular refrain of Obasanjo to the question of a certificate-less Buhari standing for office. 

Today, that singular lack of education proved to be the albatross of his governance. It shows in so many things which an ordinarily fertilized mind would have helped him so easily solve. But his lack of cerebral exposure made him a prisoner of self doubt and lack of trust in other people who are not of his stork; thus forcing him into a chronic cronyism, which saw him run an inept government with a pigeonholed outlook on the world and trapped in his own world where he is only comfortable among his Fulani kits and kins. It is a widely available knowledge that nomadic Fulani people, including those who call Nigeria home, are not reputed for their big academic credentials and resumes. This lack of qualified manpower from within their tribe, forced so many mediocre on present day governance of Nigeria as President Muhammadu Buhari would not trust any non Fulani to run certain vital departments of his government. and the result shows.

Anyway, Obasanjo's letter, although a welcome relief, is somewhat belated because so much damage has already been done by President Muhammadu Buhari. As a result, the blood of the thousands of innocent Nigerians slaughtered since the inception of President Muhammadu Buhari's government, is technically, also on the head of the man who endorsed and helped make him president of Nigeria. Olusegun Obasanjo is therefore complicit in the Buhari's government of mediocrity, because had he not thrown his weight behind his candidacy, despite a well established pattern of his proven crass incompetence, Nigerians would not have purchased that dummy for a president and literally signed away their rights as well as in some cases, their life. 

Obasanjo was fully aware of the glaring shortfalls of the lanky man from Daura; beginning in their days as members of the Nigerian military to when Obasanjo as Head of State appointed Buhari the Petroleum Minister; continuing to Buhari's days as Head of State to his chairmanship of the PTF, which the same Obasanjo disbanded because of crass ineptitude and storied corruption. For three times did the same Buhari run for the same office of president of Nigeria, but Obasanjo severally on each occasion stopped him in his tract. Then suddenly 2015 came around and Obasanjo with boldfaced lied to Nigerians that the same man who he had previously prevented his ascendancy to Nigerian presidency, suddenly became qualified for the office? 

ICHEOKU says but as a hopeless optimist, who still holds out some hope for a Nigeria that will eventually come back to live, fully resuscitated, revived and re-energized, will grant Olusegun Obasanjo a benefit of doubt that his repentance over the mistake of 2015 is real and that he truly is remorseful of his imposition on Nigerians, of President Muhammadu Buhari. Therefore his call on the president not to present himself for reelection in 2019 is valid, meritorious and well founded and therefore should be supported by all Nigerians. It is not about any other thing or other extrinsic consideration; the fact of the matter is that President Muhammadu Buhari is not deserving of another term as Nigerians collective president, having not earned it. Another implicit fact is that President Muhammdu Buhari is incompetent, aged and infirm; and cannot perform above his drastically constrained abilities. The president is a comprehensive failure that if graded, would have scored straight F9 in practically every and all departments of governance. 

Domestically, he failed and internationally he bombed too. He is very divisive, parochial,  uninformed and micro manages everything. He is nearly completing his first term in office without ever traveling overseas on any working official trip except his visits to his Islamist agenda supporting countries of Turkey and Saudi Arabia. The president is on the third lap of his four laps term in government and he has never addressed a world press conference to actually be confronted with questions about his governance pattern and style, as well as render account on his productivity. The president is in the third quarter of his governance and he has never held a Council of State meeting and you wonder what is he afraid of, not allowing other former presidents and Heads of State as well as government officials to parley with him in Aso Rock. 

Then veer off to the economy and security in the country and his abject failure becomes brighter than a starry night. Buhari promised to fight corruption to a stand still but ended up being mired in more corruption and as Olusegun Obasanjo pointed out in his letter, the case of Pensions Board former Chairman Maina cries out to the high heavens. To date President Muhammadu Buhari is presiding over a government where a criminally corrupt and indicted Senate President is still presiding over the Senate and he is still fighting corruption? President Muhammadu Buhari promised to name and shame corrupt Nigerian former government officials but none has been named or jailed to date. 

The president promised Nigerians power supply but appointed a Minister of Darkness Fashola to oversee the effort. His ineffectiveness in revamping power supply is such that Nigerians are even begging to be left where they were with power supply before Fashola took over the Power Ministry. The president promised Nigerians security and more Nigerians have been slaughtered since he was sworn in. Unlike other presidents of other countries who are known as promise keepers, President Muhammadu Buhari, instead of fulfilling his campaign promises, has flat-out denied ever making any of them. How such man expect to run again or be reelected is beyond every known permutation where report-cards matter.

Anyway, ICHEOKU will not belabor self here enumerating the president's many failures and several made promises which were denied or recanted or left unfulfilled and not kept, as they are everywhere for anyone to see and tabulate. But ICHEOKU is emphatic that the call made by Olusegun Obasanjo to discourage President Muhammadu Buhari from running for reelection is well made and in good conscience; and demands every hand and mouth of Nigerians to be on board to actualize it. ICHEOKU says provided that Olusegun Obasanjo does not settle for the creepy and greedy polygamist Abubakar Atiku, as President Muhammadu Buhari's shoe-in and replacement, ICHEOKU is prepared to and will join the battle to evict President Muhammdu Buhari out of Aso Rock come 2019.  President Muhammadu Buhari is not a deserving Nigerian president, admitted that his Fulani folks will protest vehemently that he is the best thing to ever happen in their Nigeria since slice bread was invented. 

So without any further ado, ICHEOKU says thank you Dr Olusegun Obasanjo for providing the much needed leadership to drive the push to oust and replace President Muhammadu Buhari come 2019. Your Satanic Verses version 2.0 to President Muhammadu Buhari is well received and the content stellar. The gravity of the now has forced you out of your retirement to once again try and save Nigerians from themselves. This is a roll which Goodluck Jonathan ought and should have been playing as the immediate past president and the man who handed over Nigeria to Buhari. But unfortunately, his legendary cowardice was in the way and he couldn't man up and pay the leadership dues with courage and bravery and lead the flock. 

President Muhammdu Buhari, ICHEOKU says your time is about up and please get ready to handover. ICHEOKU hereby reechoes Olusegun Obasanjo's call that you please do not run for reelection in 2019; so do not even bother presenting yourself for nomination because only your Fulani folks will not be able to carry you across the finish line. Fortunately, your terrorist Fulani cattle herders have succeeded in scaring off the Middle Belt and winning the presidency as you have boasted with just the Northern votes will no longer be feasible nor possible; except of course you want to take down Nigeria with you. So long.

BENUE STATE PEOPLE: SYMPTOMATIC OF THE BATTERED WIFE SYNDROME.

ICHEOKU says have tried without success to rationally understand the skewed love relationship between the House which Joseph Tarka built and the House of Mohammedan Othman Dan Fodio aka the Sokoto Caliphate. The only thing discernible and worth sifting out therefrom is that the people of Beune State are exhibiting symptoms of the battered wife syndrome, which sees an abused wife or even a woman, constantly attracted to her abusive husband or man and without any meaningful reason or explanation whatsoever. The allure is so irrational to comprehend that people wonder and question whether the woman drives some kind of high, a special dark pleasure, from being abused. Anyone who has ever experienced dominatrix "love" will understand that some people really likes it hot and rough. 

They will tell you that is the only way they actually feel expressed. It is a fact that psychologists have studied this syndrome over the many years and have also tried to psycho analyze such victims, but unfortunately no meaningful diagnosis has succeeded in explaining what makes such women do what they do. Sometimes, some of these victims end up being physically maimed for life and even killed, thus rendering any intervention ineffective or rather too little too late as an effective recourse. 

Several times have the people of the former Benue Plateau State now Benue State, Plateau State and Kogi State been provided the opportunity to free themselves from the strangulating choke-hold of the House of Othman Dan Fodio; but with each opportunity, saw them getting more ingratiated to the Fulani Sokoto Caliphate. Like with every second class mentality citizen, the appearance of being accepted by the people they admire and want to be like, is always a preferred option to truly being assertive and demanding to be respected. Joseph Tarka fought mightily to secure respect and statesmanship for his people of the Middle Belt and nearly succeeded until death took him away. 

Genocidal Yakubu Gowon led them back into the vice-grip control of the Caliphate during his reign as a neophyte illiterate Head of State and through a war of attrition which they waged against the people of Biafra. At the end of the war, the same Caliphate decided that a Middle Beltan was not good enough to be their leader and engineered a military coup that overthrew Yakubu Gowon and installed one of their own Muritala Mohammed, yet they remained loyal to their Caliphate masters with no questions asked.

There was a failed Middle Belt counter coup led by Bukar Sukar Dimpka which killed the Caliphate's Muritala Mohammed. The Caliphate responded with heavy hand and used the opportunity to nearly exterminate the entire population of the Middle Belt soldiers from their Fulani Nigerian army. Several officers including General Iliya Bisala as well as other rank and file from the Middle Belt were summarily slaughtered in mass executions. Even Gowon himself was marked for execution but the Berom coward hid in the United Kingdom until President Shehu Shagari granted him amnesty; admitted he still lives in fear of the Caliphate till today. During this purge, those Middle Belt soldiers who were deemed not connected to the coup and were not executed, were summarily dismissed from the Nigerian military. But instead of the Middle Belt people reexamining their association with their Caliphate, exclaimed their appreciation to the Caliphate, Master, master, you did nothing wrong, we are still loyal and we still love you. 

Some decades later, another Benue son, Gideon Orkar, became fed up with what was going on in Nigerian including in the Nigerian Army and tried to push those miscreants out of Nigeria. But unfortunately, his drunkenness did him in as a premature announcement of excision of some five North most States from the country, rallied soldiers from the five States, led by Sani Abacha, to fight back to reclaim their stay in Nigeria. The coup was quelled and when it was over, Orkar and his group of mainly Middle Belt Benue soldiers were blown to pieces with anti aircraft guns and sticks of dynamites festooned around their bodies like suicide bombers and whatever remained of their minced flesh were dissolved in sulphuric acid. But did the people of Benue State review their association following the callous fate which befell Gideon and co travelers, to see if it is still worthy of pursuing, working or still beneficial to them? ICHEOKU says no; instead they stuck to their love of their Caliphate masters and went even further and deeper in their romance; and now this ongoing slaughter of the people by the Caliphate's terrorists cattle herders. 

This is a fact of history and this is the fate which the people of the Middle Belt has continued to suffer in the hands of their supposed Sokoto Caliphate brothers; and for so long that you wonder when is enough finally going to be enough for this one-sided love affair to be re negotiated. They were marginalized, they were massacred, they were denied, they were deprived, they were rejected and they were not accepted as full members of the Caliphate, yet they kept on loving the Caliphate more and more. Their only request is to be loved in return but the Caliphate would have none of that.  They sang and they serenaded the vampirish Caliphate, which continuously grows fat on the blood and backs of Benue people; yet they are not welcomed. Why Benue people continues to sing the praises and doing the dirty laundry of the Sokoto Caliphate, despite what they have been thrown at is simply beyond any meaningful and rational comprehension, short of somebody trying too hard to be loved and accepted as bona fides Northerners. 

But why any people would continue to grovel in such perpetual servitude to another people, who continuously derides them, is beyond ICHEOKU; except to add it is the stuff lack of self esteem and pride in oneself is made of. To this end therefore, Benue State people cannot stop to amaze ICHEOKU with their lower caste disposition in the matter of their relationship with the Sokoto Caliphate. But why? What would Joseph Tarka and even Godwin Daboh say or do to what has become the fate of their people in their bromance with their brothers from the other end of the North.

As far as the Caliphate is concerned, the people of the Middle Belt remains part of the Southern infidels except for election purposes or when doing their bidding is concerned and some lowly servants of the North has to do the heavy lifting. It also does not matter to the Caliphate that the people of Benue State and/or the entire Middle Belt see themselves as Northerners, because in their tacit understanding, there are Northerners and there are other wanna be Northerners - the Northerners in name only. At every turn, those real Northerners never misses the opportunity to tell the "foreign" Northerners to know their place and to only speak when spoken to. Yet this second class treatment was accepted and accommodated by the people of Benue State and the greater Middle Belt and for so long. But why a people would be this so servile and groveling to another people is beyond any emancipated person's fathoming.


ICHEOKU says but acting as a devil's advocate, if as agreed that Benue State is neither Hausa nor Fulani, but a State located in the central geopolitical region of Nigeria and is not part of the Southeast and definitely not part of the Igbo ethnic extraction, and has a distinct language, genealogy, culture, tradition and ethnicity, what then is their correlation and affinity to the Sokoto Caliphate, one may ask? Their argument usually is that Benue State has no traceable cosmogony or any cultural affinity whatsoever to Igboland; but they fail to establish their nexus and consanguinity to the Fulani Sokoto Caliphate. The implication being that the people of Benue would rather manufacture nonsensical reasons to justify their alliance with a people so far away and so diverse in everything material particular with them; but would jump and protest any connection with some other people with whom they actually have some connection, including State boundary lines, inter-marriages and criss-crossing borders. 


This is the convoluting thing in the whole Benue State people idiocy of distancing themselves from Ndigbo Southeast, but readily grovels at a people  they do not share any homogeneous identifications with either, including boundary lines. However, all these notwithstanding, the real question remains why are Benue State people stuck in this abusive relationship with the Sokoto Caliphate and for this long? Why not just walk away and let the gaddam thing, where they are not treated fairly but so shabbily and so poorly, go puff. So put in another way, ICHEOKU says that Benue State people as well as the rest of the Middle Belt, by necessary implication, is somewhat incohoot in the fate which has befallen them. 

The people of Benue State are behaving like an abused wife who no one understands nor can explain why she keeps on going back to her abusive husband, and won't walk away or divorce him or feed him rat poison or take a Magnum to his cranium. Lastly, if according to Samuel Ortom, Benue State people have been under the tortuous pummeling of the Sokoto Caliphate Fulani since 1800, why are they still in bed with these their admitted traducers. But unfortunately, only Benue State people are the ones who can truly help themselves and free themselves from their bonded servitude to the Mohammedan House of Othman Dan Fodio. 

So, until then when they decides to do the needful, ICHEOKU advises the rest of Nigerians to please maintain a safe observation distance from them and let Benue people make up their mind as to the future course they want to navigate. Please do not let them use you in settling their brotherly dispute with their Northern brothers from the Sokoto Caliphate. Their leaders have time without number maintained that they are Northerners and that they belong to the Sokoto Caliphate as distant cousins. So it will be very unfortunate for anyone or tribe to give the two spouses reason to go to bed with you, discussing you as the reason they wanted to part ways. So until they seek the help and intervention of other Nigerians, especially the ever-ready busy-body only volunteer force in Nigeria, Ndigbo, please give them the much needed space to do some serious soul searching on their desired way forward.

PRESIDENT TRUMP IN EXCELLENT HEALTH.

ICHEOKU says he submitted himself to the Walter Reed National hospital for a three and half hours medical examination which included his requested, but not required, mental acuity test. The president passed excellently well and aced his IQ test 30/30. ICHEOKU says yet another nail on the coffin of the fake book Fire and Fury hatchet job which had claimed unfounded story about the president's mental health. But will the possessed far left media hordes now take their chill pill and let the president be? Your guess is as good as ICHEOKU's. ICHEOKU says congratulations President Donald John Trump for once again shaming your traducers. It is now all the way live to 2020 and a second term assured victory.

IT IS ONE YEAR TODAY, HURRAY!

ICHEOKU says congratulations to President Donald John Trump for successfully steering America's ship of States for a full year. What the naysayers said will not happen is a reality which they are finding extremely difficult to live with. But their preferences notwithstanding, Make America Great Again is on course and nobody will torpedo it. Once again, congratulations to the leader of Team MAGA on the anniversary of his being sworn in as the 45th POTUS.

SHITHOLE COUNTRIES: ACTUALLY AND ABSOLUTELY DO EXIST.

ICHEOKU says to enable us understand the the context better, it Is good to have a working definition of the term "shithole" country. A shithole country as one commentator opined, is a country whose leaders use and abuse their citizens rather than empower them, raise them up, protect them and give them opportunities to grow and prosper. 

It is a country whose leaders are not fair nor kind to the citizens and do not care about them or their welfare. It is a country where citizens rights are drastically infringed upon; where there is no due process rights and where citizens often lose their lives needlessly. It is a country which does not provide for its future generations and which does not give her citizens a decent chance at prosperity and a good quality of life. It is a country where there is no infrastructural development, lack of good water, accessibility, healthcare, basic food and other essentials of life including quality education, security and safety etc. 

So when the president called some countries shitholes, he meant that these countries should and need to put their act together and right the so many wrongs afflicting their citizens and people. This is the derivative from what the president said and any shithole country that does not like it should strive to remove the shithole prefix by doing better for themselves and country men and women. If anyone shithole country does not like being chastised, then let that country do something about it, in order to remove the reason for being chastised and thus render it moot. 

But it is unacceptable to be a beggarly nation and complain that you are being called out as a beggarly nation. If you are shamed into turning your fortunes around, then the chastisement worked; but you cannot be so needy in everything and still get mad simply because your benefactor said something to that effect. A beggar has no choice and if a tenant does not like the landlord or what the landlord said to him, the best revenge is to go build your own house and dispense with your landlord. This is a bitter truth medicine and this is the best answer in the circumstance and not all these hyperventilating. 

ICHEOKU is emphatic that what President Donald John Trump said is probably a long overdue clarion and wake-up call for those shithole countries to sit up, fix their countries and learn to take pride in themselves and countries. A child is expected to someday grow up; but when a country that got her independence over fifty years ago can still not provide basic things that make life livable such as water, roads, power, food etc, that country is literally stunted. It is about time these shithole countries take their medicine in order to get well and prosper and instead of being mad that they were called out, see such as a needed shot in the arm to work harder to defeat such opinion of them. 

If such a public shaming will force them to fold up their sleeves and get dirty in order to make their own respective countries GREAT AGAIN, translating them into a better place where nobody and none of their citizen wants to run away from, then such calling out is probably a most welcomed development. It is about time somebody confronted these failing countries with the gospel truth, as nobody ever runs away from a functioning, livable place. People only run away from disasters and such other none conducive environments which incommodes human existence. 

Therefore, what President Donald John Trump allegedly said concerning the merit of allowing migrants from "shithole" countries into the United States of America is factually in order. If it will help compel those countries, especially their leaders, into working harder to improve the fortunes of their countries and prevent their citizens from fleeing to the United States of America, then the objective would have been met. Query, if Americans did not fight and struggle hard to fix their own country, where would all those people from those shithole countries be running away to. 

ICHEOKU therefore says instead of crucifying the president for what he said, people from those "shithole" countries should accept the gauntlet and see it as a challenge to make their countries better and transform it into a much more livable place, rather than as an insult or curse. Those people should strive to prove President Donald John Trump wrong by either improving the quality of life in their societies or their people should stop flocking to the United States of America in protest to what the president said; or better still, to stay back in their own countries in order to prove to the president that their countries are not "shithole" countries. 

ICHEOKU says the extensive immigration policy of the United States of America is actually not helping those countries whose people are migrating to the United States. These are people who would have helped develop their own countries, but who have deserted them to come and enjoy the labors of others. The blood and sweat of the American people, who did not run away from their then own problems, but girded up, faced them squarely up and took time to laboriously make their own country much livable. By brain-draining and depriving their own countries of their much needed manpower, there is no manpower left behind in their countries to help build their own countries into a livable place. 

The same brain drain jeopardizes the critical mass necessary to help rally protests against their ineptitude governments and help compel their leaders to lead well. Such shithole countries leaders' predisposition is, why worry fixing their country and anyone who does not like it as it is, should take a hike to the ever welcoming United States of America. Then the attitude of their people migrating to the United States of America usually is, why bother with finding a way to pressure the government to fix what is broken when they can easily escape the dire condition back home by just running away to the United States of America; thus leaving their countries to wither away in utter desolation and lack of functionality and infrastructural development. 

ICHEOKU says a country's greatest resources is its people and any country suffering from acute depletion of their people through migration, especially the caliber regarded as brain-drain, is barren to say the least and will remain ever stunted to elaborate. Admitted it is hurtful, the feeling of being singled out and called a poop-pit hole, but sometimes truth is the best disinfectant, If such could touch a special place in those people's hearts to force them to doing better for their own countries, so be it. But where an Education Minister, for instance in a country like Nigeria, will not fix the country's education system because he or she could easily send his children to the United States of America for studies, then such country eminently qualifies as a "shithole" country. 

Ordinarily, were his or her children to be studying in Nigeria, he will have a stack in the project make Nigerian education great again and an added incentive to right the wrong that is a depleted and discredited education system, An education system where students do not have conducive environment to  study and lecturers are owed salaries and deprived of livable environment to impact knowledge. So, why do the job when a big brother America is there to cater to their children's need to acquire good education? As for the rest of their society that cannot afford the expensive United States of America education cost for their own children, too bad, tough luck. 

Also, when a country's president runs overseas for medical treatment and remains there for over 150 days, a privilege which over 95% of the citizens cannot afford, that is a shithole country. When a country does not have power and stays in darkness for more nights than it ever sees light, that is a shithole country. When in a country, terrorists Fulani cattle nomads indiscriminately slaughter innocent sleeping women and children, and the government of the country, headed by a Fulani, looks the other way, that is a shithole country. 

When an illiterate former tyrant, without even a First School Leaving Certificate, intimidates himself into the country's presidency, that is a shithole country. When in a country, placard carrying protesting innocent citizens are recklessly massacred by the government's army, that indeed smells like a shithole country. When in a country, a president of the country's Senate is an indicted criminally corrupt individual and he is still presiding over the Senate without resigning or temporarily stepping aside, that is what a shithole country really looks like. When in a country the Inspector General of Police is at liberty to sleep with any woman police official just because he can, that is a shithole country and the list goes on. 

ICHEOKU's only issue with what the president said is his delineation of such descriptive to only Haiti and African countries including Nigeria, because there are so many other shithole countries in the world, depending on whose definition is used and the prevailing paradigm employed. In America for instance, those who are down and out on their luck, including millions of homeless, drug and alcohol addicts, could see themselves trapped in a "shithole" country. Ditto will those who ran afoul of the law, as well as those who were wrongly convicted and incarcerated; and who will spend the rest of their lives in tiny prison cells, swear that America is a "shithole" country because of their fate. Further, some people looking from the outside into America might also be forced to conclude that death sentences and executions as practiced in America smacks of a "shithole" country practice. 

So America could, in some peoples' eyes and estimation, somewhat fit into this description of a "shithole" country, depending on who you ask. To the American who lives in the economically desolate Appalachian mountain range including some parts of West Virginia, as well as economically deprived Detroit and the killing fields of Southside Chicago, they might see themselves as trapped in a "shithole" country. Yes indeed, some Americans who live in certain necks of the wood in the country have it worse than people who live in some of those now identified shithole countries of Africa and Haiti. 

Those Americans who lived through, as well as those who died, during the horrors of Hurricane Katrina, especially in New Orleans 9th Ward, who did not have luck with being rescued, would probably swear that they lived in a shitlhole country. Those Americans who were residents of Flint Michigan during the water crisis could also possibly say that they lived in a shithole country as the crisis unfolded. When you add victims of the opiates crisis and drugs ravaging America and those crackheads and junkies sprawling on the streets of major cities in America, you will get more of those Americans who strongly feel that their country is a shithole country as well. 

ICHEOKU is emphatic that every country has their own problems and issues that could make them a shithole country, admitted that they are all not of the same severity across the board. Throughout the world exist countries that will perfectly fit and so easily be subsumed into a shithole country defined, if seen through the lenses of those who are being shafted and left under the economic ladder and their citizens who are down and out and whose cases are not salvageable. Yes, the colored lens is good, but sometimes it does not capture the whole picture and yes, it depends on who is doing the judging and what indices are being used. 

In Venezuela for example, citizens cannot even find toilet papers to wipe their behind and you wonder why have a shit hole when you cannot even use it hygienically? So, if you cannot find tissue papers to use after doing your business, doesn't that push Venezuela to the top of the totem pole of shithole countries. Then factor in countries that repress their citizens including Russia, China, North Korea, Iran etc and their unfortunate citizen victims will shout at the top of their lungs that they live in a shithole country. Saudi Arabia which still carries out beheading and where ancient religious practices still dominate her citizens affairs is definitely another such shithole country, especially for those at the end of the pointed tip of the spear in the Kingdom. Mexico also qualifies as a shithole country, depending on whether one is interviewing those victims of drug war gone awry. 

So the list of "shithole" countries is not easily exhaustible as every country has its own dark underbelly spots and areas which will somewhat somehow make them eligible for that inglorious list. This is the only downside from what President Donald John Trump said, because he limited his observation to just the African continent and black dominated Haiti. Every country, without exception or rather negligible few exceptions, still have a lot of work to do in aspiring to really and truly become a paradise on earth. So until mission accomplished, we all can only pray to die someday and still be in the good books to make heaven in order to experience bliss, because there is no paradise anywhere on this planet earth; and America is certainly not one, the hyped grandiosity notwithstanding. 

But the overhyped righteous indignation of the Democrats and their liberal media hordes which have taken the narrative into a near absurdity is understandable. These are Trump hating lynch mob, who have been looking for something and anything with which to crucify President Donald John Trump since their last November 8th, 2006 election loss. So their pretentiousness is a given and ICHEOKU and Americans are not fazed nor deterred. Former President Barack Obama who so "loved" Africa and never called Africans out publicly as a shithole continent did more damage to Africa than help them. He murdered African King Moummar Gaddafi for no reason and threw Libya into a continental chaos  which has since spiraled out of control into anarchy, where slavery has now been reborn and human beings are being sold off into slavery on auction blocks and purchased as chattels. 

The same African loving Obama, boycotted the largest concentration of black people in the world, the country of Nigeria; and refused to visit it throughout his eight long years in office. Yes indeed, Barack Obama "loved" Africa so much and you ask yourself how did he translate this "love" into anything tangible and meaningful to and for Africans? ICHEOKU says Barack Hussein Obama did not do jack for the "shithole" Africa, despised the professed "love", other than try to export homosexuality carte blanc to the African continent, period. Please give ICHEOKU harsh words than cruelty, anytime, any day. 

So what is it exactly that people are talking about, other than that a bold, brash and fearless President Donald John Trump, who does not suffer fools lightly, bravely put into words what millions of others regularly muse about. So what if those countries are called out for what they are; if they don't like it, they should do something about it or otherwise hush. 

Simply put, the snitching Democratic Senator Durbin was out to get President Donald John Trump, otherwise why leak what was said in the heat of passion during a private conversation? It is the same lack of trust which has nearly stalled governing in America where a chief executive cannot have the assured confidences of a top legislator who was invited to hash out some matters of State. This is atypical of a political scoundrel who was out to ensnare the president for purposes of gaining some political advantage and readily drove his Brutus dagger at the the slightest opportunity; but luckily and unlike Julius Caesar, the president survived and will thrive. The other good news is that the Teflon President have survived far worse things that were thrown at him and will also ride out the latest tempest in a tea cup. 

Their "Fire and Fury" hit job has flamed out without the anticipated meltdown; and now it is back to their worn out regurgitate that the president is a racist. ICHEOKU says but who is not a racist in America, as well as the entire world? So, why single out the president to brand him one or is what he said worse than Queen Crooked Hillary Clinton calling black American males Super Predators? Is Obama's "clinging to their guns and religion" comment any better and more desirable and palatable? Like Jesus said, he who is without sin should cast the first stone, but unfortunately, liberalism and Godism are two polar opposites, otherwise they would have known better. Happily though, such hatchet job has been repeatedly carried out previously with the president still standing and this dust raised by the "shithole" countries comment will equally blow over by the weekend. 

As has been revealed, this shows that politicians are indeed contrived. Some pro immigration senators went to the president to seek his approval for an immigration bill proposal which did not meet the president's stated objective of providing funds to build the wall and end chain migration. The president somewhat lost his cool, using some tough words as he turned them down. As a revenge, one of them, Democratic Senator Durbin invented a story of the president said this and that. 

But these traducers are again wasting their time because the American people who are with the president far outnumber them. They can try all they want and invent and manufacture accusations upon accusations, but the American people's support for their president will never wane nor flounder; and they far outweigh all the conspiracies put together against the president. They will re-elect their President Donald John Trump come 2020 because they see in him an American champion and cheerleader in chief extra-ordinaire, whose love for country is feverishly passionate. They love him dearly and Wall Street is responding in kind as well as jobs which are beginning to move back to the United States of America. Americans will never desert such a fighting president, who is studiously fighting for their cause. 

Finally, instead of anyone or country chastising President Donald John Trump for what was said, they should see it as a moment of truth, a time for reflection, a time for the taking of stock, to review their affairs and introspect on what they have been doing wrongly which  has led to the continuing exodus of their people to America and other European and Asian countries. They should ask themselves why they still have shitholes in their countries when the rest of the world have since adapted plumbed and flushing toilets. 

They should try to figure out why their "shithole" countries are not functional? They should try and find an answer as to why things are not running optimally and as they should in their shithole countries? They should ask themselves why things are not well ordered and why there is no law and order in their shithole countries? They should introspect on why their shithole countries do not have necessary infrastructures and cannot provide employment opportunities and good standard of living for their citizens. In short, those shithole countries should find out why their citizens are running away from their shithole countries. 

These are the questions that need to be answered and not this current hyperventilation over what the President Donald John Trump allegedly said. Former British Prime Minister David Cameron once called Nigeria a "fantastically corrupt country", did the heavens fall? Dick Cheney once told Patrick Leheay to go fuck himself, did the heavens fall? There is a litany of such public officials outburst, a result of frustrations of their offices, which are bogged down by snail fashion inactivity due to no fault of their own. 

For a former Chief Executive like President Donald John Trump, who is used to getting things done, it must be a daunting task not to be allowed the free hand to do the things he needs to do in his march to make American Great Again. Such slowing down, which is somewhat deliberate partisan ploy, is rubbing the president wrongly. ICHEOKU certainly feels the president's frustrations and this possibly triggered his blowing off his casket. The volcano sometimes erupts after much internal combustive smoldering, so every human being has their point of no return, at which they will show their other side. But does this make them bad person, ICHEOKU says I don't think so; and it does not make President Donald John Trump a bad person nor more racist than any other American, regardless.

ADAMU GARBA II: A PROSPECTIVE LEADER FOR NIGERIA.