'THEY WILL NEVER ALLOW ME TO BE PRESIDENT' - HILLARY CLINTON.

ICHEOKU says yes indeed, the crooked woman is right that they were never going to let her be president. This will be the first time ICHEOKU will ever see reason with Queen Crooked Hillary Clinton and agrees with the Jezebel, that "they", the American people, will never allow a fraud to be their president. 

The crooked woman is right that a double-faced Janus like her has been seen for what she is by the American people and they have determined that she is not a fit and proper person for their White House. NEVER; not in this life and not in the life of her.

She is so crooked that even the real Lucifer is amazed. American people will always say no to the American political reject and perpetual president wanna be, Queen Crooked Hillary Clinton, two times ran and two times doubly and roundly rejected. Now she cannot seem to recover from the trouncing of November 8, 2016 and it shows. What a pitiful sore loser!

ENOCH ADEBOYE IS NO CARDINAL SIN: THEY DON'T MAKE HIS LIKES ANYMORE.

ICHEOKU says moments as this, the never ending fleecing of Nigerians by Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has forced ICHEOKU to time-travel down memory lane, way back to the eighties Philippines under President Ferdinand Marcos and how a petite man of God toppled his government, a government which somewhat had became God unto itself. Yes, his name was Archbishop Jamie Cardinal Sin and he permanently etched his name in immutable solid marble. 

Philippines was under a great affliction, a heavy yoke of then President Ferdinand Marcos and the people suffered and suffered until one man, a religious clergy and Archbishop of Manila, decided that enough is enough and he put aside his fears and personal safety, to do what needed to be done and before you could say Holly Molly, like all brutish cowards, Marcos and his family took to their heels in flee from the Macanaga Palace and into exile they went. 

But in Nigeria, Pastor Enoch Adeboye is busy shaking down Nigerians, fleecing the people of their hard earned money, while the country is weighted down under the heavy burdensome yoke of President Muhammadu Buhari maladministration. But not a whiff of condemnation or admonition of the government ever came from the supposed man of God. Enoch Adeboye is probably too afraid to raise a voice against the government for fear of being grounded or his private jet being denied landing rights on Nigerian airports or barred from using Nigeria's airspace. Enoch Adeboye has stood silently by and watched as even members of his Redeemed Christian Church of God are suffering untold hardship and groaning under immeasurable economic burden; and scared-stiff of their freedom being lost, restricted or deprived by the government. ICHEOKU says what would Jesus do faced with similar situation and circumstance, but condemn it; but not with Enoch Adeboye. 

Cardinal Sin was born into a very wealthy family but he forsook it all and went into the service of God, rising to become the Archbishop of Manila. Unlike the formerly poverty stricken Enoch Adeboye, who never dreamt of ever amounting to anything or being able to afford anything conveniently; and who like the Igbo adage of a man who never knew he will be able to take the Ozo title who put the anklets right up to his knees, has refused to let go his pursuit of money. It has now gotten to such ridiculousness that he is collecting gate fees for heaven, including billions from all manners of questionable characters and dubious people as well as crooked individuals, who actually believe that they are indeed paying advance for a space in heaven through Enoch Adeboye. ICHEOKU says watching that Enoch Adeboye's video made ICHEOKU sick to the stomach, that a man would so brazenly, falsely claim that if you don't pay your tithes you will not be admitted into heaven; and you ask yourself when did God appoint Enoch Adeboye the gateman of heaven's gate? 

Events makes a man and the events in the Philippines of the 1970s and 1980s under President Ferdinand Marcos, which forced Cardinal Sin to get involved in politics, made the Cardinal. It indeed proved to his great credit that it is not the size of the dog in the fight that is important, but the size of the fight in the dog. Cardinal Sin witnessed burgeoning corruption, fraud, murder and all manners of ills being perpetrated by the Marcos government. He also watched as discontent of the people over the uncaring attitude of the government neared boiling point and decided that enough is enough and went about to do something about it. But not Enoch Adeboye, who although tragically situated in a similar circumstance in Nigeria today, has refused to do something bout it; while maintaining a deathly criminal accomplice silence and maintaining a safe distance from provoking the ire of the government. ICHEOKU says were Jesus Christ this cowardly, the salvation of mankind would not have been purchased as the Jews would not have had any cause to frame him up for crucification. 

Just within six months following his appointment as Archbishop of Manila, Cardinal Sin was criticizing the authorities in Manila, as he appealed to Filipinos of all creed and religions and backgrounds to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ and use peaceful means to change the political situation in the Philippines. His call led to massive popular uprising which at one time brought about one million Filipinos to the streets of Manila, and eventually forced some soldiers to switch sides and join the protest in what later became known as People Power Revolution. President Ferdinand Marcos was forced into exile and with it, Philippines was freed and liberated till this day, establishing a real democracy where the people can elect and remove a president of their choice. So what is happening in Nigeria with the silence of Enoch Adeboye and other supposed men and women of God is quite pathetic. They have all turned into business men and women peddling scriptures and false miracles; and looking the other way as the country gradually unravels, while they smile steadily to the banks. 

So when will Enoch Adeboye and his coterie of tithes collecting false prophets ever bequeath Nigeria with a "triumphant democracy?" When will Enoch Adeboye and his fellow fleecing pastors persuade Nigerians to demand the opening of the "second envelope" and finally rid the country of those who are stealing it blind? When will Enoch Adeboye and his gang of deceitful miracle workers help Nigerians get rid of all the Ali Babas and the 40 thieves of Nigeria who have nearly bankrupted the country with their quick, fast, itching fingers? Even with Cardinal Sin, the Vatican tried to intervene on behalf of the Philippines government and tried to rein him in, but he threatened to resign his office which forced the Holy See to back down and stay off the church activism in Philippines. But here is Enoch Adeboye, who is the lord unto himself and who reports to no one, yet cannot muster enough courage to demand that President Muhammadu Buhari keep his contract with the Nigerian people. What Would Jesus Do? 

DJ AVICII IS DEAD !

ICHEOKU says he came, did what he had to do, exactly what he was created to do and then took his bow. Yes, he was a maestro who held dancing fans spellbound on the dancing floor with his EDM music and he was really good at it. His "Wake Me Up" song was a great hit. Swedish born performer Tim Bergling aka DJ Avicii died in Muscrat Oman of yet to be determined causes. He was just 28 years old. 

"It's been a very crazy journey. I started producing when I was 16. I started touring when I was 18. From that point on, I just jumped into 100 percent. When I look back on my life, I think: whoa, did I do that? It was the best time of my life in a sense. It came with a price - a lot of stress, a lot of anxiety for me - but it was the best journey of my life." - DJ Avicii. ICHEOKU says rest in peace DJ. Adieu Avicii.

THE STARBUCKS ARREST: JUST A MICROCOSM OF THE RACISM IN AMERICA

ICHEOKU says Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson is just being clever by half in his pretentious display of indignation that two black men were arrested and marched out of one of his outlets in Philadelphia. How many other Starbucks outlets and other American business have black people been similarly marched out from and sometimes outrightly denied service or looked through simply because of the pigmentation of their skin. But here he is pretending that he just landed from out of space Mars to learn that racism is alive and well in America. 

What happened in Philadelphia is not just a one time unfortunate incident implicit bias incident; and there is nothing his apology will fix because racism is a continuing American underbelly and is system wide and country wide throughout the body fabric of the American society and Kevin Johnson knows this long before the two black men were put in handcuffs and humiliated out of his store in Philadelphia. So what did he do about it all this time, only to now shed crocodile tears because what was captured on video is not good for the corporate image of Starbucks and might also effect its bottom-line. He is apologizing and now promising to have the staff trained in "implicit bias and sensitivity" and you ask yourself how many blacks are top executives in Starbucks and how many blacks show up during Starbucks directors meetings if there is no racism in Starbucks preceding this incident? But the duo's arrest was captured on video and here comes a supposedly very "contrite" Chief Executive Officer pretending that he is being made aware of racism in America for the very first time. 

How many people of color are Kevin Johnson's friends? How many people of color live in his neighborhood and how many black children attend the same school which his children go to; and above all, how many black people are store managers, executives and in top level management positions in Starbucks? The thing that riles ICHEOKU most is the ever present sanctimonious fire-service approach of "addressing" race issues in America, which always follows each instant when a particular act of racism publicly breaks into the open and bubbles to the top. People react and involved corporate CEO's run around the place promising to "fix it", but only to return to the their default status when camera pans out and the incident is no longer cool to discuss or occupy the airwaves. It is all about corporate image and sooner than later, all the generated fury will blow off and it is deja vu the status-quo. But corporate image is at the stakes and Public Relations experts are are trying to stem the tide and here comes all the white washing and other temporary palliative measures being put in place. 

ICHEOKU says it is over fifty years since the passing of the Civil Rights Acts, yet blacks are paid less than their white counterparts in America, when they are lucky to be employed. Blacks still live in their own separate neighborhoods; their children still go to their own different schools; they still go to their own black churches; corporate America including Wall Street do not have a reflective population percentage number of black people within their enclaves; loan facilities for homes and cars are still not extended to black Americans on the same level as their white counterparts; police still disproportionately kill more blacks in America and for practically no reason other than to just remove some "nuisance" from their society and the list of painful experiences of being black in America go on ad infinitum. So is Kevin Johnson telling ICHEOKU or the world at large that he is oblivious of all these racial inequality and disparate treatment of people in America or was he just tagging along all this while in order not to disturb the groove until now? 

ICHEOKU is only taken aback by the pretentiousness and band-aid approach towards solving instances of race issue in America whenever one draws public attention; because after the very episode, things usually quickly revert back to the default mode until the next episode. Instead of seriously finding a way to indeed truly solve the issue of race in America, they simply place a band aid on issue by issue, sometimes make some token payment in compensation and few days later, it is back to business, the usual way of doing things. Even when the police kill unarmed innocent black man for instance, there is often no consequences as they just walk away Scot-free. As a result, other would be killers do not learn from the experiences of their past killers and they go on perpetrating their nefarious acts of singling out and killing blacks with impunity knowing fully well that nothing will happen to them because it was just another black man that was killed. ICHEOKU says if this is not racism, what else is? 

The only reason the Philadelphia arrest is making all these waves and headlines is that it was captured on video and people are reacting and expressing outrage. Starbucks is a Wall Street business that must reel in the cash in order to look good and they have to sell millions of cups of the hot liquid to do this. They also need a good corporate and community image to draw in customers who pony their money out for their overpriced hot cups. This is the principal underlying reason the fire brigade PR is trying desperately to quench the fire. The optics is not good and it might cause heavy loss of revenue for Starbuck, hence all these measures which are being hurriedly implemented. It will close 8,000 stores to do sensitivity training and you wonder why the drama of shutting down so many stores simultaneously when they could have achieved the same result by making  baristas watch sensitivity training video during their one hour lunch break and pay them for the hour. 

But no, it must be dramatized to appear that they in fact actually did something. How about opening coffee houses in black neighborhoods or employing more blacks or even giving back to the black community to help them send their children to colleges and universities on Starbucks' scholarships. Better still how about giving some Starbucks stocks and shares to the two fellas to really apologize to them and as them to please forgive. But Americans understand what is going on as the whole essence is the white man's effort to break the will of the black man to fight and survive, period. They carry it out everyday, every hour, every minute and every second both in jobs, housing, stores, streets and hospitals etc. When you refuse to give up, their police will either kill you or their judges will put in you in prison and often times throw away the key with some people dying in prison for offenses which they did not commit. They publicly humiliate you just to drum it into your ears that the Lord made a mistake by creating you black. 

Why did the police not ask the two black guys to just leave the store, after listening to their story, without the need to put them in handcuffs?  But no, they have to handcuff them to continue feeding the stereotype that black people are criminals and trouble makers; and telegraph to other blacks that we are ready for you and watching, so don't mess with us. Query, were the two black guys Caucasians or even Asians, would the police have arrested and put them in handcuffs? Were they the "right" color, would the Store manager have refused them the use of the bathroom or called the police to report them as being threatening or that they refused to leave the store. When did trespassing become an arrest-able offense without first asking the so called trespassers to quietly leave; following their refusal or recalcitrant, then an arrest might follow. But no, they had to arrest first and ask questions later and the ONLY reason they did it is the same reason such discriminatory practises have been going on in America for centuries and continuing till this day. SAD. 

BARBARA BUSH SAYS HER GOODBYE: ADIEU MATRON OF THE BUSH FAMILY

ICHEOKU says she was a mother to every American; a matron indeed. Adieu silver haired lady, rest in peace. So long.

BARBARA BUSH: DEAD AT 92.

ICHEOKU says the matriarch of the Bush political dynasty, wife to a former CIA director, wife to a former Vice President, wife to a former president and also a mother of a former president and two former governors; a woman who was truly an embodiment of the "say it as you see it" New York spirit, a personification of grace who somewhat borders on royalty; and who was also a mother of six children in all, grandmother to 17 and great grandmother to 7; former American First Lady Barbara Bush is dead. 

The platinum haired gregarious lady, who commanded presence wherever she stepped in and who was more than qualified to have been crowned Queen had America a monarchy, died of old age related infirmities and natural causes. She suffered from a breathing difficulties disorder, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (C.O.P.D) and also congestive heart failure towards the very end of her well fulfilled and heavily accomplished life. Barbara Bush was 92 years old. 

Barbara Bush alongside former President Quincy Adams' wife, Abigail Adams, were the only two American women in history to share the singular honor of married to a president and also gave birth to a child who later became president; thus made them wife and mother of presidents. She also had the honor of being the longest married wife of an American president and was with former President George H. Bush Sr for 72 long meritorious years. Commenting on her life last year, Barbara said: "I am still old and still in love with the man I married 72 years ago.” ICHEOKU says simply beautiful and how many women could happily and proudly say that of their marital life experience; to be married that so long and still remained happy that so long. Simply incredible, wonderful. 

Her one other memorable quote which ICHEOKU likes a lot because it told everything anyone needed to know about Barbara's depth, is: "I’m not going to turn into a glamorous princess. I’m not going to worry about it. I have plenty of self-confidence, not in how I look but in how I feel and I feel good about my husband, my children, and my life.” What a woman who indeed truly loved and took immense pride in her family. Speaking about her, former White House Chief of Staff, Andrew Card, said:- “She is more than a matriarch. She was a greater conscience to her husband, to her sons, to her daughter and to those who had the benefit of being in her proximity. She was an unvarnished purveyor of the truth and motivated us all to be better people. And she was also contagious with love."  ICHEOKU says what a testimonial, a solid one indeed and which will easily suffice as her epitaph. Adieu Barb. 

AMERICA AND RUSSIA ENTENTE: WHO IS AGAINST IT?

ICHEOKU says what a beautiful world this would be, the day America and Russia will finally bury the hatchet and become friends, real true friends, that is. Imagine all the common problems confronting the world which such armistice could help resolve, problems solved. From hunger to science to wars to terrorism to all sorts of things which solution has eluded the world for so long suddenly becoming solved. And instead of spending billions of dollars building up weapons against each other, they could re-direct their investment priorities to things that could help make the world a better place. 

But unfortunately, the military/industrial complex which only benefits and thrives in a world of chaos and confusion, will have none of that. They have weapons to sell to remain in business and a lot of them too; and so to do this, there has to be threats of imminent danger and turmoil from an identifiable enemy. For the West, Russia is always the bogeyman; and for the East, America is always the Great Satan which must be guarded against. So until such a time that reason eventually prevails, the world will always periodically be pushed to the brinks, near the edge, by greedy arms dealers, merchants and contractors whose voracious appetite for more money must constantly be fed. Yes, indeed, the beast has to be fed; hence the never ending and often near cataclysmic nightmarish scenarios which always jolts the world every now and then; engendered by these folks instigating conflict between the two countries. May wisdom someday prevail.

VLADIMIR PUTIN: DOES HE LIKE TO SEE BABIES GASSED TO DEATH?

ICHEOKU says it is very doubtful if Russian dictator Vladimir Putin truly wants world peace in this world? First he invaded Georgia's Ossetia and Abkhazia; then he forcibly seized Crimea from Ukraine and is currently waging a proxy war against the same Ukraine in Eastern Ukraine, using terrorists who do not want to give peace a chance. Next he courted Iran and Syria and is also watching as the Syrian despot Bashir Assad continuously use noxious gas to asphyxiate his people and fellow citizens of Syria. No other country is known to be this intrusive in other countries territories and you wonder what actually does Vladimir Putin want? 

How is it that a supposedly civilized European or rather Russian could in this 21st century, be a friend to a mass murderer who is gassing his own people, while he stands idly by and pretend and proclaim that it is not happening. Is it that he cannot control Bashir Assad and stop him from doing what he is doing or that he could care less if the children of Syria are the ones dying and being sent to an agonizing slow death by choking, and their body twitching in the most violent manner before yielding up their ghosts. Instead of joining forces with other civilized nations and countries of the world to secure world peace, this guy in Kremlin is rather busy causing trouble and stirring crisis after crisis and you wonder what exactly makes him tick. 

Vladimir Putin had in 2013 made an undertaking that Syria will transfer all its noxious weapons to the world body; yet in 2017 the same Syria gassed more Syrian citizens to their painful deaths. Some missiles were fired into Syria in retaliation, and thereafter common sense dictated that will mean an end to the horrific death by choking on fumes. But in 2018 the same Assad used more gas to kill more people of Syria. The West responded by firing missiles into Syria and all Vladimir Putin could do or say is threaten the world that should any future missile be fired into Syria that there will be an International chaos. ICHEOKU says really? Is this the only way this guy knows how to respond and instead of being pertinent that a despot who he had undertaken will be of good behavior, but is still flagrantly killing his people with gas, Vladimir Putin is rather threatening the world and you ask yourself does Assad do what he does with the blessing and tacit support of Vladimir Putin? 

Why must noxious fumes be his preferred choice of killing the people he is in office to protect? Recall that nobody is asking Assad to end the madness going on in Syria, just that he should not be using a banned chemical weapon as his weapon of choice. But instead of calling Assad to order, Vladimir Putin is by his own words and actions encouraging the dastardly killings and you wonder what value is Russia and their Vladimir Putin really to humanity if all the world gets from them is an inhumane confused policy misdirection. But nothing lasts forever as ICHEOKU strongly believes that his antics cannot be allowed to go on forever. It is about time Russia is given a choice, to either become a good citizen of the world and assume its rightful place among comity of civilized nations or be expelled from all world organizations including the United Nations Organization. 

How any leader with a soul would support the gassing of human beings after the horrors of Holocaust is simply beyond imagination and because of this, Vladimir Putin should be condemned by every right thinking person. ICHEOKU hereby therefore condemns Vladimir Putin for his actions in supporting Assad Bashir in his penchant for using noxious chemicals to asphyxiate his people. Enough of this ongoing madness and enough of Vladimir Putin threatening the world with chaos. If he wants a third World War, may be it is about time his wish is granted; let the war be fought once and for all, instead of this his never ending nerviness and disparate tunes which festoons avoidable anxiety on the entire world. Syria's Assad can remain in power, terrorists can also be killed since they deserve to die; but the continuous use of prohibited chemical weapons on innocent Syrians should be loudly condemned as a no brainier, no option. Vladimir Putin. help the world stop Bashir Assad from killing his people with gas. 

PUTIN THREATENS WORLD PEACE: TO UNLEASH INTERNATIONAL CHAOS.

ICHEOKU says Vladimir Putinya is once again making threats and threatening world peace. Instead of reining in his friend and fellow despot Bashir Assad from using chemical weapons on Syrian citizens, he is busy with issuing threats. Query: does it mean that Vladimir Putin enjoys having those little innocent children of Syria gassed or likes watching them twitch as they trail off to their agonizing painful deaths. Whatever it is, it is not good and it does not look good not after the horrific experience that was the holocaust. 

His latest threat, that there will be “International chaos” should another missile strikes be launched on Syria is not only inflammatory but somewhat encouraging the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian despot Bashir Assad. Why wait to unleash international chaos when he could have preempted it by asking Syria to stop using chemical weapons on her citizens. The missile strikes are predicated on Syria using chemical weapons and so is a  problem with a solution. Prevention is always better than cure, so if Vladimir Putin does not want to see Syria bombed again, he should tell his friend Bashir Assad not to gas those little innocent children of Syria again, problem solved. Except of course, Putin has other scores he wants to settle and is just looking for an excuse to unleash mayhem on the world. It is such an easy problem to solve; but he seems not to get it or rather just does not want to resolve it but to remain a pain in the butt of the West, while making alliances with thuggish rogue leaders. 

What a peaceful place the world would otherwise be if only Russia's Putin would agree to become a player for global good and play by the rule. But no, he is always at the opposite end and sometimes for no germane reason other than just for the heck of it. Anyway, when next Putin allows Bashir Assad to gas his people, the West, as promised, will again respond with missile strikes on Syria and thereafter he can unleash his promised international chaos and let us see how it will end. This is an avoidable problem that has a simple solution, restrain Bashir Assad from his barbaric use of banned chemical weapons on his people; but unfortunately, Putin does not appear or seem interested in peacefully resolving the issue. Rather, he is threatening world peace, forgetting that Russia is also part of the world and will not be immune from whatever he decides to unleash on the world. But hopefully, the world will not have to see whatever he has planned; believing that common sense will eventually prevail over him and Kremlin will do its job of reining in Bashir Assad. What a world fast approaching a destructive confrontation which is otherwise avoidable. 

SYRIA WARNED TO DESIST OR BE BOMBED AGAIN.

"If the Syria regime uses this poisonous gas again on its people, it will be bombed again. The United States of America is locked and loaded. When our president draws a redline, our president enforces the redline." - Nikki Haley, United States of America Ambassador to the United Nations.

VLADIMIR PUTIN: WHENEVER HE IS READY!

ICHEOKU says Russia has one good opportunity to finally move back into a comity of civilized nations and stop his despotic mentality that always see him flocking amidst his fellow dictators. But if he choses to remain in the cold and remain in Kremlin where he has been holed in since 1999, too bad. His too much stay in power is only damaging Russia and turning it into a third world country where only one man dictates what goes on in the country. Putin, change your ways. 

PRESIDENT TRUMP ORDERS MISSILE STRIKES IN SYRIA: THE FULL SPEECH.

"My fellow Americans, a short time ago, I ordered the United States Armed Forces to launch precision strikes on targets associated with the chemical weapons capabilities of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. A combined operation with the armed forces of France and the United Kingdom is now underway. We thank them both. 

Tonight, I want to speak with you about why we have taken this action. One year ago, Assad launched a savage chemical weapons attack against his own innocent people. The United States responded with 58 missile strikes that destroyed 20 percent of the Syrian Air Force. Last Saturday, the Assad regime again deployed chemical weapons to slaughter innocent civilians — this time, in the town of Douma, near the Syrian capital of Damascus. This massacre was a significant escalation in a pattern of chemical weapons use by that very terrible regime. The evil and the despicable attack left mothers and fathers, infants and children, thrashing in pain and gasping for air. These are not the actions of a man; they are crimes of a monster instead. 

Following the horrors of World War I a century ago, civilized nations joined together to ban chemical warfare. Chemical weapons are uniquely dangerous not only because they inflict gruesome suffering, but because even small amounts can unleash widespread devastation. 

The purpose of our actions tonight is to establish a strong deterrent against the production, spread, and use of chemical weapons. Establishing this deterrent is a vital national security interest of the United States. The combined American, British, and French response to these atrocities will integrate all instruments of our national power — military, economic, and diplomatic. We are prepared to sustain this response until the Syrian regime stops its use of prohibited chemical agents. 

I also have a message tonight for the two governments most responsible for supporting, equipping, and financing the criminal Assad regime. To Iran, and to Russia, I ask: What kind of a nation wants to be associated with the mass murder of innocent men, women, and children? The nations of the world can be judged by the friends they keep. No nation can succeed in the long run by promoting rogue states, brutal tyrants, and murderous dictators. 

In 2013, President Putin and his government promised the world that they would guarantee the elimination of Syria’s chemical weapons. Assad’s recent attack — and today’s response — are the direct result of Russia’s failure to keep that promise. Russia must decide if it will continue down this dark path, or if it will join with civilized nations as a force for stability and peace. Hopefully, someday we’ll get along with Russia, and maybe even Iran — but maybe not. 

I will say this: The United States has a lot to offer, with the greatest and most powerful economy in the history of the world. In Syria, the United States — with but a small force being used to eliminate what is left of ISIS — is doing what is necessary to protect the American people. Over the last year, nearly 100 percent of the territory once controlled by the so-called ISIS caliphate in Syria and Iraq has been liberated and eliminated. 

The United States has also rebuilt our friendships across the Middle East. We have asked our partners to take greater responsibility for securing their home region, including contributing large amounts of money for the resources, equipment, and all of the anti-ISIS effort. Increased engagement from our friends, including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Egypt, and others can ensure that Iran does not profit from the eradication of ISIS. 

America does not seek an indefinite presence in Syria under no circumstances. As other nations step up their contributions, we look forward to the day when we can bring our warriors home. And great warriors they are. Looking around our very troubled world, Americans have no illusions. We cannot purge the world of evil, or act everywhere there is tyranny. No amount of American blood or treasure can produce lasting peace and security in the Middle East. It’s a troubled place. We will try to make it better, but it is a troubled place. The United States will be a partner and a friend, but the fate of the region lies in the hands of its own people. 

In the last century, we looked straight into the darkest places of the human soul. We saw the anguish that can be unleashed and the evil that can take hold. By the end of the World War I, more than one million people had been killed or injured by chemical weapons. We never want to see that ghastly specter return. 

So today, the nations of Britain, France, and the United States of America have marshaled their righteous power against barbarism and brutality. Tonight, I ask all Americans to say a prayer for our noble warriors and our allies as they carry out their missions. We pray that God will bring comfort to those suffering in Syria. We pray that God will guide the whole region toward a future of dignity and of peace. And we pray that God will continue to watch over and bless the United States of America.

Thank you, and goodnight. Thank you."

JAMES COMY'S HIGHER LOYALTY: A BOOK OF COMEDY OF ERRORS.

ICHEOKU says once again the Never Trumpers and anti President Donald John Trump Washington establishment and their whoring media are waving their flag of psychological victory; celebrating yet another hatchet jobber, the former disgraced disgruntled FBI director James Comey, on his book chronicling his peculiar assessment of the president. But unfortunately, the book damaged James Comey more than it did the president; as it tells a story of a former director who is gossipy, leaky and who cannot keep secrets, begging the question what else did James Comey tell on and to who or is this it. 

Regardless of how many copies he sells or how wealthy he becomes from receiving proceeds of sale from the book, it does not matter. What would have mattered and commanded the respect and admiration of the American reading public is that a former head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation maintained his dignity and kept his mouth shut about things that came to his knowledge while heading the Bureau. But he did not; instead he squealed like a trapped animal; spilling the beans on what he allegedly perceived about the president during the last election and continuing till he was fired by the president. As expected any fired former employee is usually very disgruntled and is never expected to paint his former employer in positive lights or tell a tale of the glorious moments shared together. So nobody should be surprised if Higher Loyalty contains sleazy tales from the moonlight as told through the eyes of an unhappy camper.

ICHEOKU does not really care whatever the heck of a bombshell or lack thereof that may be contained in the book. It shouldn't matter and it does not matter and it will not otherwise make any dent howsoever small or minute on the person of President Donald John Trump or his presidency. Others have tried and continue to try till date to no avail; using all manners of deceitful ploys including washed up whores to try and disparage the president but have failed. They wither away soon following their outing and enjoyment of their fifteen minutes of fame or rather notoriety because American people, including millions of deplorables, have seen through the veil of contrivance and they intoned never again will they fall for the bait. They are fully vested in the peoples presidency which President Donald John Trump's presidency represents and they will, together, fight to defend him and protect their common holding, his presidency. 

The latest trashy book Higher Loyalty by James Comey is yet another attempt at get the president at all cost lunacy which has become very pervasive within the American minority leftist liberal nut jobs. They are loud, angry, oftentimes violent and fully incensed with desire for vengeance; but unfortunately they will not be allowed or permitted to succeed. The silent majority have woken up from their deep slumber of little or no interest and care about what has been going on and the silent majority will no longer allow the distractions of throwing the dog a bone to affect their collective vigilance on America going forward. This things awry is the madness which President Donald John Trump was elected to cure and he has been working tirelessly to fix them since the last election and he is succeeding in doing it. 

While these lunatic leftist anarchists are still dreaming of the president being removed and their Queen Crooked Hillary Clinton installed, the president is soldiering on and mission accomplishing his many objectives as espoused during his campaign for the office. He does not allow the many heels nippers affect his daily work with their diatribes and sometimes flat accusations of crime. This powering on despite all their attacks is equally exacerbating the insanity of these people and it shows daily, every hour, every minute and every second. As they continue to chase around every shadow and turning every rock looking for the evidence of whodunnit Russian Collusion, the president has carried himself well as he zeroed into solving problems for the American people and the world in general ask tip the missiles strikes which he ordered carried out in Syria today.  

The book Higher Loyalty will also burn out like others before it, We have seen it happen and his will not be an exception. After a few weeks of slouching around and telling his story of sleaze to his buddies in the corrupt media circus, his moment in the sun, he and his book will also be retired into an aside and soon to be forgotten tawdry tale. 

ICHEOKU says will neither buy nor borrow nor read the bunkum contained therein Higher Loyalty and encourages everyone not to enrich the snitching Comey with their hard earned money. Also there is nothing new he disclosed in the fantasy fairy book of distortions. James Comey lost the respect of every rational and sensible American the day he made a case establishing incontrovertible evidence of crime against Queen Crooked Hillary Clinton and then obfuscated and declared that "No reasonable prosecutor would indict on the charges." That was the day justice died in America.  That was also the day the whole world of lawyers and judicial officers as well as every person with the slightest knowledge of the law knew that something foundationally convulsing happened to shake their believe in equal justice for everyone under the law as they asked themselves in awe why the special treatment of Queen Crooked Hilary Clinton. 

Anyway, ICHEOKU is glad that James Comey was sent packing from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and hopefully that he did not do a lasting damage the Bureau, one that is simply too much before he was thrown out. What a manner of person would be this complicit with manipulating an investigation, albeit the law; as well as the entire justice system just to achieve an objective. Pitiful Comey and his pitiful book of lies, fabrications and innuendos, not worth the time or money to be spent on it. Simply too trashy. Please do not read Higher Power by James Comey and ICHEOKU will not either. 

JOY BEHAR WAS AGAIN, WRONG !

ICHEOKU says this old hag should first change her name because there is no joy in her and there is nothing joyful about her. She is just another crazed out, wild eyed feminist nut job who craves and stokes controversies. If it is not Christians that she is disparaging as mentally challenged, it is the president of the United States of America, Donald John Trump, that she is disparaging and comparing with Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putinya. 

Luckily enough, she lives in the United States where the president works tirelessly to protect her way of life, ensure that she is safe and free to pursue her diatribes including those pointed-arrow ones which she severally directed at the president. Were she living in Russia, could she be this disrespectful to Putin? Most likely, she would have since been sent a flower delivering assassin to permanently seal her lips as Anna Politkovskaya unfortunately found out, albeit post humorously. Were Joy Behar living in North Korea, could she have so badmouthed Leader Kim; otherwise the same starving wild dogs which feasted on Kim Jong Un’s uncle, could have had her for lunch as well, possibly eaten alive during their next feeding. These are the same monsters she is comparing President Donald John Trump with. But she still enjoys the freedom to open her dirty big loud mouth to say nonsensical and suffers no consequence as a result; yet President Donald John Trump is worse than Km Jong Un and Vladimir Putinya combined. Really? 

Anyway, lets hope that she will sooner than later come back to her senses, eat her vomit and apologize to the president as she was once forced to do to Vice President Mike Pence and later, to millions of other Americans who profess and confess Jesus Christ as their savior and Christianity as their religion. UnJoy Behar definitely lives a life of lie and so shamelessly too. She sounds angry and comes off as someone who has a serious ax to grind with men and possibly actually hates men. May be a bad childhood where she was probably molested, raped and exposed to some other cruelties in the hands of loveless uncaring men. What a pitiful lesbian.

PAUL RYAN FORCED OUT: MITCH MCCONNEL NEXT?

ICHEOKU says one down, one more to go; so when will the tortoise-neck, froggy Senate Leader Senator Mitch McConnell follow suit and scream ME-TOO, am out, gone!. This will help the president begin with a new Congressional leadership he can trust to help him mission accomplish his Make America Great Again agenda. ICHEOKU hereby calls on Senator Mitch McConnell to emulate Paul Ryan and also throw in the towel and retire from the Senate; to make room for and enable President Donald John Trump to have his Congressional leadership. So, Paul Ryan is a good riddance. 

His exit significantly marks the beginning of the end of the Washington Swamp establishment; draining of which, was one of the issues the president campaigned on and for which the American people elected him president. Drain the Swamp effort having finally netted one of its biggest swamp creature, with the soon to be former Speaker Paul Ryan being forced out of the Congress, has now finally regained steam. Paul Ryan  announced that he Is resigning from Congress and will not run again for reelection in November 2018. His departure will help suck out the lifeblood of those other creepy swamp creatures, who are only doing the job for which lobbyist pay them, while neglecting the primary business of the American people, the reason they were sent to Washington in the first place. Therefore ICHEOKU and millions of other American deplorables are glad that at last the active draining of the swamp has indeed finally begun with the resignation of Speaker Paul Ryan.

Paul Ryan never supported the president and was never a fan of the president either; and this position has not changed much till date. He was lukewarm from the inception of the president's race to the White House and has not sufficiently warmed up to the president or his agenda till date. A situation many interpreted to be exhibition of petty jealousy that what he as vice presidential candidate to and with Mr Penguin Mitt Romney could not achieve, Donald Trump accomplished on a first try. During the last 2016 election campaign, he displayed open hostility towards the then candidate Trump, urging Congressional Republican candidates running for reelection to go about their own election and not worry about the presidential candidate or allow themselves to be distracted by the then candidate Trump's tsunami of women troubles. 

Paul Ryan actually showed openly that the president stood no chance of ever winning the election. When the Access Hollywood tape leaked, instead of supporting the party's nominee, he distanced himself from him and even cancelled a previously scheduled joint campaign appearance with then candidate Trump, appearing alone in the campaign event in his native Wisconsin where he denounce Trump, without having the decency to even mention him by name. Paul Ryan also castigated and condemned Trump, to the extent of calling him a racist, when the Charlottesville South Carolina incident happened. 

So in Paul Ryan, President Donald John Trump never had a man-Friday or somebody you will gladly go to war expecting that he will unconditionally get your back. But the president won and he put a face of reluctant cooperation. ICHEOKU says such pretentious fair weather friends are worse than the worst enemy anyone can have. They cannot be trusted nor expected to change into any better supportive friend; but are usually only accommodating a circumstance which they cannot do anything about while secretly wishing differently. Yes, ICHEOKU is emphatic that Speaker Paul Ryan was not a fan nor friend of the president and never helped with the president's election campaign nor ever wanted him to win the election and also did not want him to succeed. His resignation is in fact a welcome relief so that the president can rejig and continue doing what he is doing best, working for the American people.

ICHEOKU says what took him so long as he should have resigned a long time ago, the day Trump won the election without his help and without waiting this long to be forced out or resign. President Donald John Trump won the presidency without his help or support or effort; and as chairman of the Republican Convention 2016, reluctantly showed up to preside but left his heart somewhere else. Even the day he conducted the president on a familiarization tour through the Congress, his face told it all that he was still in shock that the president won. But how he burrowed in this long, pretending to be a loyal team player when he is not, while allowing himself to be daily eaten alive from the inside out, and opposing the president's MAGA policies, including the tariffs on China, is simply mind blowing. 

Anyway, better late than never is always good; admitted never late is always better. Paul Ryan reminds ICHEOKU of Cassius in William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and such men are dangerous. ICHEOKU also wishes the soon to be former speaker and member of Congress Paul Ryan all the best in whatever future endeavor he settles on including working as a lobbyist, but is definitely glad that the president will now have the opportunity to have a Speaker of his choice, who will help him accomplish on the many election goodies which he promised the American people. A MAGA speaker who will proudly work with the president and together help the President's Make America Great Again agenda succeed. So long Ryan.

BUHARI CALLS OBASANJO'S BLUFF: SEEKS RE-ELECTION 2019.

ICHEOKU says exactly what giving someone the middle finger really looks like. Unfortunately, some Nigerians and Aremu Matthew Kikelemo Olusegun Obasanjo miscalculated in their thinking that a retired, ruthless army general will just tremblingly scurry away from Aso Rock simply because the Ota Deity aired an opinion. As they are now terribly beginning to find out, albeit rudely, the Dracula of Daura is not a man of brittle courage; nor is he easily intimidated or shies away from confrontation and he does not allow mere mortals to meddle in his affairs or come in-between him and his dreams. 

A presidency which he spent nearly all his adult life time seeking and contested for on three previous occasions but failed; before finally winning on the fourth try and somebody named Olusegun Obasanjo said what to make him jump off the cliff. ICHEOKU says but not in this life and not in the life of Olusegun Obasanjo and all the Nigerians who are wishfully thinking that Buhari would just walk away from and say so long to Aso Rock. But who the heck is Olusegun Obasanjo that he would dictate to a sitting president not to seek a reelection, a right which the president is both entitled and qualified to exercise. The same president who Obasanjo once told Nigerians was qualified enough to be president despite having no certificate. The resultant failure not withstanding, but the Ota Deity has no right nor moral authority to mouth off, complaining about the failures of President Muhammadu Buhari. Olusegun Obasanjo is not the custodian or guardian or controller in chief of Nigeria and no one appointed him Aso Rock's official guardsman or policeman, hence he has no right to dictate to anyone as to who has the right to aspire for its occupation. 

A matter made worse because the Ota farmer had no decency to even apologize to Nigerians for misleading them into electing Buhari president when they did. But here he is running around and running his mouth about a Buhari's failed presidency as if he or anyone had expected otherwise or any better; but he went ahead anyway to make it happen due to his hatred for Jonathan. ICHEOKU says if President Muhammadu Buhari is a failure or is running a failed presidency, how about the person who helped establish such a failure and a failed presidency? Any civilized decent person, similarly complicit as Olusegun Obasanjo was in the Buhari's election, should have first apologized to Nigerians for his role in bringing about the Buhari's presidency. Such a person would have also taken some responsibility for the failure to launch which the Muhammadu Buhari's presidency turned out to be. But not Olusegun Obasanjo, not the egotistic, self serving Ota Deity, who sees nothing good in anyone else but himself; a narcissistic fellow, who cannot and has refused to accept that he is the grinch who stole Nigerians' Christmas with the Buhari's presidency. He is also a guilty party in the tragedy that is a Nigeria stalled since 1966. 

But the good news is that Buhari is not Jonathan. Unlike the coward of Otuoke who nearly suffered complete nervous breakdown when Obasanjo fired his missile of "do not seek a reelection" at him, and with great trepidation staggered through his reelection campaign and never fully recovered from the shock and ended up losing the reelection bid, President Buhari is not fazed. He will most likely win his own reelection bid much easier than anyone expected, no matter what is thrown at him in form of curve balls. He is a soldier and once a soldier always a soldier; soldiers do soldier on and so will Buhari. Soldiers also crush everything and anything on their way and so will Buhari. Soldiers have courage and such is not in short supply in Buhari's heart either. Buhari is dogged and Buhari has tenacity, two qualities necessary for electioneering campaign successes and Buhari will succeed in his campaign for reelection, regardless of the hateful Olusegun Obasanjo wishes. 

ICHEOKU says so, despite all the noise in the social media and whether thousands of Olusegun Obasanjo like it or not, President Muhammdu Buhari will win his reelection bid in 2019.  The president has the courage, audacity and resolve to so do and the president will in fact actualize it. This is the reason and after examining all the odds, that he went forth to announce that he is running for reelection in next year's Nigeria's presidential election. ICHEOKU is not particularly a fan of his, but strongly believes that with a very weak opposition and no courageous strong candidate to field against him, Buhari will emerge victorious come election night on February 15, 2019. At the end of the day, it will boil down to certain factors, especially now that Olusegun Obasanjo, a Christian, is spearheading the anti Buhari second term, with calls for him to quit. 

It will become a narrative that Christians are ganging up against Muslim Muhammadu Buhari. It will come down to the wire of the North against the South, the "we and them" factor. But when all is said and done, the North will galvanize together into one voting bloc, because the Sultan of Sokoto Caliphate will direct them to, and fall solidly behind their favorite son, President Muhammad Buhari and vote en bloc to reelect him. At 19 Northern States against 17 Southern States, the balance is already tilted in the North's favor; and regardless of who the opposition decides to field as their own presidential candidate, the North will hold that person with contemptuous suspicion. If the person is a fellow Muslim Northerner, the North will brand him a saboteur and stooge of the Christian South, who will not protect their Northern interest and will ostracize him forever and will not vote for him either. 

The North has a peculiar mindset which is one directional, one objective tinged; and  which is geared solely towards the protection of the North's interest. In President Muhammadu Buhari, the North trusts; and they could not have had a better, sectional, religious and tribal champion than him. So, no matter who the opposition raises from the North to contest the presidency against President Muhammad Buhari in 2019, that person cannot have a better Northern bona fides than President Muhammad Buhari. A certified Fulani Northern president of Nigeria, who has in words, actions and deeds, manifested his abiding loyalty and commitment to the cause of Northern domination of Nigeria beyond any question. So on the issue of who is truly more Northern, President Muhammadu Buhari wins whoever the opposition candidate is handily. 

Further, the power of incumbency is another controlling factor in winning Nigerian elections. First, with the issue of fund raising, no businessman or woman or even bank directors will publicly make a hefty donation to the opposition party or candidate, afraid of the consequences for being shut out by the government from the economic pipeline, with denied licenses and increased EFCC closer scrutiny. It will translate to zero business and zero government patronage of any sort to such a donor and no Nigerian likes to be left in the cold of the power corridors. So Buhari's reelection campaign will out raise the opposition in campaign funding and more money means more leverage. Remember too what Murphy's law said that he who controls the gold, makes the rules; and in Nigeria, the executive president is still the it and access still translates to everything as well. 

Also, all the security agencies of the government from the army to the Navy to the Airforce to the police to the State Security to National Intelligence to Customs as well as Immigration and of course the arbiter of the election INEC, are all at the beck and command of the incumbent president. He appointed their heads who stand a better chance at retaining their plum positions with a reelected President Muhammadu Buhari than taking chances with an incoming new president whose first order of business might be to fire them. These honchos will see themselves as equally having a stake in the outcome of the election, hence the business of electing the president will become their business as well; and they will do whatever it takes to ensure his victory. In Nigeria, all it takes is a few canisters of gas and it is to your tents Oh Israel and every body will Ben Johnson away to lick their wounds. 

Lastly, President Muhammadu Buhari is a man of uncanny courage who has shown the will to survive and is not circumspect about visiting pain and suffering on any disfavored person. He is a fighter and for fighters, winning is everything. Before he declared his intention to seek a reelection, he and his inner advisers must have weighted their options and came to the conclusion that the coast is clear, hence he stepped forward despite the antagonisms including from Olusegun Obasanjo. Now he has to deliver and deliver he will. With 19 States safely tucked in as assured winnable, all he has to do is to win at least 3 out of the 6 Southwestern States; possibly 1 from the Southeast and may be another 1 from the Southsouth States and the deal is done, signed and delivered. All things considered and every indicators working as they should, ICHEOKU emphatically says that President Muhammad Buhari will win a reelection in 2019 and for four more years through 2023, will continuously visit his iniquities on Nigerians who run afoul of his favor. 

ICHEOKU agrees that the sentiments expressed by two artisans, Remi Adeyemi and Abdullahi Ali, somewhat captured the mood of Buhari's voters. According to Remi, "We want him to come back so that he can finish the good work he has started" and Ali added "I like Baba very well. My people will vote for him again because he is not a thief." For most part, the masses still vote most in elections and the masses will vote their hero in 2019; and that is the key to President Muhammad Buhari's reelection victory. So, despite all the noise and distractions, it is more likely than not that the reelection of President Muhammad Buhari is a fait accompli. Yes, some Nigerians may not like him; yes, some may loathe him even to the point bothering on hatred; but Buhari still have some supporters, including those who do not necessarily like him but would vote for him anyways due to some other self preserving reasons, regardless. 

Further, the floundering opposition will provide the president some wind underneath his sail as no serious opposition translates to a much easier win. According to one Anthony Godwin, "With the PDP weak and still discredited, incumbency is still a powerful factor. It would be a huge surprise if Buhari was not the APC's candidate and the candidate to beat in 2019." ICHEOKU completely agrees that the odds of winning a reelection favors the president a great deal and without mincing words, adds that President Muhammadu Buhari will win his reelection in 2019. Although things might not be as rosy as many had expected during his now concluding first term, but there is still some hope that his second time around, without the much distractions of protracted health scares which marked his first term, that he will be in a much better state of mind and of health to try and figure out the way forward for Nigeria in boondoggles. God speed Mr President and to all the other gladiators, who are yet to be unveiled, readying themselves to duel with him for the presidential trophy. But whatever happens, Nigeria 2019 is heavily laden and hopefully will be safely delivered. 

SOUTH KOREAN'S FORMER PRESIDENT PARK SENT TO PRISON.

ICHEOKU says in what appears to be a season of holding former leaders and presidents accountable for crimes committed during their time in office, the people of South Korea has sent their former President Park Geun-hye to 24 years in prison for bribery and other charges. The former president was also ordered to pay $17 million in fines. 

Recall that the now disgraced former president was impeached and ousted from office by South Korean lawmakers in December 2016, following months of massive street protests by the people of South Korea demanding her removal from office for corruption. Thereafter a criminal investigation followed, culminating in a trial which began on May 2017 which was found her guilty on all 16 corruption-related counts, including bribery, coercion and abuse of power, as charged. The former president has now been convicted and sentenced to 24 years in prison, in addition to a $17 million fine. 

It is also on record that Brazil similarly convicted and sent their former President Lula Da Silva to 12 years in prison for official corruption. South Africa also formally indicted their former President Jacob Zuma for corruption as well. ICHEOKU says but when will Nigeria learn to emulate these countries by similarly taking on their also equally corrupt former leaders and presidents, including former President Jonathan Goodluck, Olusegun Obasanjo, Abdulsalam Abubakar and the infamous Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida for their publicly visible evidence of wanton corruption while in office as well as specifically identifiable abuses of office then, which in some form is still continuing till this day. 

It is also worthy of note that none of these countries moved against their former leaders until persuaded by the people of those countries, who moved en-mass and demanded for such criminal examination of their past leaders, using public protests as a weapon of choice. Some of the peoples' mass action forced their leaders out of office, including in South Korea where the parliament had to act to impeach and remove the now imprisoned former President Park from office following an unending street protests. Former Jacob Zuma of South Africa was also similarly forced out of office following unending South African peoples push and demand that he resign his office, which he resisted as long as he could until the ANC waded in and forced him out. Today, he has been indicted for official criminal corruption while in office. 

But in Nigeria and as with Nigerians, they lack both the moral authority and necessary courage needed to mount such a forceful recall effort and/or demand the prosecution of their decrepitude former leaders, whether while in or out of office. That these former leaders, despite overwhelming evidence of their colossal corruption, are walking freely in the country and using their corruptly amassed fortune to destabilize the polity, is indeed mind numbing. But a very strange people who obviously seem impervious to doing right and who corruption seems an acceptable way of life, can only wish to imbibe the spirit of those South Koreans, Brazilians and of late South Africans. 

So until then, all the noise about fighting corruption in Nigeria will remain what it is - a mere hogwash; a wishful whitewash used to witch-hunt any oppositions and people that fall out of favor of the man in Aso Rock. Unfortunately, a Nigerian people who see no deterrent coming from the punishment of previous corrupt leaders, will always continue to engage in corruption, fully aware that enough money, regardless of how it was acquired, purchases power and influence; and with it comes absolute immunity from justice. Pitifully SAD.