SOUTHERN BORDER WALL: DEMOCRATIC LEADERS ARE BEING HELD HOSTAGE.

ICHEOKU says it is finished for the leaders of the Democratic Party Charles Schumer and Nancy Pelosi as they are now being held hostage, maximally boxed in by the enfant-terrible and apparently the new face of the Democratic Party, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She will not allow Chuck and Nancy to bulge or meaningfully negotiate an end to the government shutdown, by authorizing funds for the Southern border Wall. 

Afraid that she will engineer a primary against them, these Democratic Party leaders have become almost nearly as unreasonable as this their far left anarchist colleague by not negotiating an end to the government shutdown; and you wonder how could Nancy Pelosi or Charles Schumer ever lose elections in San Francisco and New York respectively. What happened to their sense of negotiation and why are they beholden to this little rascal freshie Congresswoman from New York; and allowing her to dominate the conversation. Where are their deterrent against such nuisance who is trying to turn the Congress into a kindergartener's playhouse or are they going to just surrender without a fight and capitulate to this wild eyed, crazed out, woman from New York Congressional District 6,  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. 

ICHEOKU says where is the mojo of Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Minority Leader Charles Schumer that the fear of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is now their greatest Achilles heels. How will anything else ever get done in America with such polarization, just because they fear being primary(ed) by Ocasio-Cortez's led group of lunatic leftists. If they don't let President Donald John Trump deliver on his biggest campaign promise, how do they expect the president to ever allow them to deliver on their own campaign promises, since everything will pass through the president's desk for his signature before they can become law. President Barack Obama's signature Obamacare was ramrodded through, but President Donald John Trump's signature Wall is being blocked? It does not make sense and it should be condemned by every American, regardless of party or political ideology and leaning. 

Elections do matter and there are natural consequences flowing from every election, including signature projects campaigned on by candidates, which are always allowed to come to fruition. The Democratic Party is definitely setting a bad precedent by stonewalling on the president's border Wall. Just like the Supreme Court, which they ended its filibuster proof, has now come to bite them, the refusal to negotiate with an elected president over his core campaign issue, will someday be remembered and they will be the one left holding the plate and at the tip of the business end of the spear. ICHEOKU says common sense should prevail and let both parties meet each other half way and end the government shutdown on terms equitable to each side.  The Democratic party's leaders, if indeed they want to live up to their title, should not allow Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to dictate terms to them; afterall they are her leader and many of them have been in the Congress long before Ocasio-Cortez was even conceived. 

By not negotiating, these leaders are showing excessive weakness, deferring to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in this manner. She can only become more emboldened to carry on with her rascality, seeing that it pays, with increased demands for more. She will continue with her nauseating behavior until she finally pushes these leaders aside and personally assumes the mantle of leadership of Democratic Party, both in the Congress as well as the entire United States of America. Ocasio-Cortez is like the shrub in the Little House of Horror movie, which got used to drinking blood that it became addicted to the crimson fluid and made unending demands for it on the shop owner. A cancerous growth is not fed with regular supply of blood; rather it is choked off blood supply to wither away and die. ICHEOKU says if Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is not checkmated right now, the Democratic Party will live to regret their mistake in allowing this impetuous woman, with such childish antics, ruin it all for them all. 

The time to start clipping her wing is now, as tomorrow will only make her grow stronger; and the best way to start is to ignore her threats and sincerely enter into negotiation to reopen the government and for the southern border Wall. It is the right thing to do as American people deserves better and also, a protected and secured Southern border. The president is not saying to completely wall off America southern border; but that areas where constant violations of American immigration laws are carried out be checkmated and to direct all entrants to the legal entry points. ICHEOKU laments that the Democrats, by holding steadfastly to their position, are only encouraging the illegal migration as more immigrants, sensing the division in government, will continue to head up North. The tide of flow will never ebb nor stop; not as long as they have a friend in the Democratic Party who are encouraging this flagrant violation of the United States of America immigration laws.

ICHEOKU calls on Nancy Pelosi and Charles Schumer to end the stalemate now; enough of the theatre of absurdity, a desire to appear and be seen and perceived as being strong. Enter a meaningful honest negotiation to resolve the issue and reopen the government and do it NOW as America and American people are suffering. Think of America's perception by the rest of the world and think about those who have lost their lives in the hands of illegal immigrants; and of course think about the hundreds of thousands who are not being paid and they have bills to pay as well as family to feed. Please check the excessive egos and do it for these, especially for the American people. Get the negotiations to end the government shutdown going immediately and of course authorize the funds for the Southern border Wall. #FUNDTHEWALL.

NANCY PELOSI: WHO IS YOUR DADDY?

ICHEOKU says Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi now knows who is the real boss as her planned 7 days junket around the world of Switzerland, Belgium, Egypt and Afghanistan has been stopped by President Donald John Trump, irked by Nancy's impetuosity. 

She will not authorize $5 billion for the Southern border Wall; she will not negotiate a solution to the immigration crisis; she will not agree to end the government shutdown and she denied the president his scheduled January 29th, 2019 State of the Union address venue. 

ICHEOKU says she started the fight and the president is only finishing it for her; now lets see how everything finally gets resolved. Nancy Pelosi is being held hostage by the farthest left wing of the Democratic Party led by Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and she is deathly afraid of the crazed out New York freshie. Too bad.

NIGERIAN ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2019: ATIKU VISITS AND ICHEOKU RESTS.

ICHEOKU says pledged earlier that the day Abubakar Atiku travels to the United States of America and returns safely back to Nigeria, without being arrested by the FBI, ICHEOKU will back off from pointing the searchlight on him and allow the two Fulani brothers to battle it out in the coming February 16th, 2019 presidential election. What Olusegun Obasanjo started, ICHEOKU was prepared to finish, but circumstances have now intervened to pull the plug. ICHEOKU intends to keep his word as every receptacle person is expected to do and will now honor his commitment to cease and desist from any further Atiku expose`. 

ICHEOKU will not even wait for Atiku to first complete the mission by returning back to Nigeria before performing his own part of the bargain. Therefore ICHEOKU says from today, January 17th, 2019, will no longer criticize Abubakar Atiku; and in fact, barring any major situation-altering development, will completely stay out of the political fray until Election Day, February 16th, 2019, when congratulatory message will be sent to the victorious party. ICHEOKU says has no dog in the fight nor beef with anyone, only that Nigerians make informed decision and vote right. 

Whoever allowed the grotesque display of a town-hall meet, watched globally on January 15th, 2019, which assaulted eyes and insulted intellects, did President Muhammadu Buhari a very big disservice and disfavor. It was so bad that the other politician parties do not need any further campaign advertorials, but to just keep on running the performance on television and radio. The body language was awful; and the heavily labored effort at comprehending issues and rendering "answers" was simply ghoulish. It was literary so embarrassing that it served to push the president off and over the cliff's edge. If the president was dead, the performance dug his grave, lowered him into the earth and covered his corpse with a mound of dirt. 

It was indeed very hard to watch and too pitiful to see. The world cringed, watching  a real life human caricature that was barely hanging in there unto life, so heavily medicated with morphine and steroids that he could pass for a dead man talking. A zombie president, a talking dead and soliloquizing mummified president; and you wonder how functional his neurons still are, talkless of effectively running the affairs of Nigeria. He was incoherent, he was inaudible, he was incomprehensible, he was inarticulate and in fact he was unaware of his sense of self. ICHEOKU says President Muhammadu Buhari, literary does not have a sound mind anymore and should be declared incapacitated by reason of a debilitating sickness which has rendered him vegetated. He was lost in oblivion and was indeed a pitiful spectacle to behold, that whoever was responsible for putting him on television deserves to be fired since yesterday. 

ICHEOKU says the Buhari that was seen on television is definitely not the same Buhari that ran and won election in 2015. While ICHEOKU is not ascribing to the needless distraction of a fantastical Jubril el Sudani, but maintains that the treatment which Buhari received in London did not work. Rather, it messed up with his faculties and turned him into a ghoulish figure, the ghost of his former self. The original Buhari is no more and what remains now is but a ghost of his former self and ghosts belong in the realm and not in Aso Rock. It was indeed bizarre and so unsightly to sore eyes, that even good eyes popped wide open in bewilderment and great unbelief, that this is the apparition who is running the affairs of Nigeria. 

ICHEOKU says gleaned from sources that the living-dead, mechanical display witnessed, which was seen globally, finally forced the issue and made the White House to sign off on the lifeless one and green-lighted the Atiku's visit, by guaranteeing his safe trip. However, this is not to say that Atiku did nothing wrong nor had a pending case, but that the greater good of avoiding a catastrophic humanitarian crisis in Africa's most populous nation weighed heavily in the mind of Washington DC; and they decided on a waiver instead. It was overall, a well considered trade off. 

Anyway, ICHEOKU will not waste any further time on the nitty-gritty of what transpired that preceded Atiku's undisturbed arrival to America, nor will in anyway seek to diminish its significance as a very big boost to Atiku's presidential quest. It is now time to leave what is written on a vehicle and just enter the vehicle, because if you pay attention to how sausages are made, eating sausages might become too difficult to do. The FBI red carpet reception was a serious issue and it dogged every of his step until now that the fog has been lifted and finally dissipated with this visit. It was on the strength of it, because it was true, that ICHEOKU had always said that Atiku will "NEVER" be elected president of Nigeria. This Washington DC visit is definitely another case where "Never say Never" is quite apposite. 

Be that as it may, unlike APC, ICHEOKU keeps his words, as honorable people do or at least expected to do. ICHEOKU's word is his bond. ICHEOKU says watched Rotimi Amaechi's secret video and have also closely followed Buhari's activities since he returned back to Nigeria following his long hospitalization in London; but nothing ever raised more concern and alarmed ICHEOKU so much as his gothic town-hall meet. It definitely served as the last straw to break the resistance and the Washington DC trip capped it off. ICHEOKU says was working on so many articles and had planned them through till the February 16th, but they are now moot; as the effigy, scarecrow, mechanical tin man display was indeed so overwhelming, that it will amount to being unconscionable not to call it out. 

However, this is not ICHEOKU's endorsement of anyone, but that a pledge made be kept. Hopefully, the new promises now being made by the candidates will be kept and that Nigerians will finally find the elusive succor this time around. There was nothing personal with what went down and nobody hired nor paid ICHEOKU for it; just that ICHEOKU wishes motherland the best possible outcome from its legion of challenges, especially its recurring decimal that is ineptitude leadership. Also there is nothing for ICHEOKU to apologize for as conscience and truthfully speaking guided the effort, hence no previously made post will be taken down; as the made pledge was subsequent his visit to America. 

Whatever happens, just be minded that every moment of the banters, although sometimes highly charged and very passionate, were indeed deeply treasured. ICHEOKU could not have wished for anything more and will do it all over again in a heartbeat faced with similar circumstances. On a parting note, please just remember to be guarded, as none of the two Fulani brother's victory is worth your losing your live or limb or even incarceration. Be smart in going about it. ICHEOKU wishes Nigerians a crisis free election 2019 and says may the electorates' verdict prevail IJN. So until Election Day February 16th, 2019, this is ICHEOKU signing off from election campaign 2019. All the best folks. One love.  So long fellas. Salute

ATIKU: THE DEVIL IS A LIAR.

ICHEOKU says decisions made out of desperation is often fatal, because Satan is an opportunist who lays in wait and lurks for your hour of greatest need to strike. It waits for your greatest vulnerability, during which time ANYTHING will suffice. If you are thirsty, it waits until you are completely parched and nearly losing consciousness before he offers you vinegar. If you are hungry, it will first turn you into a Somalian refugee with birds of prey tagging along every foot you put forward, waiting for your carcass to finally give up the ghost and drop, before it offers you a morsel. And remember at such a near death out of body experience junction, it will be strictly on its own terms; just like the Chinese are doing in Africa with their Greek Gift "INVESTMENTS". 

Abubakar Atiku has the mastery of the serpent and made his current gamble based on his calculation that Nigerians are desperately seeking an out from the bonehead in Aso Rock. As a result he made Obasanjo an offer which Obasanjo could not refuse to purchase Obasanjo's severally, previously denied forgiveness. Then he decamped to the PDP and pulled every last stop to purchase their presidential ticket, despite not being so entitled as a returnee grasshopper politician. Now, every one of his investment is paying off as Nigerians have been stupefied by the noise into seemingly forgetting who they are dealing with; but they will be sorry if he successfully hoodwinks them into letting him into Aso Rock. 

Atiku is a calculating, cold bloodied villain, who is cashing in on Nigerians desperation for a change to secure a position which he was severally denied; including in 2007 when Obasanjo bypassed him for Umaru Yar'Adua and again in 2011 when Obasanjo stood on his way in order for Jonathan to win. Like snakes which usually strike in darkness, when the victim is helplessly shortsighted, Abubakar Atiku is about springing on Nigerians, cashing in on their anguish against the other guy in Aso Rock. Atiku is fully aware that but for the despondency of the now, that he does not stand a chance in hell with Nigerian electorates, hence he must strike when Nigerians are forlornly without much option. Atiku is a predatory animal, ready to pounce due to the vulnerability of the prey, Nigerians who are desperately seeking an out from Buhari. 

ICHEOKU says just ask a guy who was forced to marry a girl because he knocked her up; or a woman who had to marry out of desperation of running out her biological clock. A two complete no, no; as marrying out of sympathy or desperation is the surest way to audition for life in real hell or as Andy would put it, "Living in Bondage." But should Nigerians fall prey to Atiku, the cobra? ICHEOKU says does not think so, as the closest hour to dawn is usually the darkest; and the last miles of a marathon are always the hardest to run. Perseverance is the key, admitted Buhari has not been the president any thinking society would have otherwise imposed on themselves; but the Atiku poisonous apple is not an option, because no data or indices support that it will amount to anything of value to Nigerians. 

Other than America, the world economy is bleak and dithering and Nigeria is not an exception and will not be magically transformed, the vacuous promises of "Get Nigeria working again" notwithstanding. Even if Atiku intends to build 1000 refineries, at least it takes a few years to complete them. Even if he wants to build 1000 car manufacturing plants, it will also take a few years to complete them. So, let nobody be deceived that Atiku will overnight pull a magic wand and abracadabra Nigerians problems away. It will not happen and there is no need raising anyone's expectations to a point of suffering rude shock. The unfolding situation calls for curbing one's enthusiasm and taking things in perspective. Like a chic you want to lay, you brainwash her until she spreads; and that is exactly what Atiku is doing to gullible Nigerians, who now think with their stomach and hearts, instead of engaging their cerebral cortex. 

Nothing good or better will ever come out of the Atikumania or Atikulooted whirlwind, because whenever it sounds too good to be true, run to the hills. Atiku is a deceiver and Adam has not recovered from his chic's flirting with the original deceiver in chief, the serpent. Please do not be burnt by Atiku because Atiku will burn you. 

ICHEOKU is just a messenger with a sixth sense and the foreboding is inspired by experience, guided by informed calculus. ICHEOKU prays that Nigerians can persevere for the next four years and punt into something entirely new, different, promising and in short exhilarating. But this Atiku thing is neither the way forward nor the answer to the Nigeria question. If the bait is bitten, it will hurt so badly that Nigerians would wish that three Buharis had remained in office instead. 1 Kings 12:11 is very instructive. May God help us all reason the situation better and remember, NO PAIN, NO GAIN. Salute.

OBASANJO: A VILE AND EVIL NARCISSISTIC MEGALOMANIAC WHO HATES NIGERIANS.

ICHEOKU says for far too long have Nigerians been crying about bad governance, but for the same far too long have they refused to do what is necessary to enthrone good governance. They want to Make Nigeria Great, but lack the fire in their belly to get it done. They will not choose leaders who still dream big dreams and who share in their common aspiration. Leaders, who are highly motivated; driven individuals who can put their skin in the game and re-engineer a new Nigeria. A Nigeria, which is both functional and fair; and which works for everyone. A Nigeria, where every Nigerian can feel at home, as co-equal stakeholders in the Nigeria project.

Each time an opportunity for a reboot and reset of direction of the country presents itself and for Nigerians to indeed take their country back as real influencers in how their affairs are managed, they always saunter and flounder. They watch helplessly as the same group of degenerates, many of who belong in the cemeteries and nursing/convalescing homes, who kept them shackled down, hogtied in a servile bondage, hijack the presented opportunity and continue to maintain their stranglehold over them. As a result, they make choices of leaders under the influence of this absurdity, suggestive of a people who are not deeply troubled nor unbearably discomforted by their situation and desperately wants out. 

Just ask yourself, if Nigerians really want a change in the direction of their country, why then do they always revert to the same demented person/s, who led them into their dire situation. Short of being afflicted with the battered person's syndrome, which makes people perpetually attracted to their abusers, nothing else makes sense nor justifies Nigerians, always choosing the type of leaders which they choose. Why go back to the same swamp of old and tired leaders, to dredge up one of them, believing that such a cosmetic change is good enough. A sure definition of insanity, doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. 

As a result, election never produces any leadership of value, hence nothing ever changes as the same bunch of heartless goons are recycled. It thus becomes impossible to install a functional government which can correct the ills afflicting the society, which has kept Nigeria stunted, mediocre and underachieving. Their decision, regrettably, is not usually out of their free volition, but largely influenced by tombs-raiding goblins who are nearing their graves and who have no real interest in passing a functioning Nigeria to their successors. Why Nigerians listen to these voices of perdition which put them in their dire strait is beyond any rational comprehension.

For instance, why should Nigerians listen to Obasanjo for guidance and direction going into the Election 2019, when they are still suffering the consequences of their having listened to him during the last Election 2015. Any thinking society would have reviewed his previous guidance and weighed its beneficial impact on them against the backdrop of his latest attempt at intervening in their political process and advised themselves more appropriately. This imperative would have required Nigerians to say, "Wait a minute, if this man knew what he is talking about, why is it that he got it so wrong the last time?" 

But for Obasanjo, there will be no Buhari in Aso Rock today for Nigerians to worry about his removal. So, why do Nigerians still accord any political relevance to a man who assessed Buhari as being "Educated enough to be president" and also still holds such a man  highly as an expert, good character reader and/or judge of presidential candidates, when Buhari turned out hopelessly this way. 

Obasanjo has led Nigerians astray for far too long and continuing till this day. He has also perfected his joy-riding of Nigerians so much that he now does it so effortlessly, that some numbskull Nigerians are buying into this his latest ''Project Make Atiku President 2019", a sure testament to their vulnerability. How any sane person could be pushing for the presidency of a man who is so flawed in character as Abubakar Atiku is indeed simply unimaginable. But it is Obasanjo and with him, anything that profits him is good business, regardless of its reprehensibility. 

ICHEOKU says if there is one person who could be held responsible for all the woes of Nigerians, it is Olusegun Obasanjo. Yes, you heard ICHEOKU right, Olusegun Obasanjo is the Grinch who permanently stole Nigerians' Christmas. Just review the stewardship of Olusegun Obasanjo since 1975 when he first came to power following the assassination of Muritala Mohammed and you will agree with ICHEOKU that everything that ever went wrong with Nigeria had Obasanjo's signature to it. They were either his direct order/act or are somewhat traceable to him, both as a leader and/or a statesman. 

A matter made worse because Obasanjo pretends to be a Christian but does not live by the Christian ethos nor behaves in a Christ-like manner. ICHEOKU says Lucifer must have made a deputy for himself but failed or forgot or in fact deliberately refused to warn Nigerians where he sent him. It is also self evident that Obasanjo does not read the Bible either, and if he does, suffered a similar fate as in Acts 8:30, otherwise he would not have been oblivious of Matthew 7:9-10 and would have advised his actions more appropriately. 

A very sanctimonious Pharisee of our time, who deliberately chose to ignore his previous warnings about Atiku and now wants to delude himself that Nigerians did not hear him then or are too imbecilic to remember. Obasanjo is probably capitalizing on Nigerians' notorious penchant for forgetfulness, their fabled amnesia, in now painting an entirely different picture of the same man who he once warned Nigerians to stay away from. 

Query, if you are an employer and a surety tells you not to hire a potential employee  because he is a thief and based on the reference, you did not hire the thief job seeker. If subsequently, another position opens up in your business and the same surety now asks you to hire the same previously unemployable thief job seeker, what will you do? How would you react or won't you at least, for due diligence, want to find out from the surety what changed with the former unemployable thief, who suddenly is now no longer a thief and employable. Why would you now rely and act on the words of the same surety, who previously counseled against employing the job seeker, but is now urging you to risk it all. 

Needless to add that Obasanjo's "do or die" presidency was the bloodiest ever recorded in the annals of Nigeria's history of blood letting by the State. Obasanjo hurt more Nigerians than any other leader, past or present and possibly even future, if not the totality of them put together. So, why do Nigerians still allow Obasanjo to remain their guiding compass or does Obasanjo have a hypnotic spell on Nigerians which interferes with their rational thought process? Are Nigerians too confounded and attention-span deficient, not to remember what happened in their recent past, that such a deviant is still allowed to drive the political football in Nigeria leading up to the February 16th, 2019 election, after his past 2015 action which ushered Buhari into power. 

That Nigerians are still looking up to this man for direction and guidance, in matters involving their collective destiny, is in fact the greatest scandal in the life of Nigerians. How can Nigerians still seek directions from Obasanjo when his previous direction led then into the cul-de-sac of despondency in which they are currently mired, lost and confused.  

If Obasanjo led Nigerians for about 12 years officially, and for another 30 years unofficially, of his constantly meddling and directing other leaders on how to lead Nigeria, and Nigeria is still in a parlous state, doesn't common sense dictate that it is about time Nigerians did some serious introspection and moved away from Obasanjo. Shouldn't a thinking society, since taken stock and assessed how well they have fared following Obasanjo and then find a different way out of the woods in which Obasanjo led them into. 

Why would a society that wants to thrive not move away from a man whose dictates thus far, had not improved their lot and look for a completely new director of their affairs, going forward. If Nigeria is still so stagnated as to elicit the unflattering moniker, a "shithole" country, where then is Obasanjo's continuing relevance in the affairs of Nigeria; or better still, why is Obasanjo not taking full responsibility or being held accountable for running Nigeria aground

When has failure become something to celebrate by a society, admitted the Nigerian society is a very peculiar one, judging by the criminality and mediocrity which they usually honor and celebrate; including incompetent creeps which they frequently put forward as their leaders. ICHEOKU says will like to know what earned Obasanjo the right to determine who rules Nigeria or is Nigeria now Obasanjo's private estate and an entity within his Ota Farms Holding PLC. If only Chinua Achebe was not right and Nigeria is indeed a country, especially one which holds her transgressors accountable for their misdeeds, ICHEOKU is confident that Obasanjo would have since died a rotten prisoner of the State. 

Why do Nigerians always reward their traducers instead of holding them accountable; and are once again in the cusp of rewarding yet another one of them, with the presidency of the country, just because Obasanjo said so. Although, it will NEVER happen, but the fact that such an idea is even being entertained by some Nigerians, is by itself, dishearteningly idiotic. Yet, tomorrow, they will turn around to complain that the country is being run down and that things are not moving in the right direction. Yet they keep on electing mediocrities as leaders and in a country so richly blessed with so many first class materials, who know what needs to be done in order to turn the fortunes of the country around and for the better. 

The most disheartening thing about the current Obasanjo's manipulative antics is that he was the person who gave Nigerians the man presently in Aso Rock, who he now wants removed and replaced. It was just 46 months ago that Obasanjo told Nigerians that "Buhari was educated enough to be be president", despite knowing to the contrary. So, what changed, Nigerians? ICHEOKU says would not have had any qualms about replacing any non performing president, except that the man who Obasanjo wants to replace Buhari, is just another Buhari with a different name, if not a worse version Buhari 3.0. 

If Obasanjo meant well with his desire to replace an incompetent, non performing, old, illiterate, Fulani president, why in the world did Obasanjo settle for yet another old, illiterate, Fulani candidate, who has no records to run on or to show as evidence of his competence and ability to perform. Why did Obasanjo not chose any of the overachieving, youthful, highly energetic, well educated and obviously supremely qualified candidates including Kingsley Moghalu, Oby Ezekwesili, Gbenga Hashim, Donald Duke, Hamisu Santuraki or even Obadiah Mailafia, the candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), which Obasanjo's Coalition of Nigeria Movement (CNM) adopted for the Election 2019? 

Any of this candidate is miles ahead in both competence and qualification than the two leading Fulani candidates. But no, Obasanjo would rather replace an unqualified and incompetent slow-man, with an also unqualified and incompetent thief-man; just because as far as Obasanjo is concerned, only either of them is good enough for Nigeria.

How can a supposed "PhD" defend this decision to support a man, who he previously called a thief and described as not fit for any office in Nigeria. What logic, no matter how flawed, could back up such unmitigated disaster of a decision. ICHEOKU says not even the then strongman of Ibadan, Lamidi Ariyibi Adedibu, would have condescended this so low.  

How can Olusegun Obasanjo single-handily forgive Abubakar Atiku of all his sins, administer an absolution on him, rehabilitate him and now tell Nigerians to elect him president? How can Obasanjo tell Nigerians to hand over the keys to their commonwealth to such a publicly named and shamed thief of State. How can Obasanjo look Nigerians in the eyes and defend this his illogical and irreconcilable decision to support Abubakar Atiku's campaign for the presidency of Nigeria, his earlier statements against Atiku considered?

But just for the sake of advancing the argument and given that forgiveness is divine, how is it Obasanjo's prerogative to forgive Atiku for stealing money which does not belong to Obasanjo, but to the people of Nigeria. Why did Obasanjo arrogate to himself the preeminent owner of Nigeria who knows what is good for Nigerians, that he should preside over the forgiveness of Atiku's thieving-sins, without first consulting with Nigerians. Why should it be Obasanjo's place to forgave Atiku and not the people of Nigeria, whose money Atiku stole? 

It is the height of impetuous disdain for Obasanjo to ask Nigerians to accept his forgiveness of Atiku and adopt it as theirs by voting for his now "forgiven" thief for president. Where was Atiku's penitence and penance; and was the money which Atiku stole from Nigerians returned in atonement for his thieving-sins, as any truly repentant and contrite transgressor is expected and required to do. What in fact purchased Obasanjo's absolution of Atiku? 

How can Obasanjo accuse Atiku of being a thief and turn around to say that he has forgiven Atiku and wants Nigerians to now vote for the same former thief-Atiku, but without first telling Nigerians what happened to the money which the thief-Atiku stole. Obasanjo even went further to write a book, MY WATCH, where he referred to Abubakar Atiku as the worst crook Nigeria has ever produced and the worst misfortune which ever befell Nigeria and that Nigeria was cursed to have produced Atiku. Yet, he now wants the same man to be president. ICHEOKU says regrettably, something is not adding up here. 

How can this cyborg be manipulating Nigerians in this manner and so effortlessly? Why are Nigerians not demanding that Obasanjo explain to them what made him to swallow his vomit and forced his u-turn on Atiku. If Atiku was such a good person and worthy of the honor of being a trusted custodian of Nigeria's treasury, why did Obasanjo not hand power over to him in 2007. Instead, Obasanjo chose Umaru Yar'Adua and after him, Goodluck Jonathan; all in an effort to prevent Atiku from ever nearing Nigeria's treasury. So what suddenly changed now, Nigerians? Please put on your thinking hats before it is too late.

Obasanjo is an elder, whose words should mean something and not be so easily trivialized. Obasanjo's conscience should not be dictated and driven by circumstances; and he should mean what he say and say what he means. If Obasasjo called Atiku a thief and mimeographed it in a book, MY WATCH, why then does anybody still think that Atiku is not a thief? If Atiku is not a thief, why has he not sued Obasanjo for slander and defamation, or forced Obasanjo to retract and recant the statement and apologize to him for besmirching his character and permanently damaging his reputation. A damage so bad, that generations yet unborn will someday read "MY WATCH" to learn that Nigeria once had a Vice President named Abubakar Atiku, who is a thief and who had the shameless audacity to even seek the presidency of the country. 

Where is the logic in the juxtaposition that in one breath, a man is a thief and in another whiff, the same thief miraculously morphed into a saintly monk, sworn to oath of poverty and can now be entrusted with the country's finances. Nigerians, please tell Obasanjo that you are smarter than he gives you credit for, because people do not change, at least not at such an advanced old age as Atiku. Nigerians similarly thought that Buhari had changed when they voted for him in 2015, only to later find out how far they had miscalculated. Why suffer the same misjudgment twice? It is not wise and it does not bode well for a society seeking redemption from its past too many disastrous mistakes. 

A matter made worse because Obasanjo did not tell Nigerians what necessary safeguards he will put in place to prevent Atiku's kleptomaniac instincts and uncontrollable impulses towards Nigeria's resources. Who will keep an eye on Atiku to make sure that he does not loot Nigeria into bankruptcy or worse still, auction the country off to the Chinese, in a deal of perpetual indebtedness and eventual hostile takeover of the country. Who will watch the watchman. Why are Nigerians listening to Obasanjo without first asking themselves what made Obasanjo to make a sudden u-turn about a man he previously characterized as a thief and not good for Nigeria.     

ICHEOKU says Aremu Matthew Kikiola Olusegun Obasanjo is the worst thing that ever happened to Nigeria since the hellish 1904 amalgamation of Nigeria. Whatever Obasanjo touched always ended in a disastrous tale of woes and Obasanjo created the rudderless Nigeria that is adrift and continuously threatening to capsize. 

Obasanjo also introduced the macabre Bar Beach show were hastily condemned individuals were tied at the stake and shot to death, cheered on by a crowd which did not know any better about the sanctity of human lives. 

ICHEOKU says but for tainted Viagra poisoning of Abacha, the Obasanjo nuisance would have since been abated. A man who refused to appreciate God's merciful hand in his life, who stubbornly remained an impertinent and unrepentant resident evil of Nigeria. It was the same Obasanjo, who, instead of being on the right side of history, joined forces with the enemies of Nigeria to scuttle the election of MKO Abiola president of Nigeria. Obasanjo  was heard in South Africa saying that Abiola was not the Messiah who Nigerians were expecting and therefore aborting his presidency was not a big deal. Yet this is the guy Nigerians are heeding his counsel?

Just take a look at the many blood letting and agony which Obasanjo midwifed in Nigeria:- the genocidal civil war which claimed nearly 5 million Biafrans' lives; the failed military coup of Colonel Buka Suka Dimka which triggered reprisal massacre of hundreds of Middle Belt top military officers; Odi Bayelsa massacre in which thousands were murdered; Zaki Ibiam Benue State massacre with thousands dead; thousands of Bakassi Nigerians who Obasanjo banished from their rightful country of origin and against their will into Cameroon; another 20,000 Nigerians who perished in a bomb explosion at an Army base in Ikeja. 

Attorney General and Minister of Justice of Nigeria Bola Ige and so many other prominent and un-prominent Nigerians were also collateral damage of his misrule, victims of the State under Obasanjo's watch. Then add the then frequently occurring plane "crashes" which claimed hundreds of Nigerian lives and which many people, including Babangida, suspected was another means of taking out personal enemies of Obasanjo and his government, which suddenly ended with his leaving office, which somewhat sustains the suspicion of his complicity and culpability in the murder by plane crashes. 

The tragedy of the situation in Nigeria today is that Nigerians seem to have forgotten who bequeathed them with the Dracula of Daura. They are angry at the man in Aso Rock, but not angry at the man or rather men, Obasanjo and Atiku, who facilitated Buhari's ascension to power in 2015. How can any Nigerian be mad at President Muhammadu Buhari for accepting a presidency which was handed over to him and it was not as if he staged a coup, like in 1983, and forcibly seized power. He was voted into power. But for Obasanjo and Atiku's sabotage of Jonathan's reelection bid, President Muhammadu Buhari would not be anywhere near Aso Rock today. Yet Nigerians are trying to reward this two evil men who gave them Buhari and who technically, are responsible for the dire situation in the country today, where Nigerians found themselves weeping and gnashing their teeth.

What will it take to finally awaken the consciousness of Nigerians to see the evil incarnate that is Obasanjo, the man who destroyed their collective destiny. Even Matthew 7:9-11 is very instructive that Obasanjo does not mean well for Nigerians, otherwise why would it be Abubakar Atiku that Obasanjo is championing his presidential candidacy. How can any decent person, especially one who parades himself as a leader, be advocating for a man who he repeatedly called a thief and swore an oath that it is over his dead body that Atiku will be elected president. Recall his fabled "I DEY LAUGH O" remark.  

ICHEOKU says there is something inherently wrong with Obasanjo and the odious mindset which finds his repulsive antics worthy. Were Nigeria a decent society, Obasanjo would have since been held accountable for his crimes against humanity, of the people who call Nigeria home. There is nothing good about a man of a very advanced old age, still fermenting trouble in Nigeria and threatening to take Nigeria down with him to his grave. 

As a president, Obasanjo never tolerated any opposition and hounded all of them into the grave or to a graveyard silence. Obasanjo also rigged every election conducted during his presidency, that even a beneficiary of one of such rigging, Umaru Yar'Adua, had to apologize to Nigerians for the election rigging that brought him into Aso Rock. But look who is now running around the real estate of Nigeria and hollering like a rhesus monkey about Armageddon should President Muhammadu Buhari win a reelection. Obasanjo is lucky that ICHEOKU is not in occupation of Aso Rock, otherwise what Abacha started with him would have since been completed and the heavens will not fall. What a pitiful sociopath and psychopath who once accused Jonathan of importing snipers to kill 1000 Nigerians and is again at his game of manipulating Nigerians and they are paying him  attention?

Indeed a psychiatric evaluation of Obasanjo would be in order, because not even Hannibal Lectern was this brazenly callous. ICHEOKU maintains that Olusegun Obasanjo is a despicable degenerate, who does not deserve his epicurean perch within the Nigerian society and should therefore be shunned and avoided like a leper. But are Nigerians even listening, otherwise which loving father, according to Matthew 7:10, will give his son a scorpion just because he asked for a fish. If Nigerians are tired of Buhari, why must it be Atiku that Obasanjo considers the only good enough choice for his replacement. Nigerians, please reject Obasanjo and his thief-Atiku, as their 1999 to 2007 draconian governance is still too fresh in the memory, to pretend it never happened. For the good of Nigeria, please ignore Obasanjo and SAY NO TO ATIKU because Atiku is NOT GOOD FOR NIGERIA. 

WALLS WORK: LETS HELP PRESIDENT TRUMP FINISH THE WALL.

 

ICHEOKU says Team MAGA must be united and objectively directed; as what the other side is trying to do is to divide the rock solid coalition. No more infighting since the objective is the same, to build the WALL. However, now that building the Wall has started, lets help President Donald John Trump, FINISH THE WALL. #MAGA.

BORDER WALL IS IMMORAL - NANCY PELOSI.

ICHEOKU says if border WALL to protect Americans is immoral, why then are Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer mansions fenced-in-around with ten foot walls? Are they saying that their lives, which their own fence (border) WALL is protecting, is more important than that of millions of other Americans, whose lives have been compromised and in many cases, even lost, as a result of lack of border fence? ICHEOKU says, like Black Lives Matter, American Peoples Lives also Matter. So Chuck and Nancy, FUND THAT WALL and do it NOW! #FUNDTHEWALL. 

THE BEZOS CALL IT QUITS: AMAZON'S SOON TO BE COSTLIEST DIVORCE.

"We want to make people aware of a development in our lives. As our family and close friends know, after a long period of loving exploration and trial separation, we have decided to divorce and continue our shared lives as friends. We feel incredibly lucky to have found each other and deeply grateful for every one of the years we have been married to each other. 

If we had known we would separate after 25 years, we would do it all again. We've had such a great life together as a married couple, and we also see wonderful futures ahead, as parents, friends, partners in ventures and projects, and as individuals pursuing ventures and adventures. Though the labels might be different, we remain a family, and we remain cherished friends." - Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos, soon to be former Mr and Mrs Bezos. 

ICHEOKU says with those words the world's richest couple have notified the world of their decision to part ways and regain their unmarried single status. But after 25 years and both seemingly happy, blessed with fruits of the womb and the groin, as well as more money and fame than billions of earthlings, the question remains what went wrong or did they just got tired of being married or seen as husband and wife and decided to part ways. 

Anyway, ICHEOKU wishes them all the best as they have the right to decide as they have decided; and hopefully whatever monkey it was that threw the wrench in their union will now give them a break to live their lives separately and as they see fit. A quarter of a century is one heck of a long time to be married to somebody and only now to want out. The only other people that will be making out like bandits from this divorce of world's richest couple will be their divorce lawyers; but since it seems to be an amicable decision, possibly the same lawyer/s will draw up their divorce settlement agreement and in that way only one lawyer's fees will have to be paid. Goodluck Jeff and Kenzie

ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ: NOT AS EMPTY AS BEING PORTRAYED.

ICHEOKU says her CBS 60 Minutes interview was indeed refreshingly assuring. A true breath of fresh air and she sounded in every bit very intelligent and in command of the issues. Her background also affirms that American Dream is still realistically possible, provided you are ready to throw your skin in the game to get it done. 

ICHEOKU says was particularly impressed listening to her, watching her body language and of course her choice of words and effective command of the language, were also noticeable. ICHEOKU’s verdict, is that Americans have not heard the last of the freshman Congresswoman from New York, who said it is always risky to try something new and ICHEOKU definitely agrees with her. 

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the Democratic Party’s equivalent of Republican Party’s President Donald John Trump, both are new; both are outsiders; both are idealistic and both are insurgent candidates. ICHEOKU says she now has a follower in ICHEOKU. Congratulations AOC. Salute

THE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN STAYS..

ICHEOKU says the Democratic Party is acting as if election no longer has consequences or that they in fact won the election of November 8, 2016. President Donald John Trump won that election and one of the reasons he won was his promise to build the Southern border WALL with Mexico. The American people who voted for the president wants that border Wall built and the president must be allowed to fulfill his promise to the American people. 

The Congress must therefore, as a matter of necessity, provide the president with the funds he needs to build that Wall. If the Democratic Party does not like the Wall, they can campaign on "Tear that Wall" mantra and if they win, based on that come 2024, and wants to take bulldozers to the Wall, they should be free to also do that and necessary fund should be provided them to execute the task. 

Therefore, until the $5.3 billion or acceptable equivalent amount is authorized for the president to build that Wall, the government shutdown should remain in place and let its opening be part of the negotiating cards for the funds. Enough of the Democrats acting and behaving as if the Election of November 6th, 2016 never took place or that President Donald John Trump did not win that election. Enough also of the Democratic Party's base being the deciding factor in what goes on in America; how about the Republican Party's base, especially the Trump Nation, Team MAGA. The Congress must authorize the funds now or the government shutdown remains in effect indefinitely.

RASHIDA TLAIB - A FOUL MOUTH CONGRESSWOMAN FROM MICHIGAN.

ICHEOKU says would have, like Speaker Nancy Pelosi, excused it by claiming that ICHEOKU is "not in the censorship business"; but only if it was an unintentional, accidental discharge faux passe, which fell out of nowhere and under the passionate moment it was uttered. But for the Congresswoman from Michigan, instead of excusing her language or even apologized for it as unintended heat of passion event made to her enthusiastic supporters, to now double down as "#UnapologeticallyMe", blows the whole thing out of the ballpark and into the arena of conflict. 

Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib from the State of Michigan, a Palestine American, definitely crossed the line when she was afforded the opportunity to make a mea culpa, but instead, decided to throw every acceptable decency to the dogs. Yet, she is a Congresswoman of the United States of American Congress. ICHEOKU says in fact, by refusing to apologize for this foul language, Representative Tlaib has maximally diminished herself and the standing of the Congress. A matter made worse because Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her Democratic Party's leadership of the House of Representative, being deathly afraid of the crackheads wing of the 161st Congress, and thus lacking the guts, has refused and failed to demand that the Congresswoman from the State of Michigan maintain the decorum and respectability expected of Congressional delegation and apologize for the MF bomb which she dropped. 

By refusing to admonish Rashida Tlaib and demand that she apologize for what she said, and if she refuses, have her suspended from the Congress to maintain discipline, suggests an adoption of Ms Tlaib's action not to see the damage which she caused to the Congress as a foul mouthed Islamic woman from Michigan, member of Congress. By her obstinate refusal to understand the ramification of her action, the Congresswoman has exposed the Congress, Palestine-Americans, her Congressional district, the State of Michigan, as well as American Muslims to odium and ridicule, as an uncultured lot, who can do whatever the heck they desire, regardless of the decorum expected from them. She merely added to the stereotype and should not hold anyone responsible, if tomorrow, some people hold people with her bio-data with suspicion; as she has nothing to prove to anyone by being too stupid to appreciate her mistake. It is not necessarily about the president, but that an adult, a mother, especially one who is now a member of the United States Congress, should not use such a foul language. 

ICHEOKU says when President Donald John Trump sometime last year or two, said that "Today's Democratic Party has been hijacked and held hostage by left wing haters, angry mobs, deep State radicals, establishment cronies and Fake News allies", little did anyone knew then that one of them will be elected a member of the Congress. ICHEOKU says how any person with such uncouth radicalism and a mother for that matter, could sneak through the vetting process by the Democratic Party, shows that the president is indeed blessed with prophetic vision. There is no way in hell to excuse the utterance by Michigan State Congressional Representative Rashida Tlaib, both as an adult, a wife or single mother, a novelty and a mother of children. If she is this foul-mouthed in public, imagine what she is like behind closed doors and the environment in which her children are being raised. If she has a husband, imagine the type of sissy girlie man that would put up with such a crazed out, wild eyed feminist knucklehead. 

ICHEOKU says does not know anything about this woman, her background inclusive; but she has forever diminished her standing among her peers, the people of Michigan State, her Congressional district, the people of Palestine, Muslims all over the world and in short America in general; as she will forever be known as the foul-mouthed radical Congresswoman from Michigan, who used a foul language and defended its use as appropriate. How can any person, especially one representing thousands of others, not see the damage caused when she said the following:- "And when your son looks at you and says, ‘Mama, look, you won. Bullies don’t win,’ and I said, ‘Baby, they don’t,’ because we’re going to go in there and we’re going to impeach the motherfucker.” And she was narrating what she told her son, suggesting that foul language is acceptable in her home and this is who the State of Michigan sent to Washington DC to represent them? 

ICHEOKU says there is nothing like "speaking truth to power" in using repulsive foul language, especially one with sexual connotation to it. What truth to power was she speaking and to who? She wasn't addressing the president nor anyone higher in authority, but her son, and you wonder who in authority she was supposedly speaking truth to. How can calling the president a motherfucker be truthfully speaking in any way, shape or form. 

The worst scandal arising out of this is that this Congresswoman is oblivious of the damage which she has caused to herself; and then add the other scandal which is the leadership of the Democratic Party's failure to vociferously demand that the Congresswoman apologize or even retract her utterance as unbecoming of a member of Congress. There is no way to explain out the faux passe other than that Rashida Tlaib is a Congresswoman with street creed, who has sunk to the lowest level in the 116th Congress, such that every other Congress member, male or female, has now risen above her and she will permanently remain a rock bottom dweller of the Congress, throughout her congressional adventure or rather misadventure to Washington DC. She and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York will now be fighting for the headlines and with such distraction, their respective districts will suffer, holding the plate without much being placed thereon throughout their sojourn in Washington DC. 

Look at the beautiful and well mannered Somalian-American Muslim Congresswoman from Minnesota, IIhan Omar; and how beautifully she disarms everyone with her beautiful smile. Now, her landmark achievement American dream of being a refuge some 20 years ago to now a member of Congress, will somewhat become eclipsed and sidelined by this disgusting misbehavior of her fellow Muslim Congresswoman, Palestine-American Rashida Tlaib, a crazed out radical from Michigan. It is sad indeed and it is sadder that Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her Democratic leadership is trying to sweep the matter under the rug as a no big deal; or as with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, trying to establish a moral equivalency with an utterance made by the president way back and before the president ever thought of becoming a politician, talkless of president. 

It is indeed regrettable and pitiful; and posterity will not judge Representative Rashida Tlaib Kindly; nor will it forgive her and the condoners of her "motherfucker" utterance. Could you imagine if it is the president that uttered such foul language and how the Democratic Party and their Fake News allies would sit on the story until the president apologized for it. But no, it is one of their own creeps and it is either okay, acceptable or excusable. Imagine it is this type of fringed people that the Democratic Party has now pawned away their party to and finds good enough to be elected into offices. Imagine the decadence into which the party would sink within the next few years if this trend continues; such that one day a Stormy Daniel might be nominated their presidential candidate with a Tony Wiener as her vice presidential candidate running mate. ICHEOKU says, America, we have a problem and it is the left wing nut jobs that have hijacked the Democratic Party. What a sad commentary. 

FEMI KAYODE: A PUNK WHO IS SUFFERING FROM EPILEPSY

ICHEOKU says has anyone noticed how Femi Fani Olukayode only develops balls in matters outside the Yoruba Southwest but seems to chicken out whenever it appertains to the people within the Yoruba race or nation. He is deathly afraid to criticize anybody from Yorubaland but pretentiously grows steely balls when his victim is from Igboland or any other place outside Yoruba land. First he kissed and told on two Igbo ladies, Bianca Onoh-Ojukwu and Ms Adaobi Kate Uchegbu. Second, he criticized Lauretta Onochie for serving in a government when he served in two other governments himself; and now, his latest diatribe is on Father Mbaka. Meanwhile this loud mouth has never told Nigerians the many Yoruba girls who he slept with nor has he ever mouthed off against Obasanjo or Tinubu or even the governor of his home State of Osun. 

This Yoruba leper has never criticizes Enoch Adeboe whose pastor is President Muhammadu Buhari's Vice President and the man who alongside the Dracula of Daura is visiting Nigerians with the iniquities of their forebears to the present fourth generation. But suddenly, Father Mbaka saw a different vision and here comes the loudmouth pouring invectives on the clergyman for simply exercising his right to think differently. ICHEOKU queries, if Femi Fani Kayode could not criticize Enoch Adeboye for being part of Team Buhari and for propping up that government, what then gives him the right and impetus to trade tackles with Father Mbaka who has not taking any steps nor done anything significantly to sustain Buhari is office. 

ICHEOKU says the only thing that makes sense is that the lout is still suffering from the curse which was placed on his father for being a traitor to Yoruba people. His father Fani Power sabotaged Awolowo and the Yoruba people have not forgiven his family til date. This is the reason Femi is trading very cautiously in Yorubaland in order not to provoke their wrath and ire. He is struggling desperately to prove his bona fides to them and hopefully earn some brownie points for them to grant him fully pardon and absolution for his father's perfidy, by pretending to be a strong Yoruba warrior only against other tribes in Nigeria, including Ndigbo. 

ICHEOKU says it is about time this punk is called out for who he truly is - just a loud mouth, who is addicted to smoking week and snorting cocaine, which according to Adaobi, are "what he uses to function normally every day." Femi is also a known domestic violent person, who abuses his women and companions. Adaobi also said that Femi Fani Kayode suffers from bouts of epileptic seizures which he uses heavy medication to keep under some control. Further, she informed that Femi is a heavy womanizer who cavorts with  underage teenage girls, yet very pretentious when calling out some Northern underage predators. 

ICHEOKU says Femi Fani Kayode should not be allowed, especially by Ndigbo, to continue milking them for front page news and until he metes out the same condemnation to his Yoruba kind, he should be seen for who he is, just another one of them and treated similarly in kind. An eye for an eye and a punch on the nose for a punch on the nose henceforth. How dare he condemn Father Mbaka, but looks the other way at Enoch Adeboye, who actually put Buhari into office and continues to sustain him till this day. ENOUGH of the Femi Kayode's selective righteous indignity nuisance. Salute

NANCY PELOSI: BECOMES MADAM SPEAKER FOR THE SECOND TIME.

ICHEOKU says congratulations and hopefully the crazy leftists can finally rest now that they have taken back one of the three government chambers. But whether her party's far left crazies will allow her to work with the president in the interest of the American people will only be known with time. But hey, we shall see how everything works out; but the Democratic Party must realize that just like their Nancy Pelosi took back the gavel,  that election has consequences. 

The people of America elected President Donald John Trump primarily for his promise to build the Southern border wall and therefore she must allow the president to keep his campaign promise to the people who elected him president. If in 2020 the Democrats run on "Demolish The Wall" and wins, then they should also have the prerogative to take bulldozers to the Southern Wall and find money to so do. But this idea of the Democrats, especially their noisy and very vociferous activist farthest left, to think that they can bull their way into stopping or denying funding for the wall is the height of unmerited arrogance. 

ICHEOKU says Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi, FUND THAT WALL and do it now! Once again, congratulations on your second time around and lets hope the country can work again. 

PRESIDENT SHEHU SHAGARI: DEAD AT 93

ICHEOKU say the former president of Nigeria during the second republic between 1978 to 1983, Alhaji Shehu Shagari, has died. Shehu Shagari died of old age related infirmities following a brief illness. He was 93 years old. Shehu Shagari was meekness exemplified and had a heart of gold that granted amnesty to both Yakubu Gowon and Odimegwu Ojukwu, the two protagonists of the Biafran Civil war, admitted Gowon's case was for participating in the failed coup that ousted Muritala Mohammed. ICHEOKU says may his gentle soul now rest. Adieu Shagari.

PRESIDENT TRUMP VISITS TROOPS IN IRAQ

ICHEOKU says hopefully the visit will now quieten down all those naysayers who have been crying wolf that the president has never visited troops stationed overseas since his presidency; as they will now look for something else to be mad and angry about at the president. ICHEOKu says congratulations to President Donald John Trump and First Lady Melania Trump for finding time to visit with our fighting men and women at the Iraqi front. May God keep them safe and also our troops. Happy Yuletide season everyone. 

AMERICA'S NEVER ENDING GLOBAL WARS: A SOLUTION EXISTS.

ICHEOKU says the only reason America is constantly fighting wars and acting as a police man of the world is the American military industrial complex, their profiteering honchos and the pervasive mentality among the elites that it is other peoples children and relatives who are fighting, being killed and maimed in these mostly needless and endless wars. As is always the case, when somebody is not paying a levy, he or she usually does not mind nor care if the levy is unaffordable or outrageously so high, provided they are not required to pay it. This is the reason so many people, particularly those in the Congress, support engaging America in unending wars throughout the world and in every part of world, no matter how remote it is; regardless of how inconsequential it might be to the security interests and needs of the United States of America. 

ICHEOKU says it is about time, these wars, which are depleting America's resources, both monetary and human, ended; or at least be brought within reasonable affordability. America cannot continue to assume everybody's and every country's security responsibility, especially when it the American tax payers that are usually called upon to bear the brunt of paying for these wars. It is becoming unbearably too expensive and it is about time it ended; or at least those countries whose security interests and needs, necessitate those wars, are made to pay for them. If that means American military becoming a mercenary soldiers that go to fight other countries wars, so be it; but America should henceforth start choosing its wars more sensibly and as is strictly restricted to the security needs of the country. That America is always going to save these countries makes those countries not to invest in their own military and security needs, aware that  American military will always rush in to save them.

It is therefore disheartening to see the outrageous outcry by some people in the Washington DC power circle, following President Donald John Trump's latest order pulling American troops out of Syria; and you ask yourself what is behind this outcry. The answer is simple, these people who are shouting holy macro have neither their sons and daughters or relatives in the military, who are fighting, being killed and being maimed and whose families are left lonely and without them during holidays and festivities such as the Yuletide season. They are observing the holidays with their own families, while the military families are alone, separated and perpetually worrying about the safety of their wards in the front line. Some of these perpetual wars apologists are also beholden to the military industrial complex, with military contractors lobbying them without ceasing for their military contracts to keep on coming, regardless of the dire hardships which military families face, the loss of lives, life altering injuries and financial resources involved in these world wide military adventurism. 

A solution however exists and ICHEOKU strongly believes one that will be the magic silver bullet that will finally solve all these needless and unending global war, which America has somewhat made its past time. Every son and daughter born to any American parents should be required to do at least four years of service in the military, compulsorily and without any exception or waiver whatsoever; except on dire medical or proven sickness grounds, which will render such a person incapable of serving the fatherland. ICHEOKU says you can call it bring back the draft if you like, but it is about time America reinstated the compulsory military service and force every parent in America to put their skin in the game that is defending America; and watch this incessant needless wars come to an end. Other peoples children are being killed and being maimed; and families are in constant grieving, while many others have since broken apart, victims of the constant separation of families; while the beneficiaries of these wars are smiling to the banks and building nests for their own privileged sons and daughters and generations yet unborn, from their profiteering from all these wars. 

It is about time this skewed Americanism ended and every American should be made to equally contribute in the defense and security needs of America. Military service in America should be made a one cap fits all affair, and let every American share in the burden, pain, agony and joy that necessarily comes with serving in the military. That way, every American will be better placed to have a real and actual perspective of what is  involved in prosecuting wars. This will enable them appreciate the need to only order the military into wars when a real need arises and exists; and not just because there is money to be made and that war lobbyists want to make more money or that their lobbying foreign countries want their security need to be met. American military should only be deployed to protect America's interest and nothing more. Therefore, ICHEOKU supports the withdrawal of the American troops from Syria and urges more of such withdrawals, including from Afghanistan and other places where their presence is not necessarily needed. Enough of these endless, needless wars. as the cost in human lives and to the American treasury is increasingly becoming exorbitantly, too prohibitive.