APOSTLE SULEIMAN: JOINS THE CLUB OF PRIVATE PLANE OWNER PASTORS.

ICHEOKU says Apostle Johnson Suleiman, the General Overseer of Omega Fire Ministries has joined other mega rich pastor-prenuers of Nigeria, including David Oyedepo, Enoch Adeboye, Sam Adeyemi and Ayo Oritsejafor, in the private plane club of Nigerian men of "God' who are living large and against the teachings of our Lord and Master Jesus Christ. Instead of feeding their flock, they are the ones being fat fed by their flock, many of who are hungry and angry that their own "miracle" of riches has not yet manifested despite so many years of fasting and praying, paying tithes, making contributions and donations to their General Overseer. 

Jesus gave the wedding guests in Cana wine to drink; Jesus fed the multitudes with five loaves of bread and two fishes; Jesus brought a lot of fishes into Peter's net; even the donkey Jesus rode into Jerusalem with was borrowed, as he had nothing to his name whatsoever. But here are men, who supposedly are following in the footsteps of Jesus, but instead of denying themselves for the benefit of their flock, are excessively indulging their earthly bodies so much as to suggest that the race for heaven is not for them. It is rather unfortunate that while thousands of their members cannot afford to eat nice meals, pay their children's school fees without great discomfort, pay their hospital bills, with many of them jobless youths, it is worldly treasures that they soak themselves in. 

Imagine the thousands of jobs and empowerment, the cost of maintaining this life of luxury would have created in a country where millions of youths, including thousand of their members, are wallowing in joblessness and abject poverty. Imagine the world class hospital which such money would have built and equipped in Nigeria, an additional  revenue source and a panacea to the shameful medical tourism of affluent Nigerians led by President Muhammadu Buhari. Imagine the number of cottage industries which the money could also have set up for Nigerian unemployed youths to have something to do. But no, they want it all for themselves, while they continuously promise their yawning members that their own turn is coming. 

ICHEOKU says blames only those who freely give to their GOs as prompted by their own version of "Holy Spirit", admitted many of these people, without knowing it, are under hypnotic influence and occult voodoo command and control. They are captive of powers beyond their reckoning and have become oblivious of the primary reason there is Christianity, the race for heaven. Now, it is all about Mammon and Beelzebub  the prince of darkness, that one will go to "church" seeking riches an despite the warnings spelt out by the Lord and Master Jesus, including the camel passing through the eye of the needle parable, enunciating the difficulty for a rich man or woman to enter the Kingdom of God. ICHEOKU says does it mean that these people have decided that the Kingdom of Earth is better for them or do they only pontificate Jesus Christ without meaning it. 

Just one other thing, remember that anything which thrives in Nigeria is not usually clear and free of dubiousness. It seems that the Nigerian government has banned committing 419 against Oyibo people, but looks the other way as her citizens are constantly being 419ed by these fraudulent con-men masquerading as men of "God"; and you ask them, who actually anointed them, was it Samuel and whether they are from the tribe of Levi. ICHEOKU says unless the teachings of Jesus Christ is not real or there is no heaven and hell, all these fraudulent 419 supposed men of "God" are all headed to the pit of hell where they will burn and gnash their teeth, because when Jesus was hungry they did not provide him food to eat; was in prison they did not visit him; was naked they did not cloth him, because they were busy living it up. 

It is SAD and it is pitiful, the level of decay in the Nigerian society, considering that the proliferation of these business centers which are passing off as "churches' are proportional to the level of criminality in the society; and you wonder why all their teachings are not having positive ameliorative impact on the society. ICHEOKU says if ICHEOKU had his way, most of them will be taxed out of existence or out rightly banned; alongside any other religion that is not orthodoxy, including Shiites Islam. 

SIRI LANKA BOMBINGS: WAS THE GOVERNMENT COMPLICIT?

ICHEOKU says that a government would receive intelligence report ten days prior, that some Islamists fundamentalists were planning to bomb churches and not act on it or at least inform churches to be vigilant, is the crux of the entire church bombings in Siri Lanka on Easter Sunday. Like they say to follow the money, a forensic follow up on this single evidence will unearth the conspiracy that went into successfully detonating eight bombs, which yielded such mass casualties of 300 dead and 500 wounded. It is sad, especially for a government that in 2008 bombed a Christian convent, showing that it is a government somehow at war with Christianity. It is SAD and it is lamentable regrettable.

UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION; ZELENSKY DEFEATS POROSHENKO.

ICHEOKU says and he is only 41 years old, a political newbie who has never held any political office in his life, but defeated an incumbent somewhat troublesome president, who has been creating needless worries between Ukraine and their brother neighbor Russia. 

It is also instructive that the outgoing President Petro Poroshenko colluded with the campaign of Queen Crooked Hillary Clinton to defeat then candidate Donald John Trump and has had a frosty relationship with the White House ever since. That he is also antagonistic to President Vladimir Putin did not help matters as his Ukrainian people decided to offload him rather than continue on the path that could trigger a real armed confrontation with the much stronger Russia army. 

Now, a made for television face comedian, Volodymyr Zelensky, has been elected as president of Ukraine. Hopefully, he can charm both Putin and Trump back into seeing Ukraine for what it is - a stuck in the middle friend to the West and also a brother to Russia and with it, restore peace and normalcy to Eastern Ukraine and also negotiate the lasting fate of Crimea. 

ICHEOKU wishes the newly elected boyish faced president of Ukraine all the best and observes that he looks very much like former British Prime Minister David Cameron. At 41 years old, he is now the youngest world leader as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, at 47 years, is much older. What a transition he had from playing a president on the screen to now the real thing; a real president, in a real presidential mansion, with its real challenges, powers and authority. All the best President Volodymyr Zelensky. Congratulations.

OPIOID'S CRISIS IS REAL: AIDED BY MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS.

ICHEOKU says one of the many forces amassed against President Donald John Trump is the opioid and other illicit drug distributors network. They are increasingly getting restless, feeling threatened by the president's unyielding effort to end the ongoing mass murdering of Americans, using pills as their weapon of choice. Since the president came to power, he has been relentlessly bullish in fighting this scourge and these criminal elements are equally not folding their hands; but are pushing back, hiding under whatever guise they could find and manufacture, to maintain their turf and stranglehold on Americans. 

The bad doctors and pharmacists as well as other licensed medical professionals, who are making millions by reason of their involvement in the business, the big Pharma who are making billions by manufacturing the pills and the distributors who are making billions by trucking them to the desolate regions of America heartland where despondency have forced more people into opioid, are all complicit in the illegality. Therefore, they all must be confronted together in order to make a dent in the business and peradventure fight it to a conclusive end.

ICHEOKU says barring a concerted effort to decisively combat these various people who are involved in the illegal drug poisoning of Americans, more and more Americans will continue to fall victims to their poison and thousands will continue to be marched off to their early graves. All because some unscrupulous people, wearing white coats, wants to make millions, of somewhat blood money, killing Americans by dispensing poison to some very fragile Americans in need of succor. ICHEOKU says condemns this poisoning of Americans through illicit drugging, in its totality and urge the government to step up its current effort and do more by severely punishing all those who make unseen profits from killing Americans. They are enemies of America; they hate America and they want America to go down in flames of drug addiction, hence their involvement in the illicit drug trade that kills thousands of Americans. 

Therefore, the Department of Justice was right when it said that those medical professionals who behave like drug dealers will be treated like real drug dealers. In their own words, "when medical professionals behave like drug dealers, the Department Of Justice is going to treat them like drug dealers"; to which ICHEOKU adds please speed up the process. A charge which the DOJ made while announcing the biggest bust of these criminally minded medical professionals, following a four months investigation which  unearthed the biggest opioid prescriptions and distributions network of doctors, pharmacists and nurse practitioners. Medical professionals who were engaged in the dirty business of illicit drug distribution and of course killing of helpless of Americans, who had sought refuge in their knowledge about pain and mental stability treatment and management; but they turned around and took advantage of them for financial gains.

ICHEOKU says how thousands of Americans will be dying as a result of a willful act by a few bad actors, greedy people masquerading as medical professionals, who want to make quick money and contrary to their Hippocratic Oath not to take lives, is simply beyond ICHEOKU's comprehension. Doctors, physicians and pharmacists as well as nurse practitioners engaging in fast buck prescriptions racket, writing and dispensing cocktails of pills, running into several millions, to America's most vulnerable, is simply acts of an enemy and they should be treated as who they are, people who do not mean well for America and hates Americans. How can a dentist for instance be engaged in unnecessarily pulling of teeth which are not bad just for the opportunity to make extra money by writing prescription for opioid? 

How can anyone accept such a brazen malpractice, which is solely fueled by greed, and allow such criminals to walk freely in America. Indeed they are the enemies within and if ICHEOKU had his way, they will in addition to other offenses,  be charged with homicides for all those Americans who died as a result of drug overdoses, resulting from their prescriptions. These racketeers are not good people; they are criminals and criminals do not deserve pity nor sympathy, period.

To them, Americans, especially the addicts are just a means for them to amass fortune and they could care less if thousands of them are killed while they smile to the bank. A misuse and abuse which was accurately described as 'an insidious epidemic ravaging America' with the Appalachian region as its ground zero, with the poorest State in the Union, West Virginia, being the hardest hit and Ohio State coming a close second. From available data, more than 218,000 Americans have died from opioid drug overdoses since 1999. Imagine, just 60 medical personnel, including 31 doctors, 7 pharmacists, 8 nurse practitioners and 7 other licensed medical professionals including dentists, orthopedic surgeons, podiatrists, some of who own and operate clinics, writing 350,000 prescriptions, dispensing 32 million opioid pills including Oxycodone, methadone and morphine to 28,000 patients, all within just a space of few years.

ICHEOKU says these drug dealers need to be punished severely, if the tide of opioid which is ravaging America stands a chance of ever being contained. A problem which has been appositely described as the "public health and safety crisis of our time." ICHEOKU completely agrees that more needs to be done, to target these rogue medical professionals who are aiding and abetting drug addiction in America through their prescriptions from hell. They are no longer medical professionals, but white coat wearing drug dealers, who breached their professional responsibility to their patients by prescribing killer drugs and should be treated with the same degree of revulsion as street gang drug peddlers and their overlord drug dealers. What a shame to the once revered medical profession which saves lives; but these criminal elements amongst them are now taking lives instead. 

THE TROIKA OF TYRANNY - JOHN BOLTON.

ICHEOKU says what a sea change that America has gone, from the axis of evil to now the troika of tyranny and you wonder what comes next. It was then President George W. Bush who coined the acronym Axis of Evil, naming Iraq, Iran and North Korea as its members; and ten years later, President Donald John Trump has named Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba as the troika of tyranny. 

ICHEOKU says what made this three country specifically qualified or are their offenses bigger than whose? How about China, Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Myanmar and definitely some countries in Africa where human rights violations are frequent occurrence; and journalists freedom are heavily constrained, with many opponents locked up in prisons without trial. 

But hey, it is international politics and those who pay to play usually have their offenses forgiven and the eyes of the watchman turned away from ever seeing their own infra-digs. But the little guys, especially those who do not bring anything of value to the dinner table, are often made examples out of, with their butts regularly kicked around. Like a piñata, they are frequently beaten purple blue, just for others to see what could become their fate if they fall out of line; and to some others, as an entertainment. What a joke.

PERUVIAN ALAN GARCIA: WAS HE TROUBLED OR WAS HE CORNERED?

ICHEOKU says what would make a man, a former president, take his own life for fear of and in order to avoid a criminal prosecution. Former President Alan Garcia of Peru, facing imminent arrest and prosecution for corruption turned a gun on his head and in a matter of seconds, ended his sojourn on this earth. 

ICHEOKU says why did he do it, when there were so many other ways he could have reacted to the arrest and several options he could have also exploited going forward. He could have called on the better side of his Peruvian people to accept that he did not do what he was being accused of doing and trusting the criminal justice system of Peru, proceeded to trial to defend himself. If found guilty, then appeal for a State's pardon or bravely do his time; but he chose differently. 

Whether it was a case of "I didn't do it" or "I didn't want to face consequences for my action" by the former president, nobody will now ever know as the former Peruvian President Alan Garcia has taken that information, which would have been unearthed at his trial, with him to his grave. It is either he was a troubled man who was too weak hearted to face justice and took the easy way out; or he was too ashamed to face his family and country men and women as the criminal justice system of Peru took its course, with him on the conveyor belt as a corrupt former public official. 

Regardless, these are now mere speculations, as the former president decided to do it his own way and he is now gone forever, and the rest are but speculations and Monday night quarterbacking. Adieu Presidente Alan Garcia.

TIGER WOODS: WHAT A MAGICAL COMEBACK.

ICHEOKU says exactly what a come back kid really looks like. Wins his 5th Masters. Congratulations TW.

NOTRE DAME FIRE: HAS GOD DEPARTED FROM FRANCE?

ICHEOKU says it is incredible but true that a church does not ordinarily catch fire and get destroyed so easily, except it is an act of God; an angry God who, tired of the iniquities of the people, who have forsaken him, decided to just walk away and leave the people  to their own devices. The symbolism of the fire occurring in the holiest week in Christendom, the Holy Week leading up to Easter, is also very significant and should not be lost on anyone. So, did Parisians annoy God that God couldn't take it anymore; tired of the people who no longer worship him and who have abandoned the church as now a mere historical relic, only fit for the tourists feet, as non believers and other religions have now taken over France or at least threatening to do so. 

It was a sorry sight indeed watching the 900 year old architectural masterpiece, a pure work of art, dedicated as a place of worship and in honor of the Almighty God, by people who lived many centuries ago, burn; turning into cinders the Gothic architectural pieces that evidenced the craftsmanship and dexterity of the people of the ancient civilization who meticulously assembled the pieces together; a kind of mastery work which is not seen nor so easily replicated today. It was painful, especially at the helplessness and lack of a magical wand to just wish the fire to quench immediately and before wrecking the havoc witnessed. It is also regrettable that there was no Fire Brigade station within the Island vicinity of the church that it took longer to get to the fire from across the narrow bridges leading into the island location of the church.

Our Lady of Paris Cathedral in Paris was one of a kind, a bequeath from the past to the present by many generations long ago gone. A resplendent work of art that still marvels many today, on how those who walked the land of France nine centuries ago were able to  pull it off. A work that took 200 years to complete and which has survived so many tribulations, including two world wars; only to be submitted by a magical fire whose origin is yet to be determined. The world watched in awe as its iconic tower surrendered to the licking flames and tumbled over, collapsing down in a pile of ashy residue, in a manner so closely resembling America's 9/11 Twin Towers, except that nobody knows if it was an act of Islamic arson terrorism; at least not yet. Hopefully the fire investigators will get to the root cause of the fire and reassure the world, especially those who call Paris home, that they are not once again under the hammer of radical Islamists terrorism. 

ICHEOKU says would rather it was an accident or even an act of God; as the Islamist terrorism angle will be such a hard nut to swallow, especially after the Bataclan Nightclub massacre and Charlie Hebdo shooting, as Paris cannot continuously be submitted by these anarchists.  Also the Yellow Jackets could not have possibly pulled this off and if they did, they deserve to be treated as terrorists and banned from any further protests on the streets of France; and if they do, they should be summarily put down. No decent human being would and should tolerate any deliberate act that ruined the beautiful Cathedral in Paris, reputed to house the very Crown of Thorns which our Lord Jesus wore on the Calvary as well as a piece of the exact Cross on which he was crucified. The only way everybody will move on, assuming there will be anything like actually moving on from the fire, is for it to be an accidental fire and at worse, an act of God, period.

ICHEOKU says some critics are pointing fingers on the inadequate fire fighting tools of the Fire Brigade of Paris which they say exacerbated the destruction, arguing that had the fire been aggressively attacked at its infancy, it would have been contained without wrecking the havoc recorded. They said that the Fire ladder was not long enough to reach vital points during the combat and that their hoses were also not strong enough to pull enough water to combat the fire; leaving people wondering if France has seen its best days behind it and is now just simply trudging on. ICHEOKU says will wait the investigation to be completed before joining issues with this school of thought, either for or against.

What a tragedy of a monumental proportion that a 900 year old edifice was erased in a blaze. A Gothic work of wonder from the medieval era gone with the fire. ICHEOKU says regardless of how closely it is rebuilt, it can never be the same as the hands that original put the masterpiece together are nine centuries old and gone forever, their touch permanently erased from the work. Whatever is rebuilt will but be an imitation of the original, a knockoff of some sort; and nothing compares nor beats an original. It was a generational loss; a connection with the ancient gone forever; a chain of connectivity with the past and the present permanently broken. What would the great Kings of France, who envisioned and put the cathedral together in honor and glory of God; as well as the thousands of artisans who labored to mission accomplish the dream say or do, watching their labor go up in flames. The Hunchback of Notre Dame also must be grieving, watching the edifice that provided it a hiding abode and solace from the public preying eyes destroyed. It is SAD. ICHEOKU says Parisians, take heart. 

ATIKU ABUBAKAR: NOT NIGERIAN ENOUGH TO BE PRESIDENT.

ICHEOKU says there is a reason there are rules guiding any society, most times mimeographed in a document called the Constitution. Laws are also made pursuant to such enshrined stipulations, either to tweak it to make it better or improve and update some Sections of it that are no longer germane to the dictates of present day life of the society, as well as other society's developmental needs. 

So, until such a document is amended through a Constitutional Reform or parts of it are interpreted as being repugnant, no longer attainable or efficacious; and discarded by a court of competent jurisdiction, the document in its entirety still remains the operating law of the land and citizens and non citizen residents alike, of the country, are bound by it. 

It is the reference point of everything that goes on in the country and every person is expected to abide by its provisions; thus leading to the question and the reason for this opinion, who is a BORN IN NIGERIA citizen for the purpose of being president. By extension, does somebody who was born in a territory or province which was not an integral part of Nigeria as at the time of his birth automatically become a BORN IN NIGERIA citizen by reason of a territorial assimilation? In essence, what is the nature of the citizenship of Atiku Abubakar that impacts his eligibility or otherwise to be president. 

ICHEOKU says to answer this question, the court, which is the only authority to conclusively resolve the issue, must first determine what is meant by BORN IN NIGERIA. Thereafter, they will also weigh in on whether anyone not born in Nigeria can migrate his birth status from NOT BORN IN NIGERIA to BORN IN NIGERIA, simply because the place or territory where he was born later became part of Nigeria. If the then Northern Cameroonian  Adamawa Highlands was administered separately from Nigeria before the plebiscite, how then is it Nigeria? By the same token, if you became a member of an existing club or fraternity or any other social or professional association long after it was formed, is it safe to assume that you are a foundational member therein? 

ICHEOKU says has read a lot of opinions about the nature and type of Atiku Abubakar's citizenship, both those for and those against him; but many of them were tailored according to their perception and/or political biases. To these fellows, ICHEOKU says to please understand that Atiku's citizenship of Nigeria is not in question here or in anyway doubtful. Atiku Abubakar is by all account a bona fide citizen of Nigeria and nobody can take or wish that consequential fact away from him. As a result, he is entitled to all rights and privileges accruing to any Nigerian citizen just as anyone else, except as may be specifically limited by the Constitution in certain specifically mentioned aspects, such as is contained in Section 131(a) of the Constitution. But Atiku Abubakar's citizenship of Nigeria is not the issue here; rather it is the nature of his citizenship, and whether someone parading his type of citizenship is eligible to be president. 

This is somewhat a settled law, as is codified in Section 131(a) of the Constitution, which  clearly stated that ONLY BORN IN NIGERIA citizens of Nigeria are qualified to be president of Nigeria. It is the law and the only way to get around the law is to change it, period. The delineation is specifically limited to the office of president and no other, not even the Vice Presidency. So, to those who are arguing that since Atiku Abubakar rose to the rank of a director in the Customs, was elected governor of a State and was also once a Vice President, that automatically qualifies him for president, ICHEOKU says to please have a second read of the extant provision of the Constitution under review. It's application is exclusively to the office of the president and nothing else. 

Therefore, Atiku Abubakar, as a bona fide citizen of Nigeria is supremely entitled and as of right, to attain any level in the Civil Service, run for any office in the land, be a governor and even be made a Vice President without portfolio, but the said Section 131(a) of the Nigerian Constitution precludes him from being president, because he did not acquire his citizenship of Nigeria through birth. Atiku Abubakar was not born in Nigeria but subsequently became a Nigeria because his people voted to join Nigeria. ICHEOKU read how Atiku tried to explain the migration pattern of his forebears from Sokoto to Adamawa; but that alone does not cure his NOT BORN IN NIGERIA status, because the Fulani are nomads and their settlement is their home. His grandparents made that choice to migrate to Cameroon and so Cameroon was their home until their part of Cameroon voted to join Nigeria. 

Recall that Fulani people are not indigenous to Nigeria but all migrated from Futa Djallon Senegal/Gambia to all the places in Africa where they settled. It is also pertinent to note that Atiku Abubakar did not mention the thousands of indigenous Adamawans who his forebears wiped out and displaced; but that will be reserved for another time's discussion. It is also interesting to hear Atiku Abubakar call his grandfather and father "learned"; yet his supposedly "learned" father did not allow him to equally become "learned"; rather he considered Western education as dangerous, a definite precursor to the present day Boko Haram and you wonder who is advising this fella and writing his speeches. 

Atiku also narrated how his father drowned in a shallow river but failed to say if he was drunk when he waded into the river; and also mentioned how the same man he said was a successful businessman could not afford to pay his bail amount when he was arrested. Anyway, Olusegun Obasanjo in his book " MY WATCH" similarly alluded to Atiku Abubakar's questionable pedigree; begging the question, does Atiku Abubakar even know who gave birth to him? 

Although the question of Atiku's citizenship status has never been contested nor previously adjudicated on, but the court cannot seat over a dispute which has not been brought before it; otherwise he would have been earlier disqualified from even running for the presidency and long before this time. ICHEOKU says such an excluding provision is somewhat universal amongst countries, inserted in their Constitutions to protect and safeguard their countries from being hijacked by mercenary presidents; from citizens of other constructs who may not have enough skin in the game to be as patriotic as BORN IN THE COUNTRY CITIZENS, who have no other country they can run back to or assertively call their own.

Recall that during the Goodluck Jonathan's enabled National Conference, that the present traditional ruler of Adamawa Highlands Emirate, Emir Muhammadu Barkindo Aliyu Musdafa, Atiku Abubakar's ruler and who Atiku is his seconding command, threatened to move with his people back to Cameroon should Nigeria fall apart as a result of lack of consensus on how to continuously live together as one united Nigeria. Such a divided loyalty, no matter how improbable or unlikely it might seem, is what such Section 131(a) seeks to guard against because when stuff hits the ceiling, where would such a technically "foreign" president pitch his tent of loyalty. 

For instance, were Cameroonian gendarmes to attack Nigeria through the Adamawa Highlands flank and Atiku Abubakar was president, will a "President" Atiku Abubakar send forces to crush the attackers alongside the resulting collateral damage, comprised of his kindred who are still on the other side of the Adamawa Highlands which is still in Cameroon. Also, do not forget that the Lamido Adamawa Emirate Kingdom stretches into Cameroon and that some of his subjects are still Cameroonians. But unfortunately, some Nigerians are not looking at the issue dispassionately, rather through their biased jaundiced spectacles and are arriving at their discordant tunes; otherwise the issue is specific enough and quite measured. 

Anyway, the provision of eligibility was inserted in the Constitution because the framers of the Constitution were cognizant that there are different categories of citizenship and wanted to preclude some categories from being president. The United States of America has a similar provision in their Constitution as well, which prevents somebody like Arnold Schwarzenegger from ever becoming president; admitted his children can; just like Atiku Abubakar's own children can become president of Nigeria, but definitely not Atiku himself. It might seem somewhat discriminatory, unfair and unjust; but until it is changed, it remains the law of the land. Anybody who does not like it or has an issue with its seemingly harsh outcome, should move for a Constitutional Reform in order to change it. But until then, Atiku, although a bona fide citizen of Nigeria, remains disqualified for the office of the president, by reason of his not meeting the threshold of the BORN IN NIGERIA requirement of Section 131(a) of the Constitution. 

ICHEOKU says unless the court liberally interprets the provision and somehow makes  accommodates for an Atiku Abubakar exception, he stands on a quick sand in his pursuit of the holy grail of a lost "mandate", because he lacks the needed fundamental qualification to even contest for the office in the first place. He was born in Adamawa Highlands Cameroon long before the territory changed hands and became part of Nigeria, hence lacks the BORN IN NIGERIA citizenship stature. Nigeria was constituted in 1914 and as at that time, Adamawa Highlands was part of Cameroon and remained so until the 1961 plebiscite which made them Nigeria. 

Atiku Abubakar was born before the plebiscite and automatically failed the test of a BORN IN NIGERIA citizen and not eligible for president. The law of the land said that ONLY BORN IN NIGERIA citizens shall be president; the law might seem too harsh, but laws are not supposed to be a Mr Nice Guy or fair nor just. It also does not entertain or admit pity party; the reason Lady Justice is a black-widow, always dressed in black and also wears a blindfold. She is a mean MF who does not give a damn nor care a hoot about causing anyone any hurt feelings. Killing people is not fair, but it regularly condemns people to death, so it is not a big deal if Atiku Abubakar is disqualified from the presidency by reason of his not being born in Nigeria because he was NOT BORN IN NIGERIA. 

NETANYAHU WINS AGAIN: CONGRATULATIONS BIBI.

ICHEOKU says in an election battle between two Benjamins, the one with last name Netanyahu, led his Likud Party to victory over the other Benjamin, an insurgent challenger, whose last name is Gantz and his Blue and White Party. By this victory, Bibi has now won the premiership of Israel for the fifth time; thus permanently engraving his name in the annals of history of the Jewish State of Israel as the most elected Prime Minister of Israel. ICHEOKU says congratulations Bibi for handing another defeat to the leftist liberals of this world, who are growing increasingly restive and more insane than insanity ever contemplated. 

From one end of the world to the other, these anarchists are maniacally possessed in their bid to alter and upset the natural order of things in this world; and wants to re-engineer the world in their own image of absurdity. A maniacal bunch who instead of conform to the natural order of things in the world, wants to noisily compel obedience to their devious plan of foisting on everyone a disordered world. A world completely turned upside down on its head, where abnormality replaces normalcy, where weirdness replaces regularity and where strange replaces familiar. A world, where women have sex with women, where men marry men, where children are randomly aborted and murdered in a legalized infanticide just because pregnancy is an inconvenience discomfort, where morality is displaced by immorality and of course, where masculinity is completely neutered for being toxic. 

But good enough, there are still more normal people in the world than the idiocy that fuels this imbecilic wishful do-over and remake of the world as we know it. It Is this silent majority of conscionable people who rallied around to anchor the victory of a man who is a great patriot of the Jewish people and whose love for Jewishness is unflappably, strong  and gargantuan. It was a well fought election campaign in which both parties and candidates acquitted themselves very well and should be proud of what they were able to mission accomplish. 

Again the biased media, purveyors of fake news, reared its ugly lying head in the election, took side with their usual liberal lefties and tried but failed to influence the eventual outcome of the election and their scheme to push Bibi out of office. It was delightful indeed that their demonic plague did not afflict Israelis in the election and if it did, they took the right antidote and were fully inoculated before stepping into the voting booths. ICHEOKU says congratulations to the still sane people of this world, who use their heads instead of falter because of the dictates of their heart. A head over heart situation, where logical thinking trumps emotional sentiments, to understand that Benjamin Netanyahu is as Jewish as it can get; and will always do what is best for the Jewish State of Israel and will protect Israel, fully aware that the security of Israel is unconditionally non negotiable.

In his acceptance and declaration of victory speech, Bibi said:- "This will be a right-wing government, but I intend to be the prime minister of all of Israel's citizens, right and left, Jews and non-Jews alike. Immense feats were achieved by us, it's not always published. But the public is smart, the public knows this. I thank all of you from the bottom of my heart, the people of Israel, for being the pillar of support of my life." ICHEOKU says is completely satisfied with the election and wishes Bibi and his State of Israel well and more successes going forward. Shalom. 

NIELSEN KIRSTJEN: SECRETARY FOR HOMELAND SECURITY FIRED!

ICHEOKU says has always known that it was above her league to mission accomplish on the assigned task by President Donald John Trump to police the Southern border and bring to a halt the unmitigated disaster that is uncontrolled illegal immigration that is threatening to swarm America and drown out America's way of life. Simply put, she couldn't do it and all the repeated delays in her firing just to enable her prove otherwise, eventually came to nought and she was finally let go. Good riddance.

She may be a good wonderful person and could be assigned to other department, but definitely was not a right fit nor acquitted herself well as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security; which has since proved was above her pay grade and too weighty a payload for her young shoulders to carry. She may have done her best, but her best was not good enough in resolving her assigned task of the intractable problem at the Southern border. Therefore, her office let another, who could, take; as the president continues in his effort to find a permanent solution to the madness that the Southern border has become. 

Even the annual migration of wildebeests at Moro River Kenya is nothing compared to the monstrosity that is being experienced with the uncontrollable illegal immigration at the Southern border. At least, with Moro River wildebeest crossings, the crocodiles and lions do somewhat police immigration by making a feast of all those unthinking animals, which do not seem to get it and continuously made it across the river. What is going on at the Southern border is akin to living in a house with windows and doors and instead of your visitors coming through the front door, they elect to jump into your house through the window. Such violative act amounts to burglary and an unlawful entry, and could attract a gunshot wound from some occupiers of such homes. Some countries in the world are also known to shoot violators of their border space. 

Nobody is asking to end immigration, but that intending immigrants come through the proper entry channels and not commit crimes of unlawful entry while entering the country. Funny enough too, the leaders of those countries whose citizens make these illegal journeys up North are not even ashamed of themselves; and could care less about the problem which their incompetence is creating at the Southern border. If only they ran good economies in their own countries and employed these their people, there wont be any such problem at the Southern border. But their crass incompetence begot gross mismanagement and outlandish corruption, led to their citizens fleeing in droves and seeking salvation elsewhere and however possible. 

Also, it would appear that the leaders of these countries have been disincentivized from finding solutions to their countries citizen's economic and security woes, since the option of freely migrating to America still exists, thus passing their citizens problems over to America, while they are busily enjoying themselves. Not good. Alternatively, those countries creating this problem at the Southern border should surrender their sovereignty to America and become territories of the United States of America, so that America can send in administrators to govern them and help reposition them. 

So, while the effort at solving the Southern border problem goes on, the proven inability of the now fired Secretary of Homeland Security to satisfactorily do her job considered, her ouster from the administration is a welcome development. ICHEOKU wishes Kirstjen Michele Nielsen well and all the best in whatever capacity she eventually ends up serving, if that becomes an option; otherwise in her life outside the administration. It was a good riddance and hopefully the next guy or gal will be more business like in doing the job that needs to be done, effectively policing the Southern border without an unnecessary emotional and sentimental attachment. 

Those women and children who create all the emotional upheaval at the Southern border are not American women and children. They were impregnated by foreigners and gave birth to foreign babies and therefore should not be forced upon American taxpayers as additional problem. America has millions of their own women and children who also need help and who could definitely use all the help now being denied them and given to those foreign women and children at the Southern border. 

Charity should begin from home; so it is about time America reprioritizes the issues and look inward with a view to taking care of the homeland first. Enough of the misguided sympathy, especially from some folks who aborts American babies or who refuse to get pregnant and have American babies because having babies according to their warped thinking is no longer cool, but pretend to love other people's foreign babies. How about America First? Let America first take care of the millions of babies and women in America who are Americans, before seeking to help other foreign women and babies or is that too much to ask for.

BOLA TINUBU: WILL NEVER BE PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA.

ICHEOKU says like the other abhorable, despicable and detestable fella before him, Obafemi Awolowo, the new effant terrible of Yoruba land, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, will never be president of Nigeria, as is presently constituted. It will not happen and it will never happen; not in 2023 and not any time thereafter, as long as Nigeria remains as it is, one united Nigeria. This absolutism is not amenable to the case of "never say never", because it will not happen. As long as Nigeria still remains one country, with all other components parts of it still in it, Bola Tinubu will never become president of the country, all his clandestine stealthy maneuvers notwithstanding. 

Bola Tinubu has damaged his reputation so much that he will end up only as a Yoruba regional lord of manor, whose area of influence never crossed the River Niger, either going North or to the East. He is over ambitious and he is ready to do whatever it takes to find himself on that seat, admitted it is an (un)accomplishable tall order. This unsettling trait of his was discovered so early in the game, that he is no longer an acceptable, detribalized Yoruba man in whom Nigerians can trust with their presidency. So, it will be  extremely difficult, if not impossible, to allow such a scheming personality to get into a national office, in a multi plural society like Nigeria, such as the presidency of a united one Nigeria. 

It does not matter his current schemes, ploys, deceitfulness or otherwise tactical deployments to outmaneuver other competitors, but he will be checkmated when the time eventually comes for Nigerians to choose their president post Buhari's presidency. Such will be the unison of the opposition marshaled against him that he will be shocked beyond his imagination and right to his bone marrow. ICHEOKU is emphatic that Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu has successfully burnt all his bridges, especially across the Niger to the East, that repairing them will be utterly impossible. He has also wronged and alienated nearly everybody in the South by his maniacal scheming to secure a vantage position, that all those people will come to haunt him at his hour of greatest need of their support. Calling Olusegun Obasanjo an expired milk will not help at all either. 

The Emir of Kano Sanusi Lamido Sanusi Muhammadu III does not like Tinubu and has severally written many oped against him. Bukola Saraki will also move the earth to stop Tinubu, all the undercutting of Saraki by Tinubu taken into consideration. The midget Kaduna State Governor El Rufai have no love lost with Tinubu either. Overall, Bola TInubu is seen and perceived by the core North as another over ambitious Obafemi Awolowo who must not be allowed near the seat of power; and like they once told MKO Abiola that the presidency is not for sale, so shall the ears of TInubu tingle with that pronouncement when the hour comes for them to tell him how truly they feel about him and that he repulses them beyond words could convey. 

Like Awolowo before him, Tinubu has earned a pariah status in the Southeast Igbo land; and Ndigbo hardly forgets nor forgives anybody who messes up with them and will readily remind Bola Tinubu of his intransigence when the time comes. Tinubu has literary insulted every Yoruba top heavy, including the Ota Deity, who he recently referred to as an expired milk. Then add the fact that he gave Nigerians President Muhammadu Buhari and any recovering Nigerian, who was Buhari fatigued, will think twice before rewarding Bola TInubu with the presidency. Further, the North does not trust the Yoruba man to be fair and would rather an Igbo man succeeds Buhari than to allow Tinubu anywhere near the presidential seat at Aso Rock. 

Further, Bola Tinubu's conviction for drug dealing in the United States of America, which established a permanent criminal record for him, will square up with him at the gate of his presidential ambition, as Nigerians, although skewed in some things, will definitely not accept a convicted criminal as their president. In other words, Nigeria still has some few descent and honest men and women, and they will not idly stand by, hands akimbo and watch a convicted felon, Bola TInubu, move into Aso Rock as their president. It will not happen in this life and neither in the life hereafter. So, Bola TInubu can do whatever he wants with Lagos State and if he likes too, let him confiscate every property belonging to the so called "foreigners" from other parts of Nigeria. But at the end, grief will be his portion and his lamentations will make the lamentations of Gomorrah look like a child's play. 

Nobody takes on the Igbo Nation and goes Scott free. Gowon tried it and till today has not recovered from the karma which hunts him since then and continuing till today, the reason, no sire of his is relevant in Nigeria after more than 50 years of his rule as Nigeria's Head of State. Awolowo tried it and today, he is hardly remembered through his sires, none of which is politically or otherwise relevant in Nigeria. Who could it be told that a whole Obafemi Awolowo, has no offspring wielding political power anywhere in Yoruba land, despite what he sacrificed for his Yoruba Nation and at the expense of other Nations that make up Nigeria. Muritala Mohammed tried it and met a cruel fate and none of his children is anywhere today following up their father's name recognition to get somewhere in Nigeria. Such a post live sad story of irrelevance awaits President Muhammadu Buhari, if he doesn't mends his way and reconcile with the Igbo Nation. So, Bola Tinubu is a none starter with his anti Igbo posturing, because he is too small a fry, compared to other heavy weights who have ventured in the past but met odious generational ending. 

It is therefore with full authority and confidence of an articulator that ICHEOKU says that Asiwaju Ahmed Bola TInubu, the Jagaban of Borku Land, will NEVER be elected president of Nigeria; and if elected, he will not serve; and if he serves, he will have the shortest stay in Aso Rock ever. Tinubu has never held any nationwide office nor sway or power in Nigeria and for a reason, he is not trustworthy. He is alienating more Nigerians, especially the Southeast Ndigbo, who did him no harm, an dit will certainly be his Achilles heels in his maniacal quest to get into Aso Rock. If Bola Tinubu thinks that his current antics, back stabbing and newly found servile (love) relationship with Muhammadu Buhari will be enough to put him into Aso Rock come 2023, he must be delusional. He is on a Mission Impossible as it will not happen and not in a Nigeria as still presently constituted.

PIUS ADESANMI AND OTHER VICTIMS OF FLIGHT 302: REST IN PEACE.

ICHEOKU says may their souls now rest. Adieu, victims of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 enroute Nairobi from Adisa Ababa. So long fellas.

NKANU ONNOGHEN: A MONUMENTAL DISGRACE TO NIGERIAN JUDICIARY.

ICHEOKU says the worst scandal in this mother of all scandals is that some people, including members of the legal profession, both adjudicators and advocators, are defending the absurdity that is this man, a former Chief Justice of Nigeria, who collected bribes and dispensed "injustice" as a result. Query: how could somebody sitting at the topmost  stool in the highest temple of justice, still be expected to dispense justice, when his sense of justice was so impaired by reason of his being compromised with bribes and other inducements. 

Yet this is the fella who sat in judgment over so many disputes, and for such a long time without being caught or was given a pass because those who compromised him were in power and protected him in a quid pro quo arrangement; since many of them got to where they were in life by reason of his partiality in dispensing justice in cases and disputes which they were hitherto involved in. 

If ICHEOKU had his way, this man, Nkanu Onnoghen, the former Chief Justice of Nigeria, will pay dearly for his criminality. He will be stripped bare of every penny to his name, including assets and properties, as they are tainted by corruption and will be summarily condemned for forfeiture as proceeds of corruption. That is the only language which he and many others like him will understand, that more were expected of them who preside over the affairs of others; especially the common men and women who travel through the rigorous paths of courts to seek justice, it being the last bastion of hope of the powerless and down trodden members of the society. 

A man who is an ordinary civil servant, with a predetermined salary and remuneration, but who ended up becoming a billionaire several times over, due to his penchant for corruption. ICHEOKU says such a man does not deserve a happy retirement, but needed to spend the rest of whatever is left of his natural life in penury and behind bars, sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole or pardon; and made to leave the big house only in a pinewood casket, in atonement for  his moral turpitude, depravity and  deprecation. 

The most irritating thing about the disgraced Nduka Onnoghen is that some pinheads are defending him and trying to justify what he did by making a stupid moral equivalence with a certain governor of Kano State, who was captured on video stuffing his dashiki with dollar bills. They also said that the corrupt former Chief Justice of Nigeria was being singled out and pilloried simply because he is from the Southern part of Nigeria. To these numbskulls full of moss, who are incapable of reasoning and rationality, ICHEOKU says how dare you equate the two situations, their effects on Nigeria, closely examined and considered. 

On one hand, a State governor received bribe, an action which only affected his State and for which the State House of Assembly should be the only natural arbiter  exerting whatever punishment they see fit on the governor. On the other hand, a Chief Justice of Nigeria collected bribes and was the chief presiding officer of every dispute and all cases emanating from throughout Nigeria, which ended up at the Supreme Court and which impact affects the entire Nigerian population.

Kaduna State House of Assembly once  impeached and removed their Governor Abdulkadir Balarabe Musa and this is exactly what any rational and reasonable Nigerian should expect of the Kano State House of Assembly in the matter of their Governor Ganduje's bribe taking; purely their State's internal affairs matter, case closed. ICHEOKU says that all politics is local and Kano State should be allowed to decide how they want to proceed with dispensing justice to their corrupt Governor Ganduje if they want; otherwise it is not anybody else in Nigeria's business, period. 

ICHEOKU is not by this giving any pass to the governor, but maintains that what the governor did does not rise to a level requiring a  country-wide scrutiny; nor does it have any national consequence and did not affect anybody who is not from Kano State. Therefore, all those meddlesome interlopers who are not of Kano State should all butt out and stop their righteous indignation over a governor of Kano State that was captured on video, stuffing his pockets with bundles of dollar bills. 

Remember that it was in the same Kano State of old that their once Governor Barkin Zuwo used to keep the State's money in his home, because according to him, he does not trust the banks. He said that since the NPN opposition party at the center controls the banking industry, it might swoop in and seize the State's money and leave him without money with which to run his PRP controlled State. Continuing his warped explanation, Barkin Zuwo, rhetorically queried, what is wrong in a Governor of a State keeping the money of the State in his home, the government house, which incidentally also belongs to the State? 

This incident should fully explain to everyone who is studiously seeking to understand the peculiarity of Kano State and why certain things are differently done in Kano State than in any other State in Nigeria. Thereafter they will stop judging Kano State governors with the same template which they judge other governors or States and learn to peel off from the generally accepted and expected reasonable standard. Kano State is different and they do their own things differently. But now back to the moronic former Chief Justice of Nigeria, whose stupidity is the subject here under review. 

The fact of the matter is that Nigeria Judiciary, both the adjudicators and advocators, is endemically corrupt; the rot is system wide and cuts through the entire strata without much exception. Like the "if you find me ten honest people I will not destroy Gomorrah" biblical rendition of God's encounter with Abraham in Genesis 18:16-33, ICHEOKU makes bold to state that close to 89% of members of the bar and the bench in Nigeria are corrupt. 

The stench of its putridity reeks across the entire bench, from the magisterial and customary courts base level, all the way to the Supreme Court. Members of the bar, including their supposed Senior Advocates of Nigeria are complicit as well and helps with facilitating these briberies, as conduits and go between, between their clients and the adjudicators. It is an open secret, which some of them would rather pretend does not exist; speaking of living a lie. 

Even when they are caught red handed giving these bribes, usually disguised as "gifts", they still have the temerity to insult every body's intelligence by denying it and when the evidence becomes incontrovertible, just try to explain it away as gifts. It could take any form, from the sublime to the absurd; either that the Judge's great grandmother memorial was being held and the Judge needed some financial assistance or that the Judge's farm needed new crops and they helped out with money to purchase more improved variations; or as with this now disgraced Nkanu Onnoghen, that his daughter was getting married and they brought him some monetary wedding presents. 

Then, ask these wig and gown bribe givers when last they helped out their village people or even family members and relatives who similarly needed assistance and for much more pressing needs, and they will wave their filthy, guilty hands of frustration in the air, and with stammered inaudible grunts, like the trapped animals which they are, make excuses. But these slime-balls have no problem funneling millions of dollars and billions of Naira to a corrupt Chief Justice who has no shame nor moral compunction, as they continuously aid and abet the corruption rot which has eaten to waste the fabric of the Nigerian society. 

This former Chief Justice of Nigeria was caught with millions of dollars, millions of Pounds and Euros, billions of Naira and the ownership of over 28 buildings and houses to his name; and on his mere civil service salary and remuneration. He did not deny their ownership, but initially owned them up and later tried to explain how he acquired them.  His continuously changing kaleidoscope of explanations was indeed a male version of the arrant abracadabra which Dame Patience once tried to pull over Nigerians on how she came about the ownership of over $15 million discovered in just one of her bank accounts. 

This corrupt former CJN first said that the money were made from his private practice as a lawyer before he joined the judiciary as a judge. But when confronted with the date variances, which showed that the acquisitions were made long after he quit his non profitable private practice to accept government appointment in the judiciary, he pivoted his explanation. 

His second lame explanation was that the money and assets were acquired through unspent Estacode, which again was debunked, because even if he had saved the entire 100% of every such allowance ever paid to him, they will still not sum up to the amounts and assets under scrutiny. Confronted with the evidence, he once again changed his narration and claimed they were proceeds of his investments in farming and commodities sales. Again, the evidence showed that he has no such farmlands as could have earned such produce as was worth anything near even 1% of the money and assets under review. Caught like a deer in the headlamps, he once again changed his story and claimed that they were dividends from his investments in stock and bonds. 

But what this corrupt former Chief Justice of Nigeria did not know or rather chose to forget, was that records are kept for a reason and these records were once again thrown at his lying face. However, to the mother of all surprises, instead of just owning up that he has been caught with his hands in the cookie jar, he once again bounced off and claimed that they were gifts which he received during his daughter's wedding. ICHEOKU says even a sitting president's daughter's wedding cannot realize such amount of money in question and he was asked to explain how he was able to pull off such a miracle of gifting. 

Exhausted of his arrant explanations, he threw in the towel of resignation in order to spare himself from any further ridicule and also save whatever honor that was still left of him, which ICHEOKU strongly doubts there was any at this point. The disgraced former Chief Justice now enters the annals of record as a very corrupt former Chief Justice of Nigeria who was caught pants down collecting bribes and history will not write him kindly.

ICHEOKU says the most irritating aspect of his scandal is not necessarily that the former Chief Justice of Nigeria collected bribes; but that he did not negotiate a quiet exit through resignation at the onset, when the scandal first broke and disappeared into the oblivion with his loot. Rather, he decided to add insult to injury by grandstanding and stonewalling, thinking that he can by being so stubborn, bullshit his way out of the situation. But unfortunately for him, he forgot that the man at Aso Rock is not easily moved nor swayed; and that he is not knee jerky, especially when it comes to his signature project war on corruption and there was an example to be made of someone so highly placed as the Chief Justice of Nigeria. 

But Nkanu Onneghen is not the problem, he is simply the symptom of the problem of corruption in Nigeria. He was tempted with sucre and he disgracefully fell for it, crashing down from his once Olympian heights perch, into the bottomless abyss of odium. In some societies where honor still matters, including Japan and South Korea, he would have since committed harakiri and spared himself, his colleagues, his family and friends of the shame of what he did. But it is Nigeria, a country which a former British Prime Minister David Cameron said is fantastically corrupt; and which American President Donald John Trump called a shithole country. Now, ask yourself how does any Nigerian begin to mount a defense against such monikers, faced with this yet another disgraceful conduct, of the now disgraced former Chief Justice of Nigeria. 

What a shame and a big besmirch on the judiciary in Nigeria, that once had a Chief Justice named Nkanu Onnoghen, who demanded and received bribes; but is now finally disgraced out of office. Imagine the taint which has made on other judges who will be suspected of taking bribes. What an erosion of the judiciary. In infamy will his name be written in bold letters SAMUEL WALTER NKANU ONNEGHEN and forever be remembered as a very corrupt bad Chief Justice of Nigeria who was disgraced out of office because he was fantastically corrupt. 

Hades will not have enough darkness to cover the shame which he brought to the judiciary in Nigeria, his family and friends; as well as to all those Nigerians who are aspiring for a righteousness Nigeria where things are done according to the books. What a disappointment; what a shame; and you wonder if it was actually the reason President Muhammadu Buhari, based on security report, was reluctant to assent to his elevation, before Vice President Osinbajo stole the thunder from the then convalescing president and pushed Onneghen across the finish line and into the CJN seat. But now, see who is laughing last. 

LORI LIGHTFOOT: CHICAGO MAYOR ELECT, FIRST OF MANY THINGS.

ICHEOKU says she is the first openly gay lesbian and first African American woman to be elected by American third largest city to lead them. What an epochal moment in America, particularly the City of Chicago where this magnificent feat was accomplished. 

ICHEOKU says congratulations to Ms Lori Lightfoot for what she was able to achieve, winning the Mayorship of Chicago and on her platform of fighting entrenched segregation, gun violence and economic inequality. Above all, she went up against the Chicago Democratic machine politics and emerged unscathed. ICHEOKU says there is nothing wrong with the tall dream, except that putting the rubber to the tarmac is where the heavy lifting really is. 

So many have also thought similarly about ending all human problems and Lori Lightfoot has now formally joined that group. All ICHEOKU can do now is to wish her well, admitted she is embarking on a journey with a heavy leg-chain of soured race relations, uncontrollable gun violence and heavy economic disparity of the City keeping her greatly restrained. However, if she manages to make some dent on any or all of them, that will be considered a great success; but ICHEOKU is not overtly optimistic, the City of Chicago internals considered. So, it would appear that she is embarking on a Mission Impossible and unless she is a female 007, the jury stays permanently out on her ability to surmount these festering problems. 

Lori Lightfoot, a 56, was a former federal prosecutor, former police oversight board chairwoman, and comes into City Hall with a lot on her plate and she also promised a lot to deliver as well. In her victory speech, she said:- "We need to make sure that we are bringing real hope and economic opportunity to so many neighborhoods that have been disinvested in for decades. Building channels for people to believe that the city sees them and hears them and is willing to invest, is going to be critically important, and we have to start that right away. 

I think that the people who come from communities like me as an African-American woman, as a member of the LGBT community, we haven't sat in the corners of power. It's quite the opposite. We've been discriminated against. We've been locked out, and we've been excluded. And to have someone like me representing these multifaceted communities now be on the cusp of being the mayor and what I think is the greatest city in the world, I think gives a lot of people a lot of hope --and it is a milestone in a long journey that will continue to demonstrate though that we're making progress."

ICHEOKU is completely satisfied that she was able to break through the great barrier of Chicago Democratic Party machine politics, which has been in place for nearly a century, to emerge victorious. Hopefully she will remain her own woman as she administers Chicago. Her victory spells a monumental achievement of a gargantuan magnitude. Once again, congratulations Ms LL.