TRUMP2020: WE CAN SEE CLEARLY NOW.

ICHEOKU says the only surprise to be expected in 2020 is in the number of States which will vote to reelect President Donald John Trump, not whether or not he will be reelected. He still possesses the sales pitch and not 23 angry Democratic Party candidates can match him; so let the debates come and let the Democrats settle for one candidate and let the fireworks begin. 

The president won in 2016 with all the world amassed against him and now that he has the bully pulpit, plus the instruments of power, winning a reelection will not be as difficult. Moreso, he has acquitted himself creditably well, doing all he said and promised to do if elected; promises made, promises kept. American people can only do one thing now, REWARD HIM with a reelection. America can only go forward, no retreat, no surrender. KEEP AMERICA GREAT, REELECT TRUMP. #TRUMP2020.

MOHAMMED MORSI: DEAD AT 67. ADIEU.

ICHEOKU says the Muslim Brotherhood member and former President of Egypt, Mohammed Morsi is dead. He fainted inside a courtroom where he was standing trial for espionage and murder among other myriad of charges; and could not be revived and was later pronounced dead. The former Egyptian president was 67 years old. 

A hater of Israel and fundamentalist Islamist to the core, the engineer turned politician and later president of Egypt was unapologetic about his disdain for the Jewish State of Israel and at some point called it very unsavory names including blood suckers, warmongers and descendants of apes and pigs. He insisted that the Jews have no right on Palestine land and that what happened in 1947 and still continuing till today amounts to plundering and that the land belongs to the Palestines and not the Jews. The Sultanate President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in his eulogy referred to Morsi as his brother, praying that he is a martyr whose soul should rest in peace.

Mohammed Morsi was the first and only freely, democratically elected president of Egypt in more than 7,000 years of Egyptian governance by pharaohs and of course the military. But his extremism wouldn't let him govern a multi religious, pluralistic, Egyptian society, leading to more protests before the military pushed him aside and took back power. He was arrested and detained and subsequently charged for many crimes, the prosecution of which he was in the court, before he swooned and never recovered and died, despite best  effort at resuscitating him. His failed government was described by one commentator as the failure of democracy in a society that is not set up for democracy. 

ICHEOKU completely agrees that Africa is not set up for democracy and at best, is not yet ripe for democracy because of dearth of institutions which nurtures and sustains democracy; as well as the mindset of the people who are largely tribal, illiterate and overzealously religious. ICHEOKU says may Mohammed Morsi now rest and possibly get hold of his seventy virgins as soon as he makes it to their paradise. 

Air Force ONE: KEEP AS IS.

ICHEOKU says certain things are better left as they are; let Air Force One be. #SAYNOTOREDESIGN. 

AIR FORCE ONE: SAY NO TO THE REDESIGN.

ICHEOKU says if it ain't broke, why change it? #SAYTOTHEREDIGNEDAIRFORCEONE.

AIR FORCE ONE: TOO ICONIC TO BE DISTORTED.

ICHEOKU says disagrees with the president on his redesigned  Air Force One, because if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Why change such an iconic colors that has become a globally recognized symbol of America's presidency on wings, which represents America's enduring strength, assuredness, assertiveness and preeminent position and which also projects America's authority and wealth. Simply put, Air Force One is a statement unto itself and getting used to the new design will take some time, so why border.

ICHEOKU says there are three things that make America, America; things which symbolizes America and which should not be readily and so easily changed based on anyone's personal taste or like. To make such a foundational change, the act of the Congress should be mandatorily required, because they are so intrinsically woven into the body fabric of being American. They are what signifies America and should require the peoples representatives approval before changes can be made on them. These are Air Force One, the flag and the White House; three things which the entire world identifies America with and which represents America to the entire world. 

As a result, the president's intention to change the colors of the Air Force One is not cool with ICHEOKU and to millions of other American people; because if he does, what stops another president from also changing the colors, either because they do not like it or because it was done by President Donald John Trump and they want to erase his legacy. Moreso, the baby blue colors are known around the world and such trademark colors for a presidential plane are not easily bargain-able, otherwise which country's presidential plane is that easily know and noticeable. 

ICHEOKU says strongly believes that some things in life should be left alone as they are and not be amenable to erratic contusions and reconfigurations, especially not because one man feels like it. Institutions are institutions for a reason and the American presidency is one such institution which should never be personalized. Therefore, certain things touching and concerning it should not be left at any one single person's discretion or be allowed to float around according to his or her personal idiosyncratic mood swings. If this is not checked, Americans might wake up one day to see their White House painted in gold and their flag migrate from red and blue to gold. 

ICHEOKU says America must not be in competition with other vane glorious countries of the world, whose leaders are trying to project bogus wealth and strength with such flattering colors. The American presidency is a serious business and needs some level of staid and stoicism to it. The new colors which the president came out with, reminds ICHEOKU of when the president wanted to stage a military parade in Washington and you ask yourself what is the purpose of such flaunting of the military might of the United States of America as is done by some other little and most times, despotic countries, who are trying to impress and prove something which is not there.

The colors which the president came out with for his newly redesigned Air Force One is so ordinary that it looks like a commercial airplane colors. It is no longer outstandingly imposing and majestic; and does not stand out nor otherwise make a statement of here is America's president on wings. Even the presidential seal is not as visible as it otherwise should be. A matter of factly speaking, it looks like the president's private plane TRUMP reversed upside down, as the colors instead of being on top was placed below. It is somewhat cheesy for a presidential plane to say the least. 

ICHEOKU says the president can make the new Air Force One bigger, badder, larger, huger, bolder, longer, higher and whatever else he wants; but please let him not tamper with the colors and if it must, let it be a color that is solid and not the all over the place design which he showed on his ABC interview with George Stephanopolus. One solid color from nose to tail would have been preferred, either white or red or even blue, with a huge American flag, a balding eagle and an imposing Presidential Seal emblazoned in gold background. The president can also be at liberty to configure the interiors however he sees fit, but he must not cause or do any harm to the exterior colors. 

What if the next president does not like the president's new design, will he or she be at liberty to ask for another paint job? If the president is allowed to change the colors of Air Force One to whatever he likes, would he be allowed to someday wake up and decides that he no longer likes the blue and red colors of the flag and wants it changed to gold or order that the White House be repainted in gold and rebranded the Golden House? 

ICHEOKU maintains that changes to such iconic symbols of America should not be easily malleable or left to the whims and caprices of just one man; but should be made with a Congressional approval, first sought and obtained. But since life is dynamic and a certain former president changed what used to be the former colors of Air Force One to the present colors, it is therefore inarguable that another desiring president reserves the right to also once again change the colors. It is the same way the world no longer uses typewriters but computers, so the colors of Air Force One can also transition to something different as  the president prefers. As a result, let those who like the soon to be former colors treasure the memories and philosophically wax nostalgically about the baby blue colors that used to be; and let the president have his Air Force One in his Trump One colors. 

ICHEOKU says it is merely a cosmetic changes, as the Air Force One will not in any way be compromised in its fundamental mission of safely flying the president of the United States of America around, to and from his desired destinations. The ability and utility of the plane will still remain intact, regardless of what colors the eyes sees as its outer veneer. ICHEOKU would have liked to see the Presidential Seal logo moved up higher and near the pilots window, made larger, bigger and bolder to be commandingly visible. Also they could have incorporated the bald eagle alongside the flag and the presidential seal, if indeed Americanness was the primary motivating reason for the intended redesign. But the primary thing is that the president has the right to redesign the plane and he exercised that right, case closed.

AIR FORCE ONE: TOO ICONIC TO BE DISTORTED.

ICHEOKU wishes the color scheme can be left alone because of its preeminence recognition as America's presidency on wings. Just do the interiors but leave the exterior color scheme alone and undistorted.

NBA FINALS CHAMPIONSHIP: IT'S RAPTORS, AS THE NORTH WINS THE WEST

ICHEOKU says they rightly earned it and deservedly so; as they played very well, outplaying an injury plagued and depleted Golden State Warriors.  Their call letters "WE THE NORTH", Toronto Raptors has finally broken the jinx of Canada as they won for the first time a major sports trophy in a completion between a Canadian side and the United States of America side, defeating the Golden State Warriors 114 - 110. 

It was a thriller of some sort finals despite a Warriors' side that was heavily handicapped  as a result of injuries, with ace players Kevin Durant and Klay Thompson sidelined and couldn't play in the finals. It was overall a good NBA finals. Congratulations to the new NBA champions Toronto Raptors and to the MVP Kawhi Leonard; they both deserved their victories. To the defeated defending champions, Golden State Warriors, it was a battle well fought battle; and short of not moving to their new arena as champions, they acquitted themselves very well and will live to be champions again. Congratulations to them as well. 

AMERICA IS HERE TO STAY - PDJT

"Americans fill the world with art and music. They push the bounds of science and discovery. And they forever remind us of what we should never ever forget: The people dreamed this country. The people built this country. And it's the people who are making America great again. As long as we are proud of who we are, and what we are fighting for, there is nothing we cannot achieve. As long as we have confidence in our values, faith in our citizens, and trust in our God, we will not fail. Our families will thrive. Our people will prosper. And our Nation will forever be safe and strong and proud and mighty and free." - President Donald John Trump.

BUHARI SWORN IN: A PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION WITH A TWIST.

ICHEOKU says it could easily pass for the proverbial King who crowned himself, as every living former heads of State and presidents, except for the infamous genocidal murderer, Yakubu Jackal Gowon, shunned the event. Their action, telegraphed an unspoken but strongly loud message that it will not be in their name nor with their support, would a "stolen" mandate confer legitimacy on the president. 

It could have been much gracefully better and ICHEOKU strongly feels that the president also shared in the sentiments, had these former leaders showed up to support the president. That Gowon was there could be a result of lost in translation or that the memo which communicated the decision of the former leaders to stay away from the inauguration did not get to him on time. It is also possible that Gowon showed up in order to remain above the fray, curry favor and retain his place in the good books of the president and by extension, the Caliphate. 

Overall, the event of May 29th, 2019 was comparatively mediocre at best and lacked the pomp and pageantry, as well as the grandeur and glamour, usually associated with such presidential inauguration ceremony; especially for a president on his way out, who was being sworn in for his last and final term in office. The uneasiness was palpably noticeable; and the humiliation suffered by being abandoned by all the former heads of State and presidents was also noticeable. No president, given a choice, would like to be so shabbily treated as irrelevant, abandoned on his great day as a pariah by his predecessors in office. 

The ramification of such a national embarrassment will be consequential, as the president will see it an unforgivable sin and an affront on his presidency. In other words, those former leaders who did not honor the president's invitation to his inaugural ceremony might as well kiss goodbye to whatever camaraderie that hitherto existed between them and the president. But the good news is that, like they say in Hollywood and Nollywood, the show must go on and the show went on. The president was successfully sworn in for his second and final term in office, and it was without a hitch, leaving many wondering what these former leaders actually achieved with their boycott, other than making a statement of their displeasure at the president.

However, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida and Ernest Shonekan's absence could be excused as they are both medically indisposed and otherwise couldn't be available, even if they had wanted. But Abdulsalam Abubakar, Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan had no excuses whatsoever to justify their boycott of the president's special day. Theirs was a conspired absence, orchestrated to humiliate the president, but whether they succeeded, the jury is still out on that question. They were not sick and it could not have been because of any prior engagements, because the date for the presidential inauguration was literary set in stone, scheduled  several years in advance and nothing else should have trumped it, regardless. 

What the five former leaders, particularly the last three, did, was in fact, calculatedly deliberate. They intentionally wanted to humiliate and embarrass the president; so, they should be made to pay a hefty price for it. May be the president should consider taking away their pensions and other accruing privileges, including the withdrawal of their security details or even denying them access to Aso Rock, by placing them on a permanent do not visit Aso Rock list of abhorable deplorables.

Their action was probably another evidence of corruption fighting back, as some of them were involved in large scale corruption during their time in office, for which they are currently being investigated. Abdulsalam Abubakar and Olusegun Obasanjo were involved in the $16 billion white elephant power project; while Jonathan was involved in the $2 billion Malabu Oil deal scandal, for which he allegedly pocketed $450 million as his own share of the booty. So, it is understandable if the decision by President Muhammadu Buhari to curtail corruption in the country, by investigating these former leaders, led to their protest boycott of the inauguration; their way of vehemently registering their displeasure at being investigated by the president.

It is obvious that corruption is mounting a counter offensive against the president, using everything, including shunning a presidential inauguration, to make a statement that they will be unrelenting in their effort to stop the president from succeeding in his war against corruption. ICHEOKU is emphatic that corruption in Nigeria will not abate until some of these corrupt former leaders are made examples of, held accountable for their own corruption. They need to start facing consequences for their corruption, including being publicly named and shamed, paraded where necessary, arrested and prosecuted for being the criminals which they are. Once this is done, every other person below them will understand that it is no more an open season for corruption in Nigeria, because a masquerade which beat an elderly person will make a mince meat of a youth. 

ICHEOKU says that no former Nigerian leader has ever won the Mo Ibrahim Foundation Award for Excellence in Leadership in Africa is a great testament to the depth of their corruption. Their penchant for kleptomania is legendary and they stole with reckless abandonment; including the coward of Otuoke who made himself superbly rich from the office and also made out like bandit from the Malabu Oil scandal. ICHEOKU gleefully awaits the the day the president's joker on these former corrupt leaders will drop like it is hot, including putting them in handcuffs. Hopefully the president will follow through with his many promises to fight corruption to a stand still and not sparing any of these bandits in the process.

Anyway, while Atiku Abubakar is still dreaming about a phantom mandate, which was purportedly stolen; the man who actually holds the mandate has been sworn in for his second final term in office. So, while Atiku and his co-travelers to a laland presidency are still salivating about what would have been, lost in the jungle of distorted facts, President Muhammadu Buhari has officially begun his second term in office and there is nothing anyone, including 1000 Obasanjos, can do about that. ICHEOKU says congratulating President Muhammadu Buhari on his second term inauguration and also the people of Nigeria, who chose wisely on February 23rd, 2019, to reject the globally acknowledged face of corruption in Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, by sticking with the proverbial devil they know, having already adjusted to the hardship in the land, is therefore quite in order.

ICHEOKU says could care less that the president won his reelection and was inaugurated for a second term in office, despite the hardship, anger and disillusionment in the land. What is imperative here is that the president, by his election victory, stopped the gathered vultures, led by Nigeria's most crooked and corrupt person and the world recognized face of corruption in Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, who were waiting to carry on with their feasting on the carrion of Nigeria. This was the single most important factor for ICHEOKU during the period leading up to the last presidential election 2019, for which all stops were pulled to help stop Atiku Abubakar and his army of ravenous scavengers from ever again descending on Nigeria's resources and feasting on them like swarming locusts. 

The aversion and revulsion to a possible Atiku Abubakar's presidency led to the avowal to stop him by all means necessary and however possible. Such was the intensity and determination, that anyone else, including Sahara Reporters' Sowore Omole, would have been a far much better and preferred choice than Atiku Abubakar. So, ICHEOKU was indeed grateful that the president accomplished this base mission and that Atiku was stopped cold from nearing the gate of Aso Rock. With this done, at least Nigeria will have something left in its tiller for the running of the country; unlike with Atiku, where every last penny would have been looted by a band of thieves, masquerading as dopey and droopy-eye politicians, whose only motivation in politics is to steal the country blind and make themselves stupendously rich and at the expense of the masses. So ICHEOKU is grateful and thankful to God for securing victory for President Muhammdu Buhari and for stopping a threatened looting on steroid that was lurking around and waiting to begin.

ICHEOKU says does not believe in medicine after death and since God does not give second chances or an opportunity for a do over, why would anybody? Nigerians must therefore learn to adapt to their self immolating circumstances, quit whining and stop the gnashing of teeth, because of their inability to vote President Muhammadu Buhari out of office on February 23rd, 2019.  They voted him into office on March 29th, 2015 and that is the only controlling authority that counts. By voting for Buhari on March 29th, 2015, Nigerians forever lost their right to complain about any hardship as a result of the Buhari's presidency, because they knew what they were getting into when they voted for Buhari in 2015. Buhari is as constant as Mother Nature that even the Northern Star does not meet his resoluteness; he changeth not; he was the same yesterday, today and will remain the same tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. So why does Nigerians expect water out of rock, especially when they are not armed with Moses staff.

This Buhari's truism was germane in 2015 and so it was four years later in office and so will it remain in the next four years. Buhari does not change; Buhari did not change and Buhari will not ever change. So, why the hyperventilating hysteria in the land over a fully resolved man who never hid his character or who he is to Nigerians. Or were Nigerians afflicted by the repeatedly doing the same thing while expecting a different result, which is insanity defined? Therefore it is hopelessly delusional for any Nigerian to pretend that the Dracula of Daura suddenly morphed into a monster or that he is surprisingly visiting the land with great chastisement, because he is not. He did not change in 1983 through 1985 and was the same fixated individual in 2015 and continuing till this day. So, anyone expecting a different Buhari or that there will be a different outcome from the same circumstances, needs to have their heads examined for schizophrenia.

The good mantra for honest living is to always have in mind that if you do the crime, you will also do the time. Nigerians willingly invited the minstrel into their homes and must not be heard now to complain that the music is deafening. So, to all those vuvuzelas who are chest-beating that Buhari has killed them, ICHEOKU says to suck it up and pray, on the authority of 2 King 12:21, that the NextLevel will not be a more excruciating experience. Utobo, the rhesus monkey, said that the death which is starring it on the face can never kill it; but Nigerians ignored this time honored advise and invited Buhari to their governance in 2015 and should only pray he does not convert himself to a life president when his term expires in 2023. 

ICHEOKU says if Buhari decides to tighten the screws more in his second term, so be it; as it is a well deserved and rightly earned rebuke of a society which always condemns its best and celebrates its worst. If Buhari becomes the whip that would whip Nigerians into sensibleness and reasonableness, so be it; but it is definitely about time Nigerians started reasoning rationally and not remain the wildebeests which they are, who stubbornly, spontaneously charges without first thinking the ramifications of their actions through and thoroughly. What made any sane Nigerian to prefer Buhari over Jonathan in 2015 was actually what made all the difference and in fact, when the cookie crumbled; and not at any other subsequent time, including last February 23rd, 2019 when they wanted to retrieve the cup after giving an enwe water with it. 

Anyway, the deed is done and Nigerians should brace themselves for whatever happens in the next four years, including massive arrest and detention of Nigerians and their former leaders. ICHEOKU can't wait.

ICHEOKU also congratulates Nigeria on becoming a nuclear power, as the president was seen carrying his presidential "akpa nwa dibia" handbag, where the nuclear code of the country is securely tucked away. What Americans call the Football, Nigerians call the Sharia bag; but let nobody make mistake about it because it is also as deadly. Inside that handbag is a direct live communication to the Fulfude only Fulani Radio and nobody should doubt the power of issuing directives on that frequency. Its destructive yield must not be in doubt and ICHEOKU prays the president never activates that code. 

As for the Adams Oshiomhole rude awakening, if only he had read Luke 14:12, he would have been properly guided on the wisdom of not self-inviting oneself to a party; because such gate crashing always leads to unpleasant experience and other unintended consequences, including being publicly humiliated. 

The inauguration also made history as the only presidential inauguration without an inaugural address, as the president failed to inform or share with his country men and women what to expect from his administration during his second term. May be because it will be more of the same, except on a higher level or is it Next Higher Level, one may add. ICHEOKU also was not impressed by the newly acquired presidential limousine because it is not beastly enough. The best of it all is Nigeria has a president and his name is not Atiku Abubakar. So until 2023, every other agitation and vituperative invectives are but inconsequential noisy hot air. ICHEOKU says congratulations President Muhammadu Buhari for stopping Atiku Abubakar from nearing the gate of Aso Rock; and as for Olusegun Obasanjo, the president can arrest and LOCK HIM UP now for being a security risk to the country and the heavens will not fall if he does. 

QUEEN ELIZABETH MARKS HER 93RD BIRTHDAY!

ICHEOKU says congratulations Queen Eliza on your 93rd birthday celebration. May your days be longer, healthier and keeping on holding the forte for Britain. Whoever dresses the Queen is good at what she or he is doing as the Queen never failed with her fashion sense. Congratulations to Her Majesty of Britain. 

JOE BIDEN ABANDONS GOD: SIDES WITH ABORTIONISTS.

ICHEOKU says how you know a swamp dweller numero uno, a stand which he took several decades ago in 1976 and maintained out of conviction until just two days ago, June 5th, 2019, to help keep American babies out of harms way of assured death through abortions, but suddenly he somersaulted and is now in favor of killing babies on demand. 

Joe Biden, what manner of man is he? Just another flip flopping John Kerry who once voted for something before voting against it. What would men not do for power, including selling their conscience and in this case, even denouncing their faith. 

A staunch Catholic who has now summarily abandoned his long held Catholic faith and beliefs of so many decades, just because he wants to please the far left wing anarchists of his Democratic Party who are desirous of unrestrained killing of babies. But like Jesus said, if Joe Biden denies him before the world, he will also deny Joe Biden before his father in heaven. A matter that will be made worse when he finally loses both the primaries and the presidency and shamelessly seeks to return back to the Catholic Church with a pretended conviction and faith.

A 75 year old grandfather, who should ordinarily be enjoying his retirement and preparing to go meet his maker, but instead of standing firm to his “conviction” to the end, has buckled under the weight of the abortionists wing of the Democratic Party. ICHEOKU says where is Joe Biden's fortitude that he should literary just collapse and cave in, faced with these crazed out, wild eyed feminists hollering abortionists. If they could weigh Joey down and have their way with him, imagine what Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un would do to him. SAD. Please just #SAYNOTOJOEBIDEN. 

D-DAY 75TH ANNIVERSARY: WE OWE THEM OUR GRATITUDE.

ICHEOKU says for their sacrifice we have what we have today - FREEDOM and we are forever indebted. Thank yo veterans of World War II and other wars that kept us safe and protected. 

D-DAY 75TH ANNIVERSARY: WE WILL NEVER FORGET THEIR SACRIFICE.

ICHEOKU says as leaders of the free world gathered to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day Normandy landing, an appreciative world says thank you World War II veterans for your great sacrifice. 

BERNIE READS THE RIOT ACT TO THE DEMOCRATS.

“As you all know, there is a debate among presidential candidates who have spoken to you here in this room and those who have chosen for whatever reason not to be in this room about the best way forward. So let me be as clear as I can be: in my view, we will not beat Donald Trump unless we bring excitement and energy into the campaign. And unless we give millions of working people and young people a reason to vote and a reason to believe that politics is relevant to their lives, they will not vote; especially not for the Democratic Party." - Bernie Sanders, at California Democratic Party Convention, San Francisco, June 2nd, 2019.

JOE BIDEN'S 2020 PUTATIVE CANDIDACY: ANOTHER MISTAKE, WILL DEMOCRATS EVER LEARN?

ICHEOKU says probably the experiences of 2016 with Queen Crooked Hillary Clinton was lost on them as the Democrats are once again doing exactly the same thing with Joe Biden, which they did with Hillary Clinton and which cost them the White House. First they conspired against Bernie Sanders and denied him the presidential ticket of the party, giving it to a rather less popular candidate, Hillary Clinton, against the will of the base of the party and the result was devastating. 

Second, they shielded and protected her from the media and refused her a free interaction with the media and she never gave any press conference, leading to the lackluster campaign which she mounted and which eventually cost her and the party the election. But instead of the Democratic Party going with someone who was more popular as the acceptable candidate of the base of the party and one who could have won that election, Bernie Sanders, they allowed their loyalty to party's establishment to dictate who wore the mantle and the result was a resounding disaster when November 8, 2016 eventually came around. 

Now, 2020 is around the corner and it is deja vu 2016; as former Vice President Joe Biden is now being fronted by the party's establishment as their anointed one and before who every other candidate must bow. He is being protected, shielded and prevented from having any candid interaction with the party's base. The party's establishment does not want him to have anything to do with the rest of the other candidates jostling for the party's nomination, in the seemingly wildebeests-like set up of too many people who wants to be president and angling for the party's presidential banner 2020. When they go to campaign, Joe Biden feels too big to go and participate. When they are giving press conferences, Joe Biden feels too big to go and give same. When they are offering opinions on issues of the day, Joe Biden feels too good to do the same. 

This weekend, a lot of the candidates seeking the presidential ticket of the party are in San Francisco California butting heads on how to secure the nomination, but Joe Biden simply ignored them as a no show, assured that the presidential ticket is his already, so why bother? ICHEOKU says where then is the level playing field in the Democratic Party's nomination process and what use is the continuing campaigning by the other candidates when it is obvious that Joe Biden is the preferred choice of the establishment of the party and has already secured the presidential ticket, albeit technically. Where then is the democracy in the Democratic Party if primaries are skewed to favor a particular candidate to the disadvantage of the others. 

A rigged practice which is now turning into a pattern by the Democratic Party as they did it with Hillary Clinton against Bernie Sanders and are now, once again, scheming same with Joe Biden. Why go through the motions when they have a preferred candidate who they will eventually anoint with the ticket as they did with Hillary Clinton. But why all these other candidates are tolerating the scheme and letting their party do this to them is simply mind boggling. Why are they also afraid of calling out their party and Joe Biden on this continuing partiality regarding Joe's assumed inevitability status. 

ICHEOKU says this apparent bias will be remembered by the American people and they will, when the time comes, tell Joe Biden that such arrogance will not be tolerated from someone seeking the office of the presidency of the United States of America. Imagine if Joe Biden is now too big to contest for the party's nomination and so dismissive of other contestants, how cocky he will then later be, should he ever win the presidency. Why would Joe Biden not humble himself and go through all the rigors of the nomination process and if he is too old and too tired to endure it, simply bow out. But instead of the Democratic Party seriously taking issues with Joe Biden on his parading himself already as the inevitable nominee, they are, in the same manner which they did to Hillary Clinton in 2016, cuddling and encouraging Joe Biden in this his condescending behavior. 

Why anyone in the Democratic Party thinks that the result with Joe Biden in 2020 will be any different than the result which they had with Hillary Clinton in 2016, is simply convoluted. It will be an apt illustration of doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different outcome, which translated, is insanity defined. A matter made worse by the concert and conspiracy of the media acolytes of the Democratic Party establishment, which have already started cooking the polls, in order to impose on the American people a preconceived narrative that Joe Biden is the ONE since he is leading in all the polls. They want to make his nomination a fait accompli by pushing this narrative that Joe Biden is the ONLY candidate that is capable of beating President Donald John Trump in 2020; and you wonder where you heard such a similar bunkum hogwash before. 

Yes, you heard it and it was in the period leading up to November 8th, 2016 when so many of such staged polls were used to scheme out Bernie Sanders from the party's nomination process in favor of their Queen Crooked Hillary Clinton. Such arrant nonsenses continued until the morning, afternoon and evening of the November 8th, 2016 in their attempt to convince American people and by extension, the world at large, that then candidate Donald John Trump stood no chance in hell at being elected president and that he will NEVER be elected president of America. ICHEOKU says to add that they failed woefully in their attempt to influence the election outcome and that every projection and polling which they made came to naught will be rather too effusive.

The same goons are once again at work, trying this time to use the same fake polls to steer the nomination to Joe Biden; shamelessly stating that Joe Biden has the momentum and that he is the only candidate that can defeat President Donald John Trump in 2020. ICHEOKU says if this narrative is true, why then did his magic not work to stop the then candidate Donald John Trump from being elected president in 2016. Afterall, Joe Biden was Vice President to Barack Obama, whose both legacies were on the line in that election, yet the American people rejected them and voted the way they did to elect President Donald John Trump. ICHEOKU says that Joe Biden is no longer young nor ebullient anymore; and he is practically not bringing anything new to the table, so why would American people look in his direction for any future leadership of the country. 

Joe Biden has been around in Washington DC for far too long, nearly 50 years; and you ask yourself what is it exactly that still remains of him to deliver, which he has not since brought forward in his past five decades of his dwelling in the swampy Washington DC. 

ICHEOKU laments that it is the same establishment power bloc of the Democratic Party, which has refused to yield any space to the up and coming progressive Democrats, which is now fighting so hard to take back the reins of power. They are  fronting Joe Biden as their bait and using the their controlled media as the means, in their bid to wrestle back power. ICHEOKU says it will not happen regardless, as Joe Biden and Barack Obama's policies were collectively rejected by the American people in 2016 and will once again be rejected come 2020. ICHEOKU is emphatic that Joe Biden will not stand a chance at securing the party's nomination if fairly conducted. Also, that it is only the pair of Pete Buttigieg and Kamara Harris on the Democratic Party's presidential ticket that is capable of making any serious inroad with the American people in 2020. Short of which, Joe Biden or no Joe Biden, it will be an easy sailing for the reelection of President Donald John Trump, who actually, have earned his second term and should be reelected resoundingly. 

ISLAMIZATION OF NIGERIA: OBASANJO, THE MAN WHO CRIED WOLF?

ICHEOKU says there are three Nigerians who ICHEOKU prays to God daily to  terminate their residencies here on earth, so that Nigeria can be free. They are Olusegun Obasanjo, Ibrahim Babangida and of course Muhammadu Buhari, the current president of Nigeria. This trio are part of the old guard in Nigeria who strongly believes that Nigeria belongs to them; hence they must always have a say in who governs Nigeria and how the governing is done, otherwise there will be no peace. 

To them, Nigeria is their private estate and they are entitled to lease it to whoever they desire; and it must be to someone who must obey their command, listen to their dictates, comply to their stipulated terms and conditions of holding Nigeria at their pleasure, on their behalf and at their behest. Any attempt by such a chosen lessee to deviate from their strictly laid out blue print and path of travel in governance is met with earth scorching excoriations, vehemence, protests and resistance, sabotage and plotting the eventual downfall and ouster from office of such an "obstinate, wayward and strayed" lessee. So, such imposed leader will only enjoy the privileges of their office as long as they remain loyal and are in the good books of this three individuals and constantly do their bidding, as they are told. 

Coincidentally, one of them is presently in office and not behaving as any other servile puppet would, by kowtowing to every minute instruction handed down to him and this is riling a member of the triumvirates, named Olusegun Obasanjo. Meanwhile the third musketeer, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, is on the sideline silently watching, as Olusegun Obasanjo and Muhammadu Buhari duke it out between themselves. A very clever devil, who rightly earned his moniker, Maradona; and is just biding his time, waiting calculatedly, to see who wins the turf war before aligning himself to him.

ICHEOKU is emphatic that as long as these three individuals liveth, Nigeria, unlike Zambia, SHALL NOT BE FREE. Therefore, if you desire a free Nigerian society, please join IChEOKU in this supplication to the On High, by including the quick transition of this three devious musketeers in your prayer points. 

It is with this reservation therefore that ICHEOKU says Nigerians must be wary and vigilant, and to take with a grain of salt, the latest Obasanjo's alarm that Nigeria has almost tipped over, under the weight of Boko Haram and Fulani Jihadist terrorist herdsmen's push for the Islamization of Nigeria; an agenda which Obasanjo claims is already full throttle, underway. 

Olusegun Obasanjo lacks credibility and his veracity for speaking truthfully is also quiet suspect. His actions are largely in part driven by a self-serving, hidden agenda and possibly he is just being the trouble maker which he is with the current stoking of religious and ethnic feud amongst Nigerians. Obasanjo's capacity to cause mischief is not in doubt and he is very masterful at playing both sides to a dispute and could possibly be enmeshed in it right now; doing what he does best, stoking crisis. This paradigm must be factored in by Nigerians while weighing the gravity of the allegation made by the Ota Deity and not react disproportionately just on the words of Obasanjo.

ICHEOKU is not saying to cavalierly dismiss Obasanjo's latest alarm completely; but to, like Ronald Reagan once said of the old Soviet Union promises, trust but first verify. ICHEOKU is urging Nigerians to weigh it with great cautionary wisdom and then react to it measuredly, because Baba Iyabo is a proven trouble maker, who is often up to no good. He repeatedly did similar things in the past and it is not beyond him to be doing the same thing now, disparaging a Nigerian leader who he fell out of favor with and then inciting Nigerians against him. Therefore, it is with an informed logic backed by precedents that ICHEOKU says that Olsuegun Obasanjo could be raising his usual false flag by this alarm, in the hope that he could incite Nigerians to revolt against their President Muhammadu Buhari or cause the military to stage a coup. 

Obasanjo failed abysmally and woefully in his bid to install Atiku Abubakar as president of Nigeria and is now back to his Plan B; his last joker, to make Nigeria ungovernable for President Muhammadu Buhari. A plan which he intends to implement by fostering great disunity amongst Nigerians and hoping that the country blows up under the president's watch. A timing made more sinister because it is so close to the president's 2nd term inauguration on May 29th, 2019. His calculation, if he cannot dislodge the president, to make his governing Nigeria impossible or difficult at best. A case of, if he cannot dig up the cricket, to just dismantle its mound and that will be a sufficient outcome. Why Obasanjo is doing what Obasanjo is doing is a question which only Obasanjo can vouchsafe an answer; as ICHEOKU and every other pundit can only but second guess his motive.

Olusegun Matthew Okikiola Aremu Obasanjo is a man with a storied history of backbiting and backstabbing of people who he is jealous of, envies and/or does not like. During the Biafran genocidal war, he successfully convinced Yakubu Jackal Gowon that Benjamin Black Scorpion Adekunle was not serious with breaching the Oguta Front Biafran resistance and that Black Scorpion was indeed cuddling Biafrans and sharing military intelligence with them. Gowon summarily removed Black Scorpion and replaced him with Obasanjo and the atrocities which Obasanjo committed while piercing through Oguta Front and taking Uli Airport is yet to be chronicled in any written horror stories about the genocidal Biafran war. Obasanjo is a bloody vampire who has sucked a lot of Nigerian blood and the records are there which validate this assertion.

Again Obasanjo disappointed Obafemi Awolowo in 1978, after first assuring him that the second Republic election will be free and fair and organized on a level playing field, only for him to later use Richard Akinjide to come up with the phantom 12 2/3rd majority to steer victory to Shehu Shagari. Unbeknownst to Awolowo, Obasanjo had struck a secret deal with the Sokoto Caliphate to make Shehu Shagari president in order to establish himself as s permanent friend of the North. Needless to add that the same Caliphate made him Head of State over Shehu Yar'Adua following the assassination of Muritala Mohammed in the bid to help stabilize and quieten things down so soon following the war. 

Then enter the Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida failed third Republic when Yakubu Jackal Gowon wanted to run for president and actually sought the nomination of the SDP under the ever beautiful Option A4, the only legacy which Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida can truly lay claim to as his bequeath to Nigeria. But guess who jumped out first to castigate and disparage Gowon for not allowing a new generation of leaders to emerge to lead Nigerians going forward, the same Olusegun Obasanjo. His infamous quote, "what did Gowon forget in the presidential villa that he wants to go back there to retrieve" is still so fresh in memory. But his attempt to dissuade Gowon failed, admitted Gowon suffered the worst humiliation in that his foray into politics when a school teacher roundly defeated him in the primaries. The defeat was so bad that Gowon could not win even a single Ward within Jos Township. 

Subsequently MKO Abiola won the next election but David Mark and Abubakar Umar led military resistance forced Babangida to annul the June 12th election. But instead of Olusegun Obasanjo joining forces with his Yoruba people and the rest of other Nigerians to seek redress for Abiola and restore his mandate, he allowed himself to be co-opted by the anti Abiola forces in Nigeria. He was drafted to go to South Africa to convey Babangida's message to the president of South Africa on why the Nigeria election was annulled. Responding to a reporter's question in Pretoria on why Abiola's election victory was not upheld, despite being considered the fairest and freest ever in Nigeria, Obasanjo dismissively said that Abiola was not the Messiah who Nigerians were waiting for and needed. 

Abiola's mandate was stolen. Babangida was forced to step aside. An Interim National Government with a Jonathan-lite, Ernest Shonekan, was put in charge. Sani Abacha was left behind as Defense Minister. It is also on record too that John Shagaya approached Shonekan and urged him to retire Abacha immediately in order to have a chance at success in running the country. But instead of acting on the intelligence, Shonekan merely invited Abacha with Shagaya present, to tell him that Shagaya told him that he, Abacha, was planning to remove him from office and whether that was true. 

Abacha denied culpability and promised Shonekan that he will conduct an internal investigation to find out if any such planned activity was going on without his knowledge inside the military which he was heading. The next day by 11am Abacha traveled back to Abuja and by 5pm, instead of reporting back to Shonekan on his finding, went ahead and removed Shonekan from office and that also ended Shagaya's career in the military. Abiola was arrested and jailed; but instead of Obasanjo rallying Yoruba people around to fight for what was greater than his personal selfish self, he aligned forces with the North and was constantly holding meetings in Aso Rock, with the believe that he will be appointed to head any subsequent interim government of National Unity. 

At one point, Obasanjo technically became the liaison officer between Abacha and the Yoruba Southwest, trying to find the best possible way to resolve the Abiola election that a grounded country can once again get going. But Abacha remained non committal on any Interim Government or handing over to Obasanjo, so Obasanjo fell out with Abacha and started waging his war of calumny against Abacha's government. He was subsequently arrested, tried and convicted for plotting a coup; and was awaiting execution when the late Stella reached out to Andrew Young who prevailed on Bill Clinton to pressure Abacha not to execute Obasanjo and his death sentence was commuted to 25 years prison sentence. 

Anyway, Abacha later died and Obasanjo was freed from prison, granted pardon and when the idea of the 4th Republic came up, the Caliphate remembered their friend and decided on a return favor. Atiku Abubakar and Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida were drafted to lead the effort which culminated in the Jos PDP Convention and Obasanjo was later "elected" president of Nigeria, following Abubakar Abdulsalam's exit. 

But the same Obasanjo, who once asked Gowon what he forgot in the presidential villa, somewhat himself forgot something in the presidential villa that made him to seek the office, admitted that no one knows if he eventually found it. Also, whether Obasanjo became the Messiah which Nigerians sought and needed, nobody knows as well; but suffice it to say that Baba Iyabo is a man with a kaleidoscopic personality. He is very manipulative too and he can simultaneously be different things to so many different people, all at once. 

Obasanjo served out his two terms in office, wanted to extend it to three terms by using monetary inducements to influence the National Congress into changing the constitution so that he could have his way. Sacs of Ghana Must Go bags stuffed with foreign currencies were sent to the National Congress, but A Senate President Kenneth Nnamani led effort thwarted the plot and rejected Obasanjo's cash. It is also on record that Atiku Abubakar, because of his own personal scheme to be president, aligned forces with the anti Third Term agenda. A frustrated Obasanjo then decided on a payback at his Vice President Atiku Abubakar's by denying him his succession bid to the presidency. He called Atiku a thief and the most corrupt man alive in Nigeria, vowing that it will be over his dead body that Atiku will ever be president. This is the man Nigerians are listening to without asking themselves, if Obasanjo was such a good person, why did he covet a third term in office?

Then enter Umaru Yar'Adua, who was almost falling out with Obasanjo and was once heard saying that he was tired of Obasanjo's unending meddlesomeness and that he wants to be his own man. But for his death and the shortness of his term in office, he would have also had serious problem governing Nigeria because of Obasanjo. Then Goodluck Jonathan was brought into office and he remained a good boy until he started refusing Obasanjo's dictations in his presidency. Obasanjo's barrage of attacks started and the long epistles of Saint Obasanjo started flooding Newspapers and the social media platforms with his invective Satanic Verses. He eventually led the war effort that threw Goodluck Jonathan out of Aso Rock and in came Buhari.

Let Nigerians not forget that it is the same Obasanjo who accused Jonathan of raising snipers to kill 1000 prominent Nigerians, including politicians. Nigerians were angry that Jonathan could do such and some people panicked, wondering if they were among those penciled down to be eliminated by the sniper squad. But at the end, there were no snipers nor was anybody killed by any high powered telescope-mounted rifle. To date Obasanjo has not deemed it fit to apologize to Jonathan for maligning him with such a disparaging falsehood. Yet this is the same man Nigerians are listening to his hellish outburst, right?

In 2015, the same Obasanjo conspired with his Caliphate friends and removed Jonathan from office, telling Nigerians and the world at large that Buhari was "educated enough to be president." Buhari became president and was a good boy for the better part of his first term until he cancelled the billions in Naira of Federal Government subsidies to Obasanjo's Ota Farms Holding PLC. Obasanjo once again fell out with a sitting President who dared him and wanted him gone ever since. He wrote several of his usual epistles, but an "illiterate" Buhari did not read them nor gave a damn about his gibberish. The attacks continued, but Buhari turned deaf ears. 

Then a reelection came and it was time for Obasanjo to draw his pound of flesh as usual. Who did he adopt as Buhari's replacement, the same man who he once castigated as the most corrupt Nigerian alive. A man who he once told the entire world is too corrupt and too crooked to be Nigeria's president, calling him a thief and swearing that it will be over his dead body that Atiku will be president. But unfortunately, Nigerians have a notoriety for attention span deficit disorder, the reason a person as despicable as Olusegun Obasanjo can always play yoyo with their emotions, for the purposes of achieving his usually, selfish ulterior motive. Why did those Nigerians who flocked to Atiku because Obasanjo said so, not pause to ponder why Obasanjo made his 180 degrees somersault on Atiku; and what transfiguration took place that metamorphosed Atiku from being a thief to being a would be good custodian of the country's treasury. 

That Atiku was defeated is a good thing and a commendation to all those right thinking Nigerians who ignored the perpetual manipulator, who farms disillusionment on a pay per play manner, as they prevented a thief from taking control of the country's treasures. Obasanjo, now facing the last rung of the huge embarrassment which he suffered on February 23rd, 2019, having been technically neutered as an expired milk without much clout nor relevance anymore, has resorted to doing what he does best, crying wolf where there is none. Nigerians must therefore ignore the Ota Deity's latest shout of fire in the theater, his usual antic of fire on the mountain, run, run run. It cannot be that Obasanjo has a magic wand which he uses to cast a hypnotic spell on Nigerians, that make them do and react as he prompts. 

Olusegun Obasanjo' is a mercenary politician who performs any assigned role as his paying retainer dictates. Obasanjo has a greedy attitude of "it is either his way or the highway" and cannot stand the present facts facing him of being confined into the garbage bin of political irrelevancy in Nigeria. He is no longer given a red carpet reception at Aso Rock and also no longer has limitless access to President Muhammdu Buhari. A matter made worse because Bola Tinubu has now replaced him as the Yoruba Nation's chief liaison officer to Aso Rock. Obasanjo is hurting and is simply lashing out in protestation. His antic is therefore understandable, as he is being merely reactionary and not that his alarm was founded on any patriotic fervor and/or love for Southern Nigerians or even Christians in Nigeria. 

This is a guy who slaughtered Biafrans during the war and they are majority Christians. This is a guy who killed Attorney General Bola Ige and he too was a Christian. The same guy massacred Odi Bayelsa and Zaki Ibiam people and the last time ICHEOKU checked they were not Muslims, but Christians as well. The people of Bakassi Nigerians who he pawned away to Cameroon are also majority Christians. So, what exactly is the Ota Deity talking about, complaining and raising alarm about a supposed "Fulanization" of Nigeria, when himself have repeatedly acted against Christians' interest in Nigeria and for far too long. 

Was Obafemi Awolowo not a Christian when he rigged the 1978 presidential election for a Muslim Shehu Shagari? Is Peter Odili not a Christian when he imposed a Muslim Umaru Yar'Adua on Nigerians? Is Goodluck Jonathan not a Christian when he once again brought in an Islamist fundamentalist Muhammadu Buhari as president? This is a man who appointed the effant terrible Nasir el Rufai to the juiciest portfolio in Nigeria, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory; and Nasir is a fundamentalist Islamist zealot to the core. So who is fooling who, Nigerians, or how many times must Nigerians allow themselves to be had like cheap prostitute by Olusegun Obasanjo. 

A man in his late 90s who has refused to go quietly into the night, but is tirelessly working so hard to take Nigeria along with him to his grave. When will this Obasanjo's continuing nuisance in Nigeria be abated? ICHEOKU says please Buhari, LOCK OBASANJO UP and throw away the keys. The heavens will not fall; afterall Abacha did it once and Buhari is a friend of Abacha and could as well do so. 

Enough of the Obasanjo's manipulation; as no Nigerian leader will ever be good enough in the eyes of Olusegun Obasanjo, regardless. It is not until they totally surrender their governance to him and submit to his every whims and caprices, and then he certifies them as loyal minions, that they can be considered fairly good in his estimation. Who made Obasanjo the determinant in chief of what is good for Nigeria, if ICHEOKU may ask? Who made Obasanjo the Lord of the Manor and General Overseer of Nigeria? Who gave Obasanjo the power of control over the minds of Nigerians? Enough of this unmerited servile following of Olusegun Obasanjo, a man who has caused more harm than good in Nigeria and whose time in power never translated nor amounted to anything tangible. 

ICHEOKU says anybody can try, but nobody will EVER succeed in completely and totally Islamizing Nigeria. It will not happen, not now and not at any other future time. Such zealotry idiocy belongs in the 19th century, but definitely not in this 21st century. Even Sultan-President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, despite all his best effort, and in a nearly 90% Muslim country, has not succeeded in making Turkey fully and totally 100% Islamic compliant. In Islamic Republics of Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Pakistan and Iran, Christians still exists, so Nigeria will never be an exception. Moreso, Nigeria with a population of nearly 240 million people is simply too big to be Islamized; admitted Buhari can continue appointing only his fellow Muslims to all sensitive positions and giving them all manners of juicy Ministries, but that is as far as he can go in his quest, assuming it is true. 

The only Islamization of Nigeria, if that could so qualify as one, has already taken place when Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, unilaterally took Nigeria into the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) membership, without the consent of Nigerians. So 33 long years later and somebody is now raising all this hoopla and you ask yourself when Obasanjo had the chance as president of Nigeria, why did he not pull Nigeria out of OIC? 

Simply put, this present outcry is a much ado about nothing, because even in Saudi Arabia, there are still pockets of Christians as well as other religionists. Pure logical analysis has it that the odds of Islamizing Nigeria is literally second to none, zero, zilch and nada. Bola Tinubu's wife is a Christian. Enoch Adeboye and Osibanjo are not apostates. David Mark too. Matthew Kukah and all the other Cardinals. Jeremiah Useni too, and ditto the thousands of men and women of the Nigerian Armed Forces, the police and other security agencies who are Christians as well. But somebody named Obasanjo is telling Nigerians that all these people will just stand idly by and watch a pinhead-joker like Muhammadu Buhari forcibly convert them and their fellow Christians to Islamism, really? 

How is Buhari going to do, if ICHEOKU may ask? Demolish all the Churches and Cathedrals in Nigeria or use Hisbah Islamist police to frog-march everyone into a mosque for Friday prayers? The only thing he could do, which he has technically already done, is to condition appointments and other positions under his government to one being a Muslim. In that way, he could possibly influence some weak greedy Christians to pledge a conversion in order to secure positions, as obtains in other Islamic countries. But that will last as long as his four years in office lasts and thereafter, Nigeria will revert to normalcy.

ICHEOKU is also doubtful if the Muslims population in Nigeria is higher than Christians and other religionists population. There is no place in Nigeria, no matter how remote, in which you will not find Christians including in Birnin Kebbi; but there are so many places in Nigeria including ICHEOKU's Local Government Area as a whole, with zero Muslim population. So, when stuff eventually hits the ceiling, certain projected outcomes might not necessarily turn out as thought, because reality often trumps projections and expectations. Therefore, ICHEOKU urges Nigerians to stop overheating the polity and to continue to go about their normal business; but to remain vigilant and be prepared, just in case anyone misjudges the tolerance for Buhari's silliness in making his Muslims only appointments as weakness of the rest of Nigerians, because it is not. 

It is only a reasonable tolerance which must not be mistaken, because when it comes to matters of faith, millions will die fighting. Religious wars never ends, except in stalemate and negotiated settlements; as Lebanese Phalanges Army and Ireland Republican Army  resistances showed that even when faced with a formidable force such as the British military, that faithfuls do fight to the finish. As for weapons of war, ban or no ban, when it becomes imperative to defend faith, they will be shipped in and airdropped in tons that will amaze even the biggest cynic. So provided the Yoruba Nation will stand in solidarity with the rest of the other victimized Nations in Nigeria and not sabotage the effort as is usually their stock in trade, whoever has any plans to Islamize Nigeria will find out the hard way that it is a mission impossible. But Buhari is not that naive to think that he can easily accomplish that, assuming he wants to; not even with the support of Mali, Niger, Chad and Saudi Arabia combined. 

THERESA MAY'S TEARFUL EXIT

ICHEOKU says but why, who made Tessy cry, afterall boys don't cry?