GUN VIOLENCE IN AMERICA: FOR WHO THE BELL TOLLS NEXT.

Just five people shy of Sandy Hook elementary school mass shooting incident that claimed 26 lives, the Uvalde Texas Robb elementary school mass shooting at 21 victims, now ranks among the highest grossing gun carnage in America. It is sad that such frequent blood spilling has tragically become part of our culture as a society. May the souls of the killed now rest.

25th AMENDMENT: ITS NOW ALL CRICKET.

Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi once questioned former President Donald John Trump's fitness to remain in office due to what she claimed was his declining mental capacity. Does anyone know what Madam Speaker presently thinks about the incontrovertible case which America is now saddled with? Just curious!

WHO WILL REBUILD UKRAINE?

The West should convert frozen Russian assets, both state's and oligarchs' owned, into a full seizure and set them aside for the future rebuilding of Ukraine. Like the Marshal Plan, call it the Putin Plan.

A HERO IS BORN.

I am staying put. I will not run away and abandon my people. The fight is here in Ukraine. What I need are weapons and ammunitions, not a ride out of town like former Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani - President Volodymyr Zelensky.

IT IS WHAT IT IS.

"There is too much hate in America because there is too much anger in America." - Trevor Noah.

WORD!

A life without challenges is not a life lived at all. A life lived is a life that has problems, confronts problems, solves problems and then learns from problems. - Tunde Fashola.

NOW, YOU KNOW.

When fishing for love, bait with your heart and not your brain, because you cannot rationalize love. - Mark Twain.

JUST THE FACT.

In our country, you can shoot and kill a nigger, but you better not hurt a gay person’s feelings - Dave Chappelle

DO YOU?.

“What you believe in can only be defined by what you’re willing to risk for it." - Stuart Scheller.

HEDGE YOUR CRISIS.

Never get in bed with a woman whose problems are worse than yours. - Chicago PD.

PROBLEM SOLVED.

'The best way to keep peace is to be ready to destroy evil. If you Pearl Harbor me, I Nagasaki you.' - Ted Nugent.

OUR SHARED HUMANITY.

Empathy is at the heart of who we are as human beings. - Cardinal Matthew Kukah.

WORDS ON MARBLE.

"Birth is agony. Life is hard. Death is cruel." - Japanese pithy.

REPENT OR PERISH - POPE.

Homosexuality is a sin. It is not ordained by God, therefore same sex marriage cannot be blessed by the church - Pope Francis.

CANCEL CULTURE IS CORROSIVE.


FOR SAKE OF COUNTRY.


MAGA LIVES ON: NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER!

TWITTER IS BORING WITHOUT HIS TWEETS. #RestorePresidentTrump'sTwitterHandle.


WORD.

"If you cannot speak the truth when it matters, then nothing else you says matters.” - Tucker Carlson.

#MeToo MOVEMENT: A BAD NEWS GONE CRAZY.

"To all the women who testified, we may have different truth, but I have a great remorse for all of you. I have great remorse for all of the men and women going through this crisis right now in our country. You know, the movement started basically with me, and I think what happened, you know, I was the first example, and now there are thousands of men who are being accused and a regeneration of things that I think none of us understood. I’m not going to say these aren’t great people. I had wonderful times with these people. I’m just genuinely confused. Men are confused about this issue. We are going through this #MeToo movement crisis right now in this country." - Harvey Weinstein.


RON DELLUMS: UNAPOLOGETICALLY RADICAL.

"If it’s radical to oppose the insanity and cruelty of the Vietnam War, if it’s radical to oppose racism and sexism and all other forms of oppression, if it’s radical to want to alleviate poverty, hunger, disease, homelessness, and other forms of human misery, then I’m proud to be called a radical.” - Ron Vernie Dellums.


WHAT REALLY MATTERS IN LIFE - STEVE JOBS

“I reached the pinnacle of success in the business world. In others’ eyes, my life is an epitome of success. However, aside from work, I have little joy. Non-stop pursuing of wealth will only turn a person into a twisted being, just like me. God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone’s heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth. Memories precipitated by love is the only true riches which will follow you, accompany you, giving you strength and light to go on. The most expensive bed in the world is the sick bed. You can employ someone to drive the car for you, make money for you but you cannot have someone to bear sickness for you. Material things lost can be found. But there is one thing that can never be found when it is lost – Life. Treasure Love for your family, love for your spouse, love for your friends. Treat yourself well. Cherish others.” - SJ

EVIL CANNOT BE TRULY DESTROYED.

"The threat of evil is ever present. We can contain it as long as we stay vigilant, but it can never truly be destroyed. - Lorraine Warren (Annabelle, the movie)


ONLY THE POOR WISH THEY HAD STUFF?

“I’m not that interested in material things. As long as I find a good bed that I can sleep in, that’s enough.” - Nicolas Berggruem, the homeless billionaire.

Wednesday, May 12, 2021

IMPROVED HAMAS ROCKETS STRIKES TEL AVIV.

ICHEOKU says the terrorist organization Hamas lights up the skies of TelAviv and other Israeli cities including Ashkelon with rockets. They swarmed Israel with hundreds of rockets, showing the limitations of Israel's Iron Dome which was simply overwhelmed by the share number of rockets fired simultaneously and could not intercept all of them. It is a sad foreboding of what awaits the Jewish State of Israel in the event Hamas ever secures the atom bomb or gets much better with targets coordinations as well as improved rockets range. The rockets were so many that it felt like 4th of July fireworks over the Potomac. People died on both sides and it is regrettable. 

Tuesday, May 11, 2021

THEY CREATED THE NIGERIA'S FRANKENSTEIN MONSTER: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

ICHEOKU says Nigerians generally agree that Muhammadu Buhari is a bad product. They are tired of his presidency or lack thereof and want him gone because he has no capacity to handle nor answers to the numerous existential threats afflicting the country. But unlike most bad products where manufacturers are usually held responsible for the unfitness for purpose of their products, Nigerians are not holding Olusegun Obasanjo and Bola Tinubu accountable for the bad product which they sold to Nigerians. Why are this two men being shielded and protected from criticism for all the failures of the Buhari's maladministration. 

Without Tinubu's bullion vans and Obasanjo's "Buhari is educated enough tp be president", ICHEOKU is emphatic that Buhari would not be sitting in Aso Rock today. But their conspiracy made it possible as it midwifed Buhari's presidency and today, Nigerians are gnashing their teeth in agony for the Frankenstein monster which the Obasanjo and TInubu experimentation brought about.  Like Rehoboam (1 Kings 12:14) Buhari is chastising Nigerias with scorpions of crushing hardship with no end in sight. Who shall save Nigerians? 

IPOB LEADER MAZI NNAMDI KANU WRITES JOE BIDEN.

ICHEOKU says the leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, who has been leading agitation for the peaceful breakup of Nigeria has written to Joe Biden, asking him to intervene now to prevent what will amount to the largest blood shedding in Africa should the continuous provocations, marginalization and suppression of the region known as Biafra ever result in Biafrans ighting back. 

Western nations, particularly the United States of America and the United Kingdom, should as a matter of urgency wade into the unfolding crisis and resolve it now than to wait for when it will be too late for any meaningful intervention after it might have snowballed into the largest human catastrophe ever. 

The United Nations Organizations should be mandated to conduct a plebiscite on the issue of separation and to really gauge the pulse of the people to see what they want. Thereafter, the various agitating nationalities in Nigeria can be allowed to peacefully go their separate ways instead of waiting to first turn Nigeria into another Syria or Yemen before achieving the same result which could be achieved now without any further firing of shots. The killings and kidnappings as well as looting and maiming insecurity situation is becoming unbearably too much and the government at Abuja seemingly has no answer to the problem. 

It is obvious that the amalgamation experiment of 1904 has run its course and is desperately gasping for air. There is no point having aggravated strangers forcibly yoked together in a country where they are constantly at each other's neck. Their animosity towards each another has not made room for a collective pursuit of growth and development in the country. Nigeria is stagnated for this reason. So many different nations pulling the country to different sides and wishing for separate things for the same country does not bode well for a country that wants to make progress. The people that make up Nigeria are not the same, they don't like each other, their aspirations and goals in life vary tremendously. 

Lastly, there is enough population in Nigeria, estimated at 280 million, to easily sustain four countries. So many countries in the world, especially in Europe, are less than 10 million in population, so why can't the various groups in Nigeria be allowed to devolve into their own separate countries with same commonalities such as peculiar language, border and culture. Why the Tower of Babel that has led to the seesaw counter-development which has seen all motions and no movement in Nigeria overall life. #UnchainNigerians. 

Here now is the letter MNK wrote to Joe Biden.


Honorable Joe Biden

President 

United States of America

The White House

Washington DC

 

Re: REQUEST FOR UNITED STATES MILITARY ASSISTANCE BY PRESIDENT MOHAMMADU BUHARI OF NIGERIA

Dear Mr. President:

We, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) applaud your election as President of the United States, the most powerful office in the history of the world. We salute your adept and muscular discharge of presidential duties during your tenure in the White House.

Mr President, as you consider Buhari’s request for military assistance to Nigeria, we respectfully urge you to also consider the following:

1. President Buhari has made Nigeria the most dangerous country in the world for Christians, Jews and Nigeria’s indigenous peoples, particularly those of the former Republic of Biafra. Hundreds of thousands are routinely plundered, tortured or killed with impunity by Nigerian security forces controlled and populated by Buhari's Fulani Islamic tribesmen, often in collaboration with Fulani herdsmen (Islamist terrorist group that has been internationally branded the 4th deadliest terrorist grouping in the world). These atrocities have been confirmed and published by US State Department in its various Human Rights Reports on Nigeria, by Amnesty International and other credible bodies. The US Commission on International Religious Freedom has recommended listing Nigeria as a country of concern because of its religious oppressions. United States sales or transfers of weapons to Nigeria to fight Boko Haram are diverted to killing and terrorizing Christians and Jews. The Nigerian army, which leadership is Fulani and Islamist is complicit in these illicit transfers.

2. President Buhari is promoting radical Islam in secular Nigeria. He has endorsed Sharia law in twelve northern Nigerian states. He has treated Boko Haram with kid gloves, releasing from detention hundreds arrested by the previous administration. He recruited them into Nigerian army and offered generous foreign scholarship to hundreds of them. He has appointed radical Muslims to head every security agency in Nigeria, including Sheik Isa Pantami whose profuse support for Al Qaeda and Taliban was widely published recently. Yet, Mr Buhari has refused to sack him from his sensitive position as Minister of Communication overseeing the biometric data of Nigerians. By defending Sheik Pantami, Mr Buhari is seemingly aligning with Mr Pantami’s terrorist sympathies. Mr Buhari is a strong ally of the Islamic Republic of Iran and China; and he has generally pursued policies that put Nigeria at odds with US national interest since you came to office.

3. President Buhari is conducting a genocidal campaign against tens of millions of Christians and Jews, particularly those indigenous to the former Republic of Biafra. These include mass killings, torture, and the destruction of Christian schools, churches and Jewish synagogues. He has arbitrarily branded and terrorized the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), a nonviolent group pursuing the Independence of the former Republic of Biafra. Mr Buhari’s draconian measures were geared to retaliating against peaceful demonstrations favoring the restoration of Biafran independence that was cruelly extinguished by a genocidal military campaign Buhari partly led between 1967 and 1970.  He has concocted treason charges against IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu to crush Biafran self-determination, despite the fact that self-determination is legal under Nigerian law. Mr. Buhari’s demonic rule is convulsing Nigeria and creating new safe havens for radical Islamic terrorists that pose potent threat to US interests, from the Sahel to the Gulf of Guinea.

 

Prayers:

1, We respectfully suggest that you consider, among other things, denying weapons sales or transfers to Nigeria under the Leahy Amendment; listing Nigeria complicit in persecuting Christian and Jews under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act.

2, We respectfully urge Mr President to invoke particularly Section 620M of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (FAA), as amended, which prohibits the furnishing of assistance authorized by the FAA and the Arms Export Control Act to any foreign security force unit where there is credible information that the unit has committed a gross violation of human rights.

In conclusion, we state categorically that the national interests of the United States lie in protecting Christians and Jews in Nigeria, defeating radical Islam and preventing instability in West Africa which will altogether be enhanced by a US-led diplomatic pressure on the Nigerian government to - as a matter of urgency - agree to a UN-supervised referendum on Biafran Independence.

We wish you and your family many wonderful years in the White House.

 

Sincerely,

 

_________

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu

Leader, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)

Monday, May 10, 2021

MELINDA WANT TO MAKE A GROWN BILL CRY: SHE IS A MEAN MACHINE.

ICHEOKU says if only Melinda had listened more attentively and closely to the beatings of Bill's heart, may be she would have saved her marriage. But no, she was a control freak busy trying to rein him in; but an already started and ticking Bill never wanted to stop; instead he blew everything up. 

Now we can see understand more clearly the different pathways which they will go in their next phase of their life. The rocker Bill wants the music to play on while the more house-wifely Melinda wants him to know his age and that he is no longer a spring chicken. But what is life if not having some fun afterall Cyndi Lauper sang Girls Just Want To Have Fun" but forget that boys too like to have fun as well. It shows that Melinda was the boring one in the marriage, the reason Bill was getting it elsewhere, spicing up his life from other women who share common interests with him. 

Mikey Jagger is somewhat responsible for what happened as boys got to be boys and rock n roll is one heck of a boys' music. That video rocks. Love it. Never knew that this other side of Bill existed and for this, the facade of a harmless Mickey Mouse which he usually puts in public is now forgiven. The video shows his humanity and that he has a life outside staring on the computer screen. ICHEOKU has been listening to Rolling Stones all day after watching Bill Gates and friends rocking to Start Me Up. That video will definitely win him a lot of converts who previously were turned off by his nerd demeanor. Bill Gates is the bomb; he rocks!


"Start Me Up"
The Rolling Stones


If you start me up!
If you start me up I'll never stop

If you start me up!
If you start me up I'll never stop
I've been running hot
You got me ticking gonna blow my top
If you start me up, if you start me up
I'll never stop, never stop, never stop, never stop

You make a grown man cry
You make a grown man cry
You make a grown man cry
Spread out the oil, the gasoline
I walk smooth ride in a mean, mean machine
Start it up!

If you start it up!
Kick on the starter, give it all you've got
(You got, you got)
I can't compete
With the riders in the other heats
If you rough it up
If you like it you can slide it up, slide It up
Slide it up, slide it up
Don't make a grown man cry
Don't make a grown man cry
Don't make a grown man cry
My eyes dilate, my lips go green
My hands are greasy, she's a mean, mean machine
Start it up!

Start me up!
Ah, you've got to, you've got to
Never, never, never stop
Start it up!
Ah, start it up, never, never, never
You make a grown man cry
You make a grown man cry
You make a grown man cry
Ride like the wind, at double speed
I'll take you places that you've never, never seen

You start it up!
Love the day when we will never stop
Never stop, never, never, never stop
Tough me up!
Never stop, never stop
You, you, you make a grown man cry
You, you make a dead man come
You, you, you make a dead man come.

Sunday, May 9, 2021

DEATH IN OBAMA FAMILY: BO IS DEAD.

ICHEOKU says Bo was once America's First Dog, a gift to Obama's girls, Sasha and Malia, by late Massachusetts' Senator Ted Kennedy when their family moved into the White House. Bo, a black Portuguese water dog with white chest and white lower legs, died of complications from cancer according to its obituary announcement by Mama Bo, Michelle Obama. 

ICHEOKU says does not know if he was named in memory of late Joe Biden's son Bo, the son who was more useful and not the crackhead Hunter. It is equally worth noting that the human Bo  equally died of cancer, begging the question if there is something about the name Bo and cancer? Just an aside.

Another significant thing about the late Bo is that unlike Joe and Jill Biden's dog, Major, Bo did not like the taste of human flesh. He did not bite anyone during the time he was America's First Dog in the White House, although his sister Sunny once nipped a White House's visitor in the face. Bo was like the other Joe and Jill Biden's dog Champ in temperament; while Sunny and Major are very much alike, having drawn human blood.

Left to mourn Bo are his sister Sunny, their parents Barack and Michelle, their other Obama siblings Sasha and Malia as well as millions of dog lovers all over the world. Bo was so adorable that so many previously non dog lovers took to loving dogs and the Portuguese water dog became more popular as a result of Bo's stardom. Bo will be sorely missed by the Obamas as he took to their family as soon as he joined them and Americans took notice. May Bo's soul now rest in Doggy Paradise. Adieu Bo.

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY.

ICHEOKU says happy mothers day to all the mothers out there who birthed and nurtured us, including the mad wokeism decrepitudes who want to cancel motherhood. We love mothers and we thank them for being such indefatigable species of humanity. Mothers are both able and capable and they rock our world. Happy Mother's Day!

Saturday, May 8, 2021

SNL REJECTS WOKEISM: CELEBRATES MOTHERHOOD

ICHEOKU says wokeist mad dogs must be heavily disappointed that Saturday Night Live did not concede to their cancel escapade and refused to cancel motherhood. Instead, they celebrated motherhood in an awesome way and ICHEOKU applauds SNL for standing up for what is right by celebrating wonderful special human beings without whose labor, sweat and pain there will be nobody on this earth including the wokeist nutcrackers who are pushing their arrant nonsensical on the society. 

Elon Musk did well overall, but Weekend Update by Michael Che skit on Joe Biden being the first wax figure to be president did it for ICHEOKU. It was a rib cracker. Imagine how high SNL rating will go if only they lift the embargo on Joe Biden's skits and let it flow freely from its abundant reservoir. Overall, it was a successful session start and the co-mingling shows that the six feet social distancing is now forever behind us. 

ICHEOKU says was satisfied with the episode and hopefully they will continue onward with the path set tonight. Mothers should be celebrated more as mothers rock and they are our rock. ICHEOKU says congratulations to all the mothers out there and happy Mother's Day to you all.

WHO BECOMES PARENT NUMBER ONE?

ICHEOKU says with the ever changing society's vocabulary orchestrated by the woke nut jobs which have now outlawed the words "father and mother" and replaced them with "Parent 1 and Parent 2", who becomes Parent 1 and who becomes Parent 2? When will they outlaw the words "Penis and Vagina" and replace them with just "Biological Equipments?" ICHEOKU says it never ends with this people. This woke crowd are stupider than they themselves can even imagine. But why the society is tolerating their metastasizing cancer which is ravaging Western societies is difficult to comprehend. It is sad that with this development, Mothers' Day has now gone with the wind of Wokeism, albeit technically. 


ZHE SHELLEY WANG: THE CHINESE WHO ROCKED MELINDA'S BOAT?

ICHEOKU says is she another sleeper cell Chinese spy secretly working for the Chinese Communist Party who cracked Bill Gates' source code? Is she the earthquake which finally brought down the marital house of Melinda Gates after rocking it for so long since 2015? Who knows how many Microsoft's proprietary secrets she has possibly siphoned and handed over to China since her rendezvous with the Gates. But are there no Americans who are masterful of the Chinese language for the Gates to have engaged as their Chinese interpreter. 

Why are some Americans playing ignorant of the threat posed by China and not fully alert at what China is doing to supplant America. Why are they not incensed that China is trying so hard to displace America as the number one in the world and are stealing everything and anything which they can from America to use in countering America's advances. China is America's greatest adversary and is actively engaged in espionage against America and everything that makes America great including Microsoft? 

China is mining America's top secrets and proprietary information, using every person they can get hold of including many Chinese Americans, regardless of their long stay in America and supposedly professed loyalty to America. Like many immigrants, there is no place like home, where their heart really is and American Chinese are no exception. Many Chinese Americans are equally vulnerable to external influences and therefore  recruitable by their motherland's Communist Party as they see such opportunity as a way to  show they are patriotic Chinese. 

But hey, the unfolding drama in the household of Bill and Melinda Gates is steadily looking like a material for a Hollywood blockbuster movie. ICHEOKU prays that Oprah Winfrey will soon land an interview with Melinda Gates and pry out from her all the insider information which the world is anxiously waiting to know about what really brought about their divorce. If anyone can make Melinda spill it all, Oprah is it; as she is specially talented and gifted in making people give up their innermost secrets. 

When you think that only California's Congressman Eric Swalwell was into the Chinese, here comes one of the most recognizable billionaire and philanthropist extraordinaire, co-founder of Microsoft who later morphed into a vaccine aficionado, say me too am into them as well. Bill Gates has been Chinese whipped and has his now failed marriage as a proof. ICHEOKU says there must be something about Chinese honey pot, may be it is extra sweetened and too tempting that even Bill Gates has now fallen into it headlong. 

It is sad that what Bill and Melinda Gates represent globally over this many years has now been sullied by a failed marriage brought about by uncontrollable philandering of Bill. It must be in the name as there could be something possibly in the name that triggers infidelity as one other fella named Bill also did something with Monica Lewinsky. But unlike Melinda, Hillary forgave her own Bill and did not head to divorce court. ICHEOKU prays that Melinda, the now scorned woman, will find the winning spirit to carry on and not let what happened keep her down; admitted hell has no fury like a woman scorned. But life happens.  

ELON MUSK HOSTS SNL TONIGHT.

ICHEOKU says the jokes running Saturday Night Live no longer consider Elon Musk good enough to host their gradually dying show, simply because he is not too deep into cancel culture and other wokeist theories of absurdities. But lets hope he can take a dig or two at Joe Biden who has become a do not touch deity and sacred occupant of the White House as far as the leftist anarchists are concerned.  Despite the many things which they could have made hilarious jokes about Joe Biden out of, they simply pass or close their eyes at it. It is sad that the once must watch Saturday night comic show no longer packs the punch that it was known for many years back and even when President Donald John Trump was in the White House. 

Even a skit about "I can't find my mask; where is my mask", would create a great laughter but they won't dare go there nor touch it with a SNL's long stick. ICHEOKU will watch to see if Elon Musk will finally do something about it and actually throw something at Joe Biden and damn the consequence. It is about time somebody at SNL bent down and pick a little flower from the grounds of White House and hand it to Jill, the doctor; but don't ever let her even give you a coronavirus vaccine because her doctorate is in education and not in human wellness. #ElonMustHostsSNL.

Friday, May 7, 2021

ZUCKERBERG WILL NOT LIFT THE BAN ON TRUMP.

ICHEOKU says President Donald John Trump should forget ever getting back on Facebook and other social media platforms as the forces behind his banishment are as superior, if not the same forces that forced him out of the White House. They want to render him politically impotent and they will do whatever it takes to ensure that he remains in the cold doldrum of social media's total and complete quarantine. He should therefore continue to explore other options to stay visible online as may provide themselves; but as for the big three major players, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, he is toast. Even in the impossible event he is ever allowed back, it will be with such pigeonholed restrictions that he might as well not be even present there. But the "You're fired" brash Trump punchlines that he is known for will never be allowed or seen again on these social media platforms. The left is vicious and they neither forgets nor forgives. It is sad. 

YORUBA'S INTEREST IN 2023 NIGERIAN PRESIDENCY: INCOMPREHENSIBLY SELFISH.

ICHEOKU says it is absolutely unfathomable that any other group in Nigeria, particularly the Yoruba Southwest, will be actively seeking the presidency of Nigeria in 2023 and to the detriment of Southeast Igbo people who rightly deserves a shot at the presidency. With so many decades of marginalization and having never been allowed at the helm of affairs in Nigeria for over 55 years, Igbo people rightly deserves a recompense of 2023 presidency.

The best way to remedy their situation and to truly redress their hurt feeling of not being treated as equal citizens of Nigeria is for other nationalities in Nigeria, particularly Yoruba and Hausa/Fulani people, to unanimously concede the presidency in 2023 to Igbo people who shall then chose among themselves who to nominate. Igbo people have earned the right to first refusal of Nigeria presidency in 2023 than any other group in Nigeria and should be allowed to exercise it. Any other group of people in Nigeria seeking the presidency in 2023, particular if the Yoruba people, simply indicates that Nigerian's unity does not matter to them and that they do not care if every Nigerian group is  treated fairly and equally or perpetually marginalized. 

But with the Yoruba people, it seems that it is always all about them and nobody else, the reason their acute selfishness has contributed heavily in the erosion of unity in Nigeria. Who knows what Ahmed Bola Tinubu has been discussing with Muhammadu Buhari all these times he visits Aso Rock and they hold their usual closed door meetings. It is possible the two are always strategizing on and fine-tuning how Yoruba and Fulani people will continue to tag-team Igbo people and perpetually keep them in bondage of marginalization and inside political dog house in Nigeria, without ever allowing them a chance at any national political relevance and/or leadership/power position in Nigeria.

ICHEOKU says that any Yoruba person should be coveting the Nigeria presidency in 2023, so soon after four of their kinsmen have been in the seat of power, without any Igbo person taking a turn except for the four years Alexander Ekwueme was a sidelined Vice President to Shehu Shagari and Ebitu Ukiwe's one year as Babangida's Chief of General Staff or de-facto Vice President, is to say the least greediness personified. Olusegun Obasanjo had 11 years headship of Nigeria (3 years as Head of State and 8 years as president); Ernest Shonekan was the Head of Nigeria Interim government for 4 months; Oladipo Diya was Chief of General Staff or de-facto Vice President in Sani Abacha's regime for 3 years and Yemi Osinbajo will soon complete his 8 years as Vice President of Muhammadu Buhari. 

So all together, Yoruba people have been in power for 22 years and 4 months as against Igbo people's 5 years; yet they want another go at it and you wonder is it due to thoughtlessness or crass greed. It is a glaring indication that they do not care about Southern solidarity or even fairness within the Nigeria political spectrum; and that everything is about themselves and nobody else. ICHEOKU says can anyone imagine the opprobrium which the Yoruba people would have rained down on Igbo people were the situation to be reversed and an Igbo person is actively seeking a shot at the Nigeria presidency in 2023. A matter made even worse because of all the effort that have been made over so many years to effectuate a handshake across the Niger. 

Why are Yoruba people not always as supportive to Igbo causes as Igbo people are to Yoruba causes and sometimes even spearhead and champion them. But all Igbo people's effort at rapprochement have always been rebuffed, resisted and sometimes even sabotaged by Yoruba people and you ask yourself why do they always behave antagonistically towards Igbo people. Why this hostility and has it grown to such degree that nothing can ever be done to broach brotherly spirit between the two groups. Even media, particularly news print media do not even cover Igbo matters as they cover other groups, except of course when it is crime related and they want to portray and depict Igbo people as the abhorrent group in Nigeria. 

What manner of a people are these sons and daughters of Oduduwa anyway, that they cannot find it in themselves to give Southern Nigeria's unity a serious try. Why are they the way they are and why do they do the things they do and any attempt to seek answers will be met with that they allow Igbo people to live and do business in their region. ICHEOKU says so what, are Igbo people not paying to live and do business in Yoruba land and by extension extensively enrich their region with real estate developments and a whole lot of revenue from property and other taxes as well as living expenses. 

But the Yoruba hostility towards Igbo people did not start today, but a very long time ago before independence when their Obafemi Awolowo sabotaged Nnamdi Azikwe's victory in the old Western regional House of Assembly because he did not want Igbo people to "dominate" Yoruba people in Yoruba land. The move irrevocably instituted tribalism in Nigeria as the sabotaged Zik returned to Eastern Region and forced out a minority, present day Akwa Ibom State man, Eyo Ita who was the head of Eastern government as in his own understanding, mirroring Obafemi Awolowo, Igbo majority in the East cannot be lorded it over by the minority Efik man. 

Subsequently, there was the Biafran civil war and it was the same Yoruba's Obafemi Awolow who ensured that Igbo people were dealt with the harshest cruelty known to mankind. He engineered and imposed a bone crushing economic blockade which completely shut off food and medicine supplies to war ravaged Biafra and it led to kwashiorkor with millions of women and children starving to death due to malnutrition. 

At the end of the war, Obafemi Awolowo also seized all Igbo people's money in the banks, giving them only 20 pounds in lieu of whatever millions their bank deposits might contain. It was during the same time that he indigenized all foreign companies in Nigeria and auctioned them off to his Yoruba people and in some case even provided them loan with soft and often interest free government loans which to pay for their purchase price. It is also worthy of note that it was during the same time when Igbo people had only 20 pounds to their name and could not afford to participate in the purchase of these companies. It led to the economic gap between Yoruba and Igbo people which is continuously being bridged. But not yet done with his bloodiness, he caused so many Igbo properties to be seized, deemed abandoned in Yoruba region particularly in Lagos State. 

Then the second republic came and while Zik's Eastern NPP was opened negotiation for a working alliance with Awolowo's UPN, Awolowo went behind to hold a different alliance meeting with Shagari's NPN. Then add Oladipo Diya's  asinine hatred for Igbo people and his resolute stand against appointing Igbo people to government positions because according to him, Igbo people should not be rewarded for the civil war with appointments in the Abacha regime. Then there was the MKO Abiola's well deserved and rightly won presidential election which was principally sabotaged by his Yoruba people. 

Obas and prominent Yoruba people were promised and given oil blocks as a trade off for Abiola's presidency and they sold out. Obi of Lagos Akiolu once threatened to publicly name those who recievied the oil blocs but was prevailed upon and he reneged. It is also on record that many prominent Yoruba people served in the Abacha/Diya regime and Olusegun Obasanjo was also on record in South Africa telling the whole listening world that Abiola was not the messiah which Nigerian people were looking for. 

The annulled election led to the "Abiola riot" in which Igbo people actively participated and vociferously demanded that Abiola's mandate must be restored. Then NADECO was formed to fight Abacha and to restore Abiola's mandate; but while all the efforts were being made to ensure that Abiola got his mandate back, his Yoruba people were working to ensure that he was never sworn in and they succeeded. Eventually Abdulsalam Abubakar's regime released an Abacha imprisoned Olusegun Obasanjo from prison and made Obasanjo president under the color of an election, as a payback for Yoruba people over Abiola. Obansanjo spent eight years in Aso Rock and before then in 1976 to 1979, another 3 years as Head of State. Osinbanjo in 2023 would have served 8 years as Nigeria Vice President. 

But Igbo people have not been similarly privileged but it does not matter to some of this Yoruba people that they have had a fair shake at Nigeria's seat of power and that others, particularly Igbo people deserves their own fair shake. Are they this callous or simply too greedy not to give a care in the world about this apparent injustice which have kept Igbo people in the cold for more than 50 years now. Igbo people would not have done it to Yoruba people and would be the ones hollering at the top of their lungs for   a Yoruba person to become president in 2023 were the position to be reversed. But Yoruba people are still actively lobbying and seeking the Nigeria presidency in 2023 despite all these. 

Ahmed Bola Tinubu is running for president in 2023 and now Olusegun Obasanjo is sponsoring Akinwumi Adesina, his former Minister of Agriculture and President of African Development Bank as his preferred candidate to counter Tinubu. ICHEOKU says does it mean that this two men, Tinubu and Obasanjo, are conscienceless and that they actively support and are part of the marginalization against Igbo people. Even the present Muhammadu Buhari quagmire which Nigerians are mired in was with active connivance of this two Yoruba personalities as Buhari could not have been elected without them. 

Before Obasanjo and Tinubu's conspiracy which kicked Goodluck Jonathan out of Aso Rock, Buhhari had three times run for and three times lost the presidency as Nigerian people continuously rejected him until Obasanjo assured Nigerians that Buhari was "educated enough to be president" and Tinubu committed several bullion vans into the project. But instead of apologizing to Nigerians for what they did to them with Buhari and then disappearing into the oblivion for being such poor judgement of character, here they are again, shamelessly seeking to get into Aso Rock themselves, personally and by proxy. But the duo has no shame and they are as shameless as street hookers fighting over their pay.

ICHEOKU says is not in anyway denying Yoruba people the right to participation in politics and/or to seek whatever office in Nigeria which they crave. But fairness demands that they be circumspect about others, particularly Igbo people, who have not been allowed to hold power during the last 55 years. They will not accept such nor will they tolerate such imprudence from the Igbo people were the situation to be reversed. If Yoruba people are sincerely committed to Nigerian unity and care about Southern Nigeria brotherliness and care about the handshake across the Niger, they should be the ones drumming support for a Nigerian president of Igbo extraction in 2023. 

There should be no Yoruba person queuing up for president in 2023 and they will dutifully do whatever it takes to ensure that an Igbo person become the next president of Nigeria in 2023. It is the right and proper thing to do and it is the only way to ensure Nigeria unity by carry every part of the country along. A president of Nigeria of Igbo extraction is sacrosanct to keeping Nigeria as one and nothing else is truer than this incontrovertible fact. Therefore Tinubu and Obasanjo must drop their ambitions and throw their weight behind the Project Elect Igbo person president of Nigeria in 2023. Nothing else makes sense and nothing else counts. 

Thursday, May 6, 2021

TRUMP: THE SAD REALITY OF 2024.

ICHEOKU says to say that President Donald John Trump will win the presidential race in 2024 is to concede that he lost it in 2020. But he did not; he won the election but was merely stopped from being sworn by the Deep State. Unfortunately, the same forces which forced him out of the White House in 2020 will also prevent him from coming back to the White House in 2024. Any person arguing alternative theories to the contrary is either lying to themselves or being economical with the truth. It is sad.

FACEBOOK BAN OF PRESIDENT TRUMP STAYS: NOT SURPRISED WITH THE RULING.

ICHEOKU says did not expect otherwise as the ban of President Donald John Trump on Facebook was woke culture driven and not necessarily because the president did anything wrong to warrant it. The alleged January 6th speech incitement of the Capitol riot has since turned out to be a fable, yet that was what they based their initial decision to ban him. So where is still the justification to keep him banned, one might ask? But the extreme far leftist liberals, snowflakes, largely homosexual crowd that constitute a large swathe of Facebook workforce wanted him permanently silenced on Facebook and they are succeeding in executing it. 

This people have been at war with President Donald John Trump since his 2016 jaw dropping presidential victory and they were part of the anti Trump forces that eventually forced him out of the White House in 2020. They want to dwindle his influence and effectiveness; and to silence him or at least drastically curb his social media's larger than life presence. They want him gone and he will stay gone. 

ICHEOKU predicts that after whatever review Mark Zuckerberg will be conducting as recommended by the committee, that the final decision will still remain that Trump stays banned from the platform. All Facebook has been doing thus far with their "oversight" committee is to find a veneer for their meritless action. But now that the speech police has released its final report, urging Facebook to take up the gauntlet and make the right final call, lets see what other trick that is left up Mark Zuckerberg's sleeve.

In their ban of the president following the January 6th Capitol melee, Facebook had said that they believe the risks involved in allowing the President to continue on their platform during this period were simply too great. But following the January 20th hitch free installation of Joe Biden, one had expected Facebook to immediately lift the suspension since the supposed "risks" have dissipated. But no, instead, they passed the buck to an "oversight" committee to "review" the decision to continuously keep the President on their "do not fly" list or rather do not participate on their platform list. 

How independent this "oversight" committee really is and whether they could afford to defy the wishes of Mark Zuckerberg is now clear as they simply rubber stamped his decision to keep President Trump off their wall and then, passed the final decision on the duration of his ban back to Mark Zuckerberg. Who is fooling who with this back and forth game which Mark Zuckerberg is playing, ICHEOKU might ask?

The "oversight: committee knows exactly what was expected of them and they understood as a matter of fact that none of them dare not go against Facebook Emperor Mark Zuckerberg's decision and they dutifully complied to it like very obedient underlings. What stopped them from giving a definitive time period during which the suspension or ban would lapse? What stopped them from even ruling that since the "risks" associated with the January 6th Capitol mayhem has abated that there was no longer a need to continue to keep the President off Facebook? But no, they rubber stamped the already in place ban and then passed the final decision as to any review of its duration back to Mark Zuckerberg. 

Why Mark Zuckerberg thought that American people are too dump to understand the game he is playing with his Facebook is simply beyond ICHEOKU. He would have on his own summarily did what Twitter Jack Dorsey did, just permanently ban the president and damn the consequences. But no, he is a very weak person who has a personality problem, sort of a personality inferiority complex disorder and is looking for some committee to take the responsibility of the pronouncement. He is over compensating for his psyche disequilibrium by excessively wielding powers over people and what they are allowed to say or not say on his Facebook; people he never in his widest imagination and dream ever thought he will mingle in their circles talkless of lording it over them. 

ICHEOKU says the "oversight" committee could have saved everybody the trouble of waiting for this long for their "decision" by timely announcing six months ago their endorsement of the already in effect decision to keep the President off their platform. Why the needless delay only to eventually announce the same outcome which nearly everyone knew was coming down the pike. If the committee knew that the indefinite suspension was not appropriate, why did they not draw a timeline themselves and put it within a clearly definitive time period since their decision is supposed to be final and beyond the review of Mark Zuckerberg. Why did they have to still defer to Mark Zuckerberg since they are supposedly the final arbiter or the Facebook Supreme Court on matters concerning grievances against Facebook and their decisions to keep some users out of their platform. 

It reeks of corruption and it is the same thing which applies in every sphere of our lives, where only the "good fellas" are allowed within so many circles. Everyone is bound by unquestioned loyalty to the paymaster who must be continuously pleased in order to keep the paycheck coming. How many conservatives and truly independent persons are members of the committee? Why did they insist that Mark Zuckerberg has the final say on whether the ban of Trump was a justifiable response that is consistent with the rules which applied to every other users of the platform. ICHEOKU says why did Mark Zuckerberg even bother appointing a supreme oversight committee if it cannot make final decisions over matters concerning Facebook arbitrariness with users and Mark Zuckerberg is still in charge of making the final decision and has said that he will consider the committee's decision and determine an action that is clear and proportionate; but in the meantime that the President's accounts remain suspended. 

What exactly is a Facebook's "community standards" and which people constitute the membership of this "community" whose "standards" must not be crossed. For the committee to still conclude that the President "severely violated" the community standards of Facebook on January 6th despite incontrovertible evidence which showed that his Save America Speech did not incite the Capitol disturbance is to say the least simply idiotic. Their "severely violated" phraseology reminds ICHEOKU of Mitt Romney's "acute conservative" qualifying credential. 

What a pathetic group of people who cannot rise above their pettiness and need to be personally worshipped who are now wielding their newly acquired social media power so arbitrarily. A pitiful people who somersaulted from the original charge that the President's speech caused the riot to now that he wrote glowingly of the rioters post riot, as the new reason for banning him. Meanwhile no democrat was banned for their support of Black Lives Matter and ANTIFA when they were destroying American cities last summer. The committee found that Facebook makes up its rules as it goes, yet they failed to end such arbitrariness by definitively ruling the ban meritless and deserving to be upturned. 

Anyway, ICHEOKU says agrees with President Donald John Trump that free speech is at stake here and that the radical far left lunatics who are controlling social media are using their very peculiar standard to decide what is good for everybody and what people must abide to, on the penalty of being canceled. Their problem is that they are not properly equipped for any battle of ideas and want only their version of peculiar truth to prevail, but are deathly afraid of the real truth coming out. If the mainstream media and the four big television networks had stood in the way of social media when they started, just as social media is presently standing in the way of free speech, may be there will be no social media today. But they benefitted heavily from the open culture enterprise in America but are now asphyxiating free speech. The conservative right side of America as well as the Republican Party must stop their whining about the left dominated social media and find a way to create comparable alternative platforms to compete and fill the yawning space for conservative viewpoints. It is sad. 

INDIAN FUNERAL PYRES: THERE ARE BETTER ALTERNATIVES.

ICHEOKU says India needs to seriously rethink how it disposes human cadavers following the overwhelming COVID-19 deaths which has brought their practice to the fore and highlighted the inherent shortcomings in it. People are literary inhaling burnt human flesh which technically could pass for cannibalism and you wonder the lasting trauma which the unintended consequences must leave in the palates of these undertakers. Yes, it is their religious tinged practice, but since modernization have impacted every facet of humanity why not also the manner of disposing human remains. Modern crematoriums and incinerators should seriously be considered by the Indian government as alternative going forward and they should also ban the practice of open funeral pyres. It is shocking to so many civilizations that in this 21st century India human remains are still being disposed of like burnt offerings and in this open public manner. Our hearts are with Indian people in this time of great tribulation in their land but they can do better by modernizing accordingly.

Wednesday, May 5, 2021

TRUMP WILL NOT RETURN TO THE WHITE HOUSE: NOT IN 2024 AND NOT EVER.

ICHEOKU says although a strong fan, supporter and member of the MAGA family, but regrets to be a conveyor of the bad news that President Donald John Trump will never be allowed back in the White House and will forever remain just a one term president. So, if he is thinking about running for president again in 2024 as a comeback kid, he should first have a serious rethinking about it because it will never come to fruition. For him to be disallowed and prevented the second time in 2024 will be too much burden for any heart to bear. He will be better off correctly reading the handwriting on the wall and graciously pass the torch over and decline the temptation to run again. He should not delude himself that 2024 will be the new 2016 or that the stolen election of November 3rd, 2020 will be atoned for. So many things have changed since his mesmerization of the nation in 2016 which catapulted him into the White House. So much water have also passed under the bridge since then and the water has now become murkier with the 2020 stolen election that it will be practically impossible for him to even wade through it in 2024. 

It is therefore a safe bet to make that it is finished for him as far as ever making a triumphant reentry into the White House. It will not happen in 2024 and it will not happen at any other future time, no matter what. His opportunity to remain in the White House was forever lost when he did not declare a Martial law and institute a State of emergency before the January 6th Congressional affirmation of The Steal and right up to January 20th when the Deep State formally sealed it and took him out of the White House. They were brazen, they were persistent, they were adamant and they eventually had their way and in his place, Joe Biden was installed in the White House, freezing him out and forever foreclosing his ever entry into the White House. 

The same Deep State which took him out of the White House in 2020 will never allow him to come back to the White House. The likelihood of an earth scorching vengeance is simply too great a risk for them to take and they will not accommodate any circumstance whatsoever that would trigger it. Moreso, other antagonizting forces including the Black Lives Matter and their ANTIFA partners will resolutely stand their ground never to see President Donald John Trump back in the White House and if it means destroying America to achieve this, they will not blink. It does not matter how American people vote in 2024, afterall their vote did not really matter in 2020 because they voted to reelect President Donald John Trump but their votes were supplanted by the schemes of the Deep State which padded the votes for Joe Biden. 

ICHEOKU says it is not a question of whether American people will vote for Trump in 2024,  afterall they voted for him on November 3rd, 2020; but that their votes will not decide the outcome of the election. The Deep State and their collaborating forces will in their usual manner of self righteousness decide what is in the best interest of America and a Trump return in the White House will not be their top first choice. They took him out in 2020 for some reasons best known to them and those reasons will not simply disappear and will still be there in 2024; in addition to other likely changing circumstances between now and then which will make it impossible for him to return to the White House. 

That he made a lot of enemies during his four years in the White House including parting ways with his former Vice President Mike Pence and with it spooked the evangelical christians community who are possibly now wary of him. Also losing Mitch McConnell and so many people who helped with his 2016 presidential election victory is not helpful and will be additional baggage to carry going into 2024. Instead of gaining and growing more friends among top echelon of the different communes in the Republican Party, he increased his enemies base and politics is a game of the many, the merrier. Even his former supporter Christ Christie has not forgiven him for not making him the Attorney General because of his son in-law Jared Kushner's objection and he has already fired the warning shot by indicating that he will run for president in 2024. 

President Trump's best option for relevance in 2024 is to find a potential candidate to start grooming now for the nomination and then try and sell him or her to the American people when the time comes in 2024. But as things stack up now, there is no such nationally visible candidate among the crop of Republicans loyal to him who commands such a profile that is needed for a presidential election victory. The only person who could have otherwise comfortably fill the slot, Mitt Romney, has been damaged beyond repair among Trump Republicans, aka MAGA family, that hell will first freeze over before he can get the shot. Jeb Bush, Christ Christie and Mike Pompeo are not it either as there is something about them that does not translate to winning presidential election.

So since he has found himself in such a crossroads of "un-electability" if he runs in 2024, and a second bar from the White House will be such a huge disaster to his ego, fielding a candidate remains his best possible option. That way, when the candidate is eventually "defeated", which is most likely,  he will claim that it shows that only him is acceptable to the MAGA family and that he could have ran and easily won, but decided not to be selfish by giving another person a shot at the presidency. That is the only best scenario that will be available for President Donald John Trump in 2024, for a win win situation where he will still win even in defeat. 

The 2016 presidential election was an opportunity which came and he boldly saw it to fruition. Although, he bravely fought so hard to keep off the Deep State in 2020 and technically succeeded; but no single individual could have withstood the army of detractors amassed against him and they succeeded in taking him out of the White House. They succeeded and they are now building every bulwark possible to keep him out permanently and it will be much easier now they are operating from within the inside and have very obedient operatives everywhere salivating to carry out whatever directives that will ensure Trump does not return back to the White House. 

Therefore, as long as Joe Biden is holding up steadily and not degenerating any further and his handlers dutifully and masterfully manage his deterioration and keep it away from the American public; barring any cataclysmic event such as the economy going completely bust or his frail and mumbling body publicly giving up, Joe Biden will be around in 2024. Since 2020 proved that he is the only candidate which the Deep State can cleverly impose on the American people, they will certainly utilize him again come 2024. 

As it presently stands, the Republican Party has no person who can seriously mount a winning challenge against Joe Biden in 2024. The only person who could have done that is President Donald John Trump, but unfortunately, he has been declared a persona non grata in the White House and he will never be allowed to get back in there. The Deep State will rather have Black Lives Matter and their ANTIFA partners burn down the White House than to see Trump move back in there.

There is no alternative to President Donald John Trump and but for the Deep State machination, he will easily win the presidential election in 2024. So many people who hopped on the Trump MAGA train in 2016 did so solely because of then candidate Donald John Trump. The New York brash billionaire excited their curiosity to such a level that they became fixated in seeing a different non traditional politician in the White House. He did not disappoint them. So, without him being the Republican Party's arrowhead in 2024, many of those people who were on that train in 2016 will hop off or chose to ride on another train or just forget the entire journey altogether. President Donald John Trump is the reason for the season and he performed satisfactorily, the reason they voted to reelect him in 2020 but the Deep State prevented his second term.

The Republican Party establishment is not a good outfit anymore. They have lost their souls and with it the base of the party. They care more about acceptability in woke Washington DC and do not care nor defend their foot soldiers, their primary voting bloc. They are usually quick to drop them like hot potatoes at the slightest sign of trouble, unlike the Democratic Party which are always in locksteps with their Black Lives Matter and ANTIFA collaborators anarchists rebels, no matter what. So, why continue risking it all when those people for whose benefit the risks are taken do not appreciate or care about the risk takers. 

Several hundreds of such people, exuberant supporters of the Republican Party, are today languishing in Federal nets, some are still being interrogated, some have already been charged and awaiting trial, while some others are still in various detention centers several months later for their excessiveness of January 6th, 2021. But instead of the Republican Party coming to their aid, by explaining that their action was an excessive exuberance by some over excited supporters, they simply threw them under the bus as domestic terrorists and reprobates and walked away. But the Democratic Party defended Black Lives Matter and ANTIFA when they destroyed so many American cities during last year's summer riots which the Democrats explained away as some people will do what some people will do. 

Anyway, 2024 for President Donald John Trump will be a Catch-22 sort of situation, either way, the Republican will not take back the White House. Trump, because the same forces which took him out in 2020 will not tolerate his reinstatement and other potential candidates, because they are not electable. The Republican Party's opportunity to remain in the White House was lost in 2020 and the period continuing up to January 20th, 2021 and it will not come back in 2024 and in the case of President Donald John Trump, never. It is the sad reality which MAGA nation is struggling to cope with, aware that it is a very difficult reality to admit. ICHEOKU says election reform throughout the country could provide a safe passage for the Republican Party out of the vice grip of the Deep State, but we shall see.

Tuesday, May 4, 2021

THEIR DIVORCE WILL TEST MANY MARRIAGES

ICHEOKU says if all the money in the world could not save a marriage, then we all might as well give up and quit  trying and just surrender to whatever fate throws up at us in matrimony. Therefore, it is about time society stopped deceiving itself with the continuous propagation of marriage as the only way to a happy life since it most always ends in break ups and those who hung in there are not afterall necessarily that happy. 

So many would not have gotten into it and so many who are already inside it would have since abandoned ship if not for society's expectations of them. But at last, Melinda Gates said to hell with the society's expectations of her and decided to do what is in her best interest over a marriage which was irretrievably shattered into pieces. ICHEOKU says cannot wait for the day to come when we all can finally know the truth about what was the last straw,; the red line which Bill crossed that triggered Melinda to say, damn whatever consequences, I cannot take it anymore and then made the call to her divorce attorneys. Life is not always as rosy as we think, especially looking from the outside.