AS JOS MAYHEM RETURNS, HOLD PRESIDENT JONATHAN RESPONSIBLE?

Icheoku says the resurgent killings and reprisal killings in Jos is because President 'Drag-feet' Goodluck Jonathan has not acted on the recommendations of the Solomon Lar panel of inquiry into the previous Jos disturbances which Icheoku believes, were they implemented, would have starved off the resumed violence. Nigerians, Icheoku does not know about you, but this particular president is not managing time prudently; which leaves the memory of Baba Iyabo's road-kill approach to governance not so faded away as many Nigerians are beginning to nostalgically wish that a do or die president is still in office at the present very bleak time in Nigeria.. As Jonathan meticulously deliberates and thinks through issues several times over, Nigerians are dying, being butchered by their fellow countrymen. Icheoku says it is about time President Jonathan threw away his academia hat of clear thought and put on an "agbero" get-it-done-now hat of results, as that is what it takes to govern Nigeria; otherwise how else does the president plan to explain the death of this little innocent girl or the several bombings being unleashed on the country by Boko Haram? Please President Jonathan, whatever it takes, whatever works - just do it to put an end to this carnage in the country!

WAR OF THE GENERALS ROUND TWO, BABANGIDA JUMPS RIGHT BACK IN THE RING!

 Icheoku says may be the toothy fairy prince of Minna was afraid of area-boys whose area-father he was confronting when he claimed in Lagos that he wish to embrace Baba Iyabo. Now that he has returned to the safe confines of his Hilltop enclave in Minna, his blabber-mouth is once again unbuttoned. 

Icheoku says it would appear that IBB has not learnt the hard way, the lesson of do or die politics and street brawl for which OBJ has a double PhD. Anyway Icheoku had prayed and continues to pray that the battle between the two generals never abates until they both reveal how they messed up Nigeria so badly during their collective 19 years in power. Now Babangida has taken back his word of surrender and boastfully restates his claim that Obasanjo was a complete failure. 

Icheoku says who knows what next Baba Iyabo will call the Evil Genius - may be a murderer or a drug baron; just asking? In his latest salvo, Babangida said that he stands by his previous statement that Obasanjo was the most incompetent and wasteful government Nigeria ever had. So Icheoku joins the rest of Nigerians in waiting to see Baba Iyabo jump right back into the ring for round two of the bout  of the generals and possibly land a knock-out punch on IBB this time. icheoku prays that the war of the generals never ceases and let the thriller in Nigeria get more explosive!

"IN HIS TIME" - A BOOK OF DISTORTIONS BY DICK CHENEY.

Icheoku has not read and will not read and advise others not to read the latest attempt by former vice president to George Walker Bush, Dart Vader Dick Cheney to distort record and burnish his stewardship in that government. Mr Cheney took pleasure in blaming everyone else but himself that served in that administration for all the foibles of that ill-fated Bush/Cheney government that brought more harm than good to Americans and damaged us globally. The snippets so far are not a correct account of what transpired in that government, as witnessed by those millions of us who watched as the most ideological driven government America ever had, unleashed indescribable things on both Americans and the world in general. 

So for Dick Cheney to now attempt to rewrite history or in anyway try to punt the blame on all others but himself is a great disservice to all those presently alive and the future generation who would study that government in which he was the most powerful vice president America ever had. Dick Cheney piled up on Colin Powell; did not spare Condoleezza Rice and now says that Hillary Clinton would have been a better president than President Barack Obama? According to his assessment, "perhaps she (Hillary Clinton) might have been easier for some of us who are critics of the president (Obama) to work with." Icheoku says there must be something about black people that ticks Dick Cheney off and makes his heart sputter as his two most criticized and identifiable foes in his book are all blacks. Now for him to say that "it would have been easier for his 'good ole boys' to work with Hillary Clinton than Obama suggests that the color of President Barack Obama is the principal reason why the Obama government has been so vociferously criticized by the rednecks of American right wingers and not that the president is not doing his best to man the tiller of state effectively. 

The good news for all civilized Americans and bad news for all the Dick Cheneys of America is that nothing can change the fact of what is - that a Nigger is occupying the White House; his tenancy runs till 2012 and is most likely to be renewed for the next four years thereafter. Until then, Icheoku urges you not to enrich Mr Halliburton any further by buying his memoir of distortions; boycott this his latest whitewash of his role in that infamous Bush/Cheney government in which he served as vice president for eight long torturous years. Please Americans, do not waste your money in buying or your time in reading "In My Time - a personal and political memoir by Dick Cheney with Liz Cheney" as its toxic content will only bring back memories of the nightmare that was that administration which everyone is trying so hard to forget and file away. Icheoku says Americans do not need to be reminded through a book by Dick Cheney of what that government was or the role played by any of the principal characters therein especially Dart Vader Dick Cheney.

IT IS SEPTEMBER, YET NO DEMOCRACY IN EGYPT?

 When the people of the land of the Pharaohs led a revolution against their then sit-tight President Hosni Mubarak; the president elected to handover power to a democratically elected president within six months - precisely in September 2011. Like the unthinking mob which they are, they would have none of that and like the Jewish mob who forced Pilate's hand on Jesus shouted "crucify him, crucify him", those Egyptians wanted the head of Pharaoh Mubarak on a platter immediately. With their deafening shouts at Tahrir Square not abating, the military intervened and Mubarak became history as a once was Egyptian president. 

Admitted that Icheoku does not support any sit-tight ruler, we however asked for the Egyptian people to accommodate the six months offer to handover to a democratically elected president made by then President Mubarak, considering the logistics of building a democracy and conducting an election. Even respected figures like Mohamed El Baredi, former Atomic energy boss, joined the mob that will not see or hear reason in the short six months period being requested. Anyway the loudest had their way and the rest as they say is now history. Icheoku says the six months has now come, yet Egypt has neither a democracy nor has it conducted an election nor have an elected president; so the question remains whether the Egyptian mob or democracy activists are now regretting on hindsight their rejection of President Hosni Mubarak's offer? Just asking since the September has now come with no real or apparent movement towards real democracy by the military in Cairo.

WAR OF THE GENERALS, BABANGIDA BACKS DOWN!

Icheoku says thank God for Obasanjo, the only man from the entire Southern Nigeria who the Hausa/Fulani feudalistic North is really afraid of. Suddenly Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida realizes that Baba Iyabo is and forever remains his boss as he makes a u-turn from his provoked fight with OBJ. 


It would appear that IBB forgot that Baba is an area-father well versed in street brawls and never afraid of taking on anyone including the toothy fairy prince of Minna. Babagida now blames slip of the tongue, blames his press Secretary Kazim Afegbua, blames journalists for doing a hatchet job on him by taking his statement out of context; but failed to blame himself or take responsibility for striking the match which started the fire. Icheoku is not surprised that Babangida is blaming everyone else but himself for the altercation as is usually his stock in trade; but he forgot that there was a tape recorder of what he said. Babangida has now made a weasel u-turn, saying that Baba Iyabo is and forever remains his boss and claiming "the report was not what he meant”. 

Icheoku says to IBB if that report was not what you meant, can you please now tell Nigerians what exactly you meant and didn't you remember that Baba was your boss when you first ran your foul mouth? If according to IBB, the report had cost him a lot, Icheoku says Babangida should be grateful that Baba did not avenge the death of MKO Abiola or the annulment of June 12 directly on him while in power as that would have been what "a lot" really looks like. Despite the report, IBB still has his live intact unlike Abiola, Dele Giwa and Mamman Vasta who paid the ultimate price. But no one should be mistaken that because Babangida turned tail and made a shriveling mea culpa that the matter is now dead and buried; no, as any student of OBJ behaviorial tendencies knows that Baba Iyabo's unforgiven heart is legendary. So until death do them apart, Babangida is a marked man in the cross-hairs of Baba and so does the war of the generals continue!

OBASANJO, CUNNING BUT CERTAINLY NOT FOOLISH.

Icheoku makes the final rejoinder to the now seemingly rested or truce-weighted war of the generals between Aremu Olusegun Obasanjo and the denuded Maradona Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida by stating that to call Obasanjo foolish or rather "more foolish" is a stretch of a dumb imagination or the product of an unthinking rustic mind. Icheoku says the deity of Otta Olusegun Obasanjo may be every other thing and any other thing including the most abhorable of all things, but to include "foolish" in that epithet is exaggeratedly overreaching. 

Icheoku takes strong exception and umbrage at those paid hacks and hired hands, minions of Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, who moronishly ascribed "foolishness" to Aremu Baba Iyabo's resume` because any person who had ruled Nigeria three times on his own terms and survived is definitely not foolish. The record is unbroken and Icheoku stands challenged on the assertion that it takes a fox to navigate a jackal infested terrain and make it safely back to its hole. The treachery, the political horse-trading, the banana peels, the fifth estate, the daggers and sabres and all those vultures who masquerade as friends at the banquet waiting to take that Brutus stab as well as the intrigues involved in running a state, especially one as complex as Nigeria, is not a job for either the faint-hearted or the foolish. It is akin to an upstream swim in a crocodile and shark infested waters where just one unthinking foolish move will find one either in the belly of the beast or in the jaws of death at best and therefore demands pin-drop alertness and every cunning tricks in the books just to stay alive and well. 

Icheoku therefore states that if any of the fighting generals could be equated with foolishness, that general is definitely not Olusegun Obasanjo. By the same token Icheoku will not dismissively call Babangida foolish either, since he had successfully navigated the minefield of running Nigeria; admitted that Icheoku had amplified that description of his by Obasanjo. But if Icheoku must, it is safer to say that if anyone in the mix is foolish, it is that man who did not have a water-tight contract of his perversion to get a country back after first pawning it off to that other? It is that man who did not have a plan B of a king's ransom or breaking of knee-cap to enforce an illegal contract like the mafia would, when he imposed the other man on Nigeria in 1999 expecting that other to be "honorable" enough to respect their illegality by giving him back "his country" in 2007. Icheoku says that is what "foolishness" really looks like; it is foolishness defined. When one cannot protect his behind from being badgered when dealing with a man whose penchant for disrespecting everything including contracts and gentleman's agreement is of general knowledge, that is what qualifies as foolishness for Icheoku. Therefore Icheoku emphatically maintains that the toothy fairy prince of Minna is the "foolish" one for trusting too carelessly and in a cavalier manner but certainly not the foxy Deity of Otta. Dishonorable, disrespectful, conceited, deceitful, rabid, clever by half etc; just name it but please exclude "foolishness" in describing the deity of Otta because it is not part of his attributes. Olusegun Obasanjo is simply stated, cunning as a fox.

"I THINK I WILL CALL THE WHITE HOUSE" - ONYANGO OBAMA.

 Yes the piling up continues and the snare continues to lie in wait to get "That One" as an inebriated Kenyan, living in Boston and linked to President Barack Obama as half brother to his father was arrested by the police in Framingham Massachusetts for driving under the influence. He blew 0.14 against the legal limit of 0.08 and when asked what he intend to do to secure bail, blurted "I think I will call the White House." 

Icheoku says this is the problem with some people not knowing that America is not Africa where who you know gets you a free pass for virtually everything. The drunken Onyango Obama, 67, thought that because he has some genealogical lineage linking him to the President of America, that alone suffices to cut him some slacks for infringing the law? Give Icheoku a break. 

But does anyone really blame him since were it in Africa, the cop that dared where the eagles tremble would not only lose his job but would probably be arrested, tortured and jailed for bringing the president's name to ridicule, causing him some hurt feelings and stepping on some sacred toes. What a land of the free where the rule of law is supreme America is regardless of who Mr Onyango knows or does not know, notwithstanding that he is somehow related to the president. Yes Mr Onyango Obama SIr, the law is the law and the cop was just doing his job.

UNITED NATIONS BOMB BLAST, IT IS NIGERIA'S TURN - PRESIDENT JONATHAN

Once again Mr Incompetent President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria has punted responsibility for the riveting insecurity in the country by explaining away that the shameful bombing of the United Nations office in Abuja Nigeria was 'merely a thing which is due and whose time has come?' According to the president, who has failed to arrest the insecurity situation in Nigeria and who is not brave enough either to do the heavy lifting needed to have the situation under control by first firing the also incompetent Inspector General of Police Hafiz Ringim, 'terrorism-insecurity is not peculiar to Nigeria but is a world-wide problem which just happened to be "Nigeria's turn this time around?" 

Icheoku says Mr President it is about time you resigned from office and make way for a more competent person to man the tillers of the ship of state and solve this insecurity plaguing the land. This your continuous passing of the buck with every situation in Nigeria and trying to explain them away in your kindergarten manner is very disturbing. It is your duty to prevent the loss of lives in Nigeria and if Boko Haram says yes, why didn't you say no, not under my watch? How dare you say it was Nigeria's turn to be murdered and slaughtered alongside their guests, working at the United Nations and by extension giving Nigeria a black-eye as a high risk terrorism state? Yet this is a country trying to woe foreign investors? In the president's words, "Nigeria is not an isolated case. Many countries have suffered from terrorist attacks, maybe it is the turn of Nigeria." 

Icheoku says it is no longer cool, acceptable or sufficient for you to continue to make excuses each time these Northern mallams successfully carry out their treat to make Nigeria ungovernable should you win the last election. A competent and brave president would have rounded and locked them up before the saliva that conveyed the threat had dried up and if it leads to war so be it. Until President Jonathan becomes man enough to stare down these Northern Nigeria Islamic mallams and their foot-soldiers - Boko Haram, it is going to remain one heinous bombing mayhem after another; and a confused and dazed president scurrying down to the crime scene or the treating hospital to blow hot air on how he is going to show them pepper. The president like in similar past bombings situation, also boasted that his government is on top of the United Nations bombing? Icheoku however is afraid that the government of President Goodluck Jonathan may have dozed off on top of the entire security situation in the country? Icheoku says, President Jonathan please get off the top of the situation and just do it - solve it and stop the jiving turkey syndrome currently afflicting you because talk is cheap.

"I AM NOT A MAGICIAN" - OKONJO IWEALLA.

 Icheoku says the petite but mighty Amazonian is already preparing a soft-landing for herself just in the event of coming to fruition of the most likely fate which awaits her most patriotic and best intentions for the Nigeria economy. The system will sabotage her best intentions and there is nothing anyone can do about it until it is first sanitized. 

The problem with Nigeria, especially the seemingly impossible task of growing her economy, is not lack of good and sound ideas; no, it is a society infected with cancer of corruption which hounds every lofty idea ever dreamt up to help Nigeria take needed baby-steps to eventual maturity. These pestilence of society will force cracks to develop through which Madam World Bank ideas and plans for Nigeria will fall through while leaving intact their goose that lays the golden eggs. Until corruption is tackled and somewhat reduced, all or any government's plans to move the economy forward will always sputter to a stop before it ever take steam. 

Icheoku, while wishing Lady Little the best of luck in her new task to engage the Nigeria economy in gear one, says that NOI has a Mountain Everest of a task ahead of her. Unfortunately however either she can't really seem to fully appreciate the enormity of the problem starring her down the face or she is naive that Nigerians are such good followers. She is convinced that all that is needed is for her to show the way out of the economic woods and Nigerians will follow and magically the shattered humpty-dumpty is whole again? However and luckily for her, she is not the only one dreaming about a functional future Nigeria of endless possibilities as even President Jonathan and millions of other Nigerians share in this Utopia. 

If Icheoku were President Jonathan, the mantra shall be first things firsts and let the rest fall in their respective places. It is three first things - discipline, discipline, discipline! Icheoku would reestablish WAI and MAMSER and implore Muhammadu Buhari or Nuhu Ribadu to lead the agency to help solve Nigerians problem numero uno - LACK OF DISCIPLINE or indiscipline. With this problem out of the way, most, if not all the problems of Nigeria will dissipate as an undisciplined mind is capable of just anything and everything. Icheoku's greatest fear and for good reason is that Nigerians will sabotage Ngozi Okonjo-Iwealla's best effort and very good intentions for the comatose Nigeria economy and Icheoku wishes to be wrong on this.

TO THE FIGHTING GENERALS, A NOTE FROM MAGNOLIA.

"We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us." - a line from the movie, Magnolia. Icheoku says whereas Obasanjo and Babangida thought that they are done and finished with Nigeria, it would seem that Nigeria has just said, wait a minute, not that fast. I am not through with you just yet; instead I am about coming after you and you both better be ready. And contrary to William Shakespeare's admonition through Mark Anthony in Julius Caesar, the evil that both men did refused to wait until after them but has chosen to now stare them down right in their eyes! The gods are wise and no man born of woman should try to redirect or in anyway possible, try to interfere with God's ways. What is happening between the two generals have the hand of God written all over it and who says salvation is not possible in Nigeria - wait until God finishes with this two men..

WAR OF THE GENERALS, PRESIDENT JONATHAN SHOULD BUTT OUT.

Icheoku says once again President Jonathan is displaying his naivety by wadding into the fight of the generals and expecting a good outcome. His plea for both Obasanjo and Babangida to "settle the matter between themselves as they are friends and have access to each other" is not only puerile, but misses the point. 

The fact of the matter is that President Jonathan has what Babangida wanted and still covets, and for which he took that jab of desperation at Obasanjo. So a proactively thinking President Jonathan should have known that what was entrusted to him is the reason the two generals are now feuding; so if he truly wants peace to reign between the two fighting generals, he should relinquish the presidency to Babangida and settle the rift once and for all instead of pretending to be a peace-maker between the "Complete Failure" and the "Fool at Seventy." President Jonathan also forgot that both men are not friends and do not have any true friends either. They were merely conspirators and business partners for running aground Nigeria Plc.; and like the late MKO Abiola admonished, "with a friend like IBB no one needs an enemy" and OBJ is not too foolish not to have absorbed that advice. Icheoku says may the war of the generals never ends or ceases; but continues until they spill the gory details of their adventure into the Nigerian political scene!

PIUS ANYIM, THIS IS SO GAY?

 In some countries a man holding another man in this manner would be interpreted as an indication of being "born that way?'" However this is Nigeria's Secretary to the Federal Government in a brotherly show of expressive love, common among many African countries where same-sex body contacts are normal and innocent too. But hey, Icheoku has no reason or basis to believe otherwise or to suspect that Pius Anyim is a "born that way" or goes both ways or swings? So all you horny bastards with ribbed bodies waiting to pounce and devour, please back off  because this guy is as straight as the arrow and goes all natural. 

THE KING OF AFRICA HAS LOST HIS CROWN, GADDAFI'S REGIME ON THE BRINK.

Latest report out of Tripoli has it that the regime of Moummar Gaddafi is on its final lease on life as the NATO backed rebels have taken control of the popular Green Square; having earlier taken into custody his two sons. But the where-about of King" Gaddafi of Africa is not presently known; except the speculation that he probably had already burrowed himself into a rat-hole in a copycat fashion as the late Saddam Hussein of Iraq. 

Hopefully the Libyan people would have the civility to put principals of the moribund regime on trial before hanging them, possibly in the same Green Square where the "King" once strode in his majestic splendor as he lorded it on the Libyans with maniacal depravity. Anyway, what a tragic fate for the once "strongman" of Libya or was that of Africa; - a great lesson to all those other dictators of this world that a day of reckoning is always lurking around the corner. But only if they would listen and learn from such examples as Libya's former strongman Moummar Gaddafi, except that power makes them completely deaf and dumb and enslaved till death do them apart.

BABANGIDA NOT A GOOD MUSLIM, DID NOT QUOTE THE KORAN?

At least Olusegun Obasanjo quoted the Bible as a basis for calling the evil genius " A FOOL." According Olusegun Obasanjo, “if Babangida had decided on becoming a septuagenarian that will be a fool, I think one should probably do what the Bible says in Proverbs chapter 26, verse 4. It says: ‘don’t answer a fool because you may also become like him.’ When you go to the same Proverbs chapter 26, verse 5, it says, answer a fool so that he will not think he’s a wise man. So, I am now torn between which of the two verses I should follow in this respect.” So Icheoku asks Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida to quote an authorizing verse in the Koran to back up his allegation that Olusegun Obasanjo is a "Complete Failure" and/or "A Greater Fool." Icheoku says until IBB provides the necessary empowering Islamic verse to back up his allegation, Icheoku says Nigerians should just agree with OBJ; at least he produced an authority for his assertion. Now Nigerians, are you not loving the "Things Fall Apart" in the land of these despicable duo that have held Nigeria hostage and for such a long time.

STRAUSS-KAHN WALKS FREE, A CASE OF JUSTICE MISSED?

Admitted that the veracity for truth of the African immigrant who Monica Lewinskyed Dominique Strauss Kahn is practically none existent; but since when has that reason alone become the sole ground and only basis for discontinuing or dismissing carte-blanche an entire gamut of a criminal proceedings against an accused defendant? The prosecutor in this case should not act in a way suggestive or that could draw the inference that he was by necessary implication, doing the job of the defense for them.

It is the defense's responsibility to attack the character of the accuser and should have been the party moving to have the case dismissed based on lack of probable cause but not the prosecutor. If the accuser and principal witness for the prosecution is not a credible person, the onus lies on the defense to establish that her allegation in this case is not believable and therefore should not be believed. Nothing in law however precludes the prosecutor from bringing such a motion to dismiss at any time suo-moto in exercise of its discretionary powers of nolle prosequi. However Icheoku believes that justice would have been better served, at least on the appearance, if the prosecutor had proceeded with this case until such a time the defense moved for its dismissal; with no objection coming from the prosecutors. That way, the watching public, not versed in the intricacies, fine-lines and workings of the judicial process will be more persuaded that the case was not cavalierly dismissed just because of the caliber of person being accused and the little lass from the dark continent of Africa who is accusing him of sexual assault.

Icheoku had previously written extensively on this case and the glaring lack of credibility of the accuser, whose account of what allegedly transpired in that hotel suite was at best a concocted story of a woman of easy virtue whose "Client No. 9" did not fulfill their pre-rendering of service bargain and then decided to claim sexual violations. It was our position then and it still remains our position now that her account of what happened between DSK and her fell flat of a typical without of consent sexual assault. Our only additional comment now that the case has been dismissed is that the prosecutor should have been mindful of the old standing rule of fairness which says that "justice must not only be done but must be seen to be manifestly done by the watching public!" But in this case they have their hands on their heads with dropped jaws and mouths wide open, wondering in awe how this French rapist and sexual deviant Dominique Strauss Kahn walked free despite mountain of forensic evidence which fixed him to the alleged crime scene and the very act complained of.

Also DSK's veracity for truth which is highly suspect was not questioned but glossed over by the prosecutor. He initially denied any encounter with the "dirty-Diana" African immigrant hotel maid until his seminal fluid was extracted from the rug where the BJ service-provider had spat it out. Icheoku notes that this case was not the first time an accuser or prosecution's principal witness ever lied about an account of what allegedly happened or is someone with a chequered history of tall-tales, yet the accused was prosecuted to the fullest - only to be set free or convicted by a jury of his/her peers. The late King of Pop, Michael Jackson, was once unjustly prosecuted for child molestation despite a plethora of evidence of incredulousness of the "victim's" mother and prosecution's chief witness. The only difference this time is that the accused is a white Frenchie and was accused by a black African immigrant; so what if she was privileged of acquainting herself with DSK's highly priced white phallus?

In judicial proceedings where a hostile or incredulous witness suddenly surprises the prosecution, the natural reaction for the prosecutor is to proceed with the case as if nothing happened to jolt the trial only to rehabilitate such witness later in the course of the proceedings. Also the prosecution could have tried to separate Nafissatou Diallo's past penchant for lying from her truthfulness in the present case, emphasising that "truth can sometimes also come from imbeciles or liars."  Anyway since the case against DSK has now been summarily dismissed without any opportunity whatsoever to either establish his guilt or innocence through a trial for the crime of sexual assault charged and for which Dominique Straus Kahn lost his job at the IMF; Icheoku asks, isn't appropriate that he should get his job back or same returned back to him with full apologies tendered for embarrassing such a highly placed white Frenchman? And for Nafissatou Diallo, Icheoku says next time you do your part-time side job, servicing guests if your employers or former employers, please collect the money up front before going down on your knees to polish their knobs. Who says KING MONEY does not talk anymore and Dominique Strauss Kahn got a sack load of it and with it he purchased the finest criminal defense lawyers in New York and like the bulldogs they are, they extricated DSK from an assured prison gate. 

OBASANJO IS NOT A REAL LEADER - FANI KAYODE!

It would seem that there is no longer any safe place for Olusegun Obasanjo as even his former minister and and a man from his Southwest Nigeria turf has now switched sides and is piling on the Otta Deity too! His former minister of Aviation, Femi Fani Kayode said that Olusegun Obasanjo is a fake leader and possibly an alien from Mars? According Fani, “The truth is that the loyalty and support that an individual gives to any leader must be reciprocated and any leader worth his salt knows this. A leader that takes his followers for granted and takes pleasure in the destruction, humiliation, travails, shame and political persecution of his own loyalists is not a real leader but something else. On the other hand the leader that stands by his loyalists through thick and thin and that reciprocates the commitment, love, support, compassion and loyalty that he receives from them is a true leader. As far as I am concerned that is the difference between OBJ and IBB. Babangida recognizes these things and is loyal to his own whilst Obasanjo does not.”

Icheoku now asks, when was the chalice poisoned between Fani and his former mentor Baba Iyabo or did the Evil genius make an offer Fani could not refuse that forced him to switch sides? The problem with Nigerians is that virtually everybody is sycophantic and pleads your case according to their pocket books, the reason why corruption is endemic in the society. Look at Fani Kayode speaking in this pedestrian language that Olusegun Obasanjo should have condoned the looting of the state by people like him by shielding them from the EFCC just because they were loyal to Obasanjo, if Icheoku understands him correctly? Yet this SOB forgot that they were called or chosen to serve the country diligently and not to loot it blind because their leader would or ought to get their back; and he is supposed to be a lawyer and speaking legally? What a shame that a man who have paraded himself thus far as being above board should now condescend into the cesspit to protest the none-protection policy of Obasanjo of people who commit some criminality of looting state's treasury?

Ironically Fani Kayode contradicted his apparent pay master, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, and by necessary implication called Babangida a liar by holding opposing views on the performance of Obasanjo in office. Babangida graded Obasanjo's eight years in office as a "complete failure" while this talking-drum here says that the same Obasanjo's "record of performance between 1999 and 2007 is first class and second to none." Icheoku says may the real Fani Kayode please stand up and state truthfully whose side he is on, instead of speaking from both sides of his mouth, trying to perform the impossible task of serving two masters at the same time. How can the same Obasanjo government be both a "complete failure" and at the same time, "first class and second to none" yet Babangida is right and the one injured by Obasanjo's hurtful remarks?

Fani Kayode also took umbrage at Obasanjo for "making a grave mistake and inflicting a deep spiritual wound on himself by insulting Babangida in the way that he did." But the same Fani Kayode cleverly forgot to mention that Babangida first stoked the flame by messing with a sleeping lion when he said that Baba Iyabo's government was a "complete failure." Icheoku refuses to accept that Fani Kayode does not appreciate such uncomplimentary statement by Babangida to be a 'grave mistake which inflicted spiritual wound on IBB" and that such comment qualifies and rises to an insult?' Icheoku hopes that we are not losing our faculty here trying to decipher this Fani Kayode's hydra-headed equivocation; except he is trying to be clever by half because no one individual has mastered the art of successfully serving two masters at the same time and it is not going to start with this Fani. 

Understandably, Babangida's ability of staying with his loyalists should not be newsy as that is what every corrupt dictator and survivor the world over deploys to stay alive. Compromise them and make them dependent on your handouts and as a trade-off, they will take the bullets and put their hands in the blade, protecting the goose that lays their golden eggs. So where is the rocket science here for Fani not to understand why IBB is pathetically loyal to his loyalists as any endemically corrupt and compromising dictator is - people who share the same traits with mafia dons of the yore. Their trick is keep their loyalist in a short leech of permanent dependence and lengthen or shorten them depending on how they lick their behinds like the lap-dogs which they are, period! But conversely, the area-father himself is well versed in the art of surviving street fighting and does not particularly need anyone to fight his wars on his behalf. Obasanjo can personally take care of his business and does not need to keep the Fani Kayodes  of Nigeria on a short leech of permanent dependence in order to maintain their purchased and induced loyalty. 

The only sane truth in Fani's Punch Newspapers published diatribe against Obasanjo is that he acknowledged that Olusegun Obasanjo was "installed but not elected" president of Nigeria in 1999 through Babaginda's evil machinations of compromising anyone and everyone that stood in the way. In Fani's own confessional words, “President Obasanjo has to be eternally grateful to General Babangida because had it not been for the latter he would not have been released from jail, pardoned, rehabilitated, funded and installed as President in 1999.

Lastly, if according to Fani Kayode, Obasanjo's government was "second to none, making Obasanjo the greatest president Nigeria ever had;" Icheoku asks where does that claim then leave Babangida but in the dust of "second-rate none performed and worst president Nigeria ever had? Icheoku acknowledges that wrapping a hand around Fani Kayode's prevarication is rather an arduous task if not impossible at best; but if he intended to defend Babangida, he only succeeded in insulting him further by stating that Babangida's regime was left in the dust behind Obasanjo's government in terms of performance. If on the other hand he wanted to defend Obasanjo, Icheoku says calling someone "anything else" is not words of endearment at all; a matter made worse when he went a step further by categorically calling Baba Iyabo an ingrate and a fake leader from outer Space or did Icheoku hear someone yell "from MARS?"

ICHEOKU AND NIGERIANS AGREE WITH OBASANJO, BABANGIDA IS A FOOL!

 Icheoku says the evil genius is a sore loser who like a jilted bride is now throwing tantrums because Obasanjo used and dumped him in the gutter of political irrelevance. If Babangida is not the fool Obasanjo said he is, why did he fall "muuguu" to Obasanjo who agreed when Babangida imposed him on Nigerians in 1999 to return the favor by handing Aso Rock keys back to Babangida in 2007 but later reneged. For allowing himself to be so outsmarted, used and dumped like a cheap $10 whore by the Otta deity, Icheoku affirms that only a fool is that thoughtless not to have a plan B or a water-tight agreement prior to checkmate OBJ and have him live by their bargain. 

Babangida is only mad as hell because he never knew that someone is capable of dribbling the dribbler and Obasanjo has taken away the shine in his gnome genre Maradona! Now that everyone is in agreement that Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida is a fool and a greater one for that matter, Icheoku says may Nigerians now pivot to place a curse on anyone who shall ever try to interfere with God's plan for Nigeria - to expose two evil persons that held Nigeria hostage for too long, by either calling for a truce or trying a mediation. Icheoku calls on Nigerians to back off and stay out of the way of two moving freight trains that are heading at each other. When two elephants fights, the ground will take it and survive but both elephants will hear "nwii". It is about time God used both men to destroy each other one since other Nigerians have failed or are incapable or too afraid to take on either man. 

The Gods are wise and not asleep; and the hour of reckoning is here. Good enough Obasanjo is an area father street-fighter, well seasoned in long protracted down and dirty, do or die brawl and since Babangida provoked the feud; he Babangida should have consulted Atiku Abubakar or Gbenga Daniel prior to understand that Baba Iyabo never backs out of any given fight. So Nigerians shall one day see a prostrating Babangida at the hilltop mansion in Abeokuta, begging for forgiveness before too long. What an early Christmas present for Nigerians and like McDonald's advert, Icheoku is loving it. Eventually both men will confess some hidden secrets as well as crimes they committed against the Nigerian people. Rumor has it that Babangida plans to implicate Obasanjo in the plane crash that killed the former Sultan of Sokoto and some Northern Nigerian political leaders while Obasanjo plans to implicate Babangida in the Ejigbo military plane crash that killed over 300 young military officers, drug dealings as well as the parcel bombing of Dele Giwa etc? Icheoku will not be surprised if Babangida throws in the murder of Attorney General Bola Ige? But whatever happens, Nigerians will be better off if both men self-destruct. What a jolly day it shall be and Icheoku will throw a big bash to celebrate the departure from this earth of two vile and demented human specimens whose coming to power in Nigeria was a curse rather than a blessing to the country. 

So to "Complete Failure" and "A Fool at Seventy", with round one now over, when is round two coming? Nigerians are excitedly waiting and praying that the fight goes a full 12 rounds. Two former "statesmen" now turned into market women, publicly throwing mud at each other. Icheoku predicts that Baba Iyabo will win this fight; he never backs down in all his all is fair style of street brawling. While Babangida on the other side, assumes certain air of sophistication, though unmerited, which will prevent him from going full throttle at the Otta deity? But who knows whether IBB is part of Boko Haram suicide bombers on a suicide mission to Otta or Abeokuta otherwise how does any Nigerian explain Babangida's provocative "Complete Failure" outburst and he forgot the admonition that he lives in a glass house should not throw stones or that he who is with sin should not throw the first stone.