NETANYAHU WINS AGAIN: CONGRATULATIONS BIBI.

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

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

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

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

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

NIELSEN KIRSTJEN: SECRETARY FOR HOMELAND SECURITY FIRED!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

BOLA TINUBU: WILL NEVER BE PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

NKANU ONNOGHEN: A MONUMENTAL DISGRACE TO NIGERIAN JUDICIARY.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

WESTERN MEDIA: MUZZLED AND SILENCED BY MIDDLE EAST SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUNDS?

ICHEOKU says truth be told, when a person purchases an asset, they dictate how it is applied; and in the case of media houses, how they are run and what are permitted of them to publish and/or air, including news, editorials and reportages. The same principle of purchased-silence applies when an investor puts a lot money into a country's economy, such that they literary own the country and without which investments, the country's economy will be belly-up. As a result, they dictate to such countries their foreign policy expectations of them, a pre-condition for their investments, in addition to such other interests as they may have. So, in order for these countries to continue enjoying such investment largess and also maintain other further, future inflows of investments, such beneficiary countries must remain of a good behavior and not do anything considered by the investors as inimical to them or their interest. 

This is the bane of the Western world, which has literary mortgaged itself to the dictates of the mullahs in the Middle East, who through skillful massive investments of their oil wealth, now literary owns and controls practically everything in the West. These includes economies, companies, legislatures, productions and manufacturing, products advertisements placements houses, media, both print and television, research and development, hi-tech, agriculture, ports, start-ups and such other fundamental national assets, that these countries become inextricably tied to the apron string of the investors. As a result, they become enslaved to the dictates of these investors and therefore cannot boldly override such investors, when they desire a particular outcome narrative or action; because they strive to retain their investments, as well as attract their other future investments. 

These countries governments and company executives devolve into minions who must make their investor-masters happy and keep them satisfied; and will not do or say or write or publish or air anything that will make them mad or angry, by only doing only those things which they first sought and obtained their approval before carrying out. Short of obtaining this consent, they peremptorily anticipate what works and what will not work for them and then tailor their actions around only the positives. It is the same with any company controlled by an interest as those directors and executives love their job and will not want to be fired, whether or not for cause and they will do whatever bending of the back that is required to keep their paymasters happy and satisfied.

When you review the ownership of most Western Press/Media, majority of them are from the Middle East's Saudi Arabia and Qatar axis; a testament of their oil wealth being put to effective use. Recall that there was a time during the George W. Bush presidency when American seaports were nearly handed over to the Middle East's Qatari government's owned and backed shipping management company. Sometimes, these ponied up companies are on outright sale and purchase basis and sometimes, on majority shares holding basis or the ownership of their parent companies. So, they acquire the superior voting right in such companies, including the power to hire and fire its executives. Therefore, where not expressly spelt out, these employees know what the unspoken and unwritten rule of their job entail, and in order for them to continue enjoying the perks of their perch, they must abide by them or have their butts kicked out. 

As with the media for example, these executives know better not to publish or air any unfavorable news article or carry out any reportage that will put their paymasters in any unfavorable lights. So, such inclement news are either not reported, ignored or passively mentioned, with all manners of caveats; but without any insightful commentaries as would enable the people understand all the details surrounding it; especially if it will point to some persons or interests involving the Middle East or their Muslim religion. Any news or reportage that will put their owners in the Middle East or their Islam in a bulls eyes is cautiously threaded around. They are mortally afraid of provoking the ire of those governments, sheikhs and oil barons of the Middle East, who sustain their existence by bankrolling them; including many of them which are not profitable and which would have since gone into receivership and would readily go under, without such handouts and infusion of capital. 

The same rule of purchased-silence applies to many Western governments as well, which economies are sustained by the same Middle East money pots, which invest heavily in Western economies and also buy a lot of products from them, especially military hardware, tanks and fighter jets. It is also not only Western governments that so benefits as shown with Pakistan, which recently received from Saudi Arabia a $25 billion investment in its economy, with the tacit understanding to checkmate Iran and jeep it off their threatening posture against the Kingdom, particularly from nuclear attack. So, when the same Kingdom of Saud invests $100 billion in European economies, it expects as a bargain, that Europeans will not become overly intrusive in its internal affairs and will not criticize it too much, when they commit one of their many egregious acts, such as the murder and dismemberment of the Washington Post correspondent Jamal Khassoggi. 

The same Kingdom also handed to the United States of America a $350 billion contract and in return, expects protection from the almighty American armed forces, including of course politically from the United Nations. Many of these quid pro quo are not usually spelt out, but they are implicit in such huge contracts, a necessary understanding for securing them from other bidders. The story is replete throughout the world, from Europe to America to Australia to New Zealand to Russia to Egypt etc, giving credence to Murphy's law that he who has the gold makes the rules. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has earned their major player status in the world by effectively deploying their limitless cash reserve  to do their bidding for them and it always worked its magic. This explains the possessed reverence which Western Media shows when Muslim interest is effected anywhere in the world, but tends to be coy when Christian interest in also impacted, begging the question are these media hordes still impartial reporters of world events or have completely sold out to milk and honey. 

Many people have been criticizing the Western Media lack of interest and non reporting of the carnage which has been going on in Nigeria, especially those that took place in the days preceding the New Zealand massacre, where the maniacal Fulani Muslim terrorists masquerading as Fulani herdsmen, are systematically engaged in ethnic cleansing of indigenous people in some parts of Nigeria, which are predominately Christians. A country which has seen over 1000 Christians slaughtered by these marauders this year 2019 alone, in addition to razing down their villages and displacing them. But the same Western Media went on overdrive with their coverage when 50 Muslims were killed in Christchurch, New Zealand; once again begging the question, why the partiality. 

Many askance Nigerians have wondered why the "Foreign Press" were not covering the daily tragedy of massacres being perpetrated by the Fulani Muslims in Nigeria, but devoted such a hugely disproportional amount of time when they covered the New Zealand massacre. To these fellows, ICHEOKU says now you know why; as he who pays the piper determines the tunes. They are owned by Muslim Middle East government, oil sheiks and baron and are beholden to them. Saudi Arabia and Qatari governments and their Sovereign Wealth Funds have also invested heavily in these Media Houses and the fear of losing the millions of dollars in subsidies and/or advertisement dollars from companies in which these their mentors own interests, informs their skewed coverage.  Instead of informing their audience of the religious underlying factors fueling such massacres, they often passively pass them off as communal clashes over resources. 

ICHEOKU says if it is "communal clashes", why is it then that  it is only one community that is taking casualties, while the other is not? If it is "community clashes" fueled by competition for scarce resources, why then is it that it is only within certain geographical belt in Nigeria that these crisis continuously take place? If indeed these Fulani herdsmen truly want to feed their livestock, why then did they not accept the offer by Kano State government, which invited them to Kano State National forest reserve, with limitless foliage for their cattle? Why did these Fulani Muslims bypass Sokoto, Kebbi, Kano, Katsina States, to go to where they are currently carrying out their genocidal ethnic cleansing, if indeed feeding their cows is their primary objective. If it is "communal clashes", why does security agencies, including the military, look the other way when these Fulani Muslims are slaughtering indigenous ethnic natives, but come full force to intervene when the surviving relatives of the victims, musters the courage to fight back in retaliation or at least defend their honor and their inherent right to inhabit their ancestral lands.

These and a lot of other underlying factors are what an impartial Foreign Media could easily uncover and inform the world about; but their hands are tied by the source of funds which sustains them and they do not want to bite the finger that feeds them. ICHEOKU says this remains the underlying truth, the only truth and nothing but the truth in the unreported and uncovered unending Muslim Fulani massacres going on in Nigeria. The situation is so because the Foreign Media have since lost their independence and with it, their objectivity. Even the church in Rome is scared to call a spade a spade; and have also fallen a hypnotized victim of these influences. The Holy Sea hardly raises its voice and would readily look the other way or pretend ignorance, while their followers are being killed every day, completely decimated and in some cases, their whole towns and villages completely wiped off the face of the earth by these rampaging Muslim Fulanis. 

It is going on in Egypt, it is going on in Nigeria and it is going on in such other religious hellholes in this world, while the Western governments and Western Media, who should be champions of protecting these Christians, play the possum, pretending that it is not happening simply because they are afraid of losing multi billion dollar contracts and patronages from these Middle Eastern Sovereign Wealth Funds, as well as their oil sheiks and barons. What will it take to convince these supposed defenders of freedoms, including religious freedom, that people who accepted their Western Christian religion are being slaughtered on a daily basis, simply because they are Christians and nothing more. When will the Western Media get off their butts and travel to these extinction threatened communities, for a first hand assessment of the real situation which is driving these slaughters; instead of sitting in the comfort of their air-conditioned offices, speculating as to what the root cause of these unending madness is.  

ICHEOKU says the only solution is for these victims to defend themselves, however they see fit, possible and that is feasible. Anyone waiting for the Western government and their Western Media to step up their game and really take a hard unbiased look at what is going on, might wait until their ethnic natives are completely wiped out and off the face of Nigeria. These indigenous natives should understand that anything worth owning, is worth fighting for; and that you cannot truly own a thing which you cannot defend. 

Enough of the cry baby approach Nigerians, because your plight will not be covered by the Western Media nor heard by the wider world, unless you give them a serious reason to pay attention. They have been compromised, censored, bounded by lucre with their hands tied and they cannot afford to antagonize their meal tickets provider. You guys have to simply man up and defend your honor or at least die, trying. Stop waiting to be slaughtered or for any foreign intervention. Also, if you are waiting for the day the slaughter by Muslim Fulani will become the center piece of global attention as a result of a meritorious coverage by the Western Media, you might as well write your obituaries now and wait to be deep six(ed). Enough of the cowardice; defend your castle and do it NOW!

THE ENTIRE 400 PAGE MUELLER REPORT OUT MID APRIL - WILLIAM BARR, AG.

ICHEOKU says but what will the Democrats do following the upcoming release of the entire Robert S. Mueller's Russian Collusion report (RMR). Will they ask for yet another thing else or declare that the released released is not the original Robert S. Mueller's report; and continue with their arrant nonsensical nagging and whining, like the impetuous child who was denied an ice cream, which they are gradually becoming. 

They lost an election and they will not accept the fact that somebody won over their Queen Crooked Hillary Clinton; and their agitation which started since November 8, 2016 is still lingering on till today. First they set up the Robert Mueller's panel to investigate the Russian Collusion idiocy; they filled it with their operatives; they went to the mat to make sure that Robert Mueller was not fired and even tried to enact a law specifically protecting and shielding Robert Mueller from ever being fired by the president. But now that the guy has finished his investigation and did not find anything illegal that was done by the president, they are still pulling their hairs. Their latest theatrics is stating that the Attorney General withheld the president's culpability part of the Robert Mueller's investigation, demanding that the whole report be released, as they did not trust the summary which the Attorney General sent out. 

ICHEOKU says now that the Attorney General has agreed to release the entire report by mid April, the only remaining question is whether the Democrats will accept it as the last testament to the Russian Collusion nonsense and finally move on from their lost election of November 8, 2016. ICHEOKU says like President Reagan once said, trust but verify,  the only way to affirmatively know this is when the report is finally released. Then, we shall see how Democrats will react and proceed going forward; and whether they will once again shift the goal post by making additional demands. But judging from their intransigent behavior since November 8, 2016, anything is possible as what is driving them is not the credibility of the election, but that they lost power and badly wants to get it back. 

What a reprehensible group of humanoids who would go to any length to discredit and disavow something simply because they lost an election. They are willing and capable of doing and saying just anything, no matter how irrational, including accusing the Attorney General of hiding something and not reporting accurately on what the Robert Mueller Report actually contained. But if they were not possessed by their maniacal wish to have their fantastic fallacy made whole, as truth; they would have known that the Attorney General William Barr could not have dared misstate the report. Such interference would have eventually leak and those 19 Democrats lawyers who were part of the investigation team, anti Trump and pro Hillary partisans, would have not let such an opportunity to discredit the Attorney General go to waste. The AG also could not have placed his reputation on the chopping block by feeding Americans with falsehood, either. 

Anyway, the Democrats will, in two weeks, be forced to leak their vomit when the entire report comes out and they find out that the AG did not add nor subtract from what it contains. The AG is an honorable man and he has nothing to hide nor benefit from doctoring the report. If the AG had something to hide, he would have hidden it long before the report was even written and submitted; which unfortunately too, could not have been possible because of the 19 Democrats lawyers, anti Trump pro Clinton, members of the investigation team. These fellas were eagle-eyed focused and eager to find something implicating the president to nail him, but failed, because there was nothing to find in the first place. 

It is also refreshing that the fake news group which came out yesterday with their usual fake news that the report was 300 pages long, has now once again been debunked and forced to cover their faces in shame because the RMR is 400 pages long. What a nightmare on Elms Street which this Russian Collusion investigation hell-raiser has been and ICHEOKU, like millions of others, are already burnt out and fatigued by it that we cannot wait to have it permanently behind us and in our rear-view mirror. Mid April should therefore please speed through that Americans can finally move on from the craziness and prepare for next year's election of November 3rd, 2020. 

MICHAEL AVENATTI: RUNNING SCARED!

ICHEOKU says what a pitiful sight to behold of a fella, who went from the once braggadocios and boisterous television-face vermin, who was not afraid to take on the president of the United States of America, to now the scared-stiff extortionist, who is deathly afraid to spend the rest of his life behind bars; where of course he will be violated by fellow inmates who would like to know why he did what he did, besmirched an innocent man whose non disclosure agreement was breached by his former client. 

In his own words and from his own filthy mouth, the creepy porn lawyer turned extortionist, of the Stormy Daniels fame, said, in answer to a question whether he is afraid of spending the rest of his natural life behind bars: "Of course I'm nervous, I'm concerned, I'm scared. I feel terrible for my family, I feel bad by my friends. Most are sticking by me because they know what I'm about. I feel very fortunate in that regard." 

ICHEOKU says if only he knows that their "sticking" around won't be for very long and that as soon as the gavel comes down following his sentence, they will melt away as fast as early morning dew confronted by the rising sun in summer time. This guy is a definition of a creep and hopefully he will have a long time to deliberate on his nuisance value to America, the law profession and his clients, once the iron cell gate clangs behind him. Not even Osment in Sixth Sense was this scared when he was seeing dead people. What a rascally scalawag who has finally been caught up in his crimes; so let him enjoy his last days of freedom while it lasts. With him and the other fella named Michael Cohen, ICHEOKU wonders if there is something unhinged with people named Michael. So SAD.

JUSSIE SMOLLETT: ALL CHARGES DROPPED, SUSPICIOUS.

ICHEOKU says please give it up to Illinois and their notoriety for corruption. A State, whose nearly every past governor was sent to prison as a result of corruption; the last one, Rod Blagojevich, still behind bars for the same corruption crimes. Little wonder, nothing good should be expected out of its largest city of Chicago, which gave the world the infamous Al Capone and a lot of other criminal masterminds. 

Now, enter the scandal that is Jussie Smollet's 16 felony counts being dropped and for no apparent reason, other than the usual Chicago Illinois quid pro quo dealings. Who shall it be told that a guy facing possible time behind bars, with 16 felony counts charges, of such easily provable crimes, would get such an ice cream slap on the wrist and told to go but sin no more. It is incredible and it is incredulous; but at last, that is the true state of affairs in Illinois, the land of Abraham Lincoln; which also gave America Queen Crooked Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. ICHEOKU says is there something in the water in Illinois that makes corruption so easily acceptable and, with such a relish.

ICHEOKU says it is definitely another black eye on American Justice System, which of late has increasingly been showing its hand as a two tier justice system: one for the rich and well connected as well as the otherwise gender confused individuals; and the other for the outsiders, as well as the downtrodden and unconnected. It is about time Americans rise up and demand of these disciples on the alter of Lady Justice, to do better and to apply justice equally across the board, without regard to the personal accoutrements of the accused/defendant. What possibly could have made the District Attorney of Chicago to completely wipe the criminal slate of this guy clean, despite what he did and it was not in doubt as his accomplices were found, interrogated and were ready to testify, yet the Chicago gumbahs pulled a fast one and he walked. What type of example did the DA set by doing this; that it is okay to break the law as long as you know somebody who has her direct telephone line and possibly would contribute to her future campaigns?

A matter made more suspicious because no reasonable basis was established for dropping the charges, short of a possible campaign contribution promise and/or inducement; and some arm twisting by the powerful, who wanted to see the charges go away and Jussie Smollett completely rehabilitated. Look at the speed with which they even expunged the records as if it never happened and before anyone could understand what really went down. A case which was investigated and presented before a grand jury, which recommended that it proceeded to trial and this was how the DA so cavalierly flushed it down the drain? ICHEOKU says it definitely calls for a second look, either by the Attorney General of Illinois or the FBI, as American people are shocked, especially it coming so soon after the also shocking, nearly two years Mueller' Russian Collusion investigation that turned up nothing. 

What is going in America calls for a reassessment, as the rich regularly gets away with murder, while the poor is sent away in the slammer for merely blinking an eyelid. American people need to know what exactly influenced the outcome in the Jussie Smollett's case and if such has now become the new normal or what? It is akin to Queen Crooked Hillary Clinton, committing obvious crimes of deleting and bleaching watching 33,000 subpoenaed emails and still walked; while a president, whose only crime was winning an election was nearly framed up. This is exactly the type of thing which one sees in Banana Republics and you wonder if the American descent into such infamy has already taken a turn for the worst and gone on a free fall. 

What else can ICHEOKU add to this scandal other than, that R. Kelly must act fast and change his attorneys, and retain the two lawyers who pulled off this Smollett stunt. Otherwise, what else can anyone say in a futile attempt to explain such inexplicable an unexplainable velvet treatment which Jussie Smollett received in the hands of Chicago justice system. It is pitiful; it is sad; and it sends a wrong message that it is okay to break the law as long as you have the wherewithal to pull the necessary strings required to spring you out of your legal jam and harms way. 

ICHEOKU says wanted to blame it on his status as a celebrity, but remembered that Oprah Winfrey was once prosecuted for her attack on the beef industry in Texas, although acquitted. Mike Tyson was prosecuted in Nevada for rape and convicted. OJ Simpson was prosecuted in California for double murders of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman, but acquitted. Michael Jackson too was prosecuted in California for chic molestation and acquitted. Kobe Bryant was prosecuted in Colorado for rape and acquitted. So, the story of celebrities running afoul of the law is not new nor scarce, begging the question, why did Jussie Smollett cases dropped?  

Jussie Smollett is a much lesser celebrity than any of the fellas mentioned above; but for him not to be tried at all, but have all his 16 felony counts dropped, only shows one thing and one thing only, CORRUPTION at work. The State of Illinois and the City of Chicago are the most corrupt places in America and the records are there to back this up. It is about Chicago and Jussie Smollet is not a politically correct prosecutable offender. He is black, gay homosexual, and also a celebrity; needless to add that the DA is also black and a fan and is possibly thinking ahead of future elections. What will eventually become of the City of Chicago with the incoming black mayor, when every City top office will be held by certain people can only be lived to be seen. But the free pass given to Jussie Smollett reeks of crass corruption, which the Federal authorities should try and look into. Disgustingly sad.

MICHAEL AVENATTI: ARRESTED AND CHARGED, FACES 97 YEARS IN PRISON.

ICHEOKU says in what would appear like a double whammy take down, Stormy Daniels' creepy porn lawyer Michael Avenatti was indicted simultaneously on both coasts, one in Southern District of New York and the other in California Central District in Santa Ana, of several crimes including embezzlement, bank fraud and extortion. He is accused of appropriating his client's $1.6 million legal settlement proceed; obtaining $4 million loan from a bank using fictitious documents and trying to extort Nike Sports Company of $20 million. 

If convicted, the once obscure, hustling, Los Angeles based plaintiffs' lawyer, will be looking at a total of 97 years behind bars, 47 in New York and 50 in California, and will most likely come out of prison in a pine box. Unfortunately, both jurisdictions being Federal, only President Donald John Trump can grant him pardon or commutation if convicted; which is very unlikely, his venomous use of Stormy Daniels against the president considered. Also, should he be convicted and he decides to appeal the matter up to the Supreme Court, he will have the dishonor of seeking mercy before Justice Brett Kavanaugh included empanelled Justices of the Supreme Court, and his false witnessing during the Kavanaugh confirmation hearing, which left much to be desired, might come back to bite him. 

A lawyer who gained notoriety representing a porn actress, Stormy Daniels, who was fully paid for her services, yet breached a non disclosure agreement; and told on the client; is now facing his own self inflicted invasive examination by the law. The same law which he used in trying to destroy others, including his most recent  targeted victim, Nike. A now disgraced lawyer, who regularly appeared on CNN and MSNBC, whose conduct was described by the prosecutor as evidence that "a suit and tie does not mask the fact that, at its core, was an old-fashioned shakedown." Even his former client Stormy Daniels did not portray him in a favorable light, saying that she terminated Michael’s services after discovering that he had dealt with her extremely, dishonestly. In his own stab, the president's son, Don Jr parodied MAGA to read "Michael Avenatti Getting Arrested!!!”

ICHEOKU says when all is said and done, Michael Avenati will learn a hard, cold lesson, albeit too late and most likely behind bars, that certain truism always remains correct, regardless. That is to treat people fairly, no matter what. This is a lawyer, whose client breached a valid subsisting purchased agreement not to kiss and tell and received a handsome consideration for it; yet his desperation for "fame" made him to throw every caution to the wind, as he pushed through with his funky narrative that his client had sex with someone and was paid for it; leaving so many people wondering, what exactly was the injury suffered by his client for which a redress may exist in law.  

But hey, what goes around comes around; and such a man with such a putrefying garbage had the guts to sit on judgment over another man's fair dealing. If only he had heed our Lord and Master Jesus' warning that he who is without sin should cast the first stone, may be, he would have remained his inconspicuous Los Angeles lawyer and not sought a needless limelight. Now, lets see whether any of the cable television network including his darling CNN and MSNBC will invite him back to run off his mouth like the possessed demonic elf he often times assumes the personality. His sad story is definitely a study on how not to end one's career and probably life, as his life is certainly over if convicted and the maximum number of years are given to him.

LET THE COUNTRY NOW MOVE ON.

ICHEOKU says 22 months, $25 million, 19 Democrat lawyers, 40 FBI experts and agents, 2800 subpoenas, 500 warrants and 500 witnesses later, the conclusion is that the president nor anyone connected to the Trump’s campaign colluded with the Russians and that there was no reasonable basis to infer that the president obstructed justice by firing James Comey. Now is time to move on and join hands with the president in his effort to Make America Great Again.

ICHEOKU says just for the record as every truthfully speaking honest person have always known that the Russian Collusion investigation was a manufactured phony, an attempted takedown by Deep State, which wanted to carry out a civilian coup against a duly elected President Donald John Trump, but it failed. So SAD and so pitiful it ever took place and in the last bastion of hope for a democratic society, where votes should count. #MAGA.

NDIGBO LAGOS: LEAVE TINUBU ALONE, TAKE YOUR GRIEVANCES TO COURT.

ICHEOKU says sometimes spends awful amount of time wondering what exactly is wrong with Ndigbo and whether the acclaimed Igbo sense is somewhat getting in the way, regarding the manner in which they respond to some issues affecting their collective interest in Nigeria. A people reputed to be highly knowledgeable, intelligent, educated and widely traveled; but each time there is a problem for them, from the other ethnic nationalities in Nigeria, they seem to be at a loss, in finding a cohesive response thereto, as a one united ethnic component therein. 

Their latest headache now is Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu and his quest to needle them, prick them and cause them some discomfort in Lagos State. ICHEOKU says try as he may, Bola Tinubu will not succeed, admitted he might cause some harm, using his now newly found alliances up North. But he should be a good student of history and understand that at the end of the day, the just will always triumph, no matter how long the tribulation lasts.  So, until he can fully establish that Ndigbo are not Nigerians, with the attendant rights of citizenship therein, including the right to reside and pursue their callings in any part of Nigeria, including Lagos, as bona fide citizens of Nigeria, he is but laboring in vain in his vainglorious pursuit to drive them out of Lagos and confiscate their assets. 

Possibly, he is still pursuing the title of Yoruba generalissimo, the Aare Ona Kakanfo, by pretending to be protecting Yoruba people from the encroaching Ndigbo people. A matter which ICHEOKU thought was already nipped in the bud, when he was bypassed by the Alafin Of Oyo, who rebuffed his lobby for title when he gave it to OPC Ganiyu Adams. 

ICHEOKU understands that the Jagaban of Borku Land is still smarting about his none conferment with the title and also that no first rate Yoruba Oba has so far recognized him by honoring him with any coveted title of repute, due to his alleged questionable pedigree. Now, he is lashing out from a long pent up and bottled up anger, in a desperate bid to woe the Yoruba Nation, to see in him, a fighter, a protector and a defender in chief of their interest; and found a new piñata and punching bag in Ndigbo Lagos, who are lawfully and legally residing and carrying out their merchandising business in Lagos as of right. 

All Bola TInubu will succeed in achieving is to make the Tinubu name a pariah and repulsive name to Ndigbo world wide, it, added to Awolowo and Buhari as well as Gowon. If this is the legacy which he wants to leave behind, let him carry on soldier; but his anti Igbo actions will only last as long as he lives and still remains a powerful politician, but will definitely not outlive him. If such ephemerality is worth tarnishing his family name for eternity, oh well and dandy, like Dame Patience would say, let him KONTINUE; otherwise beating an immediate fast retreat will be advised.

But why Ndigbo Lagos have indulged him and tolerated his awful antics thus far, and have not yet come up with a decisive response to it is rather befuddling. Instead, they have been knee jerky and Tower of Babylon-like with their variegated reactions, some of which are bothering from the insane to the absurd. A product of a traumatized collective psyche, indicative of a people still suffering post war fretting and fidgety syndrome, and seemingly still afraid, confused and helpless, within the Nigeria State. Imagine the panic that developed within the Ndigbo Lagos community, just because Bola Tinubu wanted to be shown some respect and possibly handed a portion of Ndigbo baked pie in Lagos.

ICHEOKU makes bold to state that anti Igbo sentiments in Western Nigeria Yoruba people did not start today nor with Bola Tinubu. It will also not end tomorrow either, because the rivalry between the two Nations, Yoruba and Igbo, is deeply rooted. It has been there since the two Nations' paths crossed and it permeated the general strata of both people. It is a competition for prominence and dominance and who will lead the Southern Nigeria in their face-off against the more united North. This is the simple reason for the rivalry between the two nations in Nigeria. Remember that Gbolahan Mudasiru evicted Ojukwu from Vilaska Lodge and Babatunde Fashola deported some Ndigbo from Lagos. So Tinubu is not doing today what was not done in the past.

The Yoruba man does not like the feeling of being dominated and each time another Igbo man forks out another N150 million to purchase another swamp land plot in Lagos, the Tinubus of Lagos see it as a threat to their ownership of Lagos; because they clearly understand that possession is 9/10th of ownership and that he who owns the land owns the fealty. This is the reason Palestine people are not sold land in Israel, fear of domination. But unlike the Jews of Israel, the Yorubas of Lagos love their owambe and they must find the money to do funerals of their several decades old departed loved ones and it does not matter if it is for the fifth time. Such an easy money can be gotten by turning over a swamp plot to the Igbo man and the circle goes on without any end in sight.

ICHEOKU says it is on record that Obafemi Awolowo used this "palapo" sentiment to sway Yoruba politicians out of supporting Nnamdi Azikwe, who was on the cusp of becoming the premier of Western Region when the Awolowo engineered carpet crossing saw Zik's lead of the Western House of Assembly at Agodi Ibadan, evaporate before his eyes like the early morning dew. Obafemi Awolowo introduced tribalism in Nigeria and used it to deny Nnamdi Azikwe, his earned right to the premiership of Western Nigeria. This tribalistic gamesmanship created the big chasm which still exist today amongst the various Nationalities that are amalgamated in Nigeria, which has made national unity near impossible. Needless to add that Zik angrily left Ibadan and moved back to the Eastern Region House in Enugu and similarly pushed away Eyo Ita from his assured premiership of the Eastern region, thus adding to the disunity in Nigeria. 

The same Yoruba benefactor in chief, Obafemi Awolowo, also led the "Starvation is the best instrument of warfare" effort of the then Nigerian government, against Biafrans. A strategy which killed more than 3 million Biafran women and children during the Biafran war, thanks to a heartless demon, but who is nearly deified by Yoruba people. A case of one man's meat another which is another man's poison; as Awolowo can never be forgiven by Ndigbo, not for the callous atrocities which he carried out against the people. 

ICHEOKU makes bold to say that Obafemi Awolowo, who is celebrated by the Yoruba Nation as their messiah, will forever be derided by Ndigbo as a devil incarnate, who every Igbo person prays found a very fiery discomfort in the hottest part of hell and will remain there confined, until hell freezes over. The same Awolowo led the indigenization program which privatized foreign companies in Nigeria and auctioned them off to his Yoruba people when he gave Ndigbo only twenty pounds from whatever they had in the banks prior to the war. If these do not sound like an anti Igbo vengeful actions, what else will suffice? 

Then let nobody forget that the Western government also introduced the abandoned property saga, which led to many Ndigbo properties being seized in Lagos, Ibadan and other Yoruba Western cities. Prominent among these properties was VIlaska Lodge, 10 Queens Drive Ikoyi, Lagos, which became subject of an extensive litigation between Ojukwu and the Lagos State Government. The disputation went all the way to the Supreme Court (Lagos State Government V. Ojukwu, (1986) 1 NSCC Vol 17), which ruled that citizenship of a country includes the right to own properties and carry on businesses in any part of the country. The court frowned at the speed with which Lagos State Government evicted Ojukwu from the premises, stating that a citizen of Nigeria cannot legally abandon his own property, in his own country and gave Ojukwu back his properties in Lagos State. It is also instructive that upon eviction, that Ojukwu remained homeless outside the perimeter fencing of Vilaska Lodge, until the Supreme Court restored his right to his property.

So, ICHEOKU says that Ndigbo merchandizers in Lagos should build on the experiences of Ojukwu at Vilaska Lodge and face down Bola Tinubu squarely, the legal way. They should drag the Lagos State Government and Bola Tinubu to court and let the court resolve their status in Nigeria, if need be. Such an opportunity to resolve whether they are bona fide citizens of Nigeria with the inherent right to reside and carry on business in any part of Nigeria, including Lagos State, must not go to waste. 

So, regardless of what Bola Tinubu might do to them or throw at them, to provoke them into action, they should ignore any direct action in response and let the court deal with it. Ndigbo must not play into Bola TInubu's hands and/or accept his bait for a street fight, because they cannot win a pig in a mud fight. Once the court decides whether any Nigerian is more Nigerian than the other, then, Ndigbo's place in Nigeria will become inviolable and will no longer be at the mercy of any one man's lucid intervals nor dictated by his emotional roller coasting waves, his highs and lows. 

ICHEOKU therefore advises Ndigbo Lagos merchants to sue Lagos State Government and join Bola Tinubu as a co-defendant, over the constant harassment which are meted to them on a nearly regular basis, at their places of residence and businesses throughout Lagos State, including the Trade Fair Complex. That is how issues are resolved in  civilized societies and not through street thugs and motor park touts. The court is a better way of resolving issues in disputation; and if the court of first instance is not favorable, appeal its decision to the next in the hierarchy and up to the Supreme Court. But this morbid fear of Bola Tinubu must stop and stop right now on its tracts. 

The continuous fretting about and thrusting hands of frustration in air; frantically bemoaning your fate and accusing Bola Tinubu of all manners of invectiveness must stop. You have a recourse in the courts and you can go there to resolve whatever fear, real or imagined, which is simply deprecate and does not help anybody in the circumstance. Bola Tinubu is not your problem, picking the right course of action is the problem; and you can still make up for the lost grounds by first obtaining an injunction against the adverse parties to stop them from harassing you in your place of businesses and/or shutting down your businesses. If you feel you suffered loses, an action for damages can also follow. 

ICHEOKU is emphatic that only greedy and jealous people covet other people's properties and assets. This truism might not be far from the driving factor in the current imbroglio between Ndigbo Lagos merchants and Lagos State Government/Bola Tinubu. The only way to conclusively resolve this impasse is by obtaining a valid subsisting order of court, which will permanently maintain the status quo or order an agreed indefinite terms of a peaceful co-habitation between the two Nationalities. But things cannot continue to go on in its current form, with all the panic and needless uncertainty. 

In addition, Ndigbo Lagos can use their large number as a bargaining chip and threaten a boycott of anything and everything with Tinubu's name on it and by proxy of anyone holding on his behest or behalf. His hotels, shopping centers, airline and newspapers will by then be fair game for targeted boycott. But should all these fail to influence his actions, then just wait him out, because at 60 plus years old, age is no longer on his side, as nothing lasts forever. As with every mortal, he too will soon depart this earth, as he has already lived more than he will ever live in the future. Thereafter his departed,  normalcy can then be restored once again in Lagos among all and every Lagosians, irrespective of the ethnic tribe which they may come from, that calls Lagos State home. So, until then, let every nwa afor Igbo in Lagos, take it gently.