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

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

25th AMENDMENT: ITS NOW ALL CRICKET.

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

WHO WILL REBUILD UKRAINE?

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

A HERO IS BORN.

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

IT IS WHAT IT IS.

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

WORD!

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

NOW, YOU KNOW.

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

JUST THE FACT.

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

DO YOU?.

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

HEDGE YOUR CRISIS.

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

PROBLEM SOLVED.

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

OUR SHARED HUMANITY.

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

WORDS ON MARBLE.

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

REPENT OR PERISH - POPE.

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

CANCEL CULTURE IS CORROSIVE.


FOR SAKE OF COUNTRY.


MAGA LIVES ON: NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER!

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


WORD.

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

#MeToo MOVEMENT: A BAD NEWS GONE CRAZY.

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


RON DELLUMS: UNAPOLOGETICALLY RADICAL.

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


WHAT REALLY MATTERS IN LIFE - STEVE JOBS

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

EVIL CANNOT BE TRULY DESTROYED.

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


ONLY THE POOR WISH THEY HAD STUFF?

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

Thursday, October 15, 2020

SCAVENGERS ARE LURKING: DON'T LET THEM RIP AMERICA TO THE BONES.

ICHEOKU says it is election season of gathering of dangerous ravenous people. They are ganging up against the president who is standing in their way from ripping America totally apart and completely to the bones. As a patriotic citizen who loves your country, you must fight alongside the president to preserve America for future generations. If you don't and they succeed, America as we know it will no longer exist; it will become a thing of the past. From China to North Korea to Russia to Iran to their European and American Deep State partners, who have been milking and threatening America for far too long, enemies of America are gathering and getting ready to plunder America. If President Donald John Trump is gone, these enemies of America will no longer have any resistance to implementing their evil plans. They will destroy America. Please don't let them replug their mouths back unto America's udders. Tell them to take a hike because America First is a good policy objective which is necessary to Make America Great Again and Keep America Great. On November 3rd, with your votes, show them that you know their trick of trying to use Joe Biden as a Trojan horse to take control of America and that you will not fall for it. #Vote4Trump.

JOE BIDEN: REJECTED!

ICHEOKU says is not voting for Joe Biden and this is why. His position on so many issues is not agreeable to ICHEOKU, but please feel free to convince ICHEOKU otherwise. On November 3rd, the silent majority will affirm ICHEOKU's position that Joe Biden is not good for America and that supporting reasons on why Joe Biden should be rejected at the polls are sufficient by them too. #Vote4Trump. #4MoreYears.
  1. 1991 CRIME BILL
  2. YOU AIN'T BLACK
  3. THEY GONNA PUT YOU ALL BACK IN CHAINS
  4. AMERICA TURNING INTO A RACIAL JUNGLE
  5. TARA READE
  6. FRACKING
  7. PACKING THE COURT
  8. IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL
  9. PARIS CLIMATE ACCORD
  10. CHINA
  11. HUNTER BIDEN
  12. BARACK OBAMA
  13. ECONOMY
  14. ENERGY
  15. DEMENTIA
  16. GREEN NEW DEAL
  17. KAMALA HARRIS
  18. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO CORTEZ
  19. DEEP STATE
  20. THE SWAMP

Wednesday, October 14, 2020

AMY CONEY BARRET: CONFIRM HER NOW!

ICHEOKU says all the confirmation hearing drama should end immediately as the outcome is assured, with or without it; moreso none of the Democratic Senators will vote for her confirmation, thus begging the question why waste time dig dallying on the confirmation hearing charade. If it were the Democrats who were bestowed with such a golden opportunity, they would have by only a voice vote since put the process behind them. If queried, they will in unison chorus that election has consequences, end of debate. Amy Coney Barret is eminently qualified to sit on the Supreme Court and she has been vetted before, so why all the posturing at the Judicial Committee.

DR ANTHONY FAUCI: NOT TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR WHAT HAPPENED, WHY?

ICHEOKU says he is the chief adviser cum consultant on the coronavirus effort and a principal member of the Presidential Taskforce on Coronavirus in charge of managing the coronavirus pandemic. He said that everything he advised, suggested and recommended to the president were fully carried out and that none of his proposals to the president was ever rejected by the president. He is the expert and the president is neither a medical doctor nor a medical scientist and fully relied on Dr Anthony Fauci's expertise on the way forward following the coronavirus outbreak. Some people died while millions of others survived, fully recovered from the infection and in some cases on the strength of their immunity without ever needing hospitalization. But despite all these, the media is still solely blaming the president for the recorded shortfalls from the coronavirus, especially for the coronavirus dead Americans. So, why is Dr Anthony Fauci being spared and sheltered from all the criticisms and condemnation for not doing a good job in advising the president on the best way possible in order to avoid the outcome recorded. Why should the president who relied heavily on the advise of the expert Dr Fauci be held responsible for following Dr Fauci's advise, but the Dr Fauci who gave the advise to the president is not being similarly held accountable for his own negligent advise which led to the outcome being chastised. It simply does not make any rational sense that an adviser will be absolved of culpability while the president who merely relied upon and acted on the advise is the only one being harangued. Election year politics or not, it is not fair and it smacks of crass partisan attack on the president just for political gain. It is akin to blaming a player who made all the plays his coach asked him to make for the loss of a game, while the coach who coached his play is left untouched and to the chagrin of so many, being celebrated as the best coach ever. Where is the logic and common sense that Dr Anthony Fauci who advised the president on how to prosecute the coronavirus war is being treated as a hero by the far left nut jobs but the president who merely acted upon and carried out the advise given to him by Dr Anthony Fauci is being demonized as solely responsible for the coronavirus deaths in America. ICHEOKU says Dr Anthony Fauci is entirely responsible for whatever shortfalls arising from the Chinese coronavirus contagion or at least partly responsible for it, because he is the expert and he told the nation that every advise and recommendations which he gave the president were dutifully carried out by the president. It would have been a different read had the president rejected, ignored or rebuffed Dr Anthony Fauci's advise and recommendations, but he did not. Therefore the blame game must stop and if it must go on, then rope Dr Anthony Fauci therein alongside the president as he is the arrowhead in the fight against the coronavirus and must share and partake in all the commendations and reclamations arising therefrom. Enough of the hack partisan attacks on only the president. let Dr Anthony Fauci take some responsibility for his part in the prosecution of the war against the Chinese coronavirus pandemic. It is the right and correct thing to do in the interest of fairness. 

Tuesday, October 13, 2020

CORONAVIRUS DEATHS REHASH: A DISSERVICE TO MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS.

ICHEOKU says for every one American coronavirus dead, fifteen others survived the plague, thanks to the exceptionalism of those hospital staff who did and continues to do a great job fighting the dreadful Chinese contagion. So, for the two hundred thousand plus deaths recorded, over three million other American lives were saved by these professionals who saw to it that these infected Americans recovered from the coronavirus disease. This is in addition to the over seven million people who were infected by the disease but who did not get sick nor needed hospitalization. 

Therefore at a death rate of only about 7% the coronavirus is statistically speaking not too lethal, yet the media continuously pounds away about the mortality with scant mention of the 93% survival rate, all thanks to the wonderful good work which were done and is continuously being done by American medical professionals to keep the death rates low. But this skewed reporting of only the dead makes it appear that the medical professionals on the frontline fighting the plague are incompetent and not succeeding in their task to save those infected and afflicted. It is demoralizing as their effort is not being appreciated and under appreciated at best. They are not being giving their due accolades which they richly deserve for the great work which they are doing to turn the coronavirus page behind us and allow the country to forge ahead. This is sad, unappreciative and smacks of ingratitude by the media, some of whose members members have come down with the coronavirus but recovered thanks to American medical professionals. 

But instead of celebrating these medical professionals, the media and their talking head guests continuously disparages them by not recognizing the wonderful work done by them in saving victims of this contagion, thinking that they are attacking the president without knowing the damage which they are causing to these men and women who have saved millions more lives than the two hundred thousand plus which were lost to the coronavirus pandemic disease. Each time the media repeatedly speak about the number of coronavirus dead Americans without speaking about the millions of American's lives saved, they exhibit their ingratitude for the marvelous work being done by these America's medical professionals and it hurts. 

Imagine being a doctor, nurse, EMT, therapist, cleaner or any other healthcare giver and all you see on television daily is a continuing disparagement and rehash of only the coronavirus dead, without a corresponding mention of those coronavirus patients saved, who survived the plague, how that would make you feel. A feeling of dejection that all the work being done by you including putting in all the extra hours and working under such a stressful and strenuous pressure to make those infected American people well again are not being appreciated. How can such a medical worker recover from the psychological torture being inflicted upon them with the endless slant reportage in which only the dead are getting all the coverage while the survivors are being ignored and hardly mentioned. What a thankless job it must be.

ICHEOKU says it is a sad commentary and very irresponsible of these media outlets and their talking head guests to constantly hyperventilate only on the coronavirus dead without any deferring mention of those who were saved and who recovered from the coronavirus. All the media care about is to damage the president without considering the actual damage which their action is inflicting on these hospital workers on the frontlines who must feel sad that the great work which they are doing is being under appreciated and ridiculed by not acknowledging those who they saved. Yes, some people died, but far greater number of people survived and recovered from the coronavirus; many without even being hospitalized. 

It is good to appreciate these medical professionals who sacrificed so much to save millions of lives that it is apposite to cite, paraphrasing Winston Churchill, that never in the history of America has so much been owed to so few by so many. Without these medical professionals' brave and courageous intervention, Americans would have by now probably died off completely. They should therefore be appreciated and celebrated by highlighting their immense successes in the fight against the coronavirus and not continuously being demonized by the constant doom and gloom about only the dead victims. Such a lopsided reporting diminishes these medical workers morals, questions their competency and also makes doubtful the efficacy of American drugs, medical health management and treatment. 

The media should also stop blaming the president while celebrating Dr Fauci who counseled the president through the pandemic as there was no advice of Dr Fauci which the president rejected or refused to implement. The president did all he could reasonably do under the circumstances to tackle the coronavirus pandemic effectively and efficiently. He provided necessary PPE and other equipments including ventilators as needed by the various States and Cities. He provided New York City and Los Angeles with large hospital ships as well as temporary hospitals. He shutdown travel from China and Europe as advised by Dr Fauci and co. He wanted to close-off and quarantine New York City and Seattle at the onset of the coronavirus but was resisted by Governors Andrew Cuomo and Jay Inslee respectively; who claimed that the president has no right to impose on their States such restraint of movement and that it infringes on the Commerce Clause. Everything Dr Anthony Fauci and the Presidential Taskforce on Coronavirus recommended and requested of the president, the president did and provided. Every supply reached its earmarked destination timely too. 

But despite all the president's best efforts, the media is still blaming him for the coronavirus and you ask yourself what else did they want or expect the president to do when he does not have power over or the authority to dictate to the States. A president whose suggestions to the States Governors on how to effectively mitigate and fight the coronavirus pandemic were severally ignored and rebuffed. It would have been a different thing had the president rejected the counsel of Dr Fauci and the Presidential Taskforce on Coronavirus or refused to honor requests made by respective States who needed special help or assistance. But like King Solomon did to Queen Sheba, the president supplied the States all their needs tenfold and in excess of their need as requested. So, why is the media still chastising the president for some of the failures of the coronavirus effort and not the State governors who are primarily directly responsible for safeguarding the lives of people who reside in their States. 

ICHEOKU says anyone holding the president responsible for the coronavirus pandemic is either not being truthful to themselves or are simply hack partisans who hate of the president, regardless. They have no  regard for the truth of what actually happened and are solely guided with their desire to see the president out of the White House. How could anyone who paid attention to the coronavirus spread and its progression since January still hold the president accountable in view of factual evidence before the public. The only snafu is that the messaging aspect of the coronavirus battle was lost and mismanaged by the White House as they allowed the real story to be lost in the cacophony of election year politics. If only the president's information managers did a great job by highlighting all the successes achieved in containing the coronavirus, including sustaining the supply chain of America, may be the outrage over the coronavirus would not be as asinine as it is today. This has led to the two hundred thousand plus deaths being made the single campaign issue in this election. The disservice to the president is regrettable.

Thursday, September 24, 2020

BLM SHOULD SHOW SOME RESPECT TO RBG.

ICHEOKU says it is highly disrespectful for Black Lives Matter to marshal out its thugs once again on the streets of American cities when the body of late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is still lying in State. The Democratic Party violence wing should at least have waited until RBG is interred before unleashing their mayhem because of the Grand Jury ruling in Breonna Taylor's case was not their preferred choice. Their action does not serve the memory of Ruth Bader Ginsburg well nor does it project them in a good light. Sad. 

BREONNA TAYLOR GRAND JURY RULING: IT'S TIME TO MOVE ON.

ICHEOKU says the only thing which bothers ICHEOKU is why the boyfriend who fired first at the police was not the one killed or shot. Instead it was his girlfriend Breonna Taylor that was killed in the altercation with over six bullets fired into her. Did the police not have lighted guns to see the direction where the shot was fired or they blindly unloaded their weapons indiscriminately. 

The fact that her death was ruled a homicide by the coroner notwithstanding, the police could only have been charged for her death if they had no justification for discharging their weapons. But the police were fired at first before they returned the shots that killed Breonna Taylor as they are authorized to do. If anyone were to be guilty for Breona's death, it would be her boyfriend who provoked the circumstances that led to her being killed by firing at the police. This brings up the other unsatisfactorily unresolved question whether the police announced their entry and if, why did the boyfriend still fire at them and if not, why he fired only one shot instead of emptying his weapon if indeed he believed his life and that of his girlfriend were in danger. 

The other issue here is whether the police could have entered the apartment to serve a no knock warrant and if yes, then they acted lawfully, hence a justifiable homicide. It is true that the law often looks strange to many who have no legal knowledge or understanding, as many things in law often are not always what they seem, the reason some deaths are ruled differently. Yes, homicide is a death not caused by the victim but not all such deaths are indictable including accidents and justifiable killing. So, yes Breona did not kill herself but that did not mean that the police that killed her are guilty as they acted under circumstances they were allowed to act. Her death is unfortunate but it is what it is and the people should move on. 

ICHEOKU says believes that the City of Louisville have demonstrated their remorse for the unfortunate incident by coughing up a huge sum of money to compensate the family of Breonna for her death; twelve million dollars is a huge settlement by any standards imagined or measured. But that is where it stops as they cannot indict where there is no legally permissible ground to indict. Also the Attorney General of Kentucky is a black man and he would not necessarily be a party to any cover up, assuming there was one in the first place. 

ICHEOKU says those encouraging riots or demanding for the heads of those policemen should first try to understand the criminal law involved so that they may be better acquainted on what happened. Enough of the stirring of trouble which unfortunately have now ended the observation of respect for the departed RBG. May both Breonna Taylor's and RBG's souls now rest and let the family of Breonna as well as Kentuckians and the nation move on. 

Wednesday, September 23, 2020

IF ONLY RBG HAD WANTED?

ICHEOKU says the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had two choices, none of which she exercised. She would have retired when Barack Obama was president to allow him to appoint her replacement but did not. Also, she would not have died before the November election to enable the president elected on November 3rd appoint her replacement. But either by faith or dint of hard luck, RBG did not or failed to make either of the options. As a result, the default position now kicked in, leaving the duly elected sitting President Donald Trump to exercise his own constitutionally granted right to appoint her replacement. 

ICHEOKU says anyone who does not like it or who has any pity-party issue about it should know that politics is a power play and that the Republicans have manned up to embrace what destiny thrust on their lap, another opportunity to put a conservative Justice in the Supreme Court. Who says God is not a Republican and still presiding over the affairs of America as a God's own country. RBG's problem, just got solved, hurray!

AS HILLARY WENT SO GOES JOE: 2020 ELECTION DEJA VU 2016 ELECTION.

ICHEOKU says anyone who does not see the stark similarities between the 2016 presidential election campaign of Hillary Clinton with the ongoing 2020 presidential election campaign of Joe Biden is either not paying close attention or is purposefully blinded by hack partisanship and the hatred of President Donald John Trump. The common peculiarities between both campaigns are such that Joe Biden's presidential campaign could easily pass for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, the only difference being the swapping of the candidates based on gender appeal.

Like  Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden was an imposition of the establishment Washington DC Democratic Party class and not the party's base most favorite candidate, unlike the president. Like Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden is recording low supporters turnout in his campaigns, unlike the president. Like Hillary Clinton's notorious absence on campaign trails in 2016, Joe Biden is planning to outdo her in being absent on campaign trails this 2020, unlike the president. Like Hillary Clinton in 2016, Joe Biden is being similarly shielded from the media and has refused to make himself available for public scrutiny in order to be examined for suitability for the office, unlike the president who has never seen any interview opportunity he couldn't take. 

Like Hillary Clinton in 2016, Joe Biden is not completely healthy and is obviously suffering from mental affliction in addition. Like Hillary Clinton in 2016, Joe Biden is not making frequent campaign stopovers in the battle ground region of Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio and Pennsylvania; very much unlike the president. Like Hillary Clinton 2016 ticket with Tim Kaine, Joe Biden's ticket with Kamala Harris is not that excitable, unlike Team Trump/Pence. Like Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden's campaign does not have a riveting campaign message nor mantra, unlike the president's America First, Make America Great Again populist appeal. Like Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden is once again asking American people to just vote for him because he is not Trump as he is being deluded that American people hate their president. President Donald John Trump on the other hand is asking American people because he will continue to fight and deliver for them.

But what ICHEOKU does not understand or find inexplicably an oddity is how any reasonably rational person thinks or expects that there will be a different outcome in 2020 than there was in 2016 with the same similar set of facts as existed then in 2016 staring them on their faces. ICHEOKU says it requires the suspension of logic to in fact even suggest that such outcome could possibly come to live. If logical deduction and empirical reasoning are still the two best ways and time tested methodology of arriving to a conclusion, then let it be recorded this date that ICHEOKU is emphatic that the same result recorded in 2016 is going to mirror itself this 2020. #TrumpWins. #Vote4Trump. 

200,000 CORONAVIRUS DEAD: REST IN PEACE.


Tuesday, September 22, 2020

REN ZHIQIANG: IT'S AN OFFENSE TO BE TOO RICH IN CHINA.

ICHEOKU says why the Western world still deals with China despite its gross abuse and violations of human rights is a cause of worry for most conscionable people around the world. A West which always pontificates on human rights violations and frequently visits punishments of sanctions on African and other third world countries for the abuse of their citizens, but constantly maintains a deafening silence about the egregious abuse of humanity taking place in china. Now a wealthy business man, real estate developer Ren Zhiqiang has been punished and sentenced to 18 years in prison for "making too much money", a cover up story for punishing him for criticizing President Xi Jinping. 

How could a man "collude with his children to accumulate wealth without restraint" when there is no offense called "Making Too Much Money" in the books in China or anywhere around the world. He is a business man and he made money for a living, so what exactly is making too much money? The Chinese Communist Party and their maximum leader Xi Jinping cannot cease bamboozling people with the level of their despotism, yet the West looks the other way while these abuses linger on exponentially. ICHEOKU says when will China ever be told to cut it off or forced to do so at the pain of an all encompassing strangulating sanction or even an outright shooting war if that is what it will require to solve the Chinese problem once and for all and for good of mankind. Enough of the West indulging China.

WHERE IS HUNTER?

ICHEOKU says Donald Trump Junior is campaigning for his dad's reelection. Nobody has seen Hunter Biden, Joe Biden's son, doing the same. Why is Hunter not campaigning for his father either together or holding sole acts on behalf of his dad. Does it mean that he is not vested in the outcome of his father's campaign or that he was purposely shut out from the campaign. So where is Hunter?

MARRIAGE: IT PAYS TO BE DEAF - RBG.

ICHEOKU says if according to the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg her mother in-law told her that the best way to achieve a successful marriage is to be sometimes deaf, why then does married deaf people fight and have cantankerous marriages. To this, ICHEOKU responds that although it pays to sometimes not sweep up every utterances of a spouse and provided they will not accuse you of ignoring them, but they are some people who shouldn't be in a marriage, period. RBG, RIP.

OBASEKI'S VICTORY: EDO NO BE LAGOS, A MESSAGING PAR EXCELLENCE.

ICHEOKU says President Donald John Trump did it in 2016 with his 'Make America Great Again' battle cry and Governor Godwin Nogheghase Obaseki of Edo State Nigeria proved that it works any time with his 'Edo No Be Lagos' campaign mantra which helped him win a second term. His reelection battle plan was anchored on 'Edo No Be Lagos' and it paid bigly. It is a basic rule of society that appealing to the patriotic pride of a people always helps in mobilizing the best in them, the human spirit to identify with a cause favorable to them and then fiercely battle to protect it as a collective. Barack Obama's "Yes We Can" also belongs in this genre of message that rivets. 

You can call it pandering to the human instinct to rise up and protect and defend what they strongly believe belongs to them and as always, people collectively do whatever it takes to ensure that what is theirs remains theirs and not allow it to be taken away by some strangers. President Donald John Trump successfully invoked it in 2016 and Nigerian's Edo State Governor Godwin Nogheghase Obaseki exploited it very well in his reelection victory few days ago. Both men successfully convinced their people to adopt them as their candidate, invest in their election and to have a stake in the election outcome; and the rest is now history. 

Both men made their people to identify, acknowledge and recognize their fight as a fight for them and that some people who are not of their society are trying to use renegade members of their society to steal what belongs to the people. That convinced them that the only way to prevent this from happening is to support their candidature as that is the only viable protective bulwark against the threatening invasion and assured deprivation. 

ICHEOKU says nothing stirs the human spirit more than making them believe that what is theirs is at a crisis point of being permanently lost, taken away, stolen by strangers and foreigners who are not entitled to it because they do not belong in their society and therefore shouldn't have taken what belongs to them. It is literally a mind game and it works any time it has been methodically applied. 

ICHEOKU says does not know how much of a good governance which Governor Obaseki brought to Edo State in his first term; but says that the fresh impetus supplied to him with his reelection victory should encourage him to do more, in order to show the people of Edo State that he understood and appreciates their uncommon favorable sentiment which galvanized them to vote to reelect him for a second term. 

What he didn't do or failed to do in the first term, he should do now and what he did that needs some improvements, he should improve now; and in that way help assure that he rightly earned the mandate given to him by his people of Edo State. He earned their trust and they believed in him that "Edo No Be Lagos" and fought to protect their Edo State from foreign invaders from Lagos, Kano and Abuja. He must now try to earn their respect and admiration by working tirelessly for their benefit to show them that their trust was rightly placed and that he remains eternally grateful to them. Also that the mandate which they gave him will be a mandate of benefit for Edo State and that they will not regret their decision. 

Overall it was a free, fair and non violent election. The usual election brigandry often associated with elections in Nigeria was greatly reduced to almost a near statistically non existent. ICHEOKU commends the Nigerian police and other security agencies for a good job well done by ensuring that a conducive atmosphere existed for the people to safely cast their ballots. INEC also deserves commendation for organizing a free and fair election and concluding it quickly by announcing the results immediately with no room given for manipulations. President Muhammadu Buhari equally earned commendation for not engaging in the notorious 'do or die' politics of former President Olusgeun Obasanjo who never tolerated any opposition party during his administration. 

The two candidates PDP's Godwin Obaseki and APC's Ize Iyamu and their political parties deserve commendation too for upholding their pledge to eschew violence during the election. Rivers State's Governor Nyesom WIke should also be commended for successfully leading the PDP's campaign battle to regain Edo State. Lastly, Edo State people deserves a shout out for showing greatness by conducting themselves peacefully well during the election and for sending a clear telegram to Bourdillion Avenue that indeed 'Edo No Be Lagos'. Lagos was founded by a Bini King and not the other way round, so Lagos cannot expect Edo to be Lagos; instead Lagos should strive to be Edo as in Lagos Be Edo. 

ICHEOKU says also agrees with President Buhari that democracy means nothing if the peoples votes does not count and their mandate fraudulently tampered with. Way to go Mr President. 

ICHEOKU says cannot complete this article without mentioning the hypocrisy observed by Governor Wike of Rivers State about Nigerian political elites. According to him, a case where a president without certificate is president of Nigeria and a man who was a tailor once was governor of Edo State, yet a candidate who is a university graduate but who merely secured admission into the university with a lesser credit score suitability for office was being questioned is simply hypocritical. A case made more dumbfounding because the same fella whose certificate was questioned was previously elected governor of Edo State and was only seeking a reelection and you wonder why he was qualified the first time but suddenly was no longer qualified. 

ICHEOKU says thankfully the certificate imbroglio was successfully resolved in the favor  of the reelected governor before the election and his fitness for office has now been firmly cemented with the favorable outcome of the election. ICHEOKU says congratulations is in order here and hereby congratulates the reelected Edo State Governor Godwin Nogheghase Obaseki. ICHEOKU says prays that he brings good, better and improved governance to his Edo State people in his second term. That way he would have truly earned the trust which they reposed on him by voting to reelect him for a second term. God's speed Governor 'Seki.

Monday, September 21, 2020

RBG'S REPLACEMENT: IF ONLY BLACK LIVES MATTER WEREN'T STUPID.

ICHEOKU says a sensible pressure group which is not solely focused on causing trouble only when the police kills a black person and which is really interested in the welfare and progress of black people, would successfully lobby President Donald John Trump to nominate a black female Judge for the seat made vacant by the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. But no, Black Lives Matter is an organization of thuggish anarchists who are serving as handy tool in the hand of the Democratic Party which uses them to do their dirty bidding as periodically dictated. 

Why should there be a white female Justice and a Hispanic female Justice of the Supreme Court and still their people want to increase the number of their female Justices in the Supreme Court when there is no single black female Justice therein. The current two top female contending nominees are both White and Hispanic; so 'where the black at.' Such a fight is what any rational pressure group engages themselves in and not looting, burning, pulling down historical statutes and destroying structures. ICHEOKU says BLM should prove themselves worthy of the black cause and push for the president to select a black female judge as Ruth Bader Ginsburg's replacement in the Supreme Court.

RBG'S REPLACEMENT: THE REASON FOR FIGHT FOR POWER.

ICHEOKU says the main reason politicians fight for power is to be in control of the decisions-making process of their society. They want to be in charge of this authority to enable them tailor and influence the direction of any given society and in this case, the American society. Emotional outbursts are not welcome in politics, nor are they accommodated in the struggle for political power. 

Politics is a ruthless dirty game which has been described severally as war where bullets are substituted for words. It is not for the fainthearted or people with proven empathy as the objective is to wield authority over the society. It is devoid of sympathy, notwithstanding its periodic display just to confuse and beguile the gullible public. Were politics an emotional thing, the president would have since given up the presidency for the crying whiny Hillary Clinton to step in, but it is not so, never was and never will. 

Therefore the gift of RBG's departure from the Supreme Court must be accepted as a sizzling golden gift from On High. The president must proceed full steam to nominate and confirm RBG's successor without any further ado, care or delay because it is the right thing to do and were it the Democrats that are similarly gifted, they would do the same in a whiff. They impeached the president just for a mere innocent telephone call in order to gain some political advantage and would not have batted an eyelid in choosing RBG's successor immediately, faced with the same circumstances. 

ICHEOKU says appointing a Supreme Court Justice is also a political power play and the president must exercise it on behalf of the American people who elected him. They desired a conservative Supreme Court and the opportunity to grant them their wish just availed thereby tying the president's hands. He has no choice in the matter as he is president to serve American people. The vacancy happened now under his government for a reason and the season should be exploited maximally in the interest of the reason which is to consolidate the conservatives hold of the Supreme Court, case closed.

A DEATH BED WISH: NOT HOW SUPREME COURT JUSTICE IS APPOINTED.

ICHEOKU says the constitution is the only guiding template to appointing a Justice of the Supreme Court and at no where did it say that a retiring or dead Justice has an overriding authority in who their successor Justice will be. They were appointed and so were their predecessors and so will be their successors purely in accordance with the constitutional benchmark. The constitution gave the president the power to appoint Supreme Court justices with the advice and consent of the Senate; but did not mention anything about the influence of the vacated Justice in the matter, talkless of it overriding the fundamental laid down roadmap of doing it. 

ICHEOKU says therefore, the Republican Party must not allow themselves to be cowered into not appointing RBG's replacement by the threats and intimidations of the Democratic Party. They are not the only ones that can make threats and intimidations, admitted Republicans have chosen the path of honor and harmony by being the adult in the house. Ruth Bader Ginsburg does not have a right to decide who succeeds her and if she had wanted, would have resigned during Barack Obama's government so that he would have replaced her. She also could have hung in there through the election into 2021 to see if there will be a new president in the White House agreeable to her far leftist political leaning. 

But none of this options were exercised by her, hence leaving to the president the supreme right to do his constitutional duty of appointing Supreme Court Justices. Enough of the chicken little the skies will come down of the Democratic Party as Republicans, especially the MAGA family which is increasingly getting exhausted of their provocations.