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.

Tuesday, November 16, 2021

JE SUIS BIAFRAN CHILDREN: NEVER AGAIN!

ICHEOKU says a complicit world watched as the worst genocidal mayhem was levied against the people of Biafra and millions of children starved to death. It was an indefensible and atrocious man's inhumanity to man; and Britain, America, Russia and Egypt participated in the genocide of black African Biafrans. Till date, nobody has been held accountable for that and the effort to sweep it under the rug has failed because Biafrans will never forget. We are all Biafra children. Biafra shall rise again!

Monday, November 15, 2021

PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: TOO EARLY TO CALL IF HE WILL RUN FOR REELECTION IN 2024 .

ICHEOKU says it is rather unfair asking if President Joe Biden will run for a second term in 2024 when he is suffering, shuffling and staggering through his first term, with just eleven months in and 37 more months to go. It is too early start that projections as the president is just finding out how really difficult a job it is running the United States of America and by extension, the world. Whether he is up to the task and had acquitted himself credibly well so far depends on who is doing the answering. As for ICHEOKU, the time for asking the question came and went with November 3rd, 2020 when despite the obvious handicaps, many Americans still decided to cut their nose to spite their face; and their hatred of President Trump drummed out all the apparent shortcomings of the current president. 

Now everybody is stewing in the inverse nightmare and those wishing for 2024 to speedily come for a do over should devote their thoughts elsewhere because the damage would have been done by the time 2024 comes. He can run for a reelection in 2024 for all ICHEOKU cares, admitted he might before then find the office no longer appealing for to continue to carry the weighty cross of the presidency and decides to take an honorable bow. But whatever happens, everyone should continue to pray for him and ask God to protect him because he is our president and the Democratic Party will be so empty without him. 

There is no other person in the party to takeover from him as many of the otherwise possible alternatives, although far fetched, are irreparably damaged by their woke immersion. They have alienated themselves from majority of American voters as being too far to the left as commanded by the extremist anarchists wing of the party represented by the Black Lives Matter and their ANTIFA partners in lunacy.  Therefore, if he makes it through to 2024, he is most likely not going to seek a second term as he will not like a resounding defeat to be the last chapter in his very long presence in political Washington DC. If there is really a creature of swamp in Washington DC, a politician who has been there for nearly fifty years eminently qualifies as one. So, going out with a whimper will not be his first choice.

Anyway, let everybody leave the Amtrak-riding Joey from Scranton alone and lets see what happens when 2024 gets here. Enough of the distractions probing if he will run in 2024; and help him stay focused on the current assignment which is nearly drowning him off such that his approval rating has plummeted to below 40%. It is a tough job being president of the United States of America and the question now, is whether Joey is tough enough for the job or rather came a little too late than when he would have made a better and more viable White House occupant. A young Joe Biden would definitely have made a better president than the old version of himself now toddling through the presidency. 

But hey, at least he entered the pantheon of the very exclusive fellas who dared to dream and got for themselves the most highly coveted office of the president of the United States of America. Whether he succeeds or fails does not matter and wont matter, as his name will still be etched as president of America. period. Luckily enough, it is not qualified with "failed" or "successful", just president. So, best of luck Mr President and whatever he decides in 2024, American people can live with that as it cannot be worse than it already is, especially when it took about forty bucks to fill a gas tank last January 2021 and is now double the price just eleven months later. 

Whether things will continue to go down the hill or pull themselves together back up, nobody really knows; but electing him president was the most irrational decision ever forced upon American people by the hatchet fake news media and their military industrial complex deep staters. It is sad how a highly propagandized and brainwashed people shot themselves on the foot, discarded their best and settled for their worse, just because they want a president that would conform to predetermined decorum. They settled for appearance rather than substance, a pretender instead of a doer; and like the Jews, killed the messiah instead of the bandit. The story of what happened on November 3 2020 has never been told and most likely will never be told, at least not in this lifetime. May God continue to protect his people IJN.

Sunday, November 14, 2021

PROSCRIBE BLACK LIVES MATTER NOW: THREATENING BLOODSHED IS TERRORISM.

ICHEOKU says they got their brazen audacity last summer 2019 when they nearly burnt to the ground American cities and properties without any meaningful resistance or repercussion. Now they are using their notoriety to leverage governance, threatening governments that are not completely gone woke. Their latest victim is the newly elected Mayor of New York City Eric Adams, who they are now pressuring not to implement his cardinal campaign promise to fellow New Yorkers. They don't want him to restore security and safety in the big apple, an issue which helped him to victory. 

Why the group have not been declared a domestic terrorists organization is simply baffling, their destructive tendencies and open threats of mayhem considered. It is woke politics that is shielding them and protecting their terroristic antics, as people in power are afraid of their venom and treading gingerly not to invoke their ire. How can an organization threaten riots and bloodshed on the streets of New York if Mayor elect Eric Adams follows through with his promise to reintroduce anti crime police units in a city and get away with it. How can any New Yorker stand aside and look as their great city is gradually succumbing to violent crimes against the people and vandalizing properties and businesses. 

What exactly is their problem with law enforcement or is it a way of their acknowledging, finally and publicly, that they are the law breakers and wants to be allowed to continue to break the law. If they are good citizens, why are they averse to law enforcement and policing; threatening to take over the streets, ferment trouble, cause riots and mayhem, burn down structures and cause bloodshed in New York City. Where is the FBI on this or is the BLM threat not horrifying enough to designate it criminal; or must New York City first face another upheaval, forced to go through the same experience of ugly summer 2019 before DOJ's intervention. Why must BLM be allowed to hold Eric Adams hostage to their ideological idiocy.

The group is not peaceful and it is about time they are called out for what they really are, anarchists and domestic terrorists. What if other races in America start their own version of the BLM organizations and making their own irrational demands, threatening governments and officials to do as they commanded or they will turn hell loose on earth? Is it not a complete anarchy that will envelope the nation or are black people an exception to the rule that everyone must submit to law and order? Enough of cuddling of this group and its excesses. No harm must befall the newly elected New York City Mayor Eric Adams or his administration; he must be unfettered as he implements his agenda which got him elected in the first place, reestablishment of  law and order in New York City. 

How can a group publicly threaten to shut down the City of New York; shutdown the City Hall and parcel out hell and nightmare to both the residents and officials of New York City, and they are still freely operating without censure or prosecution. If what Black Lives Matter is doing and their threat to terrorize New York City is not a crime, what else so qualifies? If Black Lives Matter is putting this much fear on elected officials and blackmailing them to do what they want or they will burn down New York City, why is that not terrorism? What will it take to finally bring this group to book and hold them accountable for their rampage of 2019. Please don't allow BLM take Eric Adams hostage; say no domestic terrorism, resist BLM. #StandWithEricAdams. 

Saturday, November 13, 2021

CHRIS CHRISTIE'S SELECTIVE MEMORY: AN ATTEMPT AT SELF VALIDATION.

"When I ran for reelection in 2013, I got 60% of the vote. When he ran for reelection, he lost to Joe Biden." - Christ Christie.

ICHEOKU says fat Chris suddenly forgot that he finished in the bottom tier in the 18 persons crowded field 2016 Republican Party's presidential primaries, when the then candidate Donald John Trump handily beat all of the wanna bees, including fat Chris himself. But now, he is seeking relevance and trying to position himself as a formidable contender to the 2024 presidential election. The same fat Chris unsuccessfully lobbied for the Attorney General position and some other positions in the Trump administration, finally ending up as a mere ad-hoc adviser to the former president. 

He was governor of small State New Jersey alright, but has never successfully ran a nationwide election; yet he has the effrontery to compare his two terms as governor of New Jersey to a man who ran and won a nationwide presidential election on a first try. This is what he is brandishing now as evidence of his political viability as the Republican Party's presidential candidate in 2024. Needless to add that fat Chris is a professional politician unlike President Trump who was a newbie, a breath of fresh air, who came from the business world and yanked the keys to the White House on his first attempt and first foray into politics. So, what again was the basis of his comparison, his winning a small State's governorship twice, right?

Whatever beef fat Christ might have against the former president ,including his prosecution of the former president's son in-law's father, the senior Kushner; he is pushing it rather too far with his continuing antagonizing of the former president. He is making millions of people mad and alienating himself further from their voting clout. Chris Christie is not a match nor a competitor to the former president and if he likes, let him throw his hat in the ring in 2024 but American people know who they will choose. Chris Christie will NEVER in this life be elected president of the United States of America, but that does not mean that he cannot dream and even try; but he is simply not electable. 

He does not have what it takes to be elected president as American people have consistently elected president, people with very specific qualities and certain traits. Christ Christie is not tall enough, he is fat, he is not photogenic, he has no charisma, he is not personable, he is not warm, he comes off as too full of it, arrogant, standoffish and generally unkept. He does not have the conviviality and connectivity which glues people to persons. He has no charm offensive nor is there anything particularly significant or memorable about his governorship in New Jersey which American people can relate to, other than the Bridge-gate scandal. 

Overall, he is not an ideal candidate for the White House and he cannot even win the Republican Party's primaries nor does he stand any chance whatsoever of ever being elected president of the United States of America. Imagine Chris Christie calling President Donald John Trump a loud mouth, a case of the kettle calling the pot black; and it is possible too that his fat loud mouth is even louder than the howler monkey's known loudest shrill on earth. It is the diminished person syndrome that has infected Chris Christie as he saw his previously rising profile suddenly diminished by the Bridge-Gate scandal and then completely eviscerated by the new kid on the block of politics, President Donald John Trump.

Anyway, ICHEOKU would rather Chris Christie stopped speaking ill about the former President Trump because the army of 64 million strong MAGA-nation voters are attentively watching, and these are people he should be very careful not to make mad or attract their ire and angst. He must also be very careful not to tread on them. Chris Christie can go ahead and reel out the things which he would do differently were the good fortune of mother luck to ever miraculously smile down on him. But whatever he do, he must stop making disparaging remarks about the former president because they are not equals; nor is he ever a worthy contender of the party's nomination with the former president, his millions of MAGA-nation unwavering base considered. 

In 2024 MAGA-nation will vote to reelect their beloved President Donald John Trump if he runs again; and in the alternative will look towards the newly elected Virginia State Governor Glen Youngkin to fly the Republican Party's presidential ticket flag. Better still, MAGA-nation will be  delighted to see the two beloved political outsiders run on the same ticket as presidential and vice presidential candidates of the Republican Party. But Christ Christie is not an option and he stands no chance in hell of ever winning the Republican Party's primaries nomination, with or without the former president also running. Christ Christie does not have what it takes and should therefore be humble enough to curb his enthusiasm and throw his darts elsewhere. All he did was just to add his name in the lengthy list of those people trying to profit from their association with the former president, writing a book many will not read or would find mediocre, at best.

Friday, November 12, 2021

KYLE RITTENHOUSE WILL WALK: SELF DEFENSE WILL COME TO HIS AID.

ICHEOKU says that video of him sitting on the pavement and looking up helplessly as those mob rushed at him, coupled with his innocent, cherub-like, baby face, as well as his overall cool demeanor will influence many jurors into voting for his acquittal. He is young, smart and most likely sincerely and honestly believed that his country was under attack by the BLM and ANTIFA anarchists and decided to do something about it, in defense of people, his fatherland and beloved country. 

He was a selfless volunteer for the good of Americans in Kenosha as there was nobody who saw the destructions going on in summer 2019 on American televisions who did not wish that something was done about it. He therefore deserves our show of gratitude and should be thanked for at least standing up and doing something about the situation when many stood helpless akimbo and merely wishing that something could be done by somebody to put an end to the unfolding madness. Kyle Rittenhouse decided to become that somebody and did something about the situation; and his action helped put out the BLM and ANTIFA fire which was consuming the nation during the ugly summer of 2019. 

Why punish such a people's hero, a Captain America, when OJ Simpson walked? Kyle deserves our understanding not condemnation as he did not set out to kill anyone that night. He was holding his rifle the right way, pointed down; which showed that he was not on a head-hunt when he left his place, but was merely, defensively, walking around to help protect the neighborhood. Although, it is the police who keeps the peace of the public, but they were overwhelmed and outnumbered and completely outstretched that night in Kenosha that they could use any help which they could find; and Kyle Rittenhouse volunteered to help them secure the neighborhood. He answered the call and voluntarily went to help Americans protect their dwelling abodes and businesses from a ravaging BLM and ANTIFA anarchists. 

He is also very matured for his young age of 18, very confident, self assured and well behaved. That he took the stand is also a measure of his character. He looks trustworthy and believable; and there is every likelihood that he will be acquitted of all the charges. Hopefully his defense team will ask the jurors in his closing statement a simple rhetoric question: if there is any one of them who witnessed what happened in that ill fated summer 2019 who did not wish that it did not happen; and wished that something was done about it. Also, if there is any of them who saw Kyle Rittenhouse forced down on the pavement by his pursuing attackers and seeing his life in imminent danger, who wouldn't react as he reacted in order to starve off the threat? 

He had no intent to kill anyone but only acted in an exigent situation to protect himself and save himself from imminent bodily harm and danger to his life. It was in self defense and he should therefore be found not guilty, completely acquitted of all charges. LeBron James was wrong as different people emote differently and white people often internalize their emotions. They are not given to outward expression of their hurt feelings by publicly shedding of tears. Kyle couldn't hold it back any longer and tried to still suppress it, regardless. But his emotions is not the key, admitted it will help humanize him as not a monster. The key is the overwhelming evidence of his acting in self defense faced with imminent danger to his life and bodily harm; that is where the not guilty verdict will be anchored by the jury. #AcquitKyle.

Thursday, November 11, 2021

ANAMBRA HELD-ELECTION: A CAPITULATION AND NDIGBO WILL SUFFER FOR IT.

ICHEOKU says the basic rule 101 of any negotiation is never to pony up your most vital negotiation asset because once given up, you have lost and your entire take out thereafter depends on the goodwill and magnanimous disposition of the other party to the negotiation. Ndigbo had it going with the IPOB threatened election boycott of Anambra State but fumbled the ball with the ninth hour change of mind, lifting the IPOB sit at home order. 

President Muhammadu Buhari had his way and held the election against the will of the people and no longer has a need of peace in Igbo land nor sees any derivative beneficial use from pacifying them. Going forward, he will toughen his stance against Ndigbo and will also keep Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in detention as long as he sees fit and most likely through the end of his administration. 

The Nigerian president has just fired off the first salvo telegraphing this his newly acquired strength over Ndigbo with the continuance of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu trial to January 19th, 2022 next year, which will have him in detention for over six months since his abduction from Kenya in June without trial. Needless to mention that the Igbo chiefs and Oha-na-Eze Ndigbo representatives who flew to Abuja to witness the case were summarily disgraced once again by denying them access to the court room as well as to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Even the IPOB team of lawyers, including American Bruce Feingold, were also locked out of the court room only to be told later that they did not show up on time for the case as the case has already been mentioned and adjourned until January next year. 

Anyone still delusional on how the election that held in Anambra State will affect Ndigbo needs to look no further. What happened in Abuja's Mazi Nnamdi Kanu's court date shows that Muhammadu Buhari will approach Ndigbo more viciously and more disrespectfully; and without a care in the world. IPOB was aware of the no love lost stand between the president and Ndigbo, yet they cowered to pressure and yielded into holding the election. Now, they must be prepared to feel the heat as all the shouting and press conferences won't a finger lift to secure Mazi Nnamdi Kanu's release. It was a face-off of no election if Mazi Nnamdi Kanu was not released; yet the election held without Mazi Nnamdi Kanu being released. The joker of no election now gone, all the aces are securely with President Muhammadu Buhari and he is tone deaf and impervious to noisy agitation. 

It was a mortal mistake which will come back to bite IPOB and hurt the agitation for Biafra in so many ways; and also continue to erode Ndigbo's already comatose standing with Muhammadu Buhari. It is the precursor which will herald the eventual demise of IPOB as they have now entered the one-chance irreversible highway to hell. Buhari has defeated them by holding the election despite their bluffing, period. IPOB have lost their fang and their sting now merely a soothing nibble as nobody will take them and their threats any serious, not any more. There is an American proverb that says you don't tell a man to go to hell unless you are prepared and ready to send him there willy-nilly. Why make a threat when they were not prepared to see it through? It will only damage their standing and rating in the eyes of the world.

Why would an agitation group not first think through their plan of action before announcing it; only to later go back on it. It shows great weakness and lack of tact; and their lack of much needed commitment to do the needful to realize their objective. IPOB showed their hand, they bared their teeth and they barked and they barked, but when it came to forcing the issue, they chickened out, melted away and tucked their tail between their legs and vamoosed. As a result, Anambra State election which was to be the real test case of their wits and to showcase their grip in Biafra land, was botched. They could not stop the election from holding as they have advertised over so many years with their "no referendum, no more election again in Biafra land" and the subsequent "no election in Anambra State until Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is released." 

Election held in Biafra land and there was no referendum; and election held in Anambra State and Mazi Nnamdi Kanu was not released. So, going forward, why would anyone ever take the group seriously again? Why would the sit at home continue when the ones sat already did not yield any dividend? They said that they called off the Anambra State election sit at home order because their elders and traditional rulers prevailed on them to do so. Really? Why did they not first consult and listen to the their supposed "elders and traditional rulers" before issuing the order? But no, they issued the order first and then Buhari countermanded their order by issuing his own order that the election must hold, and the election was held. IPOB lost in the face-off, they are now trounced, traumatized and humiliated and going forward, they have a limited choice.

President Muhammadu Buhari won the battle of wits and now, he will do whatever the heck he wants with Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, fully aware that IPOB and Ndigbo can only bark but cannot bite nor do anything about it. IPOB's messaging during the election was very poorly coordinated. It showed a group that have become clueless and leaderless; that their ship is currently adrift and rudderless and taking water; and barely staying afloat until it hit the final iceberg and capsize with the dreams of millions of people. The iceberg will be the eventual conviction and imprisonment of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, when the group will just finally wilt away like a flower with the sunset. It was a huge mistake issuing an order and reneging on its implementation as it is akin to trying to recall the train after it has left to the station but they did anyway and it was catastrophic. Now, they are childlike and their activities, a child's play. 

Millions of people were disappointed that IPOB lost its mojo at the hour it mattered most when they canceled the sit at home order of Anambra State Election Day; and couldn't prevent the election from being held. ICHEOKU says is particularly not pleased with the sudden about turn and millions of Ndigbo similarly share in the disappointment, losing the only practical chip that would have caused a serious convulsion to the Nigeria State. The whole world watched and waited to assess the clout which IPOB has in Biafra land only to be disappointed that they have lost their edge. Whoever the decision making council of the group are should hide their faces in shame as they messed up bigly.They bungled the Anambra State election and will forever exist to regret taking the air out of their floating balloon. It is sad and it is pitiful.

But if there is any consolation to come out of the election, it is that the criminally minded Andy Uba was overwhelmingly rejected to a third place finish position with a paltry 43,285 votes out of the total 249,631 votes cast in the election. This was a far cry from the 230,201 votes which he "got" during the APC's primaries to secure the governorship ticket; thus begging the question, did ghosts vote for Andy Uba during the primaries but the same ghosts were unable to vote for him during the election because they were unable to secure visas from this time around? It is an absurdity of the worst kind that the total number of votes cast in the election were almost as many as those who voted for Andy Uba in the primaries. 

It is shame of Nigeria that such incredible things happen frequently and it goes to explain how many of the politicians get elected in Nigeria. This is the reason they are fighting against a more regulated election such as electronic transmission of votes. They rig elections and they do it in such a brazen manner as the Andy Uba's two different outcomes have now shown. But will he be ever asked to explain the magical difference between his primaries result and his election result? As it turned out, the entire voters who participated in Anambra State election were less than the number of APC voters who voted for Andy Uba in the primaries. It is ridiculous to say the least, admitted the number that came out during the election were very negligible compared to the number of the 2.5 million registered voters in Anambra State. 

ICHEOKU says has no congratulations to extend to anybody, not even to the declared winner Chukwima Soludo. He has a political godfather and too many sponsors and will not be his own man, and like Goodluck Jonathan, he will eventually also disappoint Ndi Anambra. Governance is not only about parading higher degrees, although it doesn't hurt to have them; but governing such a very difficult State like Anambra requires more in addition to the degrees. It requires being made of a sterner stuff with a steely backbone to stand up against the too many "wise guys and gals" that saturate the Anambra State and say no to their myriad of demands and patronages. Can Soludo resist their pressure? Can Soludo outfox and outsmart them like Peter Obi did? Will Soludo become a drunk like his soon to be predecessor Obiano and just ride his term out? Only time will tell.

Theory is one thing but practical is another thing altogether as many can do the talk but transferring the talk into action is often times difficult. The next four years will either bail him out or scorch him bone-dry and there is the likelihood that the same bad road conditions in Anambra State will become worse; that Muhammadu Buhari will squeeze Ndigbo and Ndi Anambra harder, and that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu might still be in the gulag with his case completely forgotten, his lawyers frustrated by the court frequent continuances. Andy Uba might even in anger for his rejection in the election urge Buhari not to listen to supplications of Ndigbo to release Mazi Nnamdi Kanu because their party APC was humiliated in Anambra State. But whatever happens, allowing the election to hold was a very bad mistake and a shooting on the foot by Ndigbo and IPOB; it will hurt them for a long time to come. It is sad.

Sunday, November 7, 2021

NBC CANCELS ALEC BALDWIN: IT IS TIME SANTA FE DA ACTED AS WELL.

ICHEOKU says how you know that somebody has become too toxic is when, despite his ratings from his near perfect portrayal of former President Donald John Trump on Saturday Night Live, NBC decided that he is so damaged beyond repair and had to let him go. Yes indeed, Alec Baldwin has been axed by the National Broadcasting Corporation. In his place, a new replacement actor has been found, who, going forward, will try to replicate Alec Baldwin's imitation of the former president. But it is a big shoes to fill as nobody can truly be as good as Alec Baldwin was in playing that unique character interpretation of the former president. 

As far as iimmitating the former president is concerned, Alec Baldwin got it covered and there can only be one Alec Baldwin and nobody else. The newbie doesn't have the edge factor and he is as basic as they come, with nothing about him that stands out or says wow. He is not good enough as nobody can, no matter the delusion, mistake him for the Mr You're fired former President Donald John Trump; something which Alec Baldwin effortlessly compels people to do. He was a natural in that role interpretation; unlike the new guy, who has so much learning curve to navigate despite his hard try at mimicking the former president's speaking tone and gesticulations. 

Anyway, NBC was bold in affirming what every rational person knows, that Alec Baldwin is culpable for killing Halyna Hutchins. He pointed the gun at her, a none actress with no role play in the movie Rust, aimed it and squeezed the trigger and she was dead, killed by Alec Baldwin.These facts are incontrovertible and it does not matter that someone else handed him the gun and shouted "cold gun." His conduct killed Halyna, period. Sometimes, intent to kill can be inferred from a reckless conduct and it was a reckless conduct to point a gun at somebody and pull the trigger. No rational person kids around or horseplays with such a lethal weapon.

Now, all that is left is for the woke District Attorney of Santa Fe to do the needful and commence the prosecutorial process. As it stands now she possibly have no choice in the matter other than to indict Alec Baldwin for something and at irreducible minimum, involuntary manslaughter. She should sign off on the indictment and let the law enforcement in Santa Fe immediately take Alec Baldwin into custody.. Enough of the delay as an expectant nation awaits his mugshot. As for the wrongful death action, that is for Mr Hutchins to decide when and how to proceed. Justice for Halyna means holding her killer, Alec Baldwin, accountable. Arrest him now. 

Saturday, November 6, 2021

MNK OR BUHARI: WHO IS IT GONNA BE?

We are all Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is all of us. Do not slumber. Keep hope alive. We can do this. #Sit At Home. No election in Anambra State. 

HE IS IN DETENTION FOR YOU, SIT AT HOME FOR HIM: NO ELECTION IN ANAMBRA STATE.

ICHEOKU says it is idiotic for any bona fide onye Igbo to be talking about an election with Mazi Nnamdi Kanu still behind bars. Onye oku na agba be ya adighi achu oke; therefore, a useless election that will not translate to anything tangible, meaningful or beneficial to the good people of Anambra State is not worth sacrificing Mazi Nnamdi Kanu's freedom, liberty and wellbeing. 

It is even more heartbreaking to know that the election will automatically kill the agitation as it will be interpreted as an expressed desire by Ndigbo to abandon the fight against their marginalization and a separate homeland where they can safely live and freely thrive. Those heartless deviants will abandon Mazi Nnamdi Kanu the moment the election is over and the losers will no longe see any utility in pushing for his release, not any more. 

Ndi Anambra please don't be fooled by all the pretensions of interest being expressed now by those politicians because they cannot be trusted. Why have they not said a word about MNK since his ordeal? Please don't let your shame, shame Ndigbo. Ndi Anambra are the isi sekpu nti of Ndigbo, so the pride of Ndigbo is at stake here. Say no to the damned election. Sit at home people. Liberation struggle is a marathon not a sprint. Onye ndidi na eri azu ukpo. Perseverance is the key to success, and like Elon Musk said, to succeed in anything you must have a high threshold of pain. Ndigbo have seen it all and no longer afraid of any demon. 

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is doing his part, so do your own part. Every nwa afo Igbo should defend his or her father's name and honor; and refuse to be dictated to by the effigy at Aso Rock. Don't be a Judas as those useless and worthless Naira notes those politicians are sharing today have no value and will not buy you anything meaningful, to warrant your losing your character. When was the last time any of those politicians handed you a dime and how many times have their personal MOPOL security manhandled you or someone you know. Please Ndi Anambra, the whole world is watching for you to show that Ndigbo are tired of the marginalization. Please don't disappoint our general expectation? #SitAtHomeNdiAnambra.

Friday, November 5, 2021

GLEN YOUNGKIN: A SHOO-IN 2024 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE JUST EMERGED.

ICHEOKU says provided President Donald John Trump will not run in 2024 or with him as his vice presidential candidate, otherwise the newly elected governor of Virginia Glen Youngkin is a natural to fly the Republican Party's presidential flag. He is everything a presidential candidate should and ought to be; and the Republican Party should breathe a sigh of relief that they will be ready with a formidable candidate when 2024 comes. He is very savvy, confident, charming, gentle, photogenic, eloquent and tall. His personality is so warm and very embracing that partisans from across both political divide as well as independents will welcome his candidature; and provided too that he performed reasonably well during the two years he will be in office before the 2024 presidential election, will vote to elect him president. 

All that is needed now is for former President Donald John Trump to either step aside and assume the official kingmaker of the Republican Party which he is or pick Glen Youngkin as his running mate in 2024 and the Republican Party will reclaim the White House. Glen Youngkin is the candidate of the future and he will be the best candidate to lead the Republican Party to victory in 2024, either as the flag bearer himself or as teammate to President Trump. He checks all the markers of electability of an American president, both the mundane and silly portion; as well as the gravitas part and will be an easy sell. He is good-looking, stands very tall at 6ft 6in, smiles and talks the right talk, and suburban women loves him.

In short, a star presidential candidate was born on election night and the Republican Party should be thankful and grateful that the good lord has answered their prayers and sent them a candidate to beat in 2024. He is also not mechanical or overly scripted like Mike Pence and is very much relatable too. He is also somewhat goofy and playful, which will endear him more in the hearts of the app-generation, youngsters, who want someone they could relate to and who understands their synergy and how their brain is wired. ICHEOKU likes him and MAGA nation will embracingly welcome him into the family or accept him as an adjunct member, if he prefers none full membership. If picked as vice presidential candidate, he will be used to court the suburbia soccer moms and independents.

He has the important attributes of a successful American presidential candidate. He is President John Fitzgerald Kennedy like, young, ebullient, handsome, tall, futuristic, well spoken, soft to the eyes, assured, soothing and very comforting. Baring a President Donald John Trump run, he will be the next best candidate for the Republican Party to field come 2024; and if the former president runs, then as his running mate, preparatory to 2028. He is such a big deal and will use the understudy period as President Trump's second in command to further assimilate the intricacies and intrigues involved in running the country. He in a way shares similar political history with President Trump, fresh from the private sector to win an elected office in his first run.

Speaking of transformative candidate, Glen Youngkin is that candidate. His victory speech was reassuring and ICHEOKU expects him to stay glued on the path he enunciated as he delivers for the people of the commonwealth of Virginia who have given him their mandate to fix their broken state. ICHEOKU says agrees with Glen Youngkin that there is no time to waste in the work that needs to be done to reposition Virginia, including restoring excellence in the schools because the commonwealth of Virginia is not of low expectations but one of high expectations. 

Hopefully, after transforming Virginia, he will bring the wealth of the experience garnered in the process and also his expertise to help transform America and save the country from the onslaught of the woke leftists hell-raisers who are trying so desperately to destroy America as we know it and remake it into an utopia nightmare. So, as we trudge along towards 2024 lets pray that Glen Youngkin will deliver the goose for Virginians as that will make his candidacy much easier to sell to American people. ICHEOKU says congratulations to Glen Youngkin and may he remain guided not to take the bait of those anarchists trying to create enmity between him and President Trump. It will pay him a better dividend if he remains on the good book of the MAGA leader. 

Thursday, November 4, 2021

A DEBATE OF SHAME AS ANDY UBA TOUTS HIS DOMESTIC SERVITUDE TO OBASANJO.

ICHEOKU says how exactly did his "boi-boi" servant-hood to Olusegun Obansajo benefit Ndi Anambra that he should proudly now tout it as a reason to elect him the governor of the state. An office without portfolio as nobody knew exactly what his job description was, as a domestic servant of Olusegun Obasanjo. Unless we are permitted to make certain inference such as juxtaposing what he did for Obasanjo with the well known regular domestic servants in various homes, what Andy Uba exactly did for Obasanjo was in-fact rather suspect. 

But whatever it was, and whether or not it involved providing intimate personal services to Obasanjo, that is not the bone of this essay. Rather, ICHEOKU is here to examine how Andy Uba's closeness to then President Olusegu Obansajo benefitted Anambra State such that it should matter in this election and favorably count to his advantage. 

Emmanuel Nnamdi Uba aka Andy Uba dutifully served Olusegun Obasanjo throughout the eight long years the murderous Ota Deity was in Aso Rock. It is therefore not in doubt that he was very close to Olusegun Obasanjo and the Baba Iyabo personally acknowledged this when he once said that Andy Uba was the first person he sees when he wakes up in the morning and also the last person he sees before he goes to bed. 

But we will not take the inference any further to suggest that they slept on the same bed or in the same bedroom, otherwise how was that possible; or conversely, Andy Uba slept in the anteroom. Being in such a very close proximity to the then president, a good and unselfish Andy Uba would have used such his privileged position to persuade Olusegun Obasanjo to help his Anambra State people by doing some things for them on Andy Uba's behalf. 

But not this Andy Uba; instead he used the opportunity to amass riches, stealing as much money as his greedy heart delighted, sometimes fronting Obasanjo's name to shake down political aspirants, sitting governors seeking second term as well as legislators, business people seeking audience with Obasanjo and other such office and favors seekers. He was so brazen in his shakedowns and he helped himself mightily like a bandit that when he first ran for governor, he declared assets in excess of three trillion Naira as belonging to him. 

This is a person with no known income source or any other avenues of money making prior to his domestication in Obasanjo's abode; and suddenly he was strikingly rich. Andy Uba is an embodiment of the wanton corruption that enveloped Nigeria during Olusegun Obasanjo presidency; a presidency which was notorious for its policy of Ghana Must Go bags full of different currency denominations. 

How such a shamelessly very corrupt individual could now come before Ndi Anambra and present his domestic service to Olusegun Obasanjo as his most qualifying resume for seeking the keys of Anambra State governor's lodge. This is simply charlatanistic at best because it shows that he has nothing to run on and is running on empty. Andy Uba and his brother 419 fraudster Chris Uba used the same period of Obasanjo's presidency to run amok in Anambra State. They also kidnapped a sitting State Governor Chris Ngige and forcibly administered Alusi Okija on him to be loyal to them and provide them unlimited access to the State's coffers. This their escapade is  an indisputable fact of consequence which should operate to militate against his governorship ambition. The guy is an embodiment of lawlessness, like his master Obasanjo, like the domestic servant.

It is ridiculous watching his infantile attempt at denying being the mastermind of the kidnap of Governor Ngige during the so called debate hosted by Arise television. A pathetic and very idiotic debate it was, otherwise how dare Arise television conduct a debate for governor wanna bees of an Igbo State in English language when majority of the grandfathers and grandmothers and most of the villagers who are most likely to suffer through the ballot process hardly understand English. Who were they talking to? Who were their target audience if not Ndi Anambra, yet instead of speaking the language of Ndi Anambra State which is Igbo language; they spoke "'turanci" to them as if they are running a nationwide election and needed to reach out to those people who do not understand Igbo language. 

How did the candidates even accept such a third rate imbecilic forum and the language use, if indeed they are seriously engaged with the effort to reach out to their ultimate voters. It was a complete piss off for the many people who sacrificed their time to watch it and everything about it is enough to invalidate the debate, the organizer and the debaters themselves. Imagine bringing such anti Biafra, Igbo hating bigoted chimpanzee Reuben Apati to moderate a governorship debate for Anambra State when Ndi Anambra have much better moderators who could have captivated the people more and actually articulated the needs of Ndi Anambra much better and very succinctly communicated; and elicited the real responses which the people want to hear. 

This is Reuben Apati who have written so many hate-filled disparaging anti Ndigbo articles and opinion pieces; casted aspersions and castigated both Oha-na-Eze and Mazi Nnamdi Kanu repeatedly. Yet this was who was honored with hosting an Igbo State's governorship election debate and you ask yourself what were they thinking? It was wrong choosing this fella and it was very insulting and disgustingly so; and should operate as a disqualifying circumstance too. Reuben Apati presiding over Ndi Anambra affair and asking Ndi Anambra questions for them and on their behalf, really? Who made him a king over Israel. Does Arise television not have any Igbo person in their employ who could speak Igbo language to moderate the debate?
 
Anyway, ICHEOKU says is an advocate of "sit at home" no election in Amambra State on November 6th; but if Ndi Anambra decides otherwise and chooses to disobey and vote, voting for APC's Andy Uba must not be the decision. It will be very insulting for Ndi Anambra to reward Andy Uba with the governorship of the State when he did nothing for Anambra State when he had the opportunity to do so as a bonded domestic servant of Olusegun Obasanjo. He is also too arrogant and feeling so entitled to the office that he should be served the humble pie of humility by his rejection. 

Andy Uba should be asked to point at one road or bridge or dam or airport or any other infrastructural development which his eight long years of servitude to Olusegun Obasanjo brought to Anambra State. He should be asked to name just one reason he thinks that earned him the votes of Ndi Anambra in this election and therefore deserving of their governorship.It will be a huge tragedy for Ndigbo should Andy Uba manages to scrap a win on Saturday November 6th as it will send a message to Nigerians and the rest of the world that Ndi Igbo are no longer a serious people and they can sell their soul to the devil. 

Where was Andy Uba when Odi Bayelsa and Zaki Ibiam Benue massacres happened? Was he also then traveling with his master Olusegun Obasanjo overseas and not aware of the slaughters, too? Where was Andy Uba when Ibeto cement was banned in Nigeria? Where was Any Uba when Slok Airlines were banned from Nigeria? Where was Andy Uba when Savannah bank and Hallmark bank's licenses were revoked? All by his master Olusegun Obasanjo, yet he is using his sickly and infected looking whitish lips to spew nonsensical of being the domestic servant to Olusegun Obasanjo and claiming that, by itself, is sufficient to make him governor of Anambra State. 

ICHEOKU says is not holding brief for any of the other candidates, but voting for Andy Uba will be the biggest insult to Ndigbo's collective intelligence as a people. Elect him for what? Because he was sleeping with the enemy and providing comfort services to such an avid Igbo hater Obasanjo as the last man in and first man out, in and out of Obasanjo's bed and/or bedroom? Ndi Amambra deserves better and that better is not and does not include Andy Uba. Just any other person will suffice outside the Obasanjo's domestic servant because he is as crooked as the Ota Deity and primitively, too corrupt as well. 

It is also noteworthy that Anambra State is not Andy Uba's primary place of residence and he has no investment anywhere in Anambra State either, to show that his heart is closely attached to the State. Andy Uba is also nearly broke as Heritage bank workers not too long ago staged a protest in front of his house in Abuja to shame him into paying back overdue loans running into several millions of Naira. 

His mission to Awka governorship lodge cannot be any far from recouping resources and turning his bank accounts black again. Ndi Anambra must not fall for it as regret is always too late in coming; but in this case, it is still avoidable. How well is he acquainted with the challenges facing Ndi Anambra when he is just a periodic resident of the State, only visiting the state during occasions, ceremonies and festivals. In short, he is not qualified to be governor of Anambra State, period.

One of the most laughable things from their debate was Andy Uba demeaning the importance of managerial skills and dismissing it as a non essential prerequisite in governance. ICHEOKU says in any civilized society, that statement alone will be sufficient to torpedo his candidacy because running anything involves managing resources and personnel; and running a state is one such thing that is all about managing people and available resources. Running a state or country is like running a company and if you don't have the right skills you will not run it well and if you don't run them well, they will go burst, bankrupt. 

It requires an adept managerial skills to effectively navigate the affairs of a state and reposition it to functionality and profitability. Anambra State is one such a potential state which a highly skilled manager can effectively exploit and transform into a real shinning beacon for Ala-Igbo. On bad roads, the problem is that roads are not done the right way in Nigeria and this is the reason they are always washed away during rainy seasons. If you tar a road the right way, they will last for many decades. But Andy Uba's idea of "leadership" is bullying the people around like his master Obasanjo's "do or die" motor park methodology; and of course his new co-master Buhari with his kill off Ndigbo agenda which he is currently prosecuting with glee. Has Andy Uba ever said a word in condemnation of Buhari for the Igbo blood being wantonly spilled?

Be that as it may, ICHEOKU says cannot vote and will not vote; but urges Ndi Anambra to do Ndigbo proud by also not voting in the election. Ndi Anambra should remember that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is languishing in detention on their behalf as well as the greater Igbo nation. They should show him some love and let him know that they care for him and appreciate all his sacrifices for them by sitting out the election. At this juncture, it is about the collective ego of Ndigbo which the hedonistic Buhari is trampling upon by his continued detention of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and damning Ndi Anambra to boycott the election. 

Buhari has ignored all the entreaties made to him to release Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and is going full throttle to conduct Anambra State governorship election to show that he is in charge. Ndi Anambra must tell him not too fast Mister and that Anambra election is not more important than the oppression which Ndigbo are being daily subjected to in Nigeria. It has been the same bad news since 1966 despite all the contributions of Ndigbo to Nigeria's survival and the Dracula of Daula has since taken it to the next level by once again slaughtering Ndigbo just because he can. But he must be told in the language he understands that try as he may, he can never break the will of Igbo nor permanently damage their spirit. To Hades with him.

If Buhari wants, let him appoint an administrator for Anambra State because there was no election. Genocidal Yakubu Gowon did the same thing with Ukpabi Asika but Ndi Anambra did not stop existing because of it. Plateau and Ekiti State too suffered a similar thing when Andy Uba was domestically serving Olusegun Obasanjo and still, the two States survived them. Ndigbo must stand their ground and reject in-toto the Buhari "ekwensu na otito na nlafu ya ni ine." If Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has refused to be compromised, Ndigbo too can similarly remain resolute as well. We shall overcome. 

But whatever happens, Ndi Anambra please do not vote for Emmanuel Nnamdi Uba as he represents everything bad in both Olusegun Obasanjo and Muhammadu Buhari. Because he did not see anything bad in Obasanjo and Buhari, he too could as well pass for an anti Igbo SOB. Let Buhari do his worse as his worse cannot be worst than what he has already done against Ndigbo. The bait of Anambra governorship election is not worth taking nor is it enough to abandon Mazi Nnamdi Kanu because once the election is over his issue will be forgotten. Sit at home therefore is the answer to how his issue will remain on the front burner. Ndi Anambra must say no to a forced election and together, say to the scarecrow in Aso Rock, "anyi ga ama onye ike ga ebu uzo we gwu. #SitAtHome.

Wednesday, November 3, 2021

ELECTION DAY RESULT: A REBUKE TO WOKE CULTURE SEIZURE OF DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

ICHEOKU says not even the armada of former President Barack Obama, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris could save the Democratic Party, which have yielded the party to their far leftist woke culture anarchists wing, from a resounding rebuke by the American people. From Virginia to New Jersey to Boston to Buffalo to Minneapolis, everywhere elections were held, it was the same message: that majority of American people frown at the direction the country is going and that Americans are more in the center of the two political opposites. 

It shows that abortion, equity, homosexuality and racism are not the issues American people want to be bothered with; that they want solutions to the problems facing America as a people including an increasingly divided society that needs some pulling back together. Americans do not want extremism of either political party and they unequivocally sent the message across in their preferences of candidates. In the cases where democrats were elected, moderate democrats were chosen over their extremists far leftist challengers, including woke culture socialists. But their noisy boisterousness is often misinterpreted and mistaken for their popularity as this election has now shown that they are not popular nor are their views the majority. Wokeness is driving American people nuts and they want to put a stop to it.  

Imagine in Buffalo where leftist woke liberals ganged up against a sitting Mayor, a fellow democrat, simply because he is a moderate; choosing an extremist socialist in the primary to run instead of him. But the Mayor refused to be intimidated into surrender and ran as a write in candidate and was able to still defeat the insurgent socialist democrat foist by the anarchists as the party's candidate. In Boston, the more moderate Michelle Wu defeated her far left fellow democrat opponent, also telegraphing the message that majority of American people prefer the more all accommodating center than any of the two extremist wings of both parties. 

Then welcome Minneapolis where the leftist "Defund the Police" measure was overwhelmingly rejected by the voters and you know that all the noise the leftist woke culture maniacs make are just hot air and that hollering maccabees do not represent America's majority opinion. The across the board chastisement of the far left woke culture anarchists were such that even an incumbent democratic Attorney General of Virginia was also defeated by his republican black female challenger. 

Although the Virginia governorship result was somewhat anticipated, but the closeness of the New Jersey governorship race was not anticipated, not even the political Nostradamuses of America saw it coming. That incumbent democratic New Jersey Governor Murphy was on the cusp of being defeated by his little known republican challenger Jack Ciattarelli is to ICHEOKU the most important message issued in this election. Governor Murphy became so full of it during last year's coronavirus shutdown that he swaggered right and left as if he is the lord of manor of New Jersey, arresting and shutting down businesses who did not obey his overbearing mandates including gyms. 

Governor Murphy, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, California Governor Gavin Newsom and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer became the faces of the repugnant coronavirus measures and forced excruciating lockdowns that stifled people and made the people so mad and angry that they have not forgiven nor forgotten the high handedness. Their anger was reflected in this election and the democrats had no apparent message than their hatred of former President Donald John Trump. But nearly eleven month into their administration, things have gone from bad to worse and it is becoming glaringly obvious that they have no answers to the problems.

Anyway, kudos to all the victors in the election and hopefully, the Democratic Party will get the message that was sent to them and pivot back to the center where they have always been and where American people expect them to go back to. It is a message of hope for the rebirth of the Democratic Party as Alexandria Ocasio Cortez's led band of mad jackals are not what American people want in charge of the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party should use the result of this election to firm their back and yank the party away from those anarchists and then begin to rebuild their party back better to where it once was. What an evening it was; although the bad news for President Joe Biden keeps on piling up from the defeat suffered by his party. It is sure to dip his already sinking approval rating further deeper. 

Tuesday, November 2, 2021

SLEEPY JOE IN SCOTLAND: THE PRESIDENT REALLY LIVED UP TO HIS MONIKER.

ICHEOKU says if this could happen in such a public place with the world watching, imagine the number of naps he usually takes behind closed door in the White House with no camera or preying eyes watching. But taking a nap is not a criminal behavior nor a big deal at all, as even many young active people frequently steal naps whenever they can get it. 

Who hasn't ever stolen a nap before in their lifetime, including during lectures, in classrooms, work places and sometimes even behind the driving wheel. The president is not an exception, he is human and as a grand father too, it was probably past his bedtime, the difference in the time zones between Washington DC/Delaware and Glasgow Scotland considered. 

It was a presidential nap and might end up being the most talked about development out of the 26th edition of United Nation Organization's Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP26) summit in Glasgow Scotland, capable of overshadowing even the principal reason for the conference, the unraveling climate. He was not the first leader to ever doze off during a conference or summit, Olusegun Obasanjo regularly did and still does the same thing; and Robert Mugabe mastered the art of frequently teleporting himself out of meetings, conferences and summits during his waning days. It is not an easy task carrying millions of people's problems on one's shoulders. 

However, people should not read too much meaning into the presidential closed eyes as Mr President probably was just meditating or reflecting on some burning national and world issues including how America will help the world fight climate change or simply closed his eyes to shut out the many lights that were shinning into them. It is possible too that the speech became so boring that it lulled the president to sleep. But whatever may be the reason, nobody died or was harmed as a result of the presidential nap and therefore, no harm, no foul. 

Anyway, it is yet another evidence that former President Donald John Trump's sixth sense is top notch as he recognized Joe Biden's penchant for sleepiness very much earlier and truthfully called it when he branded him Sleepy Joe. But hey, he is the president of the United States of America and he can do whatever the heck he wants; at the least the world got a rare privilege, seeing the president of the United States of America in his weakest moment with his two eyes completely shut off from the many problems facing America as well as the wider world. It is a momentous historical event seeing a presidential nap because it is not common, it is rare. Now, let everybody move on and not remain fixated on it. #SleepyJoe@COP26.

Monday, November 1, 2021

ANAMBRA (NO) ELECTION ON NOVEMBER 6TH: SIT AT HOME, MERITORIOUS.

ICHEOKU says it is now "alea iacta est" in Igboland Southeast as Caesar had to cross the rubicon to put down the gauntlet. Mazi Nnamdi Kanu have bravely and courageously thrown the marker against the Fulani hegemony in Nigeria which stultified Nigeria's developmental growth, and mired it down in near complete paralyses and we need to thank him for it. That any Nigerian or Biafra or nwa-afor Igbo has refused to see where the Ohamadike 1 of Igboland is coming from, denying himself all the privileges of this life for so many years, pursuant to a cause bigger than him and selflessly taking punishments because of his conviction in the rightness of his cause, is simply beyond belief. 

You might not like him; you might not admire his methodology, but you cannot deny the fact that that guy is brave and courageous in resolutely damning the Nigeria establishment. Every time people talk about how things are not working in Nigeria and how Nigeria has been stunted since independence, they fearfully refuse to address its root cause. They usually pronounce all the diseases afflicting the country but nobody seriously dared prescribe the medicine that will cure it until the advent of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu on the stage. He articulated the solution correctly and he is doing something about it to have it fully implemented as two strange bedfellows do not peacefully enjoy night's sleep on the same bed. 

Nigeria's composition is the problem with Nigeria as a moving train goes in one direction.  Europeans were fighting various internecine wars amongst themselves until they became civilized enough to know that the answer lies in the complete balkanization of Europe such that even very tiny Lithuania, Liechtenstein, Vatican, Monaco just to name a few are independent sovereign countries. Many of these European countries are so tiny that even only the five core Igbo States population is far more than some ten European countries combined. So why does those Europeans reserve the right to separate themselves into workable political arrangements but do not see the same virtue in Africa doing the same separatism. 

This is where Africans and Nigerians must wake up and understand that the festering situation is as was intended, conceived and orchestrated by Europeans and Americans because they cannot afford to see an Africa that is finally awake to its responsibilities. Therefore waiting for these people to intervene and willfully separate Africans into various functioning nation States will be a wait in vain and forever. Africans and Nigerians must therefore take the bull by its horns and do the needful by themselves if they really want to aspire to greater heights. This is what Mazi Nnamdi Kanu's shared vision is all about, let every person go their own ways and develop at their own pace; enough of the sending a dog and a tortoise on the same time sensitive errand. 

While Europe have solved their own problem and is fully liberated, with every identified and identifiable nationalists forged into their own separate independent political estates, Africans have been left in the darkness of colonial gerrymandering, forged with the single purpose of keeping Africans fighting against each other and being so distracted, cannot do right for themselves or build their own various nation states. We all need to support Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in our own various little ways and in making required sacrifices too, including understanding that pain comes before gain; and that people are dying for the cause. The least those not in the field of confrontation can do is to show those waging the battle and paying the supreme sacrifice that they understand and appreciate. 

Therefore in solidarity with the cause, we must show to the world, especially Europe, Britain, America and other powers that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is not a Lone Ranger nor a rabid dog baying at Nigerians, and that his cause is shared by the majority of the people. His current ordeal's triggered sit at home resistance protest is a test case for Biafra solidarity and it should be carried to the letters, regardless of whatever associated hardship. The watching world must be told in unmissable and categorical terms that IPOB leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu speaks for the majority of Biafran people in his demand for a Biafran homeland. The world is watching to see how deeply rooted the agitation for Biafra nation really is and they are beginning to feel it. 

We must not give the detractors a reason to celebrate, because if botched, it will completely collapse and cripple any future talk about Biafra. They will say that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has lost his following and that his wish is no longer in tandem with Biafrans, particularly Ndi Igbo of Southeast. By Ndi Anambra holding the election of November 6th instead of carrying through with the coming sit at home protest for MNK's release, the Nigeria government will have a bragging right that they are now more influential than MNK in Southeast Igboland and that the people have abandoned him. Such will be a huge humble pie of shame, too bitter for any bona fide Nwafor Igbo to eat. Asari Dokubo must also not be allowed to beat his chest in triumph.

It might be difficult because of attendant hardship but Igbos are survivors and not strangers to hardships. We have seen 9 and 10 will not make any much difference. If President Muhammadu Buhari could shut down the NIgeria's land borders for more than 12 months and also forced Nigerians into over two months complete lockdown because of the coronavirus, what amount of starvation will 5 days sit at home levy on Ndigbo. A people who survived Obafemi Awolowo's engineered 3 years of demonic complete economic blockade and its triggered kwashiorkor can survive just anything. We can do this umu-afor and it is very important we do it in order to press home the cause for which so many have been slaughtered by Fulani herdsmen and many more murdered by their State security agents. 

A one week shutdown of AlaIgbo to press home the demand to release the Biafra hero is not too much to ask for. He has spent more than four months in detention already on behalf of Biafra, so what is one week of hardship compared to what he has sacrificed so far on behalf of the cause. Ndigbo must remain resolutely strong and remember that the closest hour to dawn is always the darkest. The horizon has come into view and only little perseverance is all that it will take to get to the promised land. "Ntasi obi ka anyinya ji ari ugwu." Lets show Nigerians and the world that Ndigbo means business and that Biafra is our only way to realize our full potentials and attain real greatness. Those politicians clamoring for election are just conducting their business of profiteering in politics and should be ignored. If Buhari likes, let him appoint an administrator for Anambra State afterall genocidal Yakubu Gowon did a similar thing with Ukpabi Asikia, but where is his generation today?

We can do this; and like Julius Caesar, lets damn it and bravely cross the rubicon. People have sacrificed more to realize their dreams and a worst Biafra will always be better than the best Nigeria, especially for Ndigbo; and other willing partners from the former Eastern region. Lets support Mazi Nnamdi Kanu finish what Ikemba Odimegwu Ojukwu started. A lean freedom is better than a fat slavery and since Ndigbo live everywhere just like the Chinese, those residents in Nigeria after separation can always maintain their abode as either naturalized Nigerians or permanent residents. There are Igbo traders in India, so there will be Igbo traders in Nigeria. There are Igbos who own properties in London, so Ndi Igbo can still own properties in Nigeria. 

All Biafra is asking for is the freedom to chart their own destiny, formulating progressive laws that are not inimical to development and build back better their homeland. Imagine the amount of presently subdued minds that will be released from their mental shackles and the increased international trade with booming importation that an independent homeland Biafra could unleash. The Jews did it and so can Biafrans. Lets go for the final push and permanently push off the yoke of Fulani/Hausa hegemony on our necks and save our generations yet unborn from suffering the same fate in the hands of a very oppressive ethnic irredentists seeking perpetual domination over the rest. These people are the least educated and least traveled in Nigeria, yet they are lording it over everybody. Say yes to no election in Anambra State on November 6th, 2021 and say hello, welcome another sit at home protest. Long Live MNK; Long Live Biafra! Biafra Lives Matters. #VivaMNK.

Sunday, October 31, 2021

GOOD CATHOLIC: A POLITICAL POPE GIVES ABSOLUTION TO A POLITICAL CATHOLIC.

ICHEOKU says as Fela Anikulapo Kuti of blessed memory would say, "Religion na(is) politics." It was true then when he said and sang it as a song and it is even much truer today with a Pope in the Vatican who actively plays politics of convenience; and who chooses which American president to like and which one to hate. Just look at how dearly he held President Joe Biden and gleamed meeting him, compared to his growling frown when President Donald John Trump similarly met with him. If according to the doctrine of the church, thou shall not judge but love everyone equally, why was he openly happy to see Joe Biden but not President Trump. 

The same pope that is supposedly a Christ ambassador on earth has maintained eerie silence while President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria has been purging Christians in Nigeria, particularly those of them in Southeast and Middle Belt of Nigeria, majority of who are active Catholics. But despite the State sponsored and orchestrated killings and others sanctioned by the State, which have claimed hundreds of thousands of innocent Christians lives in Nigeria, the pope has largely maintained his silence and have never spoken out vociferously against the systematic ethnic and religious cleansing going on in Nigeria; neither has the pope ever called out or condemned President Muhammadu Buhari for masterminding the pogrom against Christians in Nigeria. 

The latest of the atrocities in Nigeria is the refusal of the Nigerian government to declare well established and well known terrorists, currently being passed off as "bandits" as domestic terrorist, because according to the government, it is not yet time to so declare them because the government is observing "due process" to ensure that those bandits who have murdered over 100,000 Nigerians get their "due process" before being named for what they really are. But the same Nigerian government did not give IPOB "due process" before declaring them "terrorists" just within few months of their voicing out the need for fairness and equity in Nigeria. Has the pope said a word, nope.

Even the poverty ravaging parts of the world, particularly christians and Catholics could be partly assuaged if the Catholic Church could divest itself of some priceless holdings and use the proceed to provide palliatives to starving humanity. But no, it is only to play double talk, hide and seek as it benefits Vatican and at the expense of the congregants. Now instead of reserving judgment for the United States council of Catholic bishops on their planned censor of President Joe Biden, the same pope just cut off their legs by peremptorily "beatifying" President Joe Biden, anointing him a "good catholic" and you ask yourself based on what? Is he a good catholic because he is now president or a good catholic because he keeps a portrait of the pope behind his desk in the Oval Office. 

As catholics we were taught in catechism that sins offend God and that there are "big" sins and "small" sins; that the biblical account of Sodom and Gomorrah happened because homosexuality is a sin before God. We were also taught that killing is one of the big sins. But here is a president who is pro homosexuality, who does not mind if over 300,000 babies are killed each year under the guise of "women's right to choose, it is their body, their choice" nonsensical. Here is a president who have told countless lies and issued series of misstatements which as catholics we were told are both sins. We were also told that receiving the holy communion under a state of sin is double sin. 

But all these not withstanding, the pope was ready and in fact actually gave Joe Biden a clean bill of catholicism; and it is now all clear for him to take holy communion despite not being a good poster man representation of what catholicism teaches. Then we are told not to judge as judgment is for God to make. If this is the new operating standard procedure for the Catholic Church, then why don't everybody forget about living an upright life and wait for God to decide on the judgment day. Why all the effort being put in evangelism when a fully grown man who despite identifying as catholic snubs the tenets of catholicism. 

This piece is not an attack on the pope nor the president; but that catholicism and being in good standing of the church be properly reclassified in order to avoid misleading and confusing double standards. It was the same way a divorced Kennedy and John Kerry were allowed to remarry when the church teaches that divorce is against the law of God. It is sad that this particular pope is not guided by the doctrine of foundational catholicism, but have been tweaking it as suits his agenda to transform the church into a woke culture accepted place of everything is ok all things goes bazaar. Why and how he became pope still baffles some ardent catholics and catholic watchers alike. 

ICHEOKU is not saying that Joe Biden should be ex-communicated from the catholic church, but to declare him fully absolved of every anti catholicism behavior and stand on issues; and then went on to determine him as "good catholic" is where the confusion set in. If Joe Biden with all his anti catholic baggage is an epitome of catholicism, who then is the example of how not to be a catholic. One writer surmised a "good catholic" as a catholic who is having a personal relationship with God and living the faith in a vibrant way; who follows the teachings of Jesus Christ, the moral law and the precepts of the Church which Jesus built on Peter. Continuing, he wrote that good catholic is one who is "good" in the eyes of God", begging the question, did the pope look into God's eyes to know what God was seeing in President Joe Biden before declaring him a good catholic. 

ICHEOKU says is just confused, people are confused and catholics are confused as to who then is a bad catholic if Joe Biden is a good catholic. Bishop Thomas Tobin of Providence Rhode Island said in a letter to the pope imploring him to confront President Joe Biden on his stand on the abortion issue, which he said was an embarrassment for the church and a scandal to the world. The bishop followed it up, after the pope's convenient silence and calculated decision not to raise the issue with Joe Biden, that the church has lost its prophetic voice and no longer has a "John the Baptist" with the audacity to confront Herods of our day. 

What a brave and courageous bishop and hopefully Vatican will not excommunicate him for voicing out so strong an opinion or treat him like the army high ups treated Lieutenant Stuart Sheller. It is probably nearing the finish line for the catholic church, the reason parishioners and congregants are deserting the church at such high numbers that too many church pews now sit empty during mass. People are constantly becoming fed up with what Mahatma Gandhi described as practice what you preach in his famous dialogue, 'I have read your bible, it contains so many good things, but you people do not practice what your Jesus taught and preached; and of course lived and died for.' It is not a good tiding coming out of Rome. It is increasingly discouraging to be a catholic in today's Pope Francis supervisory papacy.