The effect was melodramatic. Each section went deathly quiet as the muscular lion stirred them down. Having achieved attentive silence, Ojukwu then proceeded to thrill his hypnotized audience with the kind of oratory not seen since Cicero’s time.
Just what in Donald Trump’s pattern of life suggested to Moscow Mitch and the Republicans that Donald Trump should not be believed when he showed whom he was the first time?
None of the arguments presented in Penis Theology is completely arcurrate. Christ never ordained anyone. If at all one is to be called an apostle, the person who deserves that title in the order of precedence is not Peter but Mary of Magdala.
The profiteering conspiracy theorists, on the other hand, are driven by neither intellectualism nor ideology. They may spout and plagiarize intellectual contents and feign ideological affinity, but their core driver is crowd-sourced profit.
If we have to take one lesson away from what is happening in America, it is for us to recognize that we are all the arteries of progress or retrogression in our society.
Here is a man who seemingly has everything – money and power. Without holding any public office prior, he rose to become the President of the United States. From day one, I knew he was unfit for office, but you would assume that a reasonably sensible guy would quickly learn on the job because the opportunity is there – many advisers, books, history and good friends with ideas.
The obvious question is, how far has Nigerians fared so far? I know that the answers this question will attract would be varied, depending on many factors; geographical, religious, political divide. In a country like Nigeria, with its peculiar marriage, of strange bedfellows, that is not unexpected.
If America were not America, the Capitol Rotunda would have turned into a flowing tunnel of blood. It is a testament to American democracy and its allied commitments that the vast lawns of G Street SE of Capitol Hill did not become a reenactment of China’s 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, or Nigeria’s 2020 Lekki toll slaughter. Don’t get me wrong, America has not always got it right, which may explain why its founding fathers set….
So, clearly, the first difference to note is that there were three candidates with Electoral College votes in 1969 unlike now when we have only two candidates, Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
Trump and his brood of lying vipers and amplified by toadies in the Republican Party who have streamed it down to a section of the base.
