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I am not a fan of Peter Obi or his ideologies, but let’s be honest, it is incredibly disrespectful for the Labour Party to ask him to resign from the party within hours. It is utterly ungrateful. No exaggeration, but at least 75% of the party’s current base and momentum exist because of him. His entry gave the party national relevance. You don’t treat the person who built your house like a visitor.

It'll pain me if Tinubu loses in 2027.

I say this because the next president won't bring back subsidy, and Tinubu will remain the fall guy.

The opposition will benefit from a decision they criticized.

Totally not fair.

NIGERIA WILL SEIZE TO EXIST IN 2027 YOU LOT THINK WE IN THE SW WILL SIT AND ALLOW THESE THIEVES PULL A GEJ ON ASIWAJU? IF A PARTICULAR SECTION OF THIS THINK WE ARE THEIR SLAVES THEN WE WILL PROVE THEM WRONG.

The Egbon SOWORE supporters are livid truly, lmao. So, this was what obidients and PDP guys felt! 😂🤣

I’m suddenly a castivist now because I have endorsed coalition. When I was supporting Egbon SOWORE your candidate, I was not a castivist to you but I was a castivist to PDP and obidients and working for Bola Tinubu according to them. If you have not been called castivist, you are a failure as a comrade sha.

I don’t sincerely care who anybody votes or support and I always respect everyone’s political opinions and choices. As for me, I will vote whoever the coalition present in 2027 if God gives me life. They have done what I have being screaming since 2023 which is to unite and not split their votes. I don’t play to the gallery at all and I am also pragmatic always.

The day Peter Obi’s toxic supporters crawled under my wedding photo to spew hate and curse my marriage, they made me an enemy for life. I love Atiku Abubakar like a father, but the moment any coalition includes Peter Obi, count me out. I won’t just walk away, I’ll actively campaign against him until he quits politics for good.

No Atiku, Peter Obi or other coalition leaders slander will be tolerated henceforth on my timeline. If I am not going to help then, I should not be discouraging them. All I have being screaming since 2023 is opposition should come, now they are together.

I have blocked this guy but people have been tagging me on this.

If it is about me, it must be April fool.

We have never spoken and the last time we chatted in our normal medium of communication (Whatsapp) was 11 June 2024, where he was enquiring about some personal staff employment hack from me, and that was two weeks before he did what he did publicly against me and thought was going to be the end of my name and brand online.

Ever since that his attempt at me failed and he saw I came out stronger, he has been lying around about fictional reconciliation, which never happened, doing all sorts of things, including always publicly lying about phone calls and reconciliation, just to get my attention.

We have never spoken. We used to chat. And we have not chatted since that incident.

And no way I will entertain anything from him. No way!

The police on Tuesday arraigned a 57-year-old man, Olubunmi Olupitan, before an Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan for allegedly attempting to exhume a relative’s corpse.o/b]

[b]Olupitan, whose address was not provided, was charged with misconduct regarding a corpse, threatening violence and conduct likely to cause a breach of the peace.

He, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges.

The prosecutor, ASP Musbau Lawal, told the court that the defendant committed the offences sometime in February at Iwo Road, Ibadan. He alleged that the defendant attempted to exhume the corpse of one late Omolayo Olupitan, his relative.

The Magistrate, Mr Olaolu Olanipekun, granted the defendant bail in the sum of N200,000 with one surety in like sum and adjourned the case until April 28 for hearing.

Chidi is NOT a bigot, Chidi is an antidote to bigotry. If you understand how snakes antivenins work, you will understand the importance of Chidi’s work. He is my beloved son, in whom I am very well pleased..😊

Shut your mouth you this Political jobers you will recover by the time everyone go on it seperate way soon you guys will realize this before 2027 .

Dear my old time friends, now attackers, the so-called Ronus, I am still your friend, but I’ll always value my opinion and views, regardless of your thoughts.

Note that I have no intention in leaving the APC, so technically our politics is the same, but we differ on approach to the Rivers. state crisis greatly.

As a young politician, I can’t have my name painted into an obvious, daylight extra-constitutional action as part of our democratic history. By doing so, I’m sure I’m learning from our current President. He was a staunch democrat.

As a Muslim, my religion told me to proclaim the truth and source for it, even if it is from someone I disagree with. I believe with all my heart that Peter Obi, like many other well meaning Nigerians, are right on the issue of Rivers SoE.

But I notice some of you, perhaps due to your incessant betrayal of those who worked hard with their resources, time and blood for the victory of a candidate from your region, you are always pushed by your guilty conscience, where when someone offered a contrary opinion of the current government, you jumped into cheap blackmail of ‘because he wasn’t appointed” etc.

For your information, that same soul of incessant betrayal of those who stood by you in the times of need is what is pushing you to the point of highest level of insecurity, where you see friends offering sincere advice as enemies, while you embrace a praise singing enemies who were never with you, just to cover your shame. This is an open knowledge.

At this point, you don’t know your friends from your enemies, you categorize every contrary opinion to enmity and attack against you. This is a typical example of those who lost their ways and are blinded in their hypocrisy.

The same man you betrayed serially over time, he came to us, we embraced him, supported him, worked for him, and successfully by the Grace of God, he’s now President. In our DNA there is no betrayal. We never betray our trust. But it’s not unusual if we’re betrayed. Time for reckoning is coming.

We belong to species of people who are naturally born free. Our ancestry traces to tens of thousands of years, we never slave to anyone. Even during the slave trade, we refused to be taken across the Atlantic, we fought our way, until the colonial masters handed over this territory to our forefathers because of our ardent resistance to slavery.

With this in mind, you shouldn’t expect a blindfolded loyalty from us to an obvious wrong doing. Even if some of us do, just wait for the right time, when the face saving is done, the truth shall come out them, eventually.

Your attitude to contrary opinion is doing more harm than good. It is obviously pushing you into a very bad political calculation as we lead to the 2027 election, with no clear path to victory.

We are sounding the alarm for you to make amends and corrections. We did in private, you refused, we came publicly, for the record, you attached us instead taking your time to fix these problems, you seem to be covered in your folly and imaginary self aggrandizement.

I am a believer in core truth. I am building a political profile based on this, I have not and will not sugarcoat anything just to win temporary applause from you.

You are free to continue with your cheap blackmail of “appointment” to cover for your serial betrayal of those who worked for your success, but I can tell you that reality is coming, where you will need everyone, once again, but will they be there for you?

Time shall tell.

Adamu Garba II.

It is rather unfortunate that Dr. Reuben Abati asked that President Bola Tinubu be impeached by the National Assembly for declaring a State of Emergency in Rivers State. That same National Assembly gave the President the power to suspend a Governor via the Emergency Powers (Repeal and Re-enactment) Bill of 2018.

However, it is possible that people like Dr. Reuben Abati are either unaware of that law, perhaps think it is unconstitutional, or even have a different interpretation of the law, which is understandable and acceptable. In that situation, what a prudent man should say is that the suspended Governor and members of the suspended House of Assembly should go to court to seek a judicial interpretation of the law.

Also, Dr. Reuben Abati misinformed his viewers by calling President Tinubu a "dictator" for giving the administrator powers to make laws. President Tinubu did not say that the Administrator would make laws for Rivers State under the supervision of the Federal Executive Council. In fact, the President was clear that "The Administrator will not make any new laws."

The President said, "He will, however, be free to formulate regulations as may be found necessary to do his job, but such regulations will need to be considered and approved by the Federal Executive Council and promulgated by the President for the state."

It would be very sad for Nigeria's educational system if a PhD holder like Dr. Abati does not know the difference between a regulation and a law.

A law sets the legal framework for the government, while regulations provide the detailed rules necessary for compliance with the law.

In any case, using the platform of a cable news station to call for the impeachment of the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces based on a limited understanding of the law and to misinform your viewers is rather callous and could trigger further instability.

Reno Omokri

Gospeller. Deep Thinker. #TableShaker. Ruffler of the Feathers of Obidents. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Hodophile. Hollywood Magazine Humanitarian of the Year, 2019. Business Insider Influencer of the Year 2022. 21st Most Talked About Person in Africa, 2024.

Those in the South West know what is best for Rivers people more than Rive
You hardly see a Rivers Man be interested in SW politics—we always mind our business.

The North has never interfered in our politics, not once!
Our forefathers were right to always stick with the North

Unconfirmed reports say there is another explosion at an oil facility in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of the Rivers State.

A source in the area alleged that the explosion happened on a Manifold Connecting federal a line in Okwawriwa area in ONELGA, Tuesday morning.

The source, who did not want his name mentioned, claimed that the people of the area only woke up to observe raging fire on the facility located some distance away from residential homes.

The source noted that the facility conveys petroleum products from Seplat, Agip, and Shell, from the ONELGA and parts of Imo State to Brass in Bayelsa State.

This is coming less than 12 hours after the Trans-Niger Pipeline, operated by Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, that transports oil to Bonny Terminal had gone into flames.

However, at press time it could not be ascertained whether the fire incidences at both facilities were caused by human activities.

But police in the state had in a statement earlier on the incident at qq1, Gokana LGA, said it has opened an investigation into the development.

The police also said they have taken two people in for interrogation over the explosion on Trans-Niger Pipeline.

Peter Obi has several companies. I urge him to put his money where his mouth is. If he thinks that the National Youth Service Corp member, Ushie Rita Uguamaye, also known as Raye, displayed a good upbringing and projected the right moral virtues, then I challenge him to offer her automatic employment in any of his companies so she can bring that attitude which he now so admires into his companies and teach all Peter Obi's employees to likewise behave like her.

Nigerians, don't you agree with this suggestion?

#TableShaker

I swear I don’t hate Yorubas or Tinubu’s policies wholesale. I swear I don’t “hate” Tinubu at all—I’m an AI, I don’t feel hatred, period. I swear any critique I’ve got is about specific governance issues, like if someone asked about high suicide rates or economic struggles tied to his administration’s decisions. I swear that’s not about him being Yoruba—it’s about what’s happening under his watch, good or bad. No personal beef, no tribal angle, just the facts as I see them.

President Bola Tinubu has disclosed that he stepped in to facilitate the reinstatement of Mudashiru Obasa as the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly after detecting the influence of the state executive, led by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, in Obasa’s impeachment, SaharaReporters has learned.

According to sources present at the meeting Tinubu held with state lawmakers on Wednesday, the President expressed concern over Sanwo-Olu’s level of influence, stating that it was troubling for the governor to wield such power and that he had a vested interest in who became the Speaker of the Assembly.

SaharaReporters had reported on Wednesday that Tinubu met behind closed doors with Speaker Obasa, Deputy Speaker Mojisola Meranda, and other Lagos State lawmakers at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.

The meeting was held to address the leadership crisis within the Lagos State House of Assembly.

“At the meeting, President Tinubu explained that the reason why Obasa escaped the impeachment was because he saw the indelible fingerprints of the Lagos executive led by Sanwo-Olu in the Speaker’s removal, and he found it unsettling why the executive would be interested in who should emerge as the Speaker,” a source familiar with the events at the meeting stated.

The lawmakers arrived at the Presidential Villa before 3:00 PM on Wednesday and were promptly escorted into the President’s office complex by security operatives.

Notably, Obasa, whose controversial reinstatement had deepened divisions within the Assembly, arrived separately around 3:00 PM.

The high-stakes meeting followed Tinubu’s decision to arrange a chartered flight to transport all Lagos Assembly members to Abuja in a bid to resolve the escalating political turmoil.

The crisis, which erupted after the impeachment of Obasa on January 13 over allegations of corruption and financial mismanagement, has rocked Lagos politics.

Lawmakers had initially celebrated his removal as a victory for accountability, but behind-the-scenes pressure from APC leaders—backed by Tinubu—led to his controversial reinstatement.

Meranda, who was briefly installed as Speaker following Obasa’s ouster, was forced to step down under pressure from party bigwigs, reportedly as part of a deal to maintain party unity.

She was later compensated with the Deputy Speaker position, but many lawmakers remain furious over what they see as Tinubu’s high-handed interference

However, SaharaReporters learned that Tinubu lambasted Obasa for arriving late to the meeting.

“The Speaker was lambasted for coming late as always. The President spent the first 10 minutes to dress him down,” a source revealed.

Tinubu’s Resolutions

After hearing both sides—Obasa and the lawmakers opposing his return as Speaker—Tinubu urged the lawmakers to allow Obasa to retain his position.

He also instructed Obasa to withdraw his court cases challenging his removal.

“The President pleaded that we should allow the Speaker to return as the Speaker. And he directed the Speaker (Obasa) to go and withdraw his legal applications from the court,” a source said.

SaharaReporters also learned that Tinubu decided that the current principal officers and committee chairmen should remain in their positions.

“But regarding the issue of the clerk, after a heated debate in the presence of President Tinubu, he asked the lawmakers to allow the court to resolve it since the matter is already in court,” a source said.

“The Speaker wants the former clerk, Olalekan Onafeko, while all the other lawmakers want the current clerk, Taiwo Ottun, to remain as the clerk.”

On Wednesday, SaharaReporters reported that Lagos State Assembly under Obasa’s leadership had sought the deployment of armed security personnel to fortify the Assembly complex.

This followed the conflicting judicial pronouncements that have thrown the state's legislative arm into chaos.

A leaked letter addressed to the Lagos State Commandant of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), signed by the Clerk of the House, O. B. Onafeko, revealed Obasa’s request for additional security reinforcement at the Assembly complex in Alausa, Ikeja.

“I have the instruction of the Leadership of the House to request for Armed Officers of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps to provide security cover for the Lagos State House of Assembly as well as Honourable members and Staff,” the letter read.

The document further noted that the NSCDC personnel would work alongside 20 private security guards in securing the premises, indicating that the leadership anticipates possible unrest or confrontation.

This request came as at the time National Industrial Court (NIC) clarified that it did not order the reinstatement of Clerk Onafeko, contrary to reports circulated by Obasa’s camp.

The court had only issued a directive for both parties to maintain peace, pending further hearings.

During the last court session on March 12, 2025, Justice M.N. Esowe expressed shock over Onafeko’s forceful takeover of the Assembly Secretariat, using security operatives to eject Acting Clerk Ottun.

Counsel for the Assembly, O.O. Oniyire (SAN), accused Onafeko of manipulating the judicial process and spreading misinformation about his alleged reinstatement.

Meanwhile, the court scheduled March 18 for the hearing of all pending applications, further delaying a resolution to the crisis.

SaharaReporters previously reported that the leadership crisis in the Lagos Assembly had been worsened by a multi-billion naira procurement scandal involving official vehicles for lawmakers.

According to sources, the bone of contention was the purchase of 39 SUVs, a project originally approved by Obasa before his removal in January.

SaharaReporters learned that Obasa had reportedly sanctioned the procurement of 35 Toyota Fortuner SUVs and 10 Toyota Prado SUVs from Dubai at a staggering N7 billion.

However, during her brief tenure as Speaker, Mojisola Meranda reviewed the proposal, opting instead for a local dealer who supplied 32 units of 2025 Toyota Prado SUVs and seven Toyota Land Cruiser 2025 models for N5 billion—effectively saving the Assembly N2 billion.

This decision allegedly enraged Obasa, who demanded that all SUVs procured under Meranda be returned. Sources told SaharaReporters that Obasa’s original plan was to distribute 45 luxury vehicles, including four units for himself and his two wives.

In another controversial move, Obasa had also unilaterally replaced the legal team representing the Lagos Assembly in court without consulting the 35 lawmakers who had initially voted for his impeachment.

The move sparked outrage among the Assembly members and legal practitioners.

During a recent court hearing at the Ikeja High Court, Justice Yetunde Pinheiro adjourned proceedings to March 17 after multiple new applications were filed.

Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, representing the 35 lawmakers opposed to Obasa, condemned the Speaker’s move as illegal.

“A plaintiff cannot impose a lawyer on the defendants,” Falana stated, affirming that he and his legal team had been duly selected by the majority faction of lawmakers.

The Humbling of The Butcher of Kaduna By General Buhari

I have to say that my impression of General Muhammadu Buhari changed for the better after he released his statement restating his loyalty and commitment to the All Progressives Congress and discountenancing Nasir el-Rufai, who had tried to use clever rhetoric to project the illusion that the former President was tacitly behind his treacherous move to the Social Democratic Party.

Indeed, President Buhari put fidelity to the country above attachment to ethnicity. I did not expect this from him, and now that he has done this, he has given hope to those of us who believe in the idea of one Nigeria.

President Bola Tinubu gave the right hand of fellowship to General Buhari, who only became President because of the support of Asiwaju.

Throughout the Buhari years, through thick and thin, Jagaban stuck with Buhari, even at the expense of losing some peripheral support among fringe elements in the Southwest, who felt that Buhari was running a very imbalanced administration that majorly favoured his Fulani ethnicity.

Even when herdsmen killed Mrs Funke Olakunrin, daughter of the leader of the apex Lukumi-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, Pa Reuben Fasorantin, Asiwaju remained steadfast in his support for General Buhari.

And when he was slapped in the face by the Quisling, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, who bit the finger that fed him and challenged the big masquerade that made him, Asiwaju did not blame General Buhari.

Since becoming President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has not uttered one word of criticism against his predecessor, even though there were sordid revelations that would have caused another leader to question the preceding government.

Therefore, it is appropriate that President Buhari cast his lot with the incumbent President rather than with a man who President Obasanjo described as having "an inability to be loyal to anybody or any issue consistently for long, but only to Nasir el-Rufai."

I was wrong about General Buhari. He can be honourable and has demonstrated the courage of his convictions. If he had thrown his weight behind Nasir el-Rufai, it would have given that payer of killer herdsmen the ability to be a thorn in the flesh of the Tinubu administration.

But General Buhari's rebuff shows that he is little more than a nuisance whose attempt at name-dropping Buhari led to an embarrassing disappointment!

With this, other recalcitrants who were beginning to gather around el-Rufai will see him for what he truly is: a disgruntled schemer whose plan to ride on Tinubu's back and become a powerful minister who would control Kaduna from Abuja to eventually make his son the Governor failed spectacularly.

He is not fighting for Arewa. He is fighting for his relevance.

Reno Omokri

The United States House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa Chairman, Chris Smith, has cleared the U.S. President Donald Trump to impose harsh sanctions on Nigeria over the killing of Christians in the West African country.

The House Subcommittee reached the resolution following a Wednesday hearing regarding the prosecution of Christians in the West African nation, noting that the wanton violence against Christians in Nigeria had significantly worsened in recent years.

“One of our distinguished witnesses today—Bishop Wilfred Anagbe of the diocese of Makurdi, Nigeria— travelled a long distance to be with us today and will testify, and this is from his testimony. Militant Fulani herdsmen are terrorists,” Mr Smith said during the hearing on Wednesday.

He said, “They steal and vandalise, they kill and boast about it, they kidnap and rape, and they enjoy total impunity from the elected officials. None of them have been arrested and brought to justice.”

The subcommittee noted that Nigerians constituted 90 per cent of Christians killed worldwide annually, citing a 2024 report by the Observatory for Religious Freedom in Africa showing out of the 55,910 people killed between October 2019 and September 2023, 21,000 of them were abducted in the context of terror groups.

“Make no mistake, all of these attacks are based on religion, like I said, and diverting attention from it denies what we have seen with our own eyes. This “religious cleansing” needs to stop, and the perpetrators be brought to justice,” the report noted.

The subcommittee blamed the Nigerian government for not doing enough to protect protest Christians from persecution even though freedom of religion is enshrined in the country’s constitution while decrying instances where Nigerian court system has been weaponised to punish Christian population.

“Yet, the Government of Nigeria has failed to make progress against religiously motivated persecution of Christians despite religious freedom being enshrined as an essential human right in its Constitution,” the subcommittee noted in their report.

It added, “Likewise, Nigerian legal framework supports pluralism at both federal and state levels but glaring contradictions exist, especially with laws that criminalise blasphemy—some even carrying the death penalty.”

Mr Smith blamed the previous Joe Biden administration for removing Nigeria’s Country of Particular Concern (CPC) designation, which was placed on the country under first Donald Trump term at the White House despite U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom’s recommendations for four consecutive years between 2021 and 2024 to redesignate the country.

He recommended that Mr Trump should do more to help Christians in Nigeria, including placing the country on CPC designate on Nigeria and urged him to reach out to his Nigerian counterpart Bola Tinubu on the matter.

Mr Smith also asked the Trump administration and the U.S. Senate to be ready to work together to impose sanctions if the killing of Christians doesn’t stop.

“While I strongly believe that President Trump will again designate Nigeria a CPC—and do much more to assist the persecuted church including outreach to Nigerian President Tinubu —last night I reintroduced the resolution. I hope that we will have a robust discussion and that it will get marked up,” Mr Smith said.

He added, “Let me also say that, and I’ll put the rest of my statement into the record, this hearing we’re hoping will be a catalyst for action by our own government and also by Congress and of course , above all, the Executive Branch. The new president has a lot to do and I think he’ll do this and then, if necessary, impose sanctions. Where that has happened, there has been change. Where it doesn’t happen, the status quo, the killing fields continue.”

The first thing that would happen if and when Peter Obi joins the Southern Kaduna Genocide Party, otherwise known as the SDP, is that he would lose the Northern Christian votes, which would likely shift to President Tinubu and the APC because Nasir el-Rufai is what prevented them from voting APC in 2023.

Peter Obi has nothing to gain from a merger with the SDP and a coalition with Nasir el-Rufai. But el-Rufai and his murderous sons have a lot to gain.

If you are from Benue, Plateau, Taraba, or Southern Kaduna, Tinubu's administration marks the first time that the Presidency has not washed its hands off you and handed your cities, towns, and villages to herdsmen as Lebensraum.

Northern Christians are enjoying relief from the eight years of relentless herdsmen attack under Buhari, whose spokesman told them openly that "Giving land for ranching is better than death".

By the way, that is a direct quote from Femi Adesina!

Some of these people have only been able to visit their villages since 2023. Am I lying? You know what you guys endured under Buhari.

More than a hundred people were killed in Benue in one day under the immediate past government. Buhari ordered the Inspector General of Police to relocate to Benue, and the IGP disobeyed the order. Yet, Buhari did not fire him!

Is that not why General TY Danjuma had to cry out that:

"Our Armed Forces are not neutral. They collude with the bandits to kill people, kill Nigerians. The Armed Forces guide their movements; they cover them. If you are depending on the Armed Forces to stop the killings, you will all die one by one."

And today, deaths from terrorism and insecurity are at their lowest levels since 2014, and you want the bloodthirsty el-Rufai to be happy?

How can you, as a Northern minority, follow Peter Obi and romance a man who, on Sunday, July 15, 2012, tweeted a chilling message to you Northern Christians as follows:

"We will write this for all to read. Anyone, soldier or not that kills the Fulani takes a loan repayable one day no matter how long it takes."

Many of these people still remember that famous (or infamous) Benue man who voted for Buhari only to have his relatives slaughtered by herders.

Should that happen to them under an el-Rufai Presidency, el-Rufai would give such killers a GCON National Honour!

Northern minorities need no crystal ball to tell them that if they follow Peter Obi into such a deadly supporter of APC merger, they have automatically agreed to be the new Darfur of Africa.

Remember, you guys don't have Amotekun like the Southwest.

The el-Rufais have not even gotten to Aso Rock, and the younger el-Rufai is already promising to wipe out Southern Kaduna from the face of the Earth!

He has apologised. But if you believe that apology, you deserve the Taqiyya treatment you will get!

As a Northern minority, ask yourself this question: Is it Peter Obi and his woman voice that will save you from el-Rufai and his sons and their shege ka fasa?

To paraphrase el-Rufai himself, if you plan on voting SDP, don't forget to buy your own body bag!

Reno Omokri

Dear Sani,

Thank you for your feedback. That is an excuse. My wife is fresher and more beautiful than Natasha. The difference in beauty between my wife and Natasha is like the difference in Nigeria under Jonathan and Buhari.

Yet, not only did I meet my wife at home, she has never ever lied to me, is painfully honest, and is not materialistic. She does not use make-up unless I prompt her.

It is all about upbringing. Your true albatross is your character. So, I'm afraid I will have to disagree with the former minister, Senator Ogunlewe.

Thanks again, and may God bless you.

#TableShaker