THE MAKING OF A SCAPE GOAT AT THE VERY TOP

I really must say President Buhari's handlers have improved remarkably.First,Lawal Daura was fired in response to the invasion of the national assembly by masked operatives of the DSS,then they allowed Vice-President Yomi Osinbajo take all the credit before letting the world know Buhari authorized it and had it in his plans to sack Daura even before the incident.At the end of it all,the senate president,Bukola Saraki is being accused of using him to witch-hunt himself and that has stuck like glue.

But here is the thing.About 2 weeks ago,DSS operatives along with some police officers,blocked the gates to Saraki and his deputy,Ike Ekweremadu's houses in a purported bid to stop them from conducting a plenary session where 15 APC senators were scheduled to decamp to the PDP.The news of their defection from the APC over-shadowed the other events of that day and very few bothered to pay a little extra attention to the gestapo-style invasion of the residences of the number 3 and 5 citizens of the federal republic.President Buhari and Vice-President Osinbajo did absolutely nothing.Nothing concrete was adduced to wave off the accusing fingers pointed at them.

In as much as it sounds like a very good strategy to endear himself to the average nigerian; a testament to the improved handling of the Presidency's excess baggage,it is simply impossible for the Presidency to sit back and do nothing after Saraki 'staged' the first blockade at his residence by the DSS and police operatives.Buhari wouldn't stay mute while Daura and the IG of police,Ibrahim Idris helped him to hero status except of course,they were complicit.Anyone selling a 'Saraki witch-hunting Saraki' theory would have to tackle that extensively.

Having established that the powers at the very top have made him a marked man,then the next thing would be to fill in the blank spaces.Why was the invasion of the national assembly called off and why was Daura made a scape goat?.

The invasion is widely deemed an act of frustration against the senate leadership after they got wind of plans to impeach them and rallied their troops to check it.What the orchestrators did not expect was the amount of attention it would generate in the international community.Prominent foreign governments through their envoys,were said to have reached out to the Presidency and expressed grave concerns over what manner of threat against national security would necessitate the sealing off of the legislative arm of government by the DSS?.At that point,there would only be one scape goat,Lawal Daura.The aides who followed him to the villa to meet Osinbajo were summoned back to the office and he is presently said to be staying at a guest house of the police meant for high profile suspects.The presidency would really have to go the extra mile to disprove the notion that there weren't privy to his clandestine activities.

They would have to do much more than EFCC investigations that will not end in prosecutions or leaking false atrocities with no tangible proof.A strategically unverifiable report of him claiming to be taking orders from Adams Oshiomole,the APC chairman surfaced and got debunked.Another one claiming Abba Kyari,the President's chief of staff asked him to do it has also been planted.In this PR strategy,even the truth could be bandied and made unconfirmed in an attempt to lead everyone back to the official narrative.

The freezing of 3 bank accounts belonging to the Benue state government by the EFCC after it opened a case against Governor Ortom days after his defection to the PDP and one belonging to the Akwa-Ibom state government in what appears the first shot by the APC on behalf of its latest convert,Sen.Godswill Akpabio in an impending battle for supremacy between him and the PDP state government, all point to a renewed vigour in clamping down on political foes by the government.The foreign powers can't interfere in matters like these and the APC is having a ball going at its 'traitors'.

From where i stand,Lawal Daura is not an enemy of the government.As a matter of fact,he loves it enough to take a fall for it.What remains to be seen is whether he will stay fallen.

FALLOUT REVIEW: MISSION IMPOSSIBLE NEEDS TO STEP UP TO THE NEXT LEVEL

'Ethan Hunt and company eventually contain the threat at the last minute'.The outcome everyone already knew before Mission Impossible 6: Fallout was released.Its 2018 and a sixth instalment with a guaranteed outcome owed us a more robust story-telling with richer sub-plots but sadly,we didn't see that.It was all pretty too vintage to stir up as strong an adrenaline surge as it did back in the day.The intensity of the 2015 release; Mission Impossible 5: Rogue Nation coupled with the much more richer action scenes may have made it a quite decent watch but the lacklustre Fallout has more than anything proven the MI configuration needs to be revisited.

Mad technological effects in line with time and trends seemed a sure thing but some way some how,Fallout seems to fall short of even set MI standards.Benji Dunne (Simon Pegg)'s eye glass transmitter in the previous Rogue Nation outclasses everything on display here.That along with very ordinary fight scenes and a solely Ethan and gang V the bad guys plot all combine to make Fallout a very ordinary spectacle.

Ethan running into his ex-wife,Julia at a medical camp was just the type of twists needed to spice up the too direct outlay but in the end it was uneventful and did nothing for the story.When Henry Cavill (August Walker)'s good guy cover got blown,it seemed pretty convenient that the CIA director not in on his schemes,selected him to accompany Hunt on a chase of the stolen plutoniums.These,especially Julia's re-emergence were points the producers would have woven beautiful sub-plots round to add more glitter to an uninspiring fast-paced movie.MI has thrived over the years on the very direct route but it becomes a huge problem when there is an absence of some nail-biting suspense to cater for the predictability factor.The Solomon Lane break out scene was the most intense of the movie and the flaws therein were of the gaping kind.Notably Hunt starting his motorcycle late after closing down the alley with Walker in their van; how those shots by pursuing cops all miss Hunt at point blank range is incredible to say the least and having a man wear a black hood on the passenger seat of a speeding car during a man hunt with cops in the opposite side of the road not noticing was a pathetic watch.

We all love MI and Fallout may have opened to a franchise-high $61.5M from 4,300 theatres in the US but it will have to go down as one of the worst (if not the worst) screenplay(s) of the series.

WIKE: LEADING THE PDP AWAY FROM THE WEST

Hate it or love it,the PDP represents our best hope of ridding ourselves of unarguably the worst government we have ever had and as such,its affairs are of paramount importance to a lot of us.If President Buhari packs and heads back to Daura in 2019,it is most likely they made that happen.

It was inevitable that the North and South West lose considerable influence in the party due to their dismal outing at the last general elections to the South South and South East who would not only produce the new big players but also become the major financiers of the party.

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state had the added advantage of being a very key member of the Jonathan administration who was reportedly handed a mandate by the then first lady,Dame Patience Jonathan to wrestle back her home state by any means necessary from Rotimi Amaechi.Wike,fresh off an epic battle and being a prominent member of the party in the previous dispensation,assumed leadership status after Jonathan's semi-retirement from party affairs.He has succeeded on foisting Uche Secondus on the party when it made logical sense to zone it to the South West not only because it has never held the position but also to enhance chances of making a major break through into a region that has proven to be the most decisive in our electoral structure especially in these crucial times.

Wike may be apt to bulldozing down opposition and the employment of brute force but leadership of a vast number of people with divergent political and ethnic interests cloaked in the guise of a common goal takes a special kind of skill he hasn't displayed.

Secondus is heavily reliant on his dictates and so far,he hasn't blown him towards galvanizing the troops especially in the South West as efficiently as possible.

The most prized asset the PDP had was Olusegun Mimiko before his defection back to the Labour Party.Mimiko was the best Vice-Presidential candidate in the land and one who would have been pivotal to winning over the South West electorate; a region swayed more by competence and credibility than ethnic or religious sentiments.That Wike and his gang would make a man like that feel under-appreciated tells a lot about the job they are doing.

A reconciliation committee headed by Bayelsa state governor,Seriake Dickson was hurriedly put in place after Secondus' emergence as chairman with a very narrow and myopic objective-pacifying the aggrieved chairmanship candidates instead of the entire South West PDP.It goes without saying that the region is the most strategic going into next year's general elections.With Buhari still enjoying a large followership in the core northern states and only the central ones seemingly switching allegiance,the PDP would need a chunk of the South West votes to complement those of the South-South and South East to guarantee victory.

As things stand,its major players are content with moving solo or as parts of a caucus and that will not augur well.How else can one explain a mega rally in Ekiti state; the only place the party controls in the region without Chief Bode George,Otunba Gbenga Daniel or Alhaji Rasheed Ladoja?.

There is no clearer depiction of the woeful job the PDP has done in rallying its members in the South West than the very notable absences from the region at the Ekiti mega rally.

There is a very important need for the South West members to be brought under the umbrella and not only made to feel special but also to operate as a formidable entity.

As things stand,the only thing anyone who is discontented with the Buhari government has to be hopeful for as far as the South West electorate goes is their tendency to vote purely on the strength of candidates presented and nothing else.

Wike must learn to lead.He,having seized the party machinery,must ensure it is up and fully running.

ADEOSUN, BABACHIR, OBASANJO: THE BUHARI 'SHABALE' POSTURE

If you played or watched 'active' soccer  in the ghetto or the very middle-class neighbourhoods in the late '90s and early 2000s,you should be familiar with the term 'shabale'.It basically means passing or controlling the ball with your face in the opposite direction; what in formal parlance is referred to as the no-look pass.The 'shabale' is classy but if it doesn't go well,the player is chastised by just about everyone from the coach and his colleagues down to the spectators for messing up a very simple task.One he chose to want to feign blind to.

President Buhari's anti-corruption war is a 'shabale' situation as far as his close friends and cronies are concerned.He looks the other way and when the citizenry mounts pressure on him to take action,he lays a pass pre-meditated to go no where.

As it is,Buhari's face is in the other direction regarding allegations his finance minister, Kemi Adeosun is using a forged NYSC certificate and most likely,we will watch this one fizzle out unattended to because nigerians have simply grown tired of forcing this government do the needful.Everything points to the fact that the woman is not sincere.

The NYSC,perhaps in a bid to leave feathers high up unruffled,only issued a statement saying she applied for an exemption certificate.They neglected to tell us whether or not it was granted.

What is more disgusting is the presidency's silence amidst such a grave criminal allegation against a key member of its cabinet.Adeosun has stayed mute and Buhari has not deemed it wise to do anything other than adopt the NYSC's statement as his.He has not set up a committee to probe the allegations or at least promise to look into them with a view to arriving at the truth.It would be interesting to see what he would have done if he was under immense pressure by Nigerians.Not that anyone expects her to be prosecuted and that is largely down to Buhari's woeful 'shabale' antecedents.When he looks the other side,it makes no difference forcing him to do what he should.

Nigerians had to pile up pressure on President Buhari to deal decisively with his former SGF, Babachir Lawal for his role in the embezzlement of funds meant for the IDPs in what is more popularly referred to as the grass-cutter scandal.There was no will whatsoever on the part of the government to make Babachir pay for his sins.Nigerians forced him to hurriedly refer the matter to the office of the Attorney-General of the Federation; a law officer, for a 'negative' probe and despatch of a clean bill of health to the senate by none other than Buhari himself.Nigerians forced him to ditch the AGF report for a more elaborate look into the allegations by a committee headed by the Vice-President whose report ended up having Babachir sacked.

As it is today,Babachir is on administrative bail pending further investigation by the EFCC.A man already probed at 3 different levels, each presumably having reached its conclusion after a good look at available evidence.What is the 'further' that has taken the EFCC so long to find out?.How on earth does Buhari expect his war on corruption to be taken seriously?.

While he is busy celebrating as his achievements the conviction of governors in cases filed by other governments,he should bear in mind that a lot of people still remember how the Chairman of his inauguration committee and former Bayelsa governor,Timipre Sylva was discharged and acquitted in controversial circumstances.He was never tried due to a 'programmed' incompetence on the part of the authorities and eventually had his 48 houses (yes,48 houses) handed back to him.The controversy started with Festus Keyamo withdrawing as prosecutor and today,he has been rewarded by being appointed the spokesman of the Buhari 2019 campaign.Most Nigerians did the 'shabale' then in 2015 because they were blind in the desperation to see Buhari succeed and hardly remember this as part of Buhari's hypocritical anti-corruption sins but unlike Keyamo,they have been rewarded with hardship and untold suffering.

It is nobody's fault that Buhari limited the scope of his anti-corruption fight to only the Jonathan administration when he and his cohorts were dispraising a 16 year rule before theirs.He never expected the public outcry that greeted his comments on a 'previous administration' having spent $16b on power.As it turns out,Buhari had known all along President Obasanjo spent that much on power without a commensurate improvement in power supply but he had kept a 'shabale' posture to Obasanjo's outrageous deed and only mentioned it after OBJ criticized his performance and condemned his re-election bid.That was when he chose to let us know he knew.And again,it was only after public outcry became deafening that he called for a probe and till date,the EFCC is yet to make an arrest or even as much as intimate the public on the latest regarding the probe.There have been a lot of stories bandied around about how the ex-presidents that rallied round PMB when he came into office negotiated a deal to keep the Jonathans free from prosecution.A pointer to how true that may be is how despite seizing her money and properties,Patience Jonathan is the one taking the government to court and not the other way round.If Buhari does not lack the balls to probe and prosecute his friend then it may be that he is scared of what OBJ might reveal if pushed to the wall.

Taking things as we see them,it is very obvious that whenever voluntary will power is lacking,the Buhari administration hardly ever takes a corruption battle to the finish line.It succumbs to public discontent and moves to douse it with a-little-something for the cameras before allowing the matter wither away.Forcing the man to make a move still feels no different from his 'shabale' posture.

EVERYTHING IS LOVE REVIEW: THE CARTERS DO JUST GREAT.NOTHING MORE

The album title is pretty much self-explanatory.On Lemonade,a dejected Beyoncé talked infidelity and on 4:44,Jay Z copped to it.Everything is Love is the current state of affairs.

Not like we didn't know though.Word had always been an On the run tour 2 and a joint album were on the books and both have turned out true.If anything,the Carters appear stronger than ever since the soul-baring on wax.

Lets check it out.

1. APESHIT FEAT MIGOS

Beyoncé nails this song bad.The very best of her in up tempo mode and she spices it up with some rap lines too.Jigga drops a really bomb verse but something is off and its the instrumental.The kick,okay but the ding ding on the bass was detrimental to effect.A good song with a potential for much much more.

2. SUMMER

The world is moving fast and it takes a whole lot more than a good voice to make a good slow song.It takes something extraordinary and Beyoncé on that instrumental would have been adjudged regular even when slow was much more fashionable.The Jay verse was decent but nothing could possibly pull it out of that realm.Summer is pale and unmoving.

3. BOSS

"Aint nothing to a...boss!!".Boss is sassy and cocky in a Bey tone.She does her thing really well on this track.Jigga drops an airtight verse with some more 'over here and over there' game-"Here we say you broke if the only one rich is you".Boss is basically music royalty showing off their feathers in superlative style.Great song.

4.NICE

Bey had everyone talking with the spotify lines and Jay stayed A-game up to this point but as a whole,Nice lacks that little extra element of life.You get too scared to let yourself enjoy this song because of a fear of just how hard you might come crashing down when Beyoncé does the 'i can do anything..hell nah' part.Its a sore.

5. 713

Beyoncé holds it down for her area code.Quite intriguing how she references the lyrics Jay Z wrote for the Dr. Dre classic,Still D.R.E.Bey really did make Hov work hard for it.He celebrates his queen in some style i must say.The chorus works.It really does.

6. FRIENDS 

This song is getting a lot of buzz 'cause of the lines many feel were directed at Ye in Jigga's verse but this right here will rank up there with the very best songs these two have made.Bey gets in vintage mode-the pleasantly abrupt switch in rhythm and effortless deployment of emotion.Whats more?.Hov gave perhaps a comprehensive list of his day 1s.Masterpiece.

7. HEARD ABOUT US

A solid mid-tempo song no doubt.Hows that post chorus for cutting edge?.Heard about us would have been huge a decade+ ago.It would have been timeless.But coming now,it has a clock on it.Tic toc ends some time soon.

8. BLACK EFFECT

This is a classic.The best black and proud anthem made in a long while.Jay really is the complete rap package-asides being arguably the best lyricist the game has seen,that voice sits well with every of his delivery styles.You get enthralled and held bondage from the moment he says "I'm good on any MLK boulevard" to the very end. Beyoncé doesn't just lay an outstanding verse, her background vocal game was nuts.Over the whole 9 song album,the Carters don't slay it as a team as good as they did on this one.Magic.

9. LOVEHAPPY

The couple pass across an obvious message; 'happy in love'.The rap & r&b medleys they engage in on two verses was quite interesting but the song really could do with some more pleasant feel.It gets too creepy for comfort at times largely due to the instrumental.

Did they deliver?.Yes.But thats just all they do and nothing more.

2018 DOPE ON A GOLDEN ERA TEMPLATE : A REVIEW OF THE NASIR ALBUM

Kanye West was the first to intimate us of a Nas release and that raised a few eyebrows.It didn't make sense that Nas would sign for Kanye and for further intrigue,Ye was producing all songs on the album.Quite extraordinary circumstances.

The Nasir album was being released during what has been widely dubbed a GOOD music season and that is a bit belittling of arguably a top 2 great still rapping.Thats saying it very frankly.Then also the propriety of Kanye producing the entire album.Not a few think, Escobar would have been better off working with a wider range of producers to get the best possible results.Well,lets take a look.

The songs.

1. NOT FOR RADIO FEAT PUFF DADDY

 He opens the album impressively with a moving socio-political take on the system.Nas has always had a reputation for knowledge and he conveys his strong message with in some really deft lines.Diddy re-enacts his 'talk' role on Hate Me Now and 070 Shake renders an incohesive chorus that doesn't quite blend with the song.

2. COPS SHOT THE KID FEAT KANYE WEST

Both Nas and Ye drop some very good verses but the Slick Rick sample,a pacy 'Cops shot the kid' mantra at the background kills off effect.The Kanye West thought process could get really dark and twisted sometimes and this is where having him produce the entire album seems more than ever a bad idea.

3. WHITE LABEL

This has to be the best song off Nasir.Escobar struts majestically over a thumpy bass with that slow,mean delivery-"...Chin grabber,neck choker,in her mouth spitter,ass gripper,blouse ripper,that dig you out nigga.I ain't gon hold you,old head gave me old news.I don't owe you,should have heard when i told you.You're an extension of what i worked hard to build.You believe in your own lies,can't be real".We always said Nas was ahead of his time.Well,he's still here.White Label is the work of a terrific wordsmith.

4. BONJOUR FEAT THE WORLD FAMOUS TONY

A soothing ambience with a subtle feel good vibe.Just how they made them in the 90's.Nas is talking personal lifestyle and triumphs in so elaborate a way it rubs off on the listener.A testament to how fabulously made Bonjour is.Credit must go to Tony for not only the hook but also a great last verse and outro.

5. EVERYTHING FEAT THE DREAM AND KANYE WEST

A breath-taking 7 minute message of strength and rising above negativity.The pre and post chorus contributions of The Dream and Kanye West were fantastic.Ye's mild and brassy tone for the chorus was inch perfect and we get some of Nas' legendary story-telling in the 3rd verse.Birthing a great idea just as immaculately well as it was conceived is the stuff of greats.Nas is a legend.

6. ADAM AND EVE FEAT THE DREAM

Nas' response to hate is success.Esco can't go wrong with the lines even if he tries-"What come first,peace or the paper.Before i got a piece of paper,peace was in my favour.Before i sat to eat on the table it had leeches and traitors.Cut the fat from the meat.Extract the weak,bon appetit.No bacon,brothers is swine".Awesome song.

7. SIMPLE THINGS

Nas talks musical content,his calibre of women and the 'bottom-up' ascent.Its the only song on the album on which he jumps on the chorus.Particularly noteworthy is how he addresses the issue of content-"Want me to sound like every song on the top 40?.I'm not for you,you not for me.You bore me.I drop lines prestigous schools read to their students.Look at my album plaques,somebody agrees with the music".And thats after saying "Never sold a record for the beats,its my verses they purchase".True class is standing out without doing too much.He drops the curtains in style.

Nas may not have tapped into this era while staying true to his in the manner Dre and Jay Z have done but to make an album this dope on a golden age template in 2018 is genius.Only someone like Nas would pull that off.

A LOOK AT THE MAIN CONTENDERS FOR THIS YEAR'S WORLD CUP

One peculiar thing about the 2018 World Cup holding in Russia is the absence of a clear cut favourite.The Spaniards were tipped to win the 2010 edition right after their 2008 Euro Championship heroics and Brazil was hugely favoured to win at home in 2014.The small teams aren't quite small and the big teams don't act big.A cliche in football that has become much much harder to disprove over the last few years.Europe and South America are the 2 strongest continents in football and while Chile won a 2nd consecutive Copa America in 2016,Portugal edged out France at home to clinch the Euros same year.That is football's current state.

However,no team outside the favoured top 4 have won the tournament since 2002 and though we are all ready to bet on a big nation winning in Russia,it has never been harder to say which stands the best chance.

Below are the main contenders for this year's edition.

1. FRANCE

The french squad is without a doubt,the most stellar collection of today's football stars-Paul Pogba,Ngolo Kante,Kylian Mbappe and Antoinne Griezman to name just 4.Over the course of a possible 8 games,a team dripping with this much depth in top class quality would blow past anything before it if it gets its acts right.While the french boast of the best midfield on paper,goals win games and its attacking prowess isn't quite legendary.

They won a game more than their closest rivals; Sweden and Netherlands in the European qualification group A but while 3rd placed Netherlands scored only 3 goals more,Sweden in 2nd place scored 8 more goals than the French.A thorough look at the french's attacking line-up will reveal the lack of a top marksman.Mbappe and Griezmann play their best in a supporting role while Ousmane Dembele and Thomas Lemar are noted for their proficiency from the wings.Nabil Fakir will need time to fully adapt to the lights and Olivier Giroud isn't quite noted for his consistency.

In the very tight games where the midfielders have a lot extra to deal with and can't focus entirely on forward play,you need the one man you can count on to bury the one chance he gets.

What the french have to remedy that however is a midfield that will press hard enough to create a lot of chances.

2. BRAZIL

This is arguably Brazil's best squad since the winning class of 2002 and if there is one thing Brazil has going for it at the World cup,it is tenacity.It has gotten to the semi-finals of 4 of the last 6 editions.

The brazilians exhibit an uncanny understanding of the rudiments of the knock out phase which they are always guaranteed to reach and are never over-powered by a one-off good performance.It is usually by a truly superior team as they have always been beaten by eventual winners or finalists at the very least.These star-studded ensemble look very likely to win it.The successful brazilian teams have operated with a solid balance in midfield and in Casemiro,Fernandinho and Paulinho,they have players capable of replicating the unsung heroics of Kleberson and Gilberto Silva at the 2002 World Cup.Moreso in these times where counter-attacking play is big business.A highly attacking side needs not just a creative midfield but also one with enough physicality to match its flair.

The toughness and powerful busts of Paulinho,the tireless running of Casemiro backed by a firm Fernandinho at the base of midfield and the inputs of Douglas Costa whenever he comes on may very well be the lesser celebrated aspects if these team win.It also must be said that even without Dani Alves,the brazilians have the best collection of defenders in this year's tournament.Marcelo,Thiago Silva,Marquinhos,Miranda,Felipe Luiz and Danilo are a coaches' dream pool.

The Brazilian are even worse off than the French in the lack of a proven marksman with first choice Gabriel Jesus having his positional skills to thank for a large collection of tap-ins,headers and rebound goals but the brazilians have a well oiled attacking machinery that affords midfielders and wingers enough space to wreck havoc.In the end,other teams may have more exotic players on their lists but it takes a compact unit to last the whole hog and the Brazilians fit the bill. 

3. BELGIUM

As underrated as the belgians may be,they will not be going into this year's tournament as under-dogs.They have a solid team that has been together for quite a while now with a world class player in every position.This team can match any in world football if it lives up to its potentials.The belgians before Roberto Martinez,were a side to prove a hard nut to crack to anyone in world football without never really posing a threat themselves.Their attacking play is where the most impact has been made.

Though they won a relatively easy qualifying group with Greece and Bosnia as main rivals,the Belgians scored 43 goals in 10 games to set a Euro qualification goal record.

Even with some of the best defenders in the game right now,there have been concerns over Martinez's defensive play which i would attribute largely to a lack of a defensive midfielder on the same pedestal as the abundant attacking midfield talent,to mitigate exposure of the back 4.If they are to

clinch this year's world cup,then an extra defensive shift is required of their attacking players.

4. SPAIN

The spaniards sacked their coach,Julen Lopetegui less than 48 hours to the opening match of the 2018 World Cup but it still won't change the very obvious-it won't suprise anyone if they win for the second time in 3 editions.They have had problems stabilizing a team with an ageing crux and its best young players needing a little more experience.

Dani Carvajal,Isco,Marco Asensio,Ceasar Azpilicueta and Thiago Alcantara have blossomed into some of the finest legs in world football and now have what it takes to not just compete on the grand stage but to also go on and etch their names in gold.They have shed some of their patient possession play for a more direct and purposeful approach driven by speed and on their day,they are as lethal as anyone.The calciopoli scandal didn't demoralize the Italians at the 2010 World Cup,it motivated them into winning it.The spaniards could very well transform the sack of their coach into a tonic for global success.

Germany and Argentina have the best outside chance of winning but its hard to imagine the champions not coming from the above listed four.