Reno Omokri goes off twitter over challenging questions on Jonathan, Buhari’s projects

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He continued, “If you look at the nature of many of them like that, they want to pour quite a huge number of falsehoods on the internet not because they know they can win the battle but because they believe, which is still in the figment of their own imagination, that they can win this ‘Change verse Corruption’ battle for the soul of Nigeria by confusing Nigerians who they left on May 29, 2015 as vulnerable masses who took any information without probe.  But they are now disappointed because much as they do all of those twisting of the President’s statements, misrepresentation of the state of economy, security and fight against corruption under him, they find that by the day they are losing,” the source said.

A Special Assistant to the on Social Media during the last administration of Mr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, Pastor Reno Omokri, has staged a strong social media battle against the Muhammadu Buhari Administration among which is the latest he posted on his Twitter handle, @renoomokri on May 18.

In the tweet, Omokri described President Buhari as having nothing to be credited for as having initiated, started or completed in three years of his ongoing administration.

Attracted by the very incisive tweet, The DEFENDER came in on Wednesday May 23 and asked the man described by many social media users as “desperate” critic a trio of questions but up till the time of filing this report on Friday May 25, Omokri has not replied.

The idea of taking some of the critics up on unsubstantiated allegations is to minimize the attempt by which many Nigerians have been subjected to fake information, which formed part of the level of hate speeches and unverifiable facts that many unsuspecting masses carry around unknowingly.

Reno Omokri had said, “Imagine Buhari, who has not initiated, started and completed any project in 3 years (besides his Daura helipad) attacking Obj and GEJ who initiated and finished thousands of projects.  Has Buhari forgotten when he called Obasanjo ‘a statesman committed to good governance’ last year?”

And our questions followed, “@renoomokri  May we ask, is it initiating new project you want or that all that were initiated without done be completed?

“@renoomokri Again Sir, have you also forgotten when OBJ called Buhari the only man to be trusted with leadership of Nigeria why (while) deriding GEJ, AA (Atiku Abubakar)?

“@renoomokri By this we mean all projects by your PDP govt without either being started or completed be now started and completed?  Answer Sir.”

He is yet to reply to any of these interwoven questions.

But when asked to reply, a respondent of The DEFENDER said, “It is to tell you the extent to which some of the youths of today have taken themselves at the level of stomach.  This guy is said to be a pastor, but the question we ask is, when we urge religious people to participate in Nigerian politics, was it to come and further deepen the existing insincerity and corruption in wealth and character or for them to come for the purpose of cleaning the stage for the betterment of the nation’s democratic governance?

“It is therefore a great disappointment that Omokri has continued to behaved like unguarded ‘dog’ in the hunter’s forest as he just opens his mouth and reigns insults and abuses as if he is not educated enough to know that the right to freedom of expression does not include the rights to mislead or misinform because ‘misinformation’ today is a justice-able crime in Nigeria,” he said.

Another respondent believes that Reno is entitled to his opinion but was persuaded by reality of present situation in the country, where it is clear that many of those claiming to play opposition politics are actually playing evasive tactics to escape justice over their past crimes of looting and establishment of insecurity, to warn that the country has got to a point where not just anybody will be allowed to reel out hates speeches and falsehoods with the hope that he will be covered by the law guarding any fundamental human rights.

“Just like they are currently doing in our courts where a suspected looter of N400 million is now playing game of falling down deliberately in courtroom to feign serious illness just for him to garner sympathy.  But, you tell me, does justice has eyes? No.  Does it have ears? No.  Justice is blind and deaf and so neither sees nor ears your game and so you cannot escape.  So, let all of those who are representing those looters by bombarding our public space with all the fakeness that they are doing like Reno Omokri is doing to ‘beware of dog’ because the ‘dog’ that is the law will sniff them out sooner than later and they will all be clamped into their early or long overdue retirement from Nigerian political space without anybody being able to rescue them,” he said.

In the meantime, an Abuja source told The DEFENDER Thursday night that Reno Omokri, unknown to many, “is hardened at his incoherent criticisms of Buhari on behalf of his former boss, Goodluck Jonathan, as an aftermath effect of the death of Niger Delta Avengers.”

He continued, “If you look at the nature of many of them like that, they want to pour quite a huge number of falsehoods on the internet not because they know they can win the battle but because they believe, which is still in the figment of their own imagination, that they can win this ‘Change verse Corruption’ battle for the soul of Nigeria by confusing Nigerians who they left on May 29, 2015 as vulnerable masses who took any information without probe.  But they are now disappointed because much as they do all of those twisting of the President’s statements, misrepresentation of the state of economy, security and fight against corruption under him, they find that by the day they are losing,” the source said.

He however expressed satisfaction that the way President does not react to the likes of Omokri, who he described as a mere frustrated former aide now seeing undeserved attention, and “that man in Ekiti who has told promised to provide more than one million pictorial evidence to prove President Buhari is incompetent and seriously ill but up till today has failed to provide one.

“My worry however is this, when I see him on a respected television station like Channels and he is allowed to continue to push out all his inconsequential critics of the Buhari government without those TV presenters asking him about those he told in the past and they still allow him to continue to deceive the public that it is their own duty as media to rightly guide, you begin to wonder if the Nigerian media particularly the broadcast is not for sale at cheap price,” he said.