For saying this is first Christmas there are no queues or fuel scarcity, Reno Omokri goofed – Nigerians

By KEMI KASUMU

“I appreciate every effort by PBAT and I sincerely thank God for His little mercies upon our dear fatherland but the hypocrisy, deliberate mischief and people deceit by some persons is nauseating. I’m sorry, but I couldn’t help but notice. May God bless every honest and sincere Nigerian,” concluded Uche Diala

Tinubu Administration’s sudden promoter, Pastor Reno Omokri, has been slammed for giving false assessment of the economic situation in Nigeria, especially as the nation enters it’s most tormentous Christmas season in its history.

In a post that has been further escalated across social media, Omokri, a former Social Media Aide to the President during a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)-led Federal Government in the past, had listed what he called achievements of current All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Government of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu especially in this Christmas time.

These achievements, according to him, included that this is the first Christmas period in the history of Nigeria that there would be no queues at the filling stations or there would be no fuel scarcity.

This was even as he celebrated the N20 cut from N1,060 per litre of fuel by the government’s company, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL), as a fuel price reduction achievement that he wanted Nigerians to accept praise as Tinubu’s gift to them at Christmas.

In his own words, Omokri said, “This is the first Yuletide season in the history of Nigeria where the following things are co-occurring simultaneously:

“Fuel price has reduced and there are no fuel queues or petrol scarcity, and for the first time, Nigeria is exporting refined petroleum products to Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Food is costly but very much available.

“The Federal Government owned inter state public transport has been made free of charge for the duration of the holidays. The new Minimum Wage is being paid to federal workers.

“And there have been no incidents of terrorism or insecurity outside the theatres of operation, which in itself is reducing in territory, even as both Nnamdi Kanu and Simon Ekpa, who have been behind much of the instability in the Southeast of Nigeria, are behind bars.

“We may not be where we want to be as a nation, but things are gradually getting better in Nigeria in many ways.

“As a Nigerian, you have enough reasons to smile this period,” he said.

Many Nigerians, who reacted to this writeup by Pastor Reno Omokri at a time 35 children in Ibadan, 10 adults and children in Abuja and 20 mostly women in Okrika, Anambra State were killed in various Christmas gifts distributions stampedes, described him as being insensitive to the plights of citizens, insulting the sensibility of suffering Nigerian people with his misrepresentation of the real situation on ground.

Abanikanda UK

Abanikanda Olumoro, a Nigerian in the Diaspora United Kingdom and public affairs analyst, took the post he described as annoying and hypocritically put together for stomach infrastructure reasons from word to word and dismissed not only the messenger but also the message as cheer “irresponsibility” and cautioned President Bola Tinubu against continued identification with such unpatriotic Nigerians.

In an exclusive message to The DEFENDER, Abanikanda said, “For Reno Omokri to say “for the first time, Nigeria is exporting refined petroleum products to Europe, the Middle East and Africa” is easy way to detect his weakness of knowledge and currency that truth based information should make of a real man.

“How suddenly any Tinubu promoter, who only recently had joined forces to kill Dangote Refinery by the conspiracies and official propaganda coming from government side and supporters of the president like Omokri, is now pretending to love the gains being recorded in the oil sector which is made possible only by the same Dangote but they are now trying hard to pick them up as achievements of their political master?

“No way! We know who has helped Nigeria thus far and that man is Alhaji Aliko Dangote GCON and hus major mentor and motivating government leaders that encouraged him was President Muhammadu Buhari (2015-2023).

“After all, these same Tinubu’s boot leakers, thinking they were working for the president, had once said there was no crude oil to be sold to Dangote because Buhari had mortgaged the nation’s crude for a loan of $1.5 billion, which was pure misinformation.

“And he went on to say “Food is costly but very much available” and Reno Omokri called this achievement of President Bola Tinubu. In fact I am short of word but to simply tell Tinubu he is slowing himself to be demarketted daily by this crop of people he surround himself with as president, whether directly or indirectly, officially or unofficially. They are all liars abd he should beware of them,” he cautioned Tinubu against Reno Omokri.

Uche Diala

A notable public affairs analyst, Dr. Uche Diala, in his writeup titled, “INCURABLE HYPOCRISY”, could not hide his disappointment by the acclaimed pastor he termed “Renocrite”.

“Did the Renocrite actually say that: “This is the first Yuletide season in the HISTORY OF NIGERIA where …. there are no fuel queues or petrol scarcity, …?” Dr. Diala kick-started his reaction.

He then put out his submissions saying, “Anyway, he (Reno Omokri ) was too busy tormenting himself (not Buhari) for the 8 years Buhari of APC was in power to know that after the first one or two years from 2015, not only did the traditional Christmas & Sallah fuel queues and scarcity dissappear, but also bomb blasts which became a tradition under the administration he was part of, also disappeared.

“His pain and hatred for Buhari at the sudden loss of his free feeding bottle in 2015 equally so blinded him not to notice or recognise any of the laudable steps and achievements recorded by Nigeria in the 8 years, inspite of the rot left by his party.

“He is too dishonest and dishonorable to acknowledge the foundations laid for some of the things he is hypocritically hailing today, including export of refined petroleum products, after decades, which is essentially happening because of the Dangote Refinery that itself happened between 2019 and 2023 because of Buhari and APC, and not by chance or accident.

“The Renocrite obviously believes that Nigeria stopped existing after he and his PDP lost election in 2015 only to resurface in 2023 when he thought the new sherrif in town might be better amenable to his sycophantic shenanigans.

“So much for patriotism. Only the gullible, ignorant and naive can be decieved.

“I appreciate every effort by PBAT and I sincerely thank God for His little mercies upon our dear fatherland but the hypocrisy, deliberate mischief and people deceit by some persons is nauseating.

“I’m sorry, but I couldn’t help but notice.

“May God bless every honest and sincere Nigerian,” concluded Uche Diala.