Former presidential New Media aide, Reno Omokri has dismissed claims that he is being unleashed on the former presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, by the current government.
Speaking to Tribune, he said the Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led administration does not view Peter Obi as its main opposition.
According to Omokri, the present administration see core northern politicians who are against Tinubu as its main opposition.
He urged Tinubu to be more concerned with what people from the North-West and other part of the North are saying about his administration.
Omorki stated that the entire voting population of the South-East is probably not up to that of Kano State, stressing that the president is a very brilliant electioneering strategist.
He said: “That is absolutely untrue. This present government does not view Peter Obi as its main opposition. So, why will they unleash me on him? They view their main opposition, rightly or wrongly, as core northern politicians who are against the president.
“If you look at the 2023 election result, Tinubu got more votes from the North-West than from his own region in the South-West. If I were him, I would be more concerned with what people from the North-West and other part of the North are saying.
“The entire voting population of the South-East is probably not up to that of Kano State and the president is a very brilliant electioneering strategist. So, there is no point in unleashing someone like myself, with the capacity I have, on Peter Obi.”
Speaking further, the social media influencer gave reasons why he is backing the Tinubu administration.
He said: “Two years ago, I went to Nigeria and I said that any government that has Mallam Nuhu Ribadu in it, I cannot fight that government. This is because I value my relationship with Ribadu more than the relationship I have with anybody other than my father, mother and immediate siblings. This man has been close to me and has trusted me and I won’t fight any government that he is in.
“I also said, while we were campaigning, because I was part of the people that helped Waziri Atiku to put together his manifesto. I said we were going to do four major things; we will remove fuel subsidy; float the Naira; restructure the country for the local government to have autonomy and give students loans. Now, what we planned to do, Tinubu is now doing. My disappointment with Waziri is that, on some of the things we said we were going to do, which Asiwaju is already doing, he now said to me that Tinubu should not have removed it the way he did. But I said there is no way to do it because Nigeria could not afford this thing because we were borrowing to sustain it and it was affecting our economy. And what were Nigerians using the subsidized Naira to do? $200m importing human hair. $75m importing French champagne. 25m pounds sterling importing Scotch whiskey. We were not using the money to transfer technology, maybe like buying books, getting heavy equipment and all that.
“I was a bit disappointed when Atiku was taking back what we had agreed we were going to do. When I saw that, I said I was going to support Tinubu. Yes, there was pressure on me by prominent Itsekiris, but it was not because of that. If it can be put down to one person, it is not an Itsekiri person that has done a lot for me other than my parents. You might not know this – I became a Special Assistant to president (Jonathan) because of Nuhu Ribadu.”