What the hell did he mean by saying his a private individual

pheesayor: Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on New Media, Mr Reno Omokri has said that the leader of the Niger Delta Volunteer Peoples Force, Alhaji Asari Dokubo cannot be tried for treason because he is a private individual.

The Presidential aide said this in response to a question posed to him by a concerned Nigerian on twitter Thursday night.

The concerned Nigeria, Abdullahi Aborode who is based in the United Kindgom had asked Mr Omokri why he has been silent about the statement credited to the Niger Delta ex-militant leader, adding whether he doesn’t think Asari Dokubo”s statement amounts to treason and should be taken seriously, but the response that came from the President’s Special Adviser on New Media confirms the suspicions that Asari Dokubo dared make inflammatory statements because he knows he is protected.

“Sir @renoomokri I remembered you berated General Buhari for the ‘bloodshed’ comment, you’ve been silent about Asari Dokubo’s statement…why?”, Aborode asked Reno.

He continued: “Don’t you @renoomokri think that Asari Dokubo’s statement amounts to treason and should be taken seriously?”

Responding however, Reno Omokri simply said “He is a private individual. I have no business with him.”

His statement drew criticism from other twitter users who joined the conversation. They lampooned him for making such a comment, adding that if Asari Dokubo is a private individual, then Boko Haram, unknown gunmen, Ansaru and a countless number of others they mentioned should also be considered as private individuals and treated as such.

Further attempt by Aborode and others to engage Mr Omokri proved abortive as he simply refused to answer to further questions or comments.

See the tweest below:

Private Individual keh? but so anybody can talk any how and you ll call him private individual. Ah! God of Mercy.
Dis no be matter for joke oooh!

Dokubo is my man.
Let every Nigerian try to be like him. It will help us a great deal. He is a man of courage.

gboss4sure: Doesn't the IG and Tambuwal know where dokubo is? They should go and arrest him na if they can afford it. Provoking another militancy in Nigeria is something Nigeria is not capable of handling @ de moment. We are yet to solve the boko haram menance. Boko haram insurgency is a childs play to naija delta militancy at least we were in Nigeria when there was militancy in Nigeria and we saw how it affected this nation.

which part of 9ja ar u? Aw i wish u ar in damaturu or borno den u wil get to know boko is damn ril dan jackbaur. Nigerdelta militant were afta revenge nd money,it wil only afect 9ja economy bt boko ar afta blood,broda i mean 'red blood' nd dat one wil nt afect economy bt tear up 9ja itself. Nigerdelta was far a childplay. Nt afta money or wealth bt afta killin,kilin people 4 a non.negotiable reason(barbaric,insane nd jst inhuman),by d tym they earn d chance of air strike as claimed by JTF mayb by den u wil know 'its nt child play' na blood game.Wat can b worse dan dat?

Did he even think before replying. This country politics don tire me. All involved parties should hold their national convention so that apc can be finally born officially and give us a strong alternative to look at.

blink182: Did he even think before replying. This country politics don tire me. All involved parties should hold their national convention so that apc can be finally born officially and give us a strong alternative to look at.

ABEG STOP THAT YAWN

gboss4sure: Doesn't the IG and Tambuwal know where dokubo is? They should go and arrest him na if they can afford it. Provoking another militancy in Nigeria is something Nigeria is not capable of handling @ de moment. We are yet to solve the boko haram menance. Boko haram insurgency is a childs play to naija delta militancy at least we were in Nigeria when there was militancy in Nigeria and we saw how it affected this nation.

This beaf of a guy is just an excuse it for a human being

Arresting Asari as advocated by Tambuwal and Gov Aliyu is a good suggestion to kick start the forgotten Niger Delta struggle.GEJ presidency is never the answer to RESOURCE CONTROL and the NIGER DELTA QUESTION.By 2015 or 2019 when GEJ won't be there then TAMBUWAL and co will realise what they are asking for is disaster for the North. Asari is well and around FCT waiting for the arrest.Hausa/Fulani will regret for ever starting this boko haram against GEJ presidency.Arrest him fast!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So the same Northerners who started Boko to distabilise the presidency of a Southerner are now making noise about Dokubo.
So Boko who are bombing churches, army, police and waging war against the country are not commiting treason?

Do people not see that Nigeria only now exists in the pockets of looters?

Of course the SW will do as if nothing happened.

Apart from Gowon regime (in what he thought was an act of patriotism) I can see why Awo largely refused a deal with the North.

But today's politicians from every zone are too busy looting to have any principles. Shame.

blink182: Did he even think before replying. This country politics don tire me. All involved parties should hold their national convention so that apc can be finally born officially and give us a strong alternative to look at.

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To rule a balkanised country? Oh well they can always rule Oodua Republic.

Instead of people to sit down and decide if we want this very abuse
ive, violent and bad marriage or a very sensible divorce, people are just going on like everything is ok. MEND, MASSOB, Anasru/Boko Haram, Ombatse etc, would not be possible in a country that exists on concensus instead of "by fire, by force".

Beaf is talking shyt again

Nuzo':
The idea of using religion, ethnicity and violence to intimidate and blackmail people into riding into or abdicating power is becoming soo tiring and boring. The hypocrisy behind it is even sickening!

Tho' in the constitution in the form of quota system and federal character, this trend was established when certain public figure asked muslims to vote their fellows while Christians do same.

Unfortunately, politics of sectionalism, religion and tribalism has come to stay.

Hmmm. Okay.

Inik:
True and the stats quo will be on ground for a long time. Until we have a sovereign national conference where we discuss the terms of our nationhood, our politics will always be decided on religious and tribal lines. Asari dokuboh is saying exactly the same thing some prominent northerners said in 2011.

Hmmm. Okay.

Once again this is a good day. Self expression, freedom of speech, strengthening of regions, erosion of the centre, tribal supremacy, strong alternative political characters. C'mon guys is this not what we all want. Now we all berate Asari and pretend to love Nigeria because it is the other man threathening. Don't we all comit treason day in day out.

What is treason by the way? A search for a better way of life for my and your people against the interests of the minority in power? Who is in power or who is powerful. Who is not hypocritical in these matters, who hasn't received amnesty for his acts in the course of righting the wrongs of this country.

Do you perceive we are moving forward, getting better or worse. Abeg leave Asari alone. He is just an expression of what you secretly wish you were.

private or not, it will become story one day.

We should know dokunbo can't be touched cos he is one of the annoited spokesman of oga at the top But very soon God would wipe all the people that has been troubling Nigeria.

guilebret: We should know dokunbo can't be touched cos he is one of the annoited spokesman of oga at the top But very soon God would wipe all the people that has been troubling Nigeria.

DO YOU KNOW THAT DOKUBO WAS A CARD CARRYING ACN MEMBER?

Reno is being a plain hypocrite. If it were to be Buhari, he'll raise a news conference about the dog and baboon, which was simply a proverbial statement

PapaBrowne: If every private citizen that says something against Nigeria is tried for treason, we would not have enough lawyers to try the cases.
The starting point for such treasonable comments should be Nairaland and half the population here would go to jail.

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ochukoccna: Something even the staunchest defenders of Asari fail to ask is IN WHAT WAY HAS OIL BENEFITED & IMPACTED ON THE LIFE OF THE AVERAGE NIGERIAN CITIZEN IN THE LAST 30 years
Hasn't most of this oil wealth been looted and frittered away?


No need to take on Reno& waste valuable internet bandwidth,he's always been a gaseous psycohant


Stop been clever by half
The idiocy of Adam covering his unclothedness in Eden's garden was as clear as daylight
Sad thing is,he never saw it


May heaven bless your hustle
Even the blind know Nigeria is overdue for an SNC
Only that in Nigeria,the blind see clearer than our selffish political class

If not for your last comment on SNC,i would have asked you if you were on some ganja to pose that question to Asari!..

Solowande: to be sincere, i didn't see any wrong doing in his(mr Reno) comment.

Thanks for your post. I am not Reno's fan, don't like him, but I didn't see anything he said that the opposition propagandists are using for cheap blackmail here.

If every private individual is to be arrested for treason, Bakare, Buhari, Kaita, Ciroma, Atiku, Gunmi, El-rufai, Lai Muhammed, Fashakin and many more would be in jail now.

By the way, he didn't in that tweet say Dokubo "cannot" be tried for treason. He just used that to "politically" refuse to engage in the discuss about Dokubo.

ochukoccna: Something even the staunchest defenders of Asari fail to ask is IN WHAT WAY HAS OIL BENEFITED & IMPACTED ON THE LIFE OF THE AVERAGE NIGERIAN CITIZEN IN THE LAST 30 years
Hasn't most of this oil wealth been looted and frittered away?


No need to take on Reno& waste valuable internet bandwidth,he's always been a gaseous psycohant


Stop been clever by half
The idiocy of Adam covering his unclothedness in Eden's garden was as clear as daylight
Sad thing is,he never saw it


May heaven bless your hustle
Even the blind know Nigeria is overdue for an SNC
Only that in Nigeria,the blind see clearer than our selffish political class

In fact, the oil has been stolen since God knows when by the likes of Abacha, helped by your god, Buhari, and other Northern "oligarchs" that has plundered this nation for decades counting.
So, quit spewing trash here when you still support the thieves that you are talking about.

Shyte-brained Reno

MacLovington: So the same Northerners who started Boko to distabilise the presidency of a Southerner are now making noise about Dokubo.
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Boko Haram existed long before GEJ became President. Always chk your facts

pheesayor: Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on New Media, Mr Reno Omokri has said that the leader of the Niger Delta Volunteer Peoples Force, Alhaji Asari Dokubo cannot be tried for treason because he is a private individual.

The Presidential aide said this in response to a question posed to him by a concerned Nigerian on twitter Thursday night.

The concerned Nigeria, Abdullahi Aborode who is based in the United Kindgom had asked Mr Omokri why he has been silent about the statement credited to the Niger Delta ex-militant leader, adding whether he doesn’t think Asari Dokubo”s statement amounts to treason and should be taken seriously, but the response that came from the President’s Special Adviser on New Media confirms the suspicions that Asari Dokubo dared make inflammatory statements because he knows he is protected.

“Sir @renoomokri I remembered you berated General Buhari for the ‘bloodshed’ comment, you’ve been silent about Asari Dokubo’s statement…why?”, Aborode asked Reno.

He continued: “Don’t you @renoomokri think that Asari Dokubo’s statement amounts to treason and should be taken seriously?”

Responding however, Reno Omokri simply said “He is a private individual. I have no business with him.”

His statement drew criticism from other twitter users who joined the conversation. They lampooned him for making such a comment, adding that if Asari Dokubo is a private individual, then Boko Haram, unknown gunmen, Ansaru and a countless number of others they mentioned should also be considered as private individuals and treated as such.

Further attempt by Aborode and others to engage Mr Omokri proved abortive as he simply refused to answer to further questions or comments.

See the tweest below:

.Gud ans.Asari am behind u jor.

Reno Omokri is clueless.

TechyGuy:

In fact, the oil has been stolen since God knows when by the likes of Abacha, helped by your god, Buhari, and other Northern "oligarchs" that has plundered this nation for decades counting.
So, quit spewing trash here when you still support the thieves that you are talking about.

I totally agree with you. While I am not a fan Dokubo, the question I will like to ask is, are they aware that 99% of the oil wells in the Niger Delta are owned by the Northerners?

It is high time the Northern elements realize that this country is not their private estate.

Wrong answer Mr Reno! You should have said Asari is still in your Oga's good book or enjoys immunity!

And I though Mr Reno Omokri was smart with his over cooked english!

Guk:

Boko Haram existed long before GEJ became President. Always chk your facts

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Is Obasanjo a Northerner or from Niger Republic? Or SW is not Southern Nigeria any more? Last time I checked SW was part of Southern Protectorate before 1914. You learn your history first.

Tissa don't tiss me nonesense

He is a private individual cos he is a boy to d president baaaa! Why? We all arf nigerians no body should b individual than other. B careful on how u handle things mr president's aids

ochukoccna:
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May heaven bless your hustle
Even the blind know Nigeria is overdue for an SNC
Only that in Nigeria,the blind see clearer than our selffish political class

Just asking, how would SNC solve the problems of Nigeria? is it going to be opened to anyone to attend, or ppl would be selected/voted to go there.

i ask because I've always heard of SNC, but no one has explain the modalities, and how it would be different from out reps and senators.

Thanks