RENO OMOKRI: The Misfortunes of an Errand Boy

By Olayinka Williams

Reno Omokri’s obsession with the Osinbajo name is no longer news and quite frankly, I think he draws breath and finds a considerable level of solace in either tweeting or posting about the bearer.

Should he be blamed? He's a failed assistant to a past president, his reputation is grasping straws and his relevance to the republic and humanity at large is fast dwindling, if I was he, I'd take a jab at anyone and anything to stay on the radar too.

Life and its beautiful ironies, isn’t it quite a thing of astonishment that Reno Omokri sees himself sacrosanct enough, a worthy advocate to kick against the policies of the current administration and an unarguably active Vice President? Reno’s darts must’ve been invented an administration too late.

Reno Omokri, the man who has continued to unrepentantly monetize for personal use, the unfortunate Leah Sharibu incident; printing and selling shirts to all who genuinely care for the young lady, employing the #FreeLeahSharibu hashtag to trend his unrelated social media shenanigans?

Omokri who on finding out about the worthlessness of his own book on Amazon quickly put pen to paper leveraging on Leah’s predicament to write another piece currently selling for $16 on the same website? Visiting churches worldwide introducing himself as a pastor and selling them the books while speaking about a nonexistent war on Christianity in Nigeria?

The same Reno who wound up in a filthy scandal after exploiting his relationship as brother-in-law to a California-based woman, Deborah Campbell, and wrote a malicious article in her son’s name (Wendell Simlin) in an attempt to link the spike in Boko Haram attacks to the suspension of Mr. Sanusi as CBN Governor in 2014?

Reno’s silliness dates as far back as far could imply and I’d be damned to take a man obviously suffering from inexplicable heights of boredom and redundancy seriously. Clearly, his obsession with Osinbajo and the Office of the Vice President is his last claim to relevance.

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