Nigeria’s President, Goodluck Jonathan has sacked one of the key members of his media team. He has reportedly pulled the plug on Reno Omokri who famously served as his senior special assistant on new media..


This is said to be part of Jonathan to re-package his social media image after a growing slide in his online image reputation and scandals including controversies buzzed by Reno.

A source told Sahara Reporters about the development. The source says Reno had become a huge liability and source of distraction.

A few weeks ago, a California-based woman, Deborah Campbell, who was once married to a relative of Mr. Omokri’s, told SaharaReporters that the presidential aide had stolen her son’s identity to engage in the circulation of fraudulent news that smeared Mr. Sanusi, who is now the Emir of Kano. Mr. Reno never denied the woman’s allegations.


Last week, Mr. Omokri was accused of leading policemen to burglarize a house in Warri, Delta State that belonged to his late mother. The occupants of the house, including Alex Oyoro, a well known PDP political figure in Delta State, alleged that Mr. Omokri had led a group of thugs and mobile police officers who broke into the property and stole N25 million in cash. The money, according to Mr. Oyoro, was meant for Mr. Jonathan’s re-election campaign.

Mr. Omokri denied being physically present at the scene of the burglary, claiming he was at his desk in Abuja and also doing some pastoral work at the time of the reported burglary.

A source at the Presidency told SaharaReporters that, in an attempt to present a more humane outlook as his electoral fortunes slip and his popularity plummets at home and abroad, Mr. Jonathan decided to push Mr. Omokri aside. Mr. Obi Asika, who has been elevated to serve as the new presidential strategist on social media, was described as one of the co-organizers of “Social Media Week” in Lagos. “Obi Asika is a serious personality who is also refined and self-controlled,” a source at the Presidency said.

Apart from his dubious activities and cantankerous personality, Mr. Omokri has committed a series of blunders in recent months that cast Mr. Jonathan’s campaign in bad light[/b]. He organized two online polls that eventually showed that President Jonathan would lose the 2015 elections to the opposition APC presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, by a wide margin. Several sources at the Presidency said Mr. Omokri’s cup became full after he engineered a poll on Twitter where informal posts showed that Mr. Jonathan’s electoral prospects had become wretched. “That ill-advised Twitter poll backfired and caused embarrassment to Mr. President,” said a source close to the Jonathan campaign.

In a short email obtained by SaharaReporters earlier today, presidential spokesman Reuben Abati confirmed Mr. Asika’s appointment to take charge of the president’s social media coverage. A source in the Presidency disclosed that Mr. Omokri was now in a subordinate position to Mr. Asika in the hierarchy of aides working on the president’s social media image.

“If Reno decides to remain here, he will have to be reporting to Obi Asika,” a source at the Presidency revealed.


https://www.36ng.ng/2015/02/17/goodluck-jonathan-president-sacks-reno-omokri-appoints-asika-as-head-of-social-media-team/

Reno have been useless from day one.

Omokri is not located in Nigeria and may have lost touch with the reality on ground. While he is physically hold up abroad, his mind is in Nigeria and cannot secure a decent job abroad.

So, his IP address is focused on Nigeria and how he can get a job with a possible winner of the next election.

Instead of playing a mature game, his lower nature has become a predominant trait, just like FFK, these are men of past Glories who are now surviving on Indomie and hoping for the wheels of fortune to swing their way.

But they are actually the spanners in their wheel of fortune.

I am ashamed of them, you too should. Because they are shameless by nature.

Vote the most Intelligent man in 2023. Do not vote your conscience, cos conscience can be corrupted.

Km

Reno is a dullard that nobody wants to work with

Reno is an IDIOT and nothing but IDIOT.
We will definitely fish him out from his dungeon

Atiku Abubakar and the PDP has released their Presidential Campaign Council comprised of over 320 names. And out of this number, they didnt even consider Reno Omokri worthy of being found in it.
That guy has lost all forms of respect and reverence from even the people he is supposed to be campaigning for.

Reno has lost touch with reality. His mind is now being controlled by his greed.

PresidObi:
Reno has lost touch with reality. His mind is now being controlled by his greed.

No, rather his mind is being controlled by his true dark and bitter heart