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nyiamfrank:
This can only happen in the south. If you ask me, it's either Reno has been bought over or his account has been hacked.

He writes junk these days!

He has always been a hack, and I'd registered my displeasure in the past about Rhino O'Mockery using Igbo as cannon fodder in his unsolicited and worthless diatribes directed at the Buhari administration. I wondered why he did not use his own Itshekiri people for that purpose and was even more perplexed that the Itshekiri hack was comfortable making declarations on behalf of the Igbo. Our silence has emboldened Omokirikiri and exacerbated his propagation of ignorance. Below is another response to the halfwit:


RENO OMOKRI; THE ACCIDENTAL MEDIA AIDE – By Charles Ogbu

I have always maintained that apart from conspiracy from both local and foreign scene against president Goodluck Jonathan, another major reason the Otueke-born Zoologist lost his 2015 presidential re-election bid was not unconnected with the fact that he had one of the most criminally inept and fantastically clueless media aides who were more endowed in tongue than they were in that area meant to house the grey matter known as the brain.

Reno Omokri’s recent tirade against Ndigbo confirms this.

An Igbo man and the leader of the Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu, reportedly granted an interview in 2014 where he said that Jonathan was weak and incompetent as president and the best way Reno Omokri who was GEJ’s social media advisor could think to couter the assertion in 2017 was to start hauling invectives at the entire Igbos and listing individual appointments Jonathan gave to them.

In 21st century 2017, a supposed intellectual is listing individual appointments as achievements and even trying to use same to counter the argument that his ex boss was incompetent while in office.

He couldn’t mention one monument erected by his boss. He couldn’t mention road network or any health or academic centre built for Ndigbo by his boss. All he could point to was individual appointments.

This is a walking shame!

Quite frankly, I should simply pause here and die laughing…. Laughing at a mentally truncated media aide who doesn’t know that the best way to counter allegation of incompetence against his boss is by listing infrastructural facilities and other solid achievements built by this boss of his, not by naming individuals who were appointed into govt positions by him.

With this kind of mental miscarriage from Reno Omokri, do we still wonder why the APC propaganda machinery effortlessly swallowed Jonathan’s media team and successfully painted him as a president who did nothing all through the 5 years he was in office?

If Mr Omokri cannot marshall out facts and figures to counter a mere allegation of weakness and incompetence levelled against his boss by an individual, how could anyone expect him to have any reasonable response to the web of earthquakic lies and brain-resetting propaganda mounted against Jonathan by the very powerful APC lying machine??

Poor Jonathan! He thought he had a media aide in Reno. How wrong he was!

The tragedy of Reno’s situation is that he does not even realise that his failure to list Jonathan’s achievements leaves observers with the conclusion that indeed, Jonathan did nothing for Ndigbo.

In this case, who really insulted Jonathan? Is it a private citizen who said his ex president was weak and incompetent, the same thing that has been said by Asari Dokubo, Edwin Clark etc or a former media aide to this president who resorted to hauling invectives at everyone rather than listing the achievements of this president to counter this assertion

In an article titled, “THE LESSON NDIGBO TAUGHT JONATHAN AND FUTURE LEADERS”, Omokri stated that Igbos lost the 1967-70 Biafra because they knew nothing about diplomacy which left them without much friends to help them during those trying time. According to him, the fact that no Igbo leader has come out to attack Kanu over the said interview suggests that Kanu’s position represents the views of the entire Ndigbo about Jonathan. This, he says, means that the Igbos are ungrateful bunch. In that same article, Mr Omokri categorically stated that Jonathan was the first president to give Igbos the position of Chief of army staff and Secretary to the govt of the federation and as such, Ndigbo should be eternally grateful to him.

As a full blooded Igbo man, I find this criminally offensive. This is a double barreled insult to Ndigbo because 1, what was said is a grave misrepresentation of fact. And 2, because Mr Omokri is the least qualified person to say those things, having himself been implicated in a case of identity theft in Feb. 2014 when he allegedly stole the identity of the son to the wife of his brother-in-law, one U.S based Wendell Simlin, to write an article linking the spike in boko haram bombing to the suspension of the then CBN governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi. (A quick Google search will give you the detail)

What moral right does a spineless faceless suspected identity thief have to talk to Ndigbo? If he was man enough, why did he resort to hiding behind a fake identity just to make a mere accusation?

Let’s treat the no1:

Igbos owe Jonathan nothing! Absolutely nothing. It is Jonathan who owe Ndigbo everything. We made him!

When the bunch of political terrorists known as the Cabal, prevented the gentleman Jonathan from taking over from the good man, Yar’Adua of the blessed memory, it was an Igbo woman, the late Dora Akunyili, who publicly confronted the Cabal and told all Nigerians that Yar’Adua was incapacitated. Her revelation gave birth to the doctrine of necessity which brought Jonathan to power. Without Akunyili, Yaradua would probably still be running the country by now even from the grave while Jonathan would be sitting quietly the exact way Mr Buhari is currently running Nigeria from the land of the WhiteWalkers with Osinbajo sitting quietly like an Arsenal fan when his club is facing a 5-0 defeat in the hands of ManU.

We gave Jonathan everything we had in 2011. We even died for him in the North in large numbers. Our support for him was 100%. Even when Jonathan bashing became the order of the day sometime last year, Ndigbo rose to the occasion and defended him even against some of his own people.

In 11th August 2016, I Charles Ogbu, wrote a fact-studded piece titled “IN DEFENCE OF PRESIDENT JONATHAN” published in the Guardian Newspaper which attracted a rejoinder from the presidency titled “IN DEFENCE OF PRESIDENT BUHARI, IS THIS THE CHANGE WE VOTED FOR? YES, IT IS” written by president Buhari’s senior media aide, Garba Shehu to which I again responded with “IN DEFENCE OF THE MASSES, THIS IS CERTAINLY NOT THE CHANGE WE VOTED FOR”.

When I was doing this verbal gymnastics with the highest office in the land over a Jonathan whom I have never met, where was Reno Omokri then? He was hiding somewhere in the U.S, too afraid to write anything in Jonathan’s defence. Now that the monumental disaster, Buhari, has been declared incapacitated, Reno is running his mouth. How convenient!

Our support for Jonathan was driven by a sense of justice, fairness and equity coupled with the fact that his opponent has always been a hopeless murderous ethnic jingoist with generational hatred for Ndigbo.

Why should we now sit back and allow an integrity-challenged Reno Omokri a.k.a Wendell Simlin disparage us for no just cause??

Why did Omokri not denigrate the entire Fulanis when El-rufai and numberless Fulanis made sport of demonizing Jonathan at every turn?

Asari Dokubo, Edwin Clark, Seriake Dickson have all described Jonathan as weak, yet, Omokri neither attacked those people nor their ethnic groups. Why?

Why does he now think he can attack the whole Igbo race simply because one Igbo man purpotedly chose to criticise his ex president?

Saying that a former president was weak and incompetent, is that an insult?

Frankly, I don’t get this! Is Reno such a bad user of the Queen’s language that he no longer understand that “weak” and “incompetence” are but mere adjectives naming an attribute of a noun?

So far, Goodluck Jonathan remains the best president Nigeria ever had. His worst remains better than the best of Buhari. Is this even debatable? He was and still is, a perfect gentleman. Matter of fact, I belong to the school of thought which believes that Nigeria was and still is, too primitive for people like Jonathan to preside over.

But was he weak as president??

Keep sentiment at home let’s find out the answer.

Several months before 2015 election, Jonathan was presented with credible evidence of the treacherous ways of Attahiru Jega, the man he appointed INEC boss but he did nothing! He chose to allow JEGA continue as INEC boss because he felt he (GEJ) couldn’t withstand the pressure JEGA’s sack would bring him.

That was weakness! Jonathan’s failure to sack Jega was the height of weakness on his part.

ChibokGirlsSaga remains unresolved till today mainly because Jonathan bowed to foreign pressure and admitted it happened even after his govt had earlier dismissed it as a scam. If GEJ hadn’t bowed to pressure, he would have simply arrested that woman Principal of
Chibok school and within hours of questioning, she would have spilled the beans.

GEJ showed weakness by allowing many people including Buhari to undermine his govt.

Are we really gonna waste our time arguing this obvious fact?

Now, let’s visit the dictionary:

The term “Weak” is an adjective and it means “liable to break or yield under pressure” among other meanings.

So I ask again, was Jonathan weak as president? In the Nigerian context, the answer is YES! Refer to the above instances I just listed out.

What then is the problem here?

Even if we lie to ourselves, how can we descend to the level of believing our own lies as the gospel truth?

My father, the late Emmanuel Nwodo Ogbu Nwachima, once allowed my uncle to take possession of our piece of land on the ground that he didn’t want to make trouble with his brother. To me, that was him being a peaceful man but it also portrayed him as weak.

I remember my father as a good man but each time I see my uncle’s children on that land, I think my dad weak. Context is of utmost importance here.

May I remind Reno Omokri that before Jonathan, two Igbo sons, Alex Ekwueme and Ebitu Ukiwe have held the position of both civilian and military vice presidents respectively. Allison Madueke has equally held a very high position in the military. So why should we be grateful for getting individual appointments of army chief and SGF even after paying with our blood in the North and are still being victimized by the present govt over our support for Jonathan?

Reno Omokri and co need to realise that those who live in glass houses should be wise enough not to start throwing stones around.

As far as Jonathan is concerned, what Ndigbo deserve from Reno and Co is gratitude, not attitude.

Omokri was spewing rubbish per usual. He seems to be bursting at the seams with Igbo hatred, and try as he may to disguise it, it keeps seeping out of his pores. Nothing the Itshekiri slowpoke said can be supported with any historical evidence. Thankfully, someone was kind enough to debunk his fallacies with a brief but factual rejoinder:

Nọnso Uche Nnajide wrote...

IGBO SLAVES AMONG THE ITSEKIRI?

So yesterday, an Itsekiri fellow on Facebook made the interesting claim that his people had many (emphasis on 'many') Igbo slaves. He went further to say that some of the descendants of these Igbo slaves still live in Delta State, and speak a hybrid language which he refused to mention. In the interest of intellectual discourse he probably should have mentioned it, and given interested parties the opportunity to verify or debunk the claims.

As far as the ethnic backgrounds of slaves in Itsekiri land is concerned, this is what the historian P. C. Lloyd wrote in his paper, "The Itsekiri in the Nineteenth Century: An Outline Social History":

Lloyd wrote: "A further change in Itsekiri social structure during the century was the development of domestic slavery. At the turn of the century the king held a large number of slaves, but the number owned by the chiefs is not known. The kingdom must have exported at least a thousand slaves annually. But with the decline of the slave trade, the supply did not cease, and slaves were integrated into the Itsekiri economy. Thus of Jakpa's 5000 people, Burton estimated that 600 - 700 were slaves of Diare. Olomu's slaves were variously numbered at 1000, 3000 and 4000.

"The slaves were never Itsekiri, rarely Ijoh. Most were Urhobo, often being men and women expelled from their communities for serious offences and sold in the riverside markets. Some were given to the Itsekiri as pledges for debts. The Itsekiri usually equate the price of a slave with a puncheon of oil. They assert that they never went to a war to capture slaves, though a favourite method of settling a debt or a quarrel was to seize a man's slaves. Other slaves came through the trade routes from Benin and Yoruba country where they had been captured in inter-tribal wars. Nana's most senior slaves were Ologun, a Yoruba, and Sagay, a Benin."

*Sagay is very clearly a corruption of the Bini name Osagie.

So there you have it. Itsekiri's slaves came primarily from the Urhobo; secondarily from the Yoruba and the Bini; and sometimes (though rarely) from the Ijọ. These are the people in the same geographical area as the Itsekiri and the people with whom they were involved in regular interactions. But our Itsekiri friend went over the heads of his neighbours to look for slaves among the Igbos located farther away.

I was going to just laugh at the story and go on with my business, but I realized there are Igbo people who may not be informed enough to see that this man lied through his teeth, hence my decision to talk about it here.

For foolish ones among us following #RenoOmokri

gevans:
What can he do?
Obviously nothing

Lol

Rodgers get mind leave Snr man for bench. Leicester looks toothless.

Terrible! Thank goodness he managed to escape from that budding rapist.

kenzysmith:
oga did u watch the match it wasn't air y come here to produce this can lie this morning?

Lol bros u really made me laugh

I don't know if it aired in Nigeria, but I'm not in Nigeria and I watched it on bein sports.

Do you want me to narrate the entire game to you?

For most of the match it looked like it was heading towards a draw with Enyimba crashing out of the competition. Enyimba had the bulk of possession but couldn't do anything with it, just couldn't link up with the strikers.

Somehow, they came alive at the very end of the match, desperation kicked in and more opportunities were created. But, when Anayo failed to score with a header(one of the best chances they had), with a couple of minutes to go, I pretty much gave up. In fact, they even tortured me more with a goal that was called back for offsides.

When all hope was almost lost, the much needed goal came, catapulting us from last place to first place!. Chei, e sweet me wella! The commentator on bein sports was hating on Enyimba right from the beginning of the game, so I know he was in pain just as much as I was elated.

Enyimba well done!

Enyimba!!!

Jimmyubah2:
Didn't you read the line where he said fulani captain Musa?

I actually missed that. Indeed, that is a violation.

addexx:
You would have made sense but you spoilt everything with tribalism and bigotry. Immature.

Igbo Amaka is not tribalism, as long as you do not put down or malign any other tribe. It's a celebration of excellence.

Now, if e pain you, that might be tribalism.

I've been conflicted about the situation in Aba for a while now. All I saw online was that nothing has changed, but whenever I called home, they kept telling me that things were changing in Enyimba city. They got sick of my nagging and challenged me to come home and see things for myself. Maybe I fell for a well-orchestrated media propaganda by people who felt Okezie should at the snap of a finger fix all the accumulated rot from 16-years of neglect by the Orji brothers. Whatever the case may be, I'm glad Okezie is doing the job we sent him there to do.

kettykin:
I have my genuine reasons bro. If you know your history very well ,you will realise that the 1966 crisis in the western region which had nothing to do with igbos and for which military officers led by igbos intervened was what brought us to this sorry state in Nigeria.

Awolowo was being pummelled by northerners and was in jail while a state of emergency was declared in the western region, only for over patriotic igbo soldiers to do coup and for the same Awolowo to backtrack and join northerners to pummel igbos even suggesting hunger and starvation to finish igbos.

I strongly believe Nigeria is back to 1966. The igbo nation needs utmost caution and tact. Nigeria is a very evil entity.

I really dread our neighbors more than our enemies.

You've spoken well brother.

OreMI22:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PE3I4hdvtk

To prove they have no hand in these shootings, let Nigerian Federal government invite the FBI to investigate these attacks. They will fish out the culprits within a few days. But they won't because they know who is behind these attacks on policemen and the agenda they are pursuing against the southeast.

Just the highly coordinated and tactical movements of these men easily give them away as the highly trained Nigerian army special forces disguised in civilian clothes. If you listen to the commentary, you will hear the commentator saying they killed the innocent guy in the pathfinder vehicle and also shot a lot of people inside the Eastern Mass transit commercial vehicle. No Igbo person will have such disregard for lives of Igbo fellow civilians suffering the same oppression in Nigeria. We know the people in Nigeria that love killing Igbos for sports. But all their governors rise to protect their herdsmen killing other people even if you hurt one cow.

It is obvious even to the blind that the clamor for Fulani herdsmen to leave their illegal forest camps has been received by the Fulani Nigerian army as an "attack" against their hidden agenda to exterminate local people and take over their lands.

Their current agenda is to create some excuse to allow use Nigerian military forces to kill innocent civilians particularly in the southeast. They should continue their Fulani agenda at all costs, which will ultimately lead Nigeria to an uncontrollable bloodbath.

That is my suspicion too. They're trying to establish a pretext to justify their invasion of the SE.

Typical afonja, always hiding behind the north to propagate their hatred, yet the north still turns around and descends on them. Who made Okupe the spokesman for the north?

The handwork of fulani terrorists.

Blood pinning...it's tradition in the US Army. The little girl was trained up to do this, she's not just wildly swinging at her Dad.

Lol this is nonsense.

DSS1335:
Reading through this powerful words here stirs within me the willingness to build a strong relationship with the holy spirit. Thanks for this exhortation, I am now ready to offer myself as a living sacrifice. May God help me
Please you all should pray for me to remain steadfast with the holy spirit. I am very fortunate to have stumbled on this thread

The Lord is your strength. I will pray for you.

Anas09:
Father, in the name of Jesus. I pray for everyone under the yoke of sin to he delivered.

Your word in Isaiah 42:22 says But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
Father, I stand upon the power and the authority that's in name of Jesus and I decree the deliverance of as many under he yoke of sexual sin.
Every demon of perversion holding people down, I charge the fire of the Holy Ghost against you, and I demand the release of every soul under captivity.

Any prey taken by satan, I demand their release and restoration now in the name of Jesus.

Every prison keeping anyone by force be broken and release those in captivity, In Jesus name. Amen.

Amen!!

Tafawa Balewa - Gera
Gowon - Angas
Babangida-Gwari(Gbagyi)...some may argue he's Hausa.
Abdulsami Abubabakar-same as Babangida
Abacha-Kanuri
Jonathan-Ogbia
If we decide to separate Fulani from Hausa, then add Murtala Mohammed, Shagari, Buhari and Yar'Adua.

Lol minorities actually ruined Nigeria.

Only difference between Ijaw and Fulani is that one came from the desert and the other emerged from the creeks, but they're both after your land.