Knowing How To Win Friends Is Better Than Knowing How To Fight Enemies

I find it very difficult to understand Nnamdi Kanu’s followers. Many of them have heard the things Mr. Kanu has said about Yorubas, and ethnic minorities in the South. Yet, they get upset and hurl insults and invectives at anyone who points out that those are very imprudent things to say to people who would have otherwise been sympathetic to their cause.

Instead of introspection, they would rather insult and attack and show no form of understanding where other people come from, or remorse over those unfortunate choices of words.

Think of the sheer amount of time, money and political capital I have put towards showing solidarity with the Southeast and fighting against their marginalisation. It means nothing to these people.

If a Yoruba, or other Southern ethnic minority wakes up to say the type of things Nnamdi Kanu has said about Yorubas and Southern ethnic minorities about Igbos, would they like it?

Google all my previous works saluting the industry, courage and inventiveness of the Igbo. I have written more in praise of the people of the Southeast than of my own people. Why did I do this? Because I felt for them. I felt their pains. I empathised with them over the fact that they have given so much to Nigeria and yet get so little back.

There is no Igbo person heading any of the three arms of government, neither is there a single Igbo in the National Security Council. This is against the Federal Character Principle.

Even when Nnamdi Kanu was re-arrested, I went out of my way to investigate the circumstances of his arrest and exposed the truth, much to the annoyance of the Buhari administration.

There are people who actually believe that Onyeka Onwenu is my biological mother, the way I have been dedicated to supporting the cause of the Southeast.

But I ask Nnamdi Kanu’s followers what they would do if, for example, Sunday Igboho, should say such things about Igbos, as Nnamdi Kanu has said about others. Would they like it? Would they still support Igboho?

Why not apply wisdom. First of verify that these things were said. They are on video and you can actually see Nnamdi Kanu saying them.

What kind of child would support a neighbour that says his parents are unprintable names that I cannot even write here?

And then you add insult to injury. Having watched those tapes and listened to those audios, and feeling astounded that anyone could speak such vile things about your people, his followers, who would never, ever, accept if such things were said about them, come out to add further insults.

How can you win friends like that? You deliberately alienate people and you expect them to support you?

Even the Buhari, whose nepotism and tribalism we are jointly against will not be that callous. He is busy winning friends. He is adding, rather than subtracting. He has invaded Igboland with a charm offensive to poach Igbo governors, Senators, Representatives and other leaders.

Meanwhile, you are there alienating left, right and centre. You cannot be advised. You already know how it can be done. Anybody who expresses shock at the things you leaders says is a “betrayer”, “sabo”, or has “collected money from Buhari”.

Obviously, the nepotistic Buhari understands both politics and war better than you!

My counsel to these people is that they should get a fly and insult it from morning to night and see if it dies. If their insults cannot kill a fly, then how do they think it can kill a man who was one of the most insulted men on Earth between 2011 and 2015, when I was a spokesman to President Jonathan and had to endure daily insults from supporters of General Muhammadu Buhari and Bola Tinubu?

Reno Omokri

Gospeller. Deep Thinker. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Avid traveller. Hollywood Magazine Film Festival Humanitarian of the Year, 2019.

Buzz off, Hypocrite. Episodical Thrash.

Na lie ooo.
Ask Israel.
Even the Igbos of Nigeria

Reno, you just wasted your precious time on brainwashed blockheads.
No matter what you say to them, these people have vowed to reason on a very very rare occasion.
I remember how some reasonable people here condemned the attack they carried out on Ekweremadu in Germany but most of them were prancing up and down jubilating over the shameful action.
Now MNK has been apprehended, they have started calling out to the same UK government that MNK castigated to no end.
Who knows, maybe Ekweremadu would have been the one speaking out for MNK at this critical point in time. But, what do we know? After all, IPOB members know it all.

Number one original igbo man,it is in there blood

Buckeyemedia1:
Buzz off, Hypocrite. Episodical Thrash.

Reno!
You are the list of Biafrans problems!
Stop making yourself an issue!
Folks are reasonably upset and are bound to make fiery comments! It comes with the moment! I don't understand the reason why you're so desperate to gauge people's manners and good behavior. You even wondered about your socalled fate as a "minority" within Biafra. Yet, Nobody has called you a minority in Biafra!
Get serious..
You so called "minorities" like to twadle with trifles... You always loose site of the ball. All the time..
We have a murderous fulani regime breathing down our neck and all you have been bleating about for the better part of two weeks now, is the "improper manners" of some Kanus followers! And that's just a week after his arrest!
Get serious bros...

And if you so-called friends are specialists in insulting your sensibilities, tell him to go to hell. Enemies are better than those friends.

Buckeyemedia1:
Buzz off, Hypocrite. Episodical Thrash.

yes

They are collectively and mentally deranged, backward, criminally insane, bigoted and self-destructive with zero tactic. The way that guy made unfounded accusations, fabricated conspiracies about some tribes, insult a whole tribe instead of some few he saw as enemies proved that he seriously need psychiatrist!

Reno, you are talking yo deaf stones

Kanu started abusively but he later changed ...

He attacks everyone no one have received his insult more than igbos even his own umuahia people ...so trying to tribalise the whole thing is somehow

Reno omokri, why have you descended this low.kanu this ipob that .Kanu has spoken against IGBOS,UK, BLACK men and white men infact he has no friends but today in your analogy you only highlighted Yorubas and minorities as people Nnamdi kanu were casting aspersions on.All this your newly dancing steps soonest we will know the lady you are trying to impress. Good luck.

Fight for your own freedom and that of your ethnic group and allow Kanu to do his the way he understands. Otherwise keep shut

michelz:
Reno, you just wasted your precious time on brainwashed blockheads.
No matter what you say to them, these people have vowed to reason on a very very rare occasion.
I remember how some reasonable people here condemned the attack they carried out on Ekweremadu in Germany but most of them were prancing up and down jubilating over the shameful action.
Now MNK has been apprehended, they have started calling out to the same UK government that MNK castigated to no end.
Who knows, maybe Ekweremadu would have been the one speaking out for MNK at this critical point in time. But, what do we know? After all, IPOB members know it all.

But them talk say show me your enemies and I will tell you who your friends are!

True.

Like Reno, like slawomiir, like Asari, they can't always perfectly suppress their hatred for Igbos

How can Reno be this naive and ignorant about this predictable IPOBians beat my imagination.

Anyway it's better that he's knowing them late than not knowing them at all.
Even if you blindfold me and bring an Ipobian around me I'll identify him immediately. All you need is to raise a topic for discuss.