Former Presidential media aide and best-selling author, Reno Omokri has thrown his weight behind the recently-held ARISE News interview of Atiku Abubakar, 2023 Presidential candidate of PDP.

“The major issue that some people, especially those who describe themselves as Obidients, appear to have with Waziri Atiku Abubakar’s AriseTV interview (because the interview was so good, they had nothing else to hold on to) was the fact that Alhaji Abubakar said ‘In the north, 90 percent of our people are not tuned to social media.’

“Was the former Vice President of Nigeria wrong? Let us focus on what cannot lie. Let us focus on the facts, not sentiments.

“Almost every working class Northerner in the Northwest has a small portable transistor radio. It is their essential life tool. They get their news from BBC Hausa,” he said.

“Research this. BBC Hausa has 18 million unique listeners every week. VOA Hausa service reaches a combined weekly audience of 21 million. Another 10 million a week listen to DW Hausa. That is more than the number of Nigerians on Twitter and Instagram combined. A lot of these folk who have issue with the ‘90%’ assertion live in a social media echo chamber and think there is no life outside Twitter.

“You trend on Twitter and it gets to your head and you begin to insult Waziri Atiku Abubakar, and boast that your candidate will win on February 25, 2023. Do you know how many Nigerians are not on Twitter? 190 million. You saw those humongous crowds that came to see Buhari in Kano? They listen to BBC, VOA and DW Hausa service!

“This does not mean they are not on the Internet. This does not also mean that they are not educated. You can be educated and have access to the Internet, without being on social media. They are not mutually exclusive. Take time to understand the North, because they understand you!

“The average core Northerner, rightly or wrongly, sees social media as an indecent place. A place of much haram, where their minds will be corrupted by ungodly tendencies. So they tend to avoid social media, in preference for radios. However, it does not make you and I more informed than them!

“Twitter is a platform that Northerners tend to shy away from, because of its very high level of toxicity. But that is not to say they do not use the Internet. They do.

“They are big on TikTok. They also have taken to Facebook ever since that platform adopted Hausa as one of its domesticated languages. They use the Internet for online banking. To watch tafsir on YouTube and even to read the Al-Quran online. They buy mobile phone credit on the Internet. They are Internet savvy, but social media shy. They may not show up on social media, but they will definitely show up at the polling unit on February 25, 2023,” he further added.

Source: https://2023.ng/northerners-are-more-connected-to-their-radios-than-social-media-reno-omokri/

And what makes Reno think that labor party wont shift their campaigns to the airwaves when the time comes?

Who still take this one serious again?. Reno has lost all credibility. Atiku should do well to sack him.

you can't convince me Atiku is not paying this man

As if radio stations don't relay news and information they get from online sources .

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So we can also submit that 90% of people in the South are Obidient based on their presence on SM.
But it's a wrong assumption to make that 90% of Northerners will vote for Atiku.
In anycase that's an area Labour Party will have to work on especially the LP vice candidate.
Thankfully hunger & poor governance knows no tribe.

Northern part of country value religions and culture, dey see most western invention as haram

Zorn:
The joke is on your miserable self , the country us looking for a capable hands you are talking like the fool you're.

so Obi that used Awkuzu SARS to kill several Anambra people is your own 'capable hands'? All these small children throwing insults on social media, your parents failed woefully. Anyway, donate your tears here kid

Zorn:
Used akuzu SARS ,was obi the commissioner of police in Anambra state or the OC akuzu SARS? You don't reason that's why you say or type some rubbish.

Obi was the Anambra state governor that time, y'all crying over Twitter that Tinubu ordered soldiers to kill people at lekki when he wasn't even holding any political post.

Itopalucky:


Former Presidential media aide and best-selling author, Reno Omokri has thrown his weight behind the recently-held ARISE News interview of Atiku Abubakar, 2023 Presidential candidate of PDP.


“The major issue that some people, especially those who describe themselves as Obidients, appear to have with Waziri Atiku Abubakar’s AriseTV interview (because the interview was so good, they had nothing else to hold on to) was the fact that Alhaji Abubakar said ‘In the north, 90 percent of our people are not tuned to social media.’

“Was the former Vice President of Nigeria wrong? Let us focus on what cannot lie. Let us focus on the facts, not sentiments.

“Almost every working class Northerner in the Northwest has a small portable transistor radio. It is their essential life tool. They get their news from BBC Hausa,” he said.

“Research this. BBC Hausa has 18 million unique listeners every week. VOA Hausa service reaches a combined weekly audience of 21 million. Another 10 million a week listen to DW Hausa. That is more than the number of Nigerians on Twitter and Instagram combined. A lot of these folk who have issue with the ‘90%’ assertion live in a social media echo chamber and think there is no life outside Twitter.

“You trend on Twitter and it gets to your head and you begin to insult Waziri Atiku Abubakar, and boast that your candidate will win on February 25, 2023. Do you know how many Nigerians are not on Twitter? 190 million. You saw those humongous crowds that came to see Buhari in Kano? They listen to BBC, VOA and DW Hausa service!

“This does not mean they are not on the Internet. This does not also mean that they are not educated. You can be educated and have access to the Internet, without being on social media. They are not mutually exclusive. Take time to understand the North, because they understand you!

“The average core Northerner, rightly or wrongly, sees social media as an indecent place. A place of much haram, where their minds will be corrupted by ungodly tendencies. So they tend to avoid social media, in preference for radios. However, it does not make you and I more informed than them!

“Twitter is a platform that Northerners tend to shy away from, because of its very high level of toxicity. But that is not to say they do not use the Internet. They do.

“They are big on TikTok. They also have taken to Facebook ever since that platform adopted Hausa as one of its domesticated languages. They use the Internet for online banking. To watch tafsir on YouTube and even to read the Al-Quran online. They buy mobile phone credit on the Internet. They are Internet savvy, but social media shy. They may not show up on social media, but they will definitely show up at the polling unit on February 25, 2023,” he further added.



Source: https://2023.ng/northerners-are-more-connected-to-their-radios-than-social-media-reno-omokri/

Reno I feel your pains you are trying hard to prove some points it's just that bad products is difficult to market. God will see you through.

Peter Obi and Ahmed Yusuf doesn't need much preaching from anyone. They have lived their lives in such a way that many of us admire.

I pray God take us from this mess

Reno should let them know that the Nigerian/Nigerian ticket is the only winning ticket.

Tinubu/Shettima

Because your master kept them in the dark being limited to hausa radio stations only.

Your defending your master as usual just as lai defend's his ...

Very true. Oya make Peter Pan start dey buy radio use campaign.

Plain truth.....More reasons why Peter obi and the labour party really need to release money to effect every nook and cranny of every media medium!!

This guy mouth will lead to his beating one day. � �

Elections no be by making loud noise, everybody will know where they belong after February, 2023 God's willing. Reno too talk even more than some women.

This age

Radio and social media is almost the same unlike before

Truth is very bitter but has to be told, majority of the electorates northerners did not even know what is called Obi, either it's food or electronics, I doubt if Obi will get up to 100k votes in the whole of the North, just like his party couldn't get 5k from Osun.

It's obvious the way electoral system is in this country you can't win an election like presidency or gubernatorial without a party with political structures. Atiku was very right.

Truth!you may not agree with him untill you go to north and see for yourself aboki and his radio are inseparable even those terrorists inside forest don't joke with their radio

Funny but true.

In all your yappings Reno, be man enough to applaud and appreciate Buhari for his signing into law the electoral act as amended and his refusal to be more loyal to his party or candidate above Nigeria.

He's set a good stage and rekindled the interest of the youths in our electoral process and the belie that their votes can finally count in determining who leads them.

He gave me the message below to deliver to you and all Nigerians.

Respect to President Buhari, the one man that knows how to mind his lane...

https://www.nairaland.com/7243652/obidiently-yours-pres-muhammad-buhari

Radio was once like the social media we had today, because it was a means of communication and entertainment for the general public, the world is moving and if the northerners don't follow, who's fault is it? the Igbos, the Yorubas or Esan NO!


It's their fault and solely theirs and it's not something they should be proud of as Reno is trying to potray for Atiku

PDP has really destroyed Nigeria over the last few decade. It's sad to see someone as brilliant as Reno Omikri waste his intellectual capacity on an evil party as PDP.

APC is evil, PDP is evil

True. SM is somewhat a liability, elitist and indulgent for lazy idle folks
In my opinion, it is overrated and expensive social cost that is not sustainable.It will die someday

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Despite political differences I haven't seen any Aboki, and northern Muslim man tackling Atiku as Reno is doing to Obi of same Christian and from southern region.

Reno from Delta, Obi from Anambra, both state sharing bundary.

Reno if u dey read this post u are hypocrite.

The same man that regularly insults northerners is now trying to lick their anuses tueh. Go and get a good job old man. Sycophancy isn't a job.

True talk. We spend our time listening to BBC Hausa, VOA Hausa etc. But Peter Obi's supporters and IPOB Bandit dey deceive themselves online. Igbo can never rule Nigeria.

Honest facts he stated. When I used to go to Deidei cow market once every month with my neighbor to buy fresh animals to be killed, they transact online with funds and communicate business on WhatsApp in their large numbers but you don't see them stuck with all these social media or engrossed with it in the market. On the other hand when you visit markets like Apo mechanics and Apo or Gudu spare parts markets dominated by............... you see them doing their own trading seriously as well but still engrossed in social media things showing each other different things on the internet. For me, Reno stated the obvious facts. Those Hausas listen and get their info from their radios just like my 78 year old professor father prefers to buy 5 daily newspapers everyday rather than read over 20 pdf soft copies I send to him on daily basis.

So has their connection with their radios changed anything? Has it stop bandits and kidnappers? Reno is insane.

First time wey I go agree with reno..

Northern guyz and their radio be like 5 and 6, na there dem dey hear their verified news.
Nigerians wey dey use Twitter no too many, only me sef get 3 account wey I dey run, the trend wey dey get to some people's head go soon clear from their eyes.

This hypocrite

And so? This is one of the reasons these abokis think they own Nigeria..