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Reno Omokri: Nothing Can Bring Sam Omatseye Down by NyamiriFlathead: 9:20pm On Aug 03, 2022
Ex-aide of former president Goodluck Jonathan Reno Omokri has said no amount of attacks can bring down Chairman of The Nation Newspaper Editorial Board, Sam Omatseye.

He stated this while reacting to the alleged death threats on Omatseye after the latter’s opinion article entitled ‘Obi’ went viral.

On Tuesday, Omatseye asked the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi to call his supporters to order over threats to his life.

Omokri said: “You say your movement is not linked to IPOB. Yet, look at what you are doing to Sam Omatseye. Is it not exactly the same IPOB strategies you used on me? Go and study how IPOB operates.

It is the same modus operandi these guys are using.

“Death threats, organised social media bullying, the foulest insults known to man, propaganda photos, attacks on Mr. Omatseye’s ethnicity, and members of his family, etc! By their fruits, you shall know them.

“Sam Omatseye is one of the most intelligent men in Nigeria bar very few. We belong to different political camps and almost polar opposite philosophical persuasions, but he is a near-genius with the pen.

And a million IPOB mob posing as something else can’t bring him down!
“May God bless and protect Sam Omatseye and his family from these IPOB mobs in disguise. In Christ’s Name!”
https://thenationonlineng.net/Obi-nothing-can-bring-sam-omatseye-down-reno-omokri

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Re: Reno Omokri: Nothing Can Bring Sam Omatseye Down by Throwback: 9:22pm On Aug 03, 2022
You say your movement is not linked to IPOB. Yet, look at what you are doing to Sam Omatseye. Is it not exactly the same IPOB strategies you used on me? Go and study how IPOB operates.
It is the same modus operandi these guys are using.
“Death threats, organised social media bullying, the foulest insults known to man, propaganda photos, attacks on Mr. Omatseye’s ethnicity, and members of his family, etc! By their fruits, you shall know them
.

What even got to me was a poorly trained journalist called David Hundeyin, rubbishing our journalists in Nigeria that they cannot pass the academic rigours that he triumphed abroad.

The same dude who uses vile and uncouth words to convey his narcissistic and egoistic reports as a journalist?

Obviously he passed through school but the school did not pass through him. Would any school want to identify with such a rude and arrogant brute as a product of their education?

The same dude who does not hide his bias and prejudices?

Or am I the only one expecting a distinction between a well trained journalist and a full-time partisan political apologist cum thug?

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Re: Reno Omokri: Nothing Can Bring Sam Omatseye Down by Viscuz: 9:22pm On Aug 03, 2022
Give me money for ministry

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Re: Reno Omokri: Nothing Can Bring Sam Omatseye Down by Massiveglory: 9:24pm On Aug 03, 2022
Reno how do you bring someone who is down, down again. Do you want to bury him?
Mr Sam is so down already. Just leave him there.

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Re: Reno Omokri: Nothing Can Bring Sam Omatseye Down by Throwback: 9:30pm On Aug 03, 2022
It is really bad.

IPOBocrazy is the greatest threat to our democracy.

They are still suffering in the SouthEast for allowing IPOBocrazy to fester.

Not even Saint Peter Obi or the Christian Bishops could dare utter a word against IPOB.

Till now everyone talks the same way, walks the same way, laugh the same way, and are forced to abuse the same way to avoid being labelled that name that can destroy.

Efulefu / Saboteur

That is the dividend of IPOBocrazy.

We must avoid this affliction from becoming a national pandemic. Let us quarantine it within the SouthEast and rehabilitate the youths there as previously advocated by the SouthEast Governors who know better.

Say no to IPOBocrazy and its zombiedient advocates.

Naija no be SouthEast.

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Re: Reno Omokri: Nothing Can Bring Sam Omatseye Down by rolams(m): 9:32pm On Aug 03, 2022
Threat and use of abusive words can't be separated from the obidients. This is seriously de-marketing Peter Obi. I don't know what you guys do gain from it. Not everybody will align with your candidate immediately you give them the message. You still have 7 months to talk to people.

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Re: Reno Omokri: Nothing Can Bring Sam Omatseye Down by Betanaija42moro: 9:33pm On Aug 03, 2022
Reno struggling so hard to remain relevant.

Must you react to everything.

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Re: Reno Omokri: Nothing Can Bring Sam Omatseye Down by Malory: 9:34pm On Aug 03, 2022
Ok we've heard you Reno but tell us why you abandoned your legally married wife and three innocent children including twin boys for an Ethiopian hooker whom you impregnated. Those children from your legally married wife will never forgive you for the horrible ordeal you have subjugated them to. You are a randy evil man without morals and decorum. A scum of the earth.

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Re: Reno Omokri: Nothing Can Bring Sam Omatseye Down by Zionmdde: 9:36pm On Aug 03, 2022
rolams:
Threat and use of abusive words can't be separated from the obidients. This is seriously de-marketing Peter Obi. I don't know what you guys do gain from it. Not everybody will align with your candidate immediately you give them the message. You still have 7 months to talk to people.
So someone called obi obituarry and u want them to keep quiet
Better face ur candidate, if u go to twitter and talk rubbish u will collect

So agberos stopping people from registering for PVC are not demarketing tinubu

Demarketing kee u there

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Re: Reno Omokri: Nothing Can Bring Sam Omatseye Down by Malory: 9:39pm On Aug 03, 2022
Throwback:
It is really bad.

IPOBocrazy is the greatest threat to our democracy.

They are still suffering in the SouthEast for allowing IPOBocrazy to fester.

Not even Saint Peter Obi or the Christian Bishops could dare utter a word against IPOB.

Till now everyone talks the same way, walks the same way, laugh the same way, and are forced to abuse the same way to avoid being labelled that name that can destroy.

Efulefu / Saboteur

That is the dividend of IPOBocrazy.

We must avoid this affliction from becoming a national pandemic. Let us quarantine it within the SouthEast and rehabilitate the youths there as previously advocated by the SouthEast Governors who know better.

Say no to IPOBocrazy and its zombiedient advocates.

Naija no be SouthEast.
What an incoherent and disjointed gibberish devoid of logic. Imagine what a grown up man is writing on a public forum. I weep for your parents.

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Re: Reno Omokri: Nothing Can Bring Sam Omatseye Down by KingKO22: 9:41pm On Aug 03, 2022
Ok

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Re: Reno Omokri: Nothing Can Bring Sam Omatseye Down by ObaOfYorubaLand: 9:41pm On Aug 03, 2022
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Re: Reno Omokri: Nothing Can Bring Sam Omatseye Down by rolams(m): 9:41pm On Aug 03, 2022
Zionmdde:

So someone called obi obituarry and u want them to keep quiet
Better face ur candidate, if u go to twitter and talk rubbish u will collect

So agberos stopping people from registering for PVC are not demarketing tinubu

Demarketing kee u there

This is another example. Don't worry, we shall see at the end.

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Re: Reno Omokri: Nothing Can Bring Sam Omatseye Down by ObaOfYorubaLand: 9:45pm On Aug 03, 2022
NyamiriFlathead:
Ex-aide of former president Goodluck Jonathan Reno Omokri has said no amount of attacks can bring down Chairman of The Nation Newspaper Editorial Board, Sam Omatseye.
He stated this while reacting to the alleged death threats on Omatseye after the latter’s opinion article entitled ‘Obi’ went viral.
On Tuesday, Omatseye asked the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi to call his supporters to order over threats to his life.
Omokri said: “You say your movement is not linked to IPOB. Yet, look at what you are doing to Sam Omatseye. Is it not exactly the same IPOB strategies you used on me? Go and study how IPOB operates.
It is the same modus operandi these guys are using.
“Death threats, organised social media bullying, the foulest insults known to man, propaganda photos, attacks on Mr. Omatseye’s ethnicity, and members of his family, etc! By their fruits, you shall know them.
“Sam Omatseye is one of the most intelligent men in Nigeria bar very few. We belong to different political
camps and almost polar opposite philosophical persuasions, but he is a near-genius with the pen.
And a million IPOB mob posing as something else can’t bring him down!
“May God bless and protect Sam Omatseye and his family from these IPOB mobs in disguise. In Christ’s Name!”

https://thenationonlineng.net/Obi-nothing-can-bring-sam-omatseye-down-reno-omokri

mynd44
lalasticlala
That useless failed good for nothing terrorist fake journalist has gone mad. In short, he's a psycho.

You called A Presidential candidate of a party " OBITUARY " and you're so demented that you don't know how bad it is.

It's only terrorists and enemies of Nigeria that supports that terrorist camouflaging with journalism.

Thunder will roast him

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Re: Reno Omokri: Nothing Can Bring Sam Omatseye Down by maybet081: 9:47pm On Aug 03, 2022
Betanaija42moro:
Reno struggling so hard to remain relevant.

Must you react to everything.
His relevance is gone with the flames of greed and pleasure.

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Re: Reno Omokri: Nothing Can Bring Sam Omatseye Down by Throwback: 9:52pm On Aug 03, 2022
Malory:
What an incoherent and disjointed gibberish devoid of logic. Imagine what a grown up man is writing on a public forum. I weep for your parents.

If you reside in the SouthEast, I dare you to disobey IPOB who always make SouthEast parents to weep.

Step out on Monday and claim your freedom from IPOBocrazy.

We Nigerians would not surrender to IPOBocrazy and the zombiedients.

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Re: Reno Omokri: Nothing Can Bring Sam Omatseye Down by Okwyjesus(m): 9:57pm On Aug 03, 2022
NyamiriFlathead:
Ex-aide of former president Goodluck Jonathan Reno Omokri has said no amount of attacks can bring down Chairman of The Nation Newspaper Editorial Board, Sam Omatseye.
He stated this while reacting to the alleged death threats on Omatseye after the latter’s opinion article entitled ‘Obi’ went viral.
On Tuesday, Omatseye asked the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi to call his supporters to order over threats to his life.
Omokri said: “You say your movement is not linked to IPOB. Yet, look at what you are doing to Sam Omatseye. Is it not exactly the same IPOB strategies you used on me? Go and study how IPOB operates.
It is the same modus operandi these guys are using.
“Death threats, organised social media bullying, the foulest insults known to man, propaganda photos, attacks on Mr. Omatseye’s ethnicity, and members of his family, etc! By their fruits, you shall know them.
“Sam Omatseye is one of the most intelligent men in Nigeria bar very few. We belong to different political
camps and almost polar opposite philosophical persuasions, but he is a near-genius with the pen.
And a million IPOB mob posing as something else can’t bring him down!
“May God bless and protect Sam Omatseye and his family from these IPOB mobs in disguise. In Christ’s Name!”

https://thenationonlineng.net/Obi-nothing-can-bring-sam-omatseye-down-reno-omokri

mynd44
lalasticlala

And he didn't see the insults on lgbos, Obi and Obi's follower under Sam Omotseye's pen .

That article l read is hateful not political. The type of hate and name calling innocent lgbos face daily.

All lgbos are not IPOB. Why link Obi to IPOB.

The dragging was right joor...

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Re: Reno Omokri: Nothing Can Bring Sam Omatseye Down by Nwabueze22: 10:04pm On Aug 03, 2022
Anu offia

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Re: Reno Omokri: Nothing Can Bring Sam Omatseye Down by Qtrpst4: 10:15pm On Aug 03, 2022
No, what truly got to you was that he exposed the heroin activity of your jagaban with receipts and evidence and you were bambuzooed.
That's what really got to you



Throwback:


What even got to me was a poorly trained journalist called David Hundeyin, rubbishing our journalists in Nigeria that they cannot pass the academic rigours that he triumphed abroad.

The same dude who uses vile and uncouth words to convey his narcissistic and egoistic reports as a journalist?

Obviously he passed through school but the school did not pass through him. Would any school want to identify with such a rude and arrogant brute as a product of their education?

The same dude who does not hide his bias and prejudices?

Or am I the only one expecting a distinction between a well trained journalist and a full-time partisan political apologist cum thug?

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Re: Reno Omokri: Nothing Can Bring Sam Omatseye Down by Qtrpst4: 10:16pm On Aug 03, 2022
Threat? Are you not a threat already to your self and all Nigerians? For trying to bring in a buhari 2.0?



rolams:
Threat and use of abusive words can't be separated from the obidients. This is seriously de-marketing Peter Obi. I don't know what you guys do gain from it. Not everybody will align with your candidate immediately you give them the message. You still have 7 months to talk to people.

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Re: Reno Omokri: Nothing Can Bring Sam Omatseye Down by Qtrpst4: 10:17pm On Aug 03, 2022
You deserve a very good slap



Throwback:


If you reside in the SouthEast, I dare you to disobey IPOB who always make SouthEast parents to weep.

Step out on Monday and claim your freedom from IPOBocrazy.

We Nigerians would not surrender to IPOBocrazy and the zombiedients.

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Re: Reno Omokri: Nothing Can Bring Sam Omatseye Down by Qtrpst4: 10:19pm On Aug 03, 2022
Throwback:
It is really bad.

IPOBocrazy is the greatest threat to our democracy.

They are still suffering in the SouthEast for allowing IPOBocrazy to fester.

Not even Saint Peter Obi or the Christian Bishops could dare utter a word against IPOB.

Till now everyone talks the same way, walks the same way, laugh the same way, and are forced to abuse the same way to avoid being labelled that name that can destroy.

Efulefu / Saboteur

That is the dividend of IPOBocrazy.

We must avoid this affliction from becoming a national pandemic. Let us quarantine it within the SouthEast and rehabilitate the youths there as previously advocated by the SouthEast Governors who know better.

Say no to IPOBocrazy and its zombiedient advocates.

Naija no be SouthEast.

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Re: Reno Omokri: Nothing Can Bring Sam Omatseye Down by pointblank247(m): 11:27pm On Aug 03, 2022
I never knew that Reno was this stupid. How could you justify the use of abusive words on Peter Obi but when the same words are used on the attacker you start to foam in the mouth ? Na waa for people ooo

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Re: Reno Omokri: Nothing Can Bring Sam Omatseye Down by 9jalyte: 11:27pm On Aug 03, 2022
NyamiriFlathead:
Ex-aide of former president Goodluck Jonathan Reno Omokri has said no amount of attacks can bring down Chairman of The Nation Newspaper Editorial Board, Sam Omatseye.
He stated this while reacting to the alleged death threats on Omatseye after the latter’s opinion article entitled ‘Obi’ went viral.
On Tuesday, Omatseye asked the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi to call his supporters to order over threats to his life.
Omokri said: “You say your movement is not linked to IPOB. Yet, look at what you are doing to Sam Omatseye. Is it not exactly the same IPOB strategies you used on me? Go and study how IPOB operates.
It is the same modus operandi these guys are using.
“Death threats, organised social media bullying, the foulest insults known to man, propaganda photos, attacks on Mr. Omatseye’s ethnicity, and members of his family, etc! By their fruits, you shall know them.
“Sam Omatseye is one of the most intelligent men in Nigeria bar very few. We belong to different political
camps and almost polar opposite philosophical persuasions, but he is a near-genius with the pen.
And a million IPOB mob posing as something else can’t bring him down!
“May God bless and protect Sam Omatseye and his family from these IPOB mobs in disguise. In Christ’s Name!”

https://thenationonlineng.net/Obi-nothing-can-bring-sam-omatseye-down-reno-omokri

mynd44
lalasticlala

You want to know what it means to be a bright Journalist? Oya, read Chuks Iloegbunam:

Some have called you foolish, dear Sam Omatseye. Others insist that you are plain stupid. There are those who hold you to be beneath contempt. Their howls of execration upon you are in reaction to your August 1, 2022 article entitled Obi. For me, however, you are a dear friend. Our friendship started in the 1980s at Newswatch magazine where both of us practiced journalism before you travelled to the United States for further studies.



It continued upon your return and strengthened to the point that, sometimes, you get the producers of your TV Continental programme to connect me to field questions live. Besides, living in different states, we often chat by telephone. I demonstrated our amity again last May when I was in Nigeria’s commercial capital for the Lagos International Book Fair. I phoned you and, within the hour, you were at my stand where we spent quality time reminiscing about the good old days and prognosticating on the future of our dear fatherland.



Armed with this handle of friendship, I have just the one advice for you: Be careful. It is in elaboration of this counsel that I write all that you read hereon. Please look back to the time of the Nigeria-Biafra war of 1967 to 1970. You will find that, military or civilian, none of the political actors of that era is still in a position to fight elections today. The final curtain long fell for most of them. Of the lot that remains, some have become vegetables, or are propped up with a suffusion of drugs or would not find their way to the loo unless hired attendants or swearing relatives point it out. Together with the handful that is still blessed with something close to robust health, they have one thing in common. They are seated, restless or restive, in various existential departure halls, clutching fitfully at their boarding passes and waiting for that inevitable voice that cannot be disobeyed, to announce their flights into past tense.

In a broad sense, the departed leave their legacies, good, bad or ugly, for those standing in line and waiting their turns to also check out. What legacies, dear Sam, are you and I feverishly working day and night to leave for those coming in our wake? When you write an article that denigrates the Igbo nation of over 50 million people, and make nonsense of some of those things that mean the most to them, do you really believe that your disposition is justified by the pay and perquisites that accrue to you at Ahmed Bola Tinubu’s The Nation newspapers?



This is you: “The Biafran babblers are alive and well. They just swapped icons, rechristened the shrines and rewrote the rites. They left the prophet for a secular priest. They have had a switch of battle gear.”



This clearly is a perfidious way of sentencing Ndigbo to the status of the bat that is neither bird nor mammal. Their fight for Biafra five decades ago was stopped. Their fight now for democratic integration impels you to call them babblers, i.e., people who are no more than endless talkers of nonsense. One would think that the bat sobriquet aptly becomes your Bola Ahmed Tinubu whose initials provide the BAT acrostic that he wears like a badge. I will sooner return to the BAT.



This, again, is your characterisation of the Igbo: “They can say they have a legitimate tribe and rhetoric. They may pretend to love Nigeria. They may claim to embrace INEC, cling to a political party no one in the police or DSS will harangue.”



Isn’t this the height of Igbophobia? We may go back in history. Before Tinubu, there were other Yoruba presidential candidates, including Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Chief M. K. O. Abiola, General Olusegun Obasanjo, Chief Gani Fawehinmi and Chief Olu Falae. None of these personages indexed their presidential ambition on stoking inter-tribal animosity between the Yoruba and the Igbo. As a matter of fact, Chief Philip Ezebuilo Umeadi, Igbo and one of the oldest Senior Advocates of Nigeria, was Papa Awolowo’s running mate in the 1979 presidential election.


*Chuks Iloegbunam


Why does it make sense to you and to your principal that the only route to his vaulting presidential ambition must be one that sunders two ethnic groups that have since before the amalgamation been living together in amity, harmony and peace, two peoples that have always, in peace or in peril, lent each other a helping hand?



At the height of the Western Nigeria political crisis of the mid 1960s that pitted Chief Awolowo against Chief Samuel Ladoke Akintola, the former’s Action Group (AG) and Dr. M. I. Okpara’s National Convention of Nigerian Citizens (NCNC) entered into a coalition that birthed the United Progressives Grand Alliance (UPGA). We have it on Wole Soyinka’s authority – see page 73 of his autobiographical You Must Set Forth At Dawn(Bookcraft, Ibadan 2006) that Dr. Okpara lent the then incarcerated Awo a voice by dispatching Mazi Anyogu Elekwachi Ukonu and a complement of seasoned broadcasters that installed a transmitter right inside Awolowo’s Ibadan home.



Ndigbo were not a part of Awolowo’s treason trial and his imprisonment for ten years. Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe even said that he was the one that insisted on Awolowo being imprisoned in Calabar, rather than in Northern Nigeria where the chief feared that poisoning could end his life.



It was not the Igbo that nullified Chief Abiola’s victory in the 1993 presidential election. Rather, Ndigbo were in the forefront of the NADECO (National Democratic Coalition) struggle against the gross injustice. At least a third of those that formed the NADECO were Igbo, according to a list in Battlelines: Adventures in Journalism and Politics, Chief Segun Osoba’s autobiography published in 2020 by Diamond Publications Limited, Lagos. They included Commodore Ebitu Ukiwe, the late Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu, Okwadike (Dr.) Chukwuemeka Ezeife, Prof Anya O. Anya, Chief Ralph Obioha, Chief Empire Kanu, Chief Michael Anyiam, Chief E. Duru, Chief Vincent Nwizugbo and Dr. Uma Eleazu,



NADECO had an international arm. In the United Kingdom, its meetings were held in the late Raph Uwechue’s Africa Books Limited offices in Hammersmith London. Chief Uwechue was Igbo. Dear Sam, I do not know exactly where you were at the time, and I concede that, among Nigerian politicians, there is something known as selective amnesia. If, therefore, your Tinubu, who lived in London for a portion of his exile, does not remember Uwechue’s role in NADECO, I am sure that none of General Alani Akinrinade, Professor Bolaji Akinyemi and Professor Sylvester Monye will forget.



All the Igbo fighters for June 12 were not dissuaded by the fact that their struggle was to actualise the electoral mandate of Chief Abiola, a Yoruba politician. Apart from incarceration, harassment by security operatives and the alienation of exile, some of these men paid heavily in other ways for their commitment to cause of justice. Chief Bobo Nwosisi died in exile in London. Chief Obioha lost his bank, the First African Trust Bank Limited.



In the light of the above, readers would have to judge for themselves whether or not it is right for you, Sam, to say the following of Ndigbo: “They have transferred the temperament of their former master into the new. And they have not spared any incoherence, any lack of finesse, and threats and tantrums, any show of rabid, primitive cants, or any ululations. They have abused, cursed, thrown imprecations. They have hugged lies about their candidate. They have pelted lies about others. They have distorted material. Obi has turned out to be an excuse for even closet Biafrans to betray open emotions about Biafra without being accused of it.”



To be sure, your writing is not an aberrant occurrence. On July 17, 2022, an Adedamola Adetayo posted on the Internet an anti-Igbo diatribe in which he said, among other things that “They have a POLITICAL ZIONISM already in play. It is in the thing they deceptively call Obidients. That Movement is going to RALLY the Igbos of Lagos in a way that they haven’t ever been rallied. THEY ARE SET TO DETERMINE THE LEADERSHIP OF LAGOS. The priority is to remove Tinubu first. In future they will call the shot. This is what Peter Obi is all about. He has no plans for any Presidency. I can imagine that the ZIONISTS already have their IPOB/UGM all over the places in Lagos, in the Garrisons called Markets, under cover, masquerading as Igbo traders.”



Years before this ranting Adedamola Adetayo, John Femi Kusa, who had been a script editor at The Guardian in Lagos, also showed his claws. In March 2019, he published an article on the Internet with this sentence of a title: Okota: The Igbo Question, Jimi Agbaje, Afenifere And The Rest Of Us. In it, he claimed that, “The major problem, in my opinion, is the Igbo penchant to wish to take over another person’s land…Lagos was either a colony or a part of Western Nigeria. But because of the generosity of Yorubas and the foresight of their forefathers which made this region the star region in West Africa, the Igbos would like the Yorubaman to believe that LAGOS IS NO MAN’S LAND. Can anyone say that of Benin without eating his pounded yam as raw yam?”



Dear Sam, your Obi piece is as incendiary as the hateful views of Kusa and Adetayo. Kusa, now well into his 70s will not physically go feeding the Igbo raw yam. But all the vitriol you guys have been pushing against the Igbo is the stuff that leads the M. C. Oluomos into mindless violence and murder and arson and brigandage. You pen pushers of evil are the ones that egg on the rabble into wielding guns and cudgels and massacring innocent people for transient political offices. Is it right to promote this permittivity simply so that Tinubu will attain his wild goose chase of the presidential crown?



Kusa schooled at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, earning a degree in Mass Communication. All through his years in the Igbo country, not once was he molested or denied his citizenship on account of his origin. Did his welcome at Nsukka lead him into believing that the town was a part of the Yoruba country? According to Facebook, the acerbic Adetayo guy schooled at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, and earned a degree there without abuse, let or hindrance. Maybe it got fixed inside his brain that Awka is an extension of Lagos, or that Azikiwe after whom the institution was named was his progenitor.



If there are Ndigbo who say that Lagos is a no man’s land, can one Igbo person be put up who simply seized a piece of land in the metropolis and converted it to his use? If Nigerians, including Tinubu’s daughters, who have being buying up choice properties in New England, United States, can own houses in Europe, North America, the Middle East and elsewhere, why must it rankle that Ndigbo own property in Lagos? Why must ownership of landed property in one’s own country lead to calumniation and physical harm? Is it not too steep a price to pay in order that Tinubu should become Nigeria’s president?



The Igbo were not responsible for the recent bloody massacre of congregants inside the St Francis Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo State. The Igbo are not among those sentenced to death by hanging for the murder of Afenifere leader Chief Reuben Fasanranti’s daughter. The herdsmen marauding, pillaging and plundering Yoruba land, looting, raping women, destroying farmlands and spreading death and destruction are not Igbo. The Igbo man did not kill a soul. He did not contest the governorship of Lagos. He hasn’t ever claimed ownership of Iga Idungaran. The Igbo always lived in peace with the Yoruba – until Tinubu surfaced with his divisive politics. Are the vociferous Igbo supporters of Tinubu no longer of the ethnic group because of their partisan predilection?



Sam, informed readers of your articles are aware that your allusions to classical Anglo-Saxon, Greek and Roman mythologies and literary divergences are no more than an egregious attempt at appropriating the intellectual centre circle. Otherwise, you would appreciate the importance of adding depth to your fulminations. Any owner of a book of quotable quotes or a glossary of literary terms can fill their verbiage with citations. But that is no scholarship, my friend.



Look at you: “Obi is like Zik, Kanu like Ojukwu. One is a flair, the other a flare.” Yet, it doesn’t strike you as reasonable to accord some of Zik’s aptitude to Peter Obi, a man who earned an honours degree in Philosophy from Nigeria’s premier indigenous university that was built by the great Zik of Africa. And Ojukwu is no more than a flare. By impugning him with combustibility, you forget that in January 1967, Ojukwu went to Aburi, Ghana, not with an incendiary device, but with the sole purpose of putting out the smoldering fire that was threatening to become a national conflagration. You forget that it was not Ojukwu but those that reneged on the Aburi Accord that tossed a lit match in an ocean of gasoline.



I agree with those that have invested you with the coronet of a seasoned journalist. Except that your coronation disdains the fact that your brand of perceptive journalism is only seasonal. That explains why it bothers you that “Obi hops from church to church,” but means absolutely nothing to you that as Dele Sobowale reported in the Sunday Vanguard of July 10, 2022 “…Bola Tinubu has charged the Supreme Council for Sharia in the country to create a department of political affairs to create political awareness among the faithful towards producing a Muslim President in 2023.” Neither do you care a hoot that, as Dr. Sobowale added in the same article “Tinubu has followed up that injunction to the Supreme Council for Sharia, by making secret pledges to expand the reach of Sharia to more Southern States if elected.”



Rather, you call Peter Obi a hypocrite. But Mr. Obi gave his date of birth, the name of his parents, the town he hails from, the schools he attended and the businesses he is into. All were found to be correct. Not being at all interested in the truth, you threw Mr. Obi’s data out of the window because you must be seen to be frantically propagating a character of disputed age, of unknown pedigree, unascertained genealogy, unsubstantiated name, uncorroborated curriculum vitae, and unverified academic diplomas.



You shout from the rooftops that Peter Obi is not fit to govern. But you posit as fit for the presidential palace a specimen of incontinence, tremulous lower extremities, slurred speech, unsteady gait and memory lapses. You cannot be serious, my friend.



Of course, it is your entitlement to advertise even ordure if that captures your fancy, but you may not carry on as though your readers are imbecilic. By raising the Biafran bogey, your intention was clearly to create doubt and apprehension. But your gambit only registered a calamitous failure. Jonathan was President of this country. It didn’t obliterate Niger Delta agitation. Buhari is president of this country; those of his people campaigning for the Islamic State haven’t thrust their swords in their scabbards. You have a fondness for excoriating Nnamdi Kanu. Excellent!



Except that your seasonal flair for journalism has never prompted you into examining the Sunday Igboho phenomenon. You make yourself a laughing stock by encapsulating in ethnic strictures the pan-Nigerian Peter Obi Movement that is youth led. You reckon not one bit that the youths that are sick and tired of the sanguinary dreariness and aridity of your principal’s vanishing epoch.



Nonetheless, you cannot contest the truism that, in the last analysis, everything goes and turns round. All metals are bound for the anvil. We are here today – those, like Peter Obi and his equally competent and credible running mate, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, that wish to place a new heart in the Nigerian nation; and others like your principal and his paid battalions of blinkered acolytes that, as Pa Ayo Adebanjo finely put it, are only interested in continuing and escalating the rot they inflicted on hapless Nigerians in 2015. Whatever tomorrow brings, you must continue to ruminate over the legacy you will leave for coming generations. Every one of us will have their entrance and their exit, it being a settled fact that obituary’s certitude rings true for all comers, not just for Peter Obi as you wantonly asserted.



*Chuks Iloegbunam is the author of the upcoming book on Mr. Peter Obi entitled The Promise of a New Era.

https://ugowrite..com/2022/08/everyones-obituary-is-inevitable.html

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Re: Reno Omokri: Nothing Can Bring Sam Omatseye Down by Simplythebest: 11:30pm On Aug 03, 2022
Are in support of the man called Sam writing Obituary and putting Peter Obi picture. Pls what did Obituary mean?
rolams:
Threat and use of abusive words can't be separated from the obidients. This is seriously de-marketing Peter Obi. I don't know what you guys do gain from it. Not everybody will align with your candidate immediately you give them the message. You still have 7 months to talk to people.

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Re: Reno Omokri: Nothing Can Bring Sam Omatseye Down by techWriter3: 2:13am On Aug 04, 2022
provide me funds for ministry

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Re: Reno Omokri: Nothing Can Bring Sam Omatseye Down by Buccalcavity2: 4:57am On Aug 04, 2022
You see, what is amazing to me is that some handles that have referred to a sitting president as dead and many who have wished him death during 2015 campaign, and after (including a sitting governor), are getting upset that their presidential candidate is called Obituary. You must really think you have monopoly to assault or violence.
Sam's reputation for intelligence precedes him and it's too late for anybody to rewrite history.

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Re: Reno Omokri: Nothing Can Bring Sam Omatseye Down by VERDA: 5:33am On Aug 04, 2022
rolams:
Threat and use of abusive words can't be separated from the obidients. This is seriously de-marketing Peter Obi. I don't know what you guys do gain from it. Not everybody will align with your candidate immediately you give them the message. You still have 7 months to talk to people.

Oh please make we hear word....you guys go around spewing trash all over the place as if you are saints but your the vilest of supporters insulting other people, when they return the favour you start crying everywhere...when he was calling someone that has not responded to most of the wicked and evil words you guys throw at him OBITUARY, all of you suddenly had selective blindness....hypocrites.

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Re: Reno Omokri: Nothing Can Bring Sam Omatseye Down by kingamaa(m): 6:25am On Aug 04, 2022
As expected the Obidient gang doing their thing

A leopard doesn't change its spot

My brother, no politician is worth fighting for, they themselves don't fight each other

Why the insults and cursing and vawolence

Campaign for your candidate and when the time comes vote for your candidate and move on

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Re: Reno Omokri: Nothing Can Bring Sam Omatseye Down by tuoyoojo(m): 6:25am On Aug 04, 2022
Have u guys noticed something

The only thing anyone who wants to trend in shosho media ,is to talk negatively about Peter obi

Tinubu said LP would labour in vain, he trended

Atiku said 90% of northerners do not have Internet ( while referring to PO, he trended

Reno has been running his mouth like tap against PO, he trended

Kwankwaso kept giving false vibe that he was merging with obi, he trended

Look at this omatseye guy, look at the Internal displaced politician osho baba, all having a place in the spot light

Why do u think they are doing this, because they want attention

Have u not noticed what PO does,

HE IGNORES THEM

Obidients should learn to ignore them, not quote them, don't follow , don't mention

They want their 3 seconds fame, why give it to them

I keep wondering why reno's tweets keeping making front page

What is his electoral value, can he vote in this election, why give him attention, abi is there something I dont know

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