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Reno Omokri @renoomokri

Concerning the Statements Made Against Me by Mr Omoyele Sowore, Through His Lawyer in Court

With regard to the claims made by Mr Omoyele Sowore and his counsel, Mr Abubakar Marshal, in court on Tuesday, January 27, 2026, I do freely admit that I did make uncomplimentary remarks about the then Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, while believing those comments to be true at the time I uttered them.

Subsequent to making those statements, I discovered that they were not, in fact, true, and I publicly withdrew them in writing and on video at various times and through multiple platforms.

On the day that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu was sworn in as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, which was Monday, May 29, 2023, I released a statement affirming him as President of Nigeria and urging members of the public to put the past behind them and give him their full support.

I repeated this stance and public call on Thursday, October 26, 2023, the day the Supreme Court of Nigeria ruled in favour of the President, after dismissing the petitions against him brought by Alhaji Waziri Atiku Abubakar, and Mr Peter Obi, amongst others.

In that judgment, the honourable court declared that there were no criminal charges or convictions against the President. It clarified what had happened in the past, which had been misrepresented by some media.

On the same day the judgement was rendered, I accepted it, applauded it, and stated that, based on that verdict, my stance on the statements I had made against the President had changed: not only was it wrong, but I fully believed it was fallacious.

Two days thereafter, on Saturday, October 28, 2023, I gave an interview to TVC, in which I affirmed the Supreme Court's judgement and declared it a righteous verdict and that their Lord Justices did a good job and followed the letter and spirit of the law.

When members of the Peoples Democratic Party, to which I was then aligned, continued to dwell on those unfounded allegations, I arranged to be interviewed on Newscentral Television on Thursday, March 27, 2025, where I said that the President had been "exonerated", a word that I used intentionally, as I have a Master’s in Law from the United Kingdom, and understood and wanted to project and confirm to the Nigerian public that a constitutionally recognised official body had absolved the President of any wrongdoing, which is the legal meaning of that word.

Following this, I went on the most watched talk show in Nigeria, Politics Today, on Wednesday, June 11, 2025, where I admitted to the Nigerian public and the world at large during a live broadcast that I was wrong about those statements I made about the then candidate, and that I relied on false publications in the media in making them, and that having gotten accurate judicial pronouncements that exonerated the President and established beyond any reasonable doubt that the information I had erroneously believed, chiefly from Mr Omoyele Sowore's platform, Saharareporters, and from the mouth of Mr Sowore himself, was false, I withdrew those statements and apologised for them.

Prior to that, I had sought a private audience with the President himself on October 1, 2024, where I flew into Nigeria from my home in California, and apologised to him in person, prostrating flat on the ground, before stating that I was misled by publications in the media into making those statements, and that my actions were not malicious, but that I was then labouring under a mistaken belief that what I had read in the media was true, when in fact it was wrong.

Finally, in law, it is ultra vires, and well established by the rule against hearsay, to use previous statements made at a time when it was believed to be true to establish the veracity of a claim you yourself caused to be published, or to justify yourself or offer a defence, when the maker of that statement has admitted that the statements were made in good faith, but subsequently found to be untrue, and then publicly withdrawn, with various attempts at restitution made by the author of those statements you seek to rely on.

Quoting from Phipson on Evidence, relied on by the Privy Council in the defining case of Teper v. R and followed by common law jurisdictions, including Nigeria, “Former oral or written statements by any person, whether or not he is a witness in the proceedings, may not be given in evidence if the purpose is to tender them as evidence of the truth of the matters asserted”.

Therefore, Mr Sowore cannot rely on statements I made between 2022 and 2023, and then publicly withdrew in 2023, as a defence for statements he made in August 2025, more than two years after I made those remarks, especially as both he himself and his platform, Saharareporters, had originated those statements over a decade ago.

I again affirm today, as I have proclaimed multiple times since Thursday, October 26, 2023, that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is not, has never been, and will never be a drug lord. He is a person of good character, high moral standing, and a professed Muslim, with the largeness of heart to forgive his enemies and opponents when they realise the error of their ways and recant, which is, amongst other reasons, why he is uniquely and particularly suited to lead a multiethnic, multicultural, multi-religious, and multiracial country like Nigeria.

I make these statements voluntarily, freely and of my own volition, knowing them to be true, and I am fully prepared to testify to the above under oath in court, along with the tendering of documentary and dated, timestamped evidence establishing the veracity of the affirmations here made.

Thank you.

Bemigho Reno Omokri

https://x.com/i/status/2016421000926081092

Previous thread:

Sowore Tenders Video Of Reno Omokri Calling Tinubu 'International Drug Baron'
https://www.nairaland.com/8607431/sowore-tenders-video-reno-omokri

You go explain tire


Sowore is ready for una.

Below is the clear position of the Supreme Court on the so called drug issue.

In that judgment, the honorable court declared that there were no criminal charges or convictions against the President. It clarified what had happened in the past, which had been misrepresented by some media.

Again, Sowore cannot rely on whatever Reno said previously as an excuse to defame Mr. President.

in law, it is ultra vires, and well established by the rule against hearsay, to use previous statements made at a time when it was believed to be true to establish the veracity of a claim you yourself caused to be published, or to justify yourself or offer a defence, when the maker of that statement has admitted that the statements were made in good faith, but subsequently found to be untrue, and then publicly withdrawn, with various attempts at restitution made by the author of those statements you seek to rely on.

You go explain tire

Babablu Bulabu

@Reno, you go explain TIRE, no evidence.

I believe it's a waste of time arguing with Reno in this case as he's stated before now, admitting his fault in believing false accusations in news platforms and he's apologized. The evidence is there.

If both men: Reno and Sowore are brought in to discuss this, there's no way Sowore can win as Reno will present records: date and time, showing his rebuttal of his former statements against the president.

Reno is a trouble maker and he enjoys this kind of thing.

Always exist the urge to shalaye.

Reno Omokri never see anything.

The most shameless human being everr.

Zonefree:
You go explain tire
Sowore is ready for una.

I really like the fact that Sowore is often there to help the less privilege and the defenceless. He has really helped released many that would have still being in Jail by now.
Have you heard of Healing Frequency?
See:
https://www.nairaland.com/8607487/frequency-sound-health-used-producing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyuZGFNQxhE&feature=youtu.be

This is dirty politics. Omoyele Sowore made claims about Tinubu verbally and on his platform Sahara Reporters and Omokri sites those statements as the justification for making them on Tinubu only for Omoyele Sowore to turn around and site Omokri as his evidence.

Omoyele Sowore is playing dirty and hitting bellow the belt.

Reno Omokri has cleared the air on his past utterances and I see no reason why Sowore would keep bringing it up

When brown envelope exchange hands, expect the unexpected

anywhere belle face politician.

Reno must talk

Talkative

Reno the stomach infrastructure man. Anywhere belle face

This is reason you are not being eligible to represent Nigeria abroad.

THEY WERE NOT TRUE YET YOU HAVE USED IT TO DAMAGED PERSONALITIES, THE SAME WAY YOU ARE TALKING NONSENSE ABOUT OBI AND IGBO NOW.

if this madman now posted abroad, how did he want to be relating with Igbo in diaspora?

Infact, how did he want to defend Tinubu which himself had said whole lots of derogatory comments for, in the past?
Will the authority in that country see him as a serious diplomat?

Who cares what Reno has to say

Obidients will begin to cry now

The various statements made by Mr Reno ought to have been replaced to him during screening and he should have bowed in shame, apologise and excused himself from the screening.

The turncoat everywhere belle face reno mockery ,the video should go viral, so that international community will know the kind of ambassador tinubu is sending to different countries

Lol
Reno Omockery.

Dat's how the Criticisms he gives HE Peter Obi, he will refute them in the future.

Zonefree:
You go explain tire


Sowore is ready for una.

Why didn't DSS arrest Reno omokri when he made the statement?

It was not a threat to national security then?

Timubi called former president Jonathan a drunk while he was a sitting president.

DSS didn't hear that one then?

Shamelessness on full display

stuffs2002:
This is dirty politics. Omoyele Sowore is playing dirty and hitting bellow the belt.

Reno Omokri has cleared the air on his past utterances and I see no reason why Sowore would keep bringing it up

NO
Stop defending Reno Omockery.

All that he said about Tinibu is True!

HUNGER and Desperation made him to change his mouth.

The fear of losing Ambassadorial appointment is the beginning of wisdom

Suddenly, Tinubu is now a gentleman of no questionable character that Reno had to go behind the scene to prostate flat for him in Aso Rock

Hungerbad

Sowore, a geography graduate and propagandist wants to go head-to-head with Masters in Law holder like Reno Omokri...

He is not really wise tendering that video as evidence in court as a reference or source without first confirming wether the source still hold such to be true.

This is the calibre of youth we are hoping will lead Nigeria someday. Youth wey no wise, youth wey dey make impulsive decision.

Very sound submission.

To those typing 'you go explain tire', yes you explain in Law but you are explaining to the court of law with learned audience not social media audience.... Let's just stop at that

seunmsg:
Below is the clear position of the Supreme Court on the so called drug issue.



Again, Sowore cannot rely on whatever Reno said previously as an excuse to defame Mr. President.

Leave them, sowore will participate in the 2027 general election from his prison room.

Just as Daniel Bwala recanted his public outburst on the personality of Mr President.

Arkmanbuddy:
I believe it's a waste of time arguing with Reno in this case as he's stated before now, admitting his fault in believing false accusations in news platforms and he's apologized. The evidence is there.

If both men: Reno and Sowore are brought in to discuss this, there's no way Sowore can win as Reno will present records: date and time, showing his rebuttal of his former statements against the president.

Reno is a trouble maker and he enjoys this kind of thing.

So, if you want to recruit into your own company, you will not consider his past actions.

You want to marry a lady, who is once olosho, if she tells you, she has since stopped and now a new creature. I guess you will still go and wife retired olosho.