₦airaland Forum

A former presidential aide Reno Omokri has revealed how he was able to get back into the good books of President Bola Tinubu.

Omokri who was recently nominated as an ambassador by the president said that while he admits to having previously made uncomplimentary remarks against Tinubu, he has since apologised for his unruly comments.

In a statement issued on Wednesday, January 28, Omokri while reacting to remarks made against him by publisher Omoyele Sowore in court, said he believes the comments he made about Tinubu were true at the time he uttered them.

Recall that before the 2023 presidential election, Omokri who was on the opposition at the time outrightly called Tinubu “a drug baron”.

However, while stating that he has accepted Tinubu as Nigeria’s President following his inauguration, the ambassadorial nominee said he has since called on Nigerians to move on.

“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,” Omokri said.

He also noted that he repeated his stance on the matter and public call on the day the Supreme Court of Nigeria ruled in favour of the President, after dismissing the petitions against him brought by Atiku Abubakar, and Peter Obi, amongst others.

Reeling out some of the actions he had taken to “right his wrongs”, Omokri said he has over time appeared on various television stations’ interviews to prove that Tinubu had been exonerated from all allegations.

“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,” he said.

He further noted that Sowore cannot rely on the statements he made prior to the 2023 elections – which were published on his platform, Sahara Reporters – to defend his (Sowore’s) utterances in August 2025.

“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,” he added.

Sycophancy should have a limit, if not properly checked it turns to mental illness

Many of these people are not able to create wealth outside politics. It becomes worse after they have held one position or another, they become lazy and no longer want to do any work.

Look at lamba king for example, that is always bragging that he is one of the youngest director ever to be in a board in Nigeria, since he became governor, he has refused to go back to the private section. That is how it is for all of them. Political office looks like free money for them.

This Reno guy for example had to eat up all the negative press he issued against APC, Buhari and Tinubu just because his prefered candidate didn't win and he was tired of waiting for him to win so that they can give him appiontment.

9jatriot:
Many of these people are not able to create wealth outside politics. It becomes worse after they have held one position or another, they become lazy and no longer want to do any work.

Look at lamba king for example, that is always bragging that he is one of the youngest director ever to be in a board in Nigeria, since he became governor, he has refused to go back to the private section. That is how it is for all of them. Political office looks like free money for them.

This Reno guy for example had to eat up all the negative press he issued against APC, Buhari and Tinubu just because his prefered candidate didn't win and he was tired of waiting for him to win so that they can give him appiontment.

I totally agree with you.

I mean look at Tinubu; he's a perfect example of what you described.

9jatriot:
Many of these people are not able to create wealth outside politics. It becomes worse after they have held one position or another, they become lazy and no longer want to do any work.

Look at lamba king for example, that is always bragging that he is one of the youngest director ever to be in a board in Nigeria, since he became governor, he has refused to go back to the private section. That is how it is for all of them. Political office looks like free money for them. Reno Omokri already told us before being offered an appointment.

This Reno guy for example had to eat up all the negative press he issued against APC, Buhari and Tinubu just because his prefered candidate didn't win and he was tired of waiting for him to win so that they can give him appiontment.

He made money before politics and has continued to be a billionaire after that. He can afford to never have to work again. What was Tinubu's source of wealth before politics again? Don't bring that snake oil narrative of being a Mobil Accountant here. We all have the info.

You are not the first person to claim that he is a billionaire, but I am hopeing you will be the first tell me what he did to be the so called billionaire.
If he was an importer, then people in Alaba market and Onitcha market who are known importers will also start laying claims to being billionaire, so plese tell me what lamba king did.

Also note, that the so called Next Supper market you may want to mentioned had to bec losed in the UK because he could not or did not want to pay thte tax over there.

AMINDA:
He made money before politics and has continued to be a billionaire after that. He can afford to never have to work again. What was Tinubu's source of wealth before politics again? Don't bring that snake oil narrative of being a Mobil Accountant here. We all have the info.

Reno Omokri sounding the broken record that he is. Integrity deficient fellow trying to claim saint. Your sins are always naked before you.

O mockery da phool. The Children he doesn't care about after hearing what he said will be highly ashamed more than ever

You didn't tell us whether you kissed and licked his feet while in your prostrate position.

Your comments about his drug dealing were assertive and declarative, and you made them like an eye witness and never as if you were depending on third party information.

Also you didn't tell us whether you also apologized for spreading photos of Tinubu showing "brown teeth" and wet agbada which you claimed were as a result of him weeing on himself.


If shamelessness ever came in human form, that would be Reno Omokri.


Tufiakwa!!

And bulaba will be like: Minister of nowhere no be for here you go jogodo

Some people no just get Shane for this life, A dog going back to his vomit spitss

The most us*less, inconsistent and shameless man I have ever seen. Iberiberism is your baptismal name.

Mariangeles:
I totally agree with you.

I mean look at Tinubu; he's a perfect example of what you described.

Wealth without enterprise as PO likes to call it.

I'm sure you must have prostrated for Atiku in the past.

After he won the election and you wanted to switch camp!

Ambassador of Social media!

By the time integrity will return to Nigeria and men start to value honors, Omokri’s offsprings will be so ashamed of their father.