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Beyond politics, there are decisions that badly affect national dignity. When public statements made freely later surface as legal evidence and the same system elevates the speaker into diplomacy, it raises serious questions about the screening, credibility and national/state image.

When people say words have consequences, that assumes a just system. A system where actions are weighed fairly and accountability is consistent, when spoken words comes back to hunt and hurts badly.

But in a country where injustice is selective, some words often escape consequences entirely or so. It seems when institutions fail, something else steps in. Call it records, but I call it the universe doing its own audit. And that is exactly the moment you are witnessing today. In the case involving Omoyele Sowore, the Directorate of the State Security Service(DSS) and the unexpected prescience of ambassadorial designate - Reno Omokri in the middle of it.

In a system where power often outran justice, words do not disappear. They wait! They wait for the moment when those who once made them are forced to explain them. This is not justice by design. It is consequences by inevitability. And that is why this moment matters. Reno Omokri appointment was never a reward. It was a spite move. A message aimed at the opposition figures and the movement challenging the current government saying; "look at who we elevated" as a provocation.

However, that decision was made through a very narrow lens. A lens focused on short time optics and not long time consequences. They thought about silencing critics and not about protecting the state. What they failed to consider was the collective damage, because when you elevates a man whose words publicly accused the government's head of criminality, you do not weaken the opposition. Instead, you ended up strengthening their evidence and resolve.

You do not bury the past, instead you only archive it at the highest level. A move intended to spite opponents has backfired, not against the opponents; rather against the the very gov't it was meant to defend. And that is how power injuries itself. Not through enemies, but through decisions made without foresight.

Sowore has taken Reno Omokri to a place he never imagined - he will now stand as a witness against his own gov't. And that irony is brutal. Reno Omokri is not being dragged for policy, he is being dragged by spoken words. What he once said boldly, repeatedly and confidently about and against the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. What he said he has proof, words he said he had evidence and convictions about.

He accepted he said the president was a known d... baron. For the sake of social media policy, I will use that word. Suddenly something interesting happened. Reno Omokri changed his mind. Now, let this sink in. A man who said he has evidence, but was never asked to present it. But suddenly found .......without examination.

If that does not sound ridiculous to you, then you have completely lost your sense of logic. Conviction does not dissolves because power has shifted. Yet the APC government looked at all this and said; "Yes! This is our man" despite the controversy, public records and national embarrassment. They screened, cleared and appointed him. In doing that, they spat on themselves.

This is because here is the uncomfortable truth; any country that sends Reno Omokri out as an ambassador is reopening a wound it claims has healed. Anywhere he is posted to, the first thing that would follow is internet search and the Internet would remind that world that the man Reno Omokri accused his own president of being a criminal with alleged proof.

You can not rebrand that. You can not diplomatically smile that away. And so people will say politicians do not care about their reputations. This is not true. Politicians care deeply about reputation as much as they care about power. If not, there would be no spin doctors. What made this decision even baffling is because Nigeria has hundreds, if not thousands of people who are serving this gov't quietly, professionally and without moral baggage

But the government does not choose them. It chooses the loudest mouth. A man whose public identity is built on slander. And that is the real indictment here; because an ambassador is not just a position. An ambassador is a country's image abroad. An if Reno Omokri represents Nigeria, then the country is presenting itself as a state that elevates controversy over credibility.

This is not just about Reno Omokri. It is about a system that sabotages itself. A system that claims it wants stability and credibility, but openly rewards recklessness. Despite where you stand against this government, let this be said clearly; there is no Nigerian that has embarrassed this gov't like Reno Omokri.

This remains a national embarrassment because a government that can not protect its own dignity and integrity exposes its weakness. Reno Omokri should not have passed screening, not because of opposition politics but because of national record. Screening for ambassadorial appointment is not a formality. It is supposed to protect the state from exactly this kind of self inflicted damage. Instead the system failed and now it is bleeding from its own decisions.

Reno Omokri did not create the problem, he simply picked it up and held it to the light. It is a truth at a time. Take care and have a nice day.

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"Tinubu is a Drug Lord. I Went to Chicago to Prove it, If I Lied, Then Let Him Sue Me...." ( My AriseTV Interview - Reno Omokri).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQDWtJd3SmQ?si=UJwEZNhqyZjNDjpS

"Tinubu was not Jailed for Drug Case was because he reached Plea Bargain." - ( Part 2 of My AriseTV Interview - Reno Omokri).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KomFbHxoKpo?si=0TRWjEQo4c64ZaEF

When it is said that the presidential election should be as much about character as well as as manifesto. This is what is meant. The presidency is too serious an office to be invested in someone with serious integrity deficit.

Those ignoring character and integrity should remember the Turkish proverb: “When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus.”

Reno Omokri is the most shameless human to ever walk the surface of the earth.

But the govt... chooses the loudest mouth. A man whose public identity is built on slander. And that is the real indictment here; because an ambassador is not just a position.

An ambassador is a country's image abroad. An if Reno Omokri represents Nigeria, then the country is presenting itself as a state that elevates controversy over credibility.

100% correct! The nomination, screening and appointment of a double-faced figure like Reno Omokri into a sensitive post like ambassador is a clearly an indictment on this rudderless govt. The haste to take Sowore to court, has ended up in putting the Tinubu govt in court.This is very shameful indictment on the government itself.

DSS and NASS failed in this regard
One of the two at least should have had the temerity to remind the president the optics of having a man who called you drug lord as an ambassador
Any other appointment would have been OK but that of ambassador looks really odd
It also calls to question the reward system of APC. We have folks here like yarimo seunmsg helinues who have dedicated themselves to APC cause for good or evil for the past 12 years!
Yet all they have to show for their dedication to APC's 10 years in power is Amaechi's laptop and data. They held SM streets down for APC while the likes of Reno and FFK were writing viciously against the govt.
Yet same Reno and FFK are now ambassadors even if to nowhere while these loyal comrades have only bowls of agbado to show for their renewed efforts.
I think APC needs to do right by these guys
Zombies lives matters!!

Agbadorians will chew their words and eat it 100 times, no shame, no respect for self.

Kukutente23:
DSS and NASS failed in this regard
One of the two at least should have had the temerity to remind the president the optics of having a man who called you drug lord as an ambassador
Any other appointment would have been OK but that of ambassador looks really odd
It also calls to question the reward system of APC. We have folks here like yarimo seunmsg helinues who have dedicated themselves to APC cause for good or evil for the past 12 years!
Yet all they have to show for their dedication to APC's 10 years in power is Amaechi's laptop and data. They held SM streets down for APC while the likes of Reno and FFK were writing viciously against the govt.
Yet same Reno and FFK are now ambassadors even if to nowhere while these loyal comrades have only bowls of agbado to show for their renewed efforts.
I think APC needs to do right by these guys
Zombies lives matters!!

It's quite unfortunate and pathetic

Ofunaofu:
It's quite unfortunate and pathetic

very very pathetic to losers in 2023, 2027 and beyond

yarimo:
very very pathetic to losers in 2023, 2027 and beyond

yarimo, please, I was simply being sympathetic to your situation and questioning the kind of reward system within the APC.

After years of chanting change and now standing on a mandate, all you have to show for it is Amaechi’s laptop and data. Little wonder you’re so frustrated and angry, venting your misplaced bitterness on Peter Obi, Obidients, and especially Alex Otti, the Governor of Abia State.