Reno Omokri, special assistant to former president Goodluck
Jonathan on new media, in his interview granted to Leadership has said
he has dumped politics, gone into full time evangelism.
He explains matters on some publicized stories, his experiences and future plans.
Omokri noted that he is not interested in any political position any more.
Jonathan’s aide said: “I
want to retire to evangelism. My second book is coming out in America
and is titled ‘Why Jesus Wept’. I want to focus on promoting the book. I
am in some demand as a speaker in churches in the United States and I
run a non-profit that is building an orphanage in Nigeria. My hands are
full doing the work of God.”
Omokri also said that he was amused by all the lies and misinformation fed the public by certain sites and individuals.
“I was never fired, replaced or demoted. Obi Asika was never my boss neither was I operating under him in a subordinate capacity. I had my role and he had his. We had cause to socialize but we never collaborated on anything,” he added.
“I was never fired, replaced or demoted. Obi Asika was never my boss neither was I operating under him in a subordinate capacity. I had my role and he had his. We had cause to socialize but we never collaborated on anything,” he added.
The aide to the former president targeted some high and low points he had while working for the previous administration.
Omokri said: “The
highest point in my opinion was when the president was dubbed the
“Facebook President” by CNN. He went on to have the second highest
Facebook following of any elected president after President Obama. The
low point was that my job put me in the spotlight, making me a target of
the political media opposed to the president.”
Finally he gave advises for Muhammadu Buhari’s government.
His words: “Consider
a buffalo and a wolf. One on one, the buffalo is stronger than the
wolf. However, because buffalo will not unite to fight the wolves, they
become weaker because the wolves are united.
“The
biggest culture shock Africans have when they travel to the West,
especially for studies, is to find out that they are more intelligent
than the average Westerner one on one. However, because black folks are
not willing to unite, we are weaker as a people and as a result we are
under the influence of more united people.
“Genesis 11:6
reads: “the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one
language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained
from them, which they have imagined to do”.
“The most
successful nations are those nations who understand the principle of
Genesis 11:6. That is the idea behind the United States of America; that
is the idea behind the United Kingdom of Great Britain, Scotland,
Wales, Northern Ireland and the British Isles; that is the idea behind
the European Union and also the United Arab Emirates. If black people,
and especially the Nigerian nation, do not key into this principle,if they remain disunited along tribal, ethnic, regional and
religious lines, we will never be able to fulfill our potential as a
people, and as a nation. This is my advice to the Buhari administration.”
It
should be noted that as Special Assistant to President Jonathan, Omokri
was famed for using social media to conduct surveys and project the
developments undertaken by the Nigerian Government. He is the founder of
a multimedia project, Build Up Nigeria, and has produced a series of
short films in the U.S.