Before it is too late: My 2nd epistle to Wendell Simlin aka Reno Omokri – David Iyofor

My Dear Wendell Simlin aka Reno Omokri,

If you are astonished that I am writing you a second letter so soon, barely 24 hours after I lovingly admonished you in my first epistle to you, kindly pardon me.

I do not mean to belabour you with this letter (it’s not like you have anything else to do with your life, anyway). Your response early Tuesday morning to my first letter was so mortifying. It’s only pertinent I write you a second one. Again, I crave your indulgence and I would try not to take too much of your time.

Before I delve into the issues you raised, actually you didn’t raise any, all you did in that utterly disgusting piece you wrote was to attack, abuse, insult and call minister of transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, all sorts of denigrating names. And this is the crux of my worry for you, brother Wendell Simlin.

I am deeply troubled by your state of mind. You were intensely bitter and obsessed with infinite sadness. Your words were ominously dark, your thoughts deviously vengeful, replete with so much bile, unbelievable and unbridled anger as you displayed a debilitating self-destructive hate. I am afraid you may have completely lost it.

Whoever spews that kind of garbage you wrote truly and urgently needs help, psychiatric and perhaps spiritual help. It’s far more worrisome and urgent when that person is a duplicitous character with multiple identities, who boldly puts “pastor”, like a moniker in front of one of his multiple names. That piece was a clarion urgent call for help by Wendell Simlin aka Reno Omokri.

I took you on, exposed your lies, fake news and multiple fake personalities, but you left the issues and went after Amaechi who has always completely ignored your endless hateful and vengeful attacks on him. Yours is a classical case of been beaten by Mr. A but you left Mr. A to go after Mr. B who has always ignored you. I know you crave a fight with Rotimi Amaechi, for him to trade words with you; sorry to burst your bubble – that will never happen.

You avoided the issues I raised in my first letter and refused to respond to the questions I asked, but rather took the highway of the mundane and the ridiculous.

You wrote two paragraphs, yes two paragraphs on the clothes Amaechi wears as if Amaechi’s fashion style will answer the question of whether the then Central Bank of Nigeria governor, the same Sanusi Lamido Sanusi that you faked documents to demonise, wrote a letter to your boss and idol, that $49 billion cannot be accounted for and so was missing from NNPC account and not paid to the federation account? Come on! If you really think that Nigerians care more about how ill-fitting or well-fitting Amaechi’s clothes are than their missing billions of dollars, then your problems are far more profound than I had ever imagined.

Like a buffoon, overly excited new zookeeper, you childishly and unintelligibly wrote about lions, monkeys, lizards and alligators but no sane person could fathom how that answers the question of why you created a fake document and circulated fake news that sought to portray our former Central Bank Governor, now Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as a sponsor of terrorism; shamelessly and callously using the name of your brother-In-law’s innocent young son, Wendell Simlin to demonize Sanusi? Brother Wendell, was it because Sanusi had the guts and courage to write the letter of the missing $49 billion to your god and idol?

You gleefully wrote about Amaechi’s supposed potbelly and eating habits, but how does that answer the question of whether Amaechi lied when he said your god and idol did not save money in spite of the huge savings he inherited from previous administrations and was surreptitiously spending alone the money meant for federal, states and local government councils?

Was Amaechi lying when he said your principal’s administration refused to call national economic council meetings for about two years, in contravention of the constitution, so that the central administration you were part of, can covertly continue to spend unilaterally, the money meant for the three tiers of government; and that was why State Governors took the federal government to court to share the proceeds from the excess crude account(ECA)?

My dear Reno, regularly billions of our money in naira and other currencies are been recovered from operatives of your principal’s past administration; yet you want us to believe that Sanusi was wrong when he wrote that billions of Nigeria’s money was missing. You must really think we are all fools and daft.

You went on to say a whole lot of balderdash that were neither coherent nor made any sense. You blabbed continuously, throwing up and joining diverse and different items that are entirely unrelated. Severally, you presented alternative facts as facts and wrote fake news as news. Significantly, all these were done in a very incoherent and disjointed manner, which tells a lot about the state of your mind. I do not intend to dignify baloney and contemptible behaviour by responding to them.

There is a saying in my village that when translated, literarily means one do not wait for his brother to remove clothes and run stark naked in the market before you acknowledge that he is going mad when the signs are all obvious. That incoherent tirade against Rotimi Amaechi by Wendell Simlin aka Reno Omokri is an obvious cry for help. Family, friends and well-wishers (if you still have any) urgently need to rescue you from this self-destructive voyage of hate, bitterness, anger and misplaced vengeance against Rotimi Amaechi before it is too late.

 

Iyofor wrote from Abuja

A letter to Wendell Simlin aka Reno Omokri – By David Iyofor

My dear Wendell aka Reno,

I am not sure how to address you, whether to call you Reno Omokri or Wendell Smilin. This in itself is a fundamental problem. Your multiple identities send a profound message about your character and duplicitous personality.

For the benefit of those who may not remember, I crave your indulgence to remind them that Wendell Smilin is one of your multiple names, the fake name(like the fake opinion articles, replete with fake news you write), you used to create a fake document that sought to portray our former Central Bank Governor, now Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as a sponsor of terrorism in 2014 when you worked as the lead social media attack dog for former President Goodluck Jonathan. Your role was simple: disparage and demonize anyone who attempts to disagree with, and criticize, most times constructively, your principal. I have no qualms with how you decide to put food on your table. However, I quiver whenever I recall that you used and faked the name of your brother-In-law’s innocent young son, Wendell Simlin to demonize Emir Sanusi. Who does that? What kind of a human being are you? You’re at liberty to sell your conscience, soul and even your entire being (both physical and spiritual), for a mess of porridge; but must you drag the name of your innocent young relative into your mess?

Before I dig into your niggling obfuscating article- Time to question the pot bellied Amaechi’s sanity- on Rotimi Amaechi, Nigeria’s Minister of Transportation (by the way, one of our finest administrators), again, indulge me to make a confession. I sometimes sympathize with you, especially during the early days after you and your principal were unceremoniously and shockingly (to you) voted out of Aso Rock Villa; no thanks to Rotimi Amaechi and other gallant democrats. I imagined your abysmal pain, your colossal loss, and the awful, dreadful end to your Aso Rock meal ticket; and tried to situate your profound angst, uncontrollable anger and intense hatred for Rotimi Amaechi because of the key role he played (which was noble) in dislodging your principal, which inadvertently took away your source of livelihood. Honestly, I tried to understand how you felt and that made it less difficult to ignore your early meaningless and nonsensical vituperations against Amaechi. But for how long will you stay angry and mad at Amaechi for playing a key role in the removal of your boss? As a pastor (that is one prefix in front of one of your names I can’t seem to wrap my head around), you ought to know that the Bible tells Christians not to hold a grudge or stay angry. In your case it’s been such a long time-almost two years after your principal lost the Presidential election.

My dear Wendell Simlin aka Reno Omokri, your recent tirade, like the previous ones targeted at Rotimi Amaechi clearly signposts a dark vengeful heart. You called Amaechi a ‘confirmed liar’ and questioned his sanity; while the reality is that you are the one who had consistently lied and is still lying to Nigerians, faking documents and faking news to deceive Nigerians.

Tell me where, when and how Amaechi lied? Did Amaechi lie when he said recently in the interview with some national newspapers that the then CBN(Central Bank of Nigeria) governor, the same Sanusi Lamido Sanusi that you faked documents to demonized, wrote a letter to your principal our then President, that $49 billion cannot be accounted for and so was missing from NNPC account and not paid to the federation account?

Was it because Sanusi had the guts and courage to write the letter of the missing $49 billion to your principal that made you fake documents and social media accounts that designed to portray Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as a sponsor of terrorists?

Was Amaechi lying when he said in the same interview that if the missing billions of dollars were deployed for developmental projects by your principal’s administration, the infrastructural gap we suffer today won’t be this huge and half of the missing money is enough to build the rail projects we are now going to borrow money from China for?

Did Amaechi lie when he said your principal did not save money in spite of the huge savings he inherited from previous administrations and was surreptitiously spending alone the money meant for Federal, States and Local Government Councils? Was Amaechi lying when he said your principal’s administration refused to call NEC (National Economic Council) meetings for about two years, in violation of the constitution, so that the administration you were part of, can covertly continue to spend the money meant for the three tiers of government?

Does it not trouble you that there seems to be an obvious link between the missing billions Sanusi Lamido Sanusi wrote about to your principal and the billons of naira and other currencies that were allegedly squandered on frivolities like the N2 billion supposedly given to marabouts to pray for your principal’s election victory or the N4 billion for propaganda work and many others? How do you even sleep at night?

You say Amaechi lied and no money was missing; yet billions in Naira and other currencies are being recovered regularly from top operatives of your principal’s administration.

You even went as low as writing that Amaechi consistently betrays his benefactors without mentioning one benefactor he betrayed; and the accusations from matters that are in court. How low can you go?

While you questioned the sanity of Amaechi, many Nigerians feel pity for you and know that you are the one who needs psychiatric and perhaps spiritual help. You are like a mad man in the market square that points his fingers at sane people, calling them mad. The Amaechi I know will not apologize for the prominent role he played to remove your boss from the Villa. Your principal is gone and gone for good; perhaps, he may never return to Aso Rock as its landlord. No amount of demonizing Amaechi would reverse this. The earlier you get over the loss, the better for you, mentally and otherwise, Wendell Simlin aka Reno Omokri.

Iyofor wrote from Abuja

Reno Omokri’s Amnesia and Illusion of Knowledge – By Richard Tayo

You might not know me but my name is Richard Tayo. I am the same guy who wrote a letter to a certain ally of yours titled “Stellar Hypocrisy on Show: Letter to Senator Ben Murray Bruce”. You may seek to block me on Twitter as it is customary of you but here is a spoiler alert; I am not your follower.

For one Reno, or can I simply address you as Wendell? I read that you are a Pastor. I want to say that if you are truly a pastor then I respect the anointing upon you. I have no grouse with Reno Omokri the Pastor.

However I have every bone to pick with Reno the critic. I have problems with Reno the hypocrite and I certainly have problems with your amnesia and illusion of knowledge. I feel compelled to ­reject the views of hypocrites. I see hypocrisy as a vice and a symptom of incompetence or insincerity, I think you should be exceedingly careful about letting your emotions color your judgments of substantive issues.

This letter is not about Ex President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan (GEJ). Howbeit I can’t properly address your amnesia and illusion of knowledge without reference to GEJ. The rate at which you sing praises of GEJ to high heaven is alarming. Actually, I observed that our democratic process has brought us some sense of loyalty which is a good ingredient for development. The loyalty between leaders and followers recently has increased tremendously and this auspicate good tidings for our national development. However, I wonder if your case is loyalty or plain sycophancy.

Now let me touch on your amnesia a little. You are so unoriginal, you are just like every other guy before you who hates President Buhari. You seem to have forgotten that everything you’ve tweeted about PMB’s administration to date as it’s shortcomings are not what you can exculpate the administration you served from.

All you seem to have on this administration is the economic recession, forgetting that the administration you served laid the foundation. Now let’s peruse a little; OBJ saved $67billion, spent N27trillion in 8years and left almost zero debt.

GEJ inherited about $47.7billion, spent N51trillion in 6years, left a debt of about $63billion. All these were inspite of the unprecedented oil boom during his regime yet as GEJ apologist you never stopped your cacophony of Nigeria been the largest economy in Africa under him. What a pity

Now to your illusion of knowledge and your so called #RenosNuggets. Where were the #Nuggets you flood twitter with on daily basis when your actions made you a liability to GEJ’s presidential ambition? Little wonder your vile marque of overzealousness was responsible for your replacement with Obi Asika. One would have expected your little #Nuggets to be your watchwords. Obviously your #Nuggets are only applicable to the gullible followers you placate daily on Twitter. What a shame!

The more I see you refer to Lai Mohammed as a liar the more I wanna smash my phone against the wall. It’s a visible case of pot calling kettle black. Imagine Reno ‘Wendell Simlin’ Omokri called someone a liar, this world done spoil finish.

Imagine a world full of honesty, a world without deceit, a world deprived off lies. It all sounds wonderful, but beware of what you wish for. And that is because the likes of you Reno Omokri might not be able to survive in such world.

 

#RichardTayoNuggets

@richardtayo

Aide to ex-President, Reno Omokri gets slammed for his anti-women tweets.

A media aide to the former president of Nigeria, Mr Reno Omokri has been slammed in a reply to his tweets about virginity on Twitter.

Mr Reno who took to his Twitter account with his usual ‘#RenoNuggets’ to talk about female virginity, tweeted;

Teach your daughters to keep their virginity until marriage. Even on products it’s written ‘do not purchase if seal is broken’.

This particular tweet attracted the somewhat harsh response from another Twitter user with the username @SeeDaneRun (Dane Rauschenberg)

Dane Rauschenburg went further to describe Reno’s tweet as disgusting, sexist, misguided and abhorrent.

Mr Reno is well known for his ‘nuggets’ which in most cases come across as ill-thought, incoherent and bereft of logic.

Recall that Mr Reno Omokri had used the now infamous moniker, Wendell Simlin, in his attempt to link the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Lamido Sanusi, to the terrorist group Boko Haram.

Back in February 2014, Mr. Omokri wound up in a scandal after digital footprint of an article that tried to link the spike in Boko Haram attack to the suspension of Mr. Sanusi as CBN governor was traced to him.

Mr. Omokri allegedly used the pseudonym, Wendel Simlin, in the article circulated to bloggers and journalists but the document digital signature was identical to previous documents Mr. Omokri had sent to media houses across the country.

Mr Omokri however, since 2014 is yet to claim or refute these allegation.

What Mr Reno Omokri tweeted:

Dane Rauschenberg replied with:

Dane Rauschenberg wen on to tweet:

Reno Omokri Defends Buhari Over Alleged Lopsided Appointments

Former Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan on New Media, Reno Omokri  on Tuesday made a case for Buhari over the president’s alleged lopsided appointments saying appointments should be made on merit and not sectional interests. Omokiri made the statement in his article titled As Buhari blazes the trail for merit.

Read article:

Recently there was a big uproar about the appointments made by President Buhari. I disagreed with those who complained that the President’s appointment were lopsided.

Appointments should not be made on the basis of ethnicity, region or religion.Appointments should be made strictly on merit!

As far as I am concerned, the President can appoint all his appointees from the same state as long as they are the best Nigeria has to offer.

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Kano APC Rally Photo Scandal: Reno Omokri Reports Osinbajo to Reinhard Bonke (See Tweets)

Reno Omokri, on the Kano APC rally scandal, took on his twitter to tag both APC presidential VP candidate, Prof. Osinbajo, and International Evangelist, Reinhard Bonke.

He accused Prof. Osinbajo of borrowing a Reinhard Bonke crusade photo and asked him if he remembered to pay for copyright royalties. See tweets below:

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Why President Jonathan Would Win In 2015, Reno Omokri Opens Up

My dear brothers and sisters, a number of you have asked me, particularly on Social Media, why I think President GoodluckJonathan deserves your vote. I will use this space to answer that question headlong and unequivocally, because I believe with every fiber of my being that reelecting President Jonathan is the best course of action that Nigerians can take if we do not want to go back to the old ways in which the government dictated to us rather than related to us.

Everything about the emergence of President Jonathan as the candidate of the PDP shows his party and it’s candidate as the only truly national candidate. The National Convention in the Federal Capital Territory, which is known as the ‘Center of Unity’ was auspicious and befitting as the PDP is the only political party that projects one united and indivisible Nigeria.

Nigerians can take pride in the PDP and its pan Nigerian credentials. The party does not have regional bases. The whole nation is its base.

The ruling has a unique ability to unite as a party that goes on to unite Nigeria as a nation.

The PDP is the largest party in Africa and under this banner, we have grown our economy to the point where it is now the largest economy in Africa proving that as the PDP grows stronger, Nigeria grows stronger.

And with all due respect, the choice between the PDP’s candidate, President Goodluck Jonathan and the opposition’s candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari is clear.

Lagosians who are today escaping Lagos traffic via the air conditioned Goodluck train must be under no illusion that this service just appeared from nowhere. No. It came about via a visionary long term plan whose ultimate goal when fully implanted will see a Lagos-Ibadan High Speed metro line that will enable people live in Ibadan and work in Lagos. The contract was signed in August 2012 for $1.5 billion and the management of the Chinese Firm CCECC has mobilized to site.

The project itself, being part of the Interstate Rail Project, has been listed by KPMG as one of the world’s top 100 infrastructure projects!

This is a fulfillment of the idea that Alhaji Lateef KayodeJakande had way back in 1982-3 but which was delayed when the military thought they had murdered that idea by cancelingthe project. But that project has been given new life today by the President Goodluck Jonathan administration because as Thomas Sankara said “you cannot kill ideas”.

Some people erroneously think that President Jonathan will not do well in the 2015 election in Katsina State, but the people of Katsina will vote for President Jonathan because he built the only Federal University in Katsina state as well as the only 6 Almajiri schools in that state. Before the ascension of the President to power, Katsina and 11 other states had no Federal Universities.!

Read more at http://dailypost.ng/2014/12/16/reno-omokri-jonathan-will-win-2015/

If Your Name Is Lai: President Jonathan’s Twitter Representative Fires Puerile Shot On Twitter

Supposed Special Assistant to the President on New Media, assumed Pastor Reno Omokri yesterday went down the path that he has now become known for on social media; the childish and thoughtless path, when he tweeted, “The new spelling of lie is Lai,” in apparent reference to the interim Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives’ Congress, Alh. Lai Mohammed who many regard as a thorn in the side of the Jonathan regime. Pastor Mr. Reno Omokri’s tweet did not go without fire from fellow twitter users. One of the responders @MrEnclave (Olumuyiwa Olumide) tweeted back at Mr. Omokri saying, “And the new spelling of mockery is Omokri.” Others were less subtle as words like “He-goat” were used in describing his name.

Twitter users like Editi Effiong @EditiEffiong expressed regret that national debate had gone down the path of abuses and name-calling. Mr. Effiong, of Anakle tweeted, “So we’re down to insulting people’s ames. What an absolute shame.” He also went ahead to tweet, “How is ‘Omokri means ‘he-goat’ elevating the conversation? Later, we’ll say the conversation should be issues based.”

Mr. Omokri once tweeted that northerners in Nigeria were “parasites” but he later claimed his account was hacked after coming under ferocious attack from Nigeria’s unforgiving Twittersphere. He is yet to make the same claim on this particular gaffe even though some twitter users refused to believe his account wasn’t hacked to release such a tweet. @oged07  tweeted “His account was clearly hacked. Such unprofessionalism. SMH.” (SMH means Shaking My Head).

No apologies or claims of a hacked account have been made but in a country where impunity is the norm, many will not be expecting an apology soon.

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