Reno Omokri, a staunch supporter of the 2023 Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has written an open letter to him and the party.
Read letter below:
It has been said that a person’s
worst enemy is the individual who feeds their weaknesses and vulnerabilities.
The 2023 election is over. Peter Obi defeated us, not Bola Tinubu. By
contesting an election he knew he could not win, Peter Obi stole away votes
that would naturally have come to the Peoples Democratic Party (the Southeast
has always voted PDP since 1999. Only 2023 was an exception). That is why we
lost.
As a true friend of the Peoples
Democratic Party, I told Peter Obi this before the election. I also said the
same thing to Waziri Atiku Abubakar. I said if we did not find a way to
convince Peter Obi not to run, then we would have to take him on head-on
because there was not enough space for both him and Waziri Atiku on the plinth
of victory. But that is now history.
The fact of the matter is that
the current trajectory of our party is very similar to the election denial that
prevailed in the Republican Party after the 2020 election.
Pinning all our hopes on a
smoking gun from Chicago State University that failed to manifest shows that we
have reached the end of our ropes.
Let us face the truth. AriseTV
and other irresponsible media got our hopes up unnecessarily. Chicago State
University never denied Bola Tinubu. That was a big fat lie from Rufai Oseni,
@ruffydfire a corrupt journalist sponsored by Peter Obi, a rival of Mr. Tinubu.
A meticulous reading of Mr.
Westberg’s deposition shows that he affirmed Mr. Tinubu three times as a bona
fide graduate; they once issued him a diploma certificate.
Under normal circumstances, it
would be apparent to us that there is no case here. Chicago State University,
through its registrar, Mr. Caleb Westberg, has testified under oath that Bola
Tinubu, the male now President of Nigeria, was admitted, attended, and
graduated from their institution.
They never denied his
credentials. What they said, both in their affidavit and the deposition that
followed, is that they could not attest to the diploma tendered by Bola Tinubu
to the Independent National Electoral Commission, not because Bola Tinubu did
not graduate from their university but because a third-party vendor issued it,
and certificates are more of “a Nigerian thing”.
In case members of my party do
not know, in November 2022, this same Mr. Mike Enahoro-Ebah attempted to
disqualify Mr. Tinubu on exactly these same grounds, and an FCT Magistrate
Court struck out his case without being assigned. And we think the Supreme
Court will give credence to what a Magistrate Court dismissed?
What do we now want to prove at
the Supreme Court, even in the unlikely event we are allowed to present new
evidence? That Bola Tinubu forged a diploma for a degree that he legitimately
earned? If not for desperation, why would the great PDP that produced
Presidents Obasanjo, Yar’adua, and Jonathan even consider clutching at such
weak straws? It is like saying a man forged a cheque for an account in his
name!
Bola Tinubu’s political foes have
clutched at this straw before, in 1999 and 2003, and failed. And that is what
we now want to hold onto in 2023? Twenty years after it failed?
The people behind this
desperation are almost all agents of Peter Obi. They don’t love Waziri Atiku
Abubakar or the PDP. It is a strategy of using Waziri to fight Asiwaju, hoping
they cancel each other and that a rerun election is ordered, which Peter Obi
will win. They fail to consider that, as of today, that is yes daddily
impossible.
Waziri Atiku Abubakar would have
been a better president than Bola Tinubu. But we were outsmarted by Bola
Tinubu. Our redemption will not come from Chicago. It will come from facing
reality and ensuring we do not have a divided house in 2027.
I have been more loyal to the PDP
than those now trying to make something out of nothing. And if I cannot tell my
party the truth, then, to borrow the words of Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians
15:19, I am of all men most miserable!
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@RENO Monkey abi OMOKri. Who bewitched you? Who do you?
ReplyDeleteWhat a shame that at your age with kids, you are still engaged in ASHAWO politics..