A former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, has revealed the role he and Senator Murray Bruce played in the selection of a former Anambra State governor, Peter Obi, as Atiku Abubakar’s running mate.
Four years before Obi defected to the Labour Party from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2023, he was selected by Atiku to be his running mate in the 2019 presidential election.
While speaking on a podcast, Omokri revealed that he and Bruce played a significant role in Obi’s election during that period, adding that he “packaged” the former Anambra governor.
He said, “I and Senator Ben Bruce were responsible for Waziri Atiku picking Peter Obi as his running mate in 2019. We packaged Peter Obi like he was the next best thing after sliced bread.”
Omokri added that it was through him that the former Anambra Governor met a former British Prime Minister who served between 2019 and 2022, Boris Johnson.
“It was not Obi who went to Boris Johnson. He can’t deny it because I am a meticulous record keeper. If he wants to deny it, I will get the number of the British House of Lords member, Lord Daniel Hannan, to confirm.
“He was the one who arranged it. He is my friend. I said we want to see Boris Johnson and we are going to bring him along and that was how it happened. We were packaging this man,” Omokri added.
While expressing his perception of Obi, Omokri noted that he does not have an affinity for him, but did all he did because former president Goodluck Jonathan, whom he was loyal to, instructed him to.
“I don’t particularly like Peter Obi. The reason I was doing that was because I was instructed by former President Jonathan that he was the one he wanted.
“Dont forget this is a man who wrote in his book that I am the most loyal person that was in his government,” Omokri added.
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