Reno Omokri, a former presidential aide to the ex-president of Nigeria, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has decried the move by Twitter users to ban him on the social media platform.
Nigerians on the microblogging site issued the petition to ban the social media commentator on Twitter, for writing a comment many felt could incite the Hausas against the Igbos.
This was after an interview Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, granted on Arise TV on Wednesday, June 6th.
In the interview, Obi, reacting to an earlier interview Rabiu Kwankwaso, the presidential flag bearer of New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) said;
The comment from my respected elder brother, Kwankwaso, is the reason why we have 100 million Nigerians living in poverty and the reason why we have 18 million Nigerian children out of school.
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He continued;
It is the reason why we have over 55% of Nigerians on the under or unemployment ladder. It is the reason why Nigeria is unsecured, because rather than vote for competence, we choose to vote for incompetence based on a primitive consideration of ethnicity and religion.
Show me where you can buy food cheaper, where you have uninterrupted electricity or where people are prospering in the North because northerners are in power? In the South West because they are in power? or in the South East.
What we’ve chosen to do in this country is to consistently hire vehicle drivers to fly the Nigerian airplane instead of hiring qualified pilots.
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After the interview, Reno Omokri commented that Obi considered himself a pilot and Kwankwanso a mere driver and said that the people of Kano and the North have heard his comment.
Nigerians on Twitter, however, said his comments are inflammatory and could cause an ethnic crisis and are asking Twitter to ban him.
Reacting to the petition, Reno lamented that his life is being threatened.
Watch what they are doing to me.
That is exactly what they will do to anyone critical of Peter Obi if he becomes President.
There will be no free speech. Only mob justice.
They threatened my life. Then they threatened my one year old daughter. Why? Because I criticized their god and messiah.
What exactly did I say? I said Peter Obi was wrong to describe himself as a pilot and other Presidential candidates as “mere drivers” and “substitute players.”
That is why they are threatening my life. If I was in Nigeria, they would have sent unknown gunmen after me.
Now, imagine if Rabiu Kwankwaso had described himself as a pilot and other Presidential aspirants, and Peter Obi in particularly, as ‘mere drivers’. What will they do? I reported their threat to my life to Peter Obi directly. He did nothing.
The threats are becoming too much. My life is at risk. If anything happens to me, my wife, my children, or my siblings, the world should hold Peter Obi responsible. He has raised a horde of intolerant and violent Obidients who just want to replace Buhari’s tyranny with theirs!
