Reno Omokri, a former aide to President Goodluck Jonathan, has stated that Kashim Shettima, a vice presidential candidate for the All Progressives Congress (APC), purposefully dressed shabbily to the Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) in order to divert Nigerians’ attention.
Through his verified Facebook page on Tuesday, August 23, Reno said that Shettima, a former banker, should have known better than to dress so shabbily for a public event.
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According to him, the vice presidential candidate for the APC dressed that way to divert attention away from the party’s presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who may have travelled to Paris for medical reasons.
Omokri said;
I am a deep thinker. I even think in my sleep. Too often, I have suddenly woken up in the early hours of the morning with a solution, or insight, to a challenge or puzzle, or riddle my mind was ideating upon.
And knowing what I know about Senator Kashim Shettima, it was obvious to me that he knew better than to dress so shabbily to an event that the nation had been focusing on. He is a former banker. He is used to corporate dressing. He knows how to wear a suit and tie with the right pairs of shoes.
As a matter of fact, I Googled him, and behold, there was not one, but five photos of him properly suited up in well fitting suits, with the right button buttoned, and shod with the appropriate pair of shoes, including the power dressing he projected when he gave an interview to CNN.
Shettima, Deep Thinker
Omokri further acknowledged Shettima as a very deep thinker who knows better than to dress shabbily for such an event.
According to him, it was probably a diversionary ploy to allow Tinubu to slip unnoticed out of the country for a medical trip.
He noted;
You see, when something is too obvious, then it may not be as obvious as we think. My intel on Shettima is that, like me, he is also a deep thinker. And unlike me, I am informed that he is very calculating. He is not vain. He is capable of looking the fool and wearing a poker face, if it will help him pull off a classic sleight of hand!
Hillary Clinton once said “if I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle”. Nigerians are now laughing at Kashim Shettima.
But the man is laughing at us. Everybody is talking about him. But nobody noticed that Tinubu may have sneaked out of Nigeria to fix his health in Europe.
