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Paul Ibe, the long-serving spokesperson of former Vice President of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has launched a blistering counterattack against political commentator and former presidential aide, Reno Omokri, accusing him of treachery, hypocrisy, and opportunism in a no-holds-barred public statement.

In a sharply worded retort shared via social media, Ibe described Omokri as the embodiment of “psychological projection” and labeled him an “insecure man so desperate to escape his own failures that he accuses others of the very flaws that define him.”

Taking issue with Omokri’s insinuations about Atiku Abubakar and himself, Ibe declared that linking the concept of credibility with Reno Omokri was nothing short of “an oxymoron so wild it should be banned by both logic and language.”

“Reno, you need help. Whether clinical or spiritual, that’s for you to decide. But what’s beyond dispute is that you are a master of treachery, a Judas Iscariot — an unrepentant opportunist whose reputation precedes him like a foul stench,” Ibe wrote.

He further ridiculed Omokri’s claims of past goodwill from Atiku Abubakar, suggesting that any such contact was merely opportunistic. “That phone call you trumpet was likely just another pit stop in your never-ending pilgrimage for personal ‘goodness.’ Your kind of goodness isn’t ethical — it’s transactional, scavenging like a hyena sniffing out its next meal,” he said.

In a pointed jab at Omokri’s repeated attacks on Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi, Ibe questioned Omokri’s moral compass and motives: “You also said you never attack your friends unless they strike first. Really? Then what did Peter Obi ever do to deserve your endless, pedestrian, vitriolic, and acerbic attacks? Or was his popularity simply a threat to your ego?”

Ibe also tore into Omokri’s self-professed pastoral persona, accusing him of failing in every moral category, including faith and family. “You parade yourself as a pastor, but you are a pastor just like Simon the Sorcerer. Your fidelity to God, truth, and even family is non-existent. A man who has no qualms about having two wives preaching morality to others? That’s comedy dipped in hypocrisy,” he asserted.

Mocking Omokri’s perceived shifting political loyalties, Ibe stated: “And now, you want a political wife in Tinubu and a side chick in Atiku? Sorry, Reno. Nigeria isn’t your polygamous playground. That riverside romance has failed — spectacularly. Ashawo kobo kobo!”

He challenged Omokri to focus on more pressing issues of national interest rather than deflecting with distractions. “Instead of clowning around on the imaginary Lagos-Calabar expressway, why not explain how Government College Lagos managed to award a certificate to ‘Bola A. Tinubu’ in 1970 — two full years before the school was established?” he asked.

Pushing further, Ibe dared Omokri to return to his former activist stance: “If you really care about truth and character, join the call for the FBI to release Tinubu’s drug records in the United States. Or has your newfound loyalty erased your former fire and fury about his criminal past?”

Describing Omokri as someone whose views change “faster than a wind-tossed leaflet,” Ibe said the former aide to President Goodluck Jonathan had become “expendable,” “loud,” “desperate,” and “utterly irrelevant.”

He ended his statement with a sarcastic flourish: “Reno, oh, Reno, what a Mockery!”

The confrontation highlights growing tensions within Nigeria’s political commentariat, where former allies now trade barbs in public over ideological betrayals and shifting loyalties. Neither Reno Omokri nor his representatives have responded publicly to Paul Ibe’s remarks at the time of this publication.

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