Former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, has described Garba Shehu as “a paid sycophant, who lies without fear of God.”
Shehu, President Muhammadu Buhari’s media aide, had when he appeared on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme on Monday, blamed Nigerians for poor ranking of Nigeria on Transparency International’s 2020 Corruption Perception Index.
Shehu had said, “I’ll tell you that this one by TI is not a judgment on Buhari or his administration or its war against corruption, I will tell you that this one is judgement on Nigerians because if you look at the indices, they used at arriving at these conclusions, they used eight indices, six of which showed Nigeria as being more or less in the same position.”
But in responding in a series of tweets on his verified Twitter handle on Tuesday, Omokri wrote:
“On Monday, February 1, 2021, Nigerians woke up to a rather shocking accusation. @GarShehu blamed us for Nigeria’s abysmal Transparency International new Corruption Perception Index rating and absolved his boss, General @MBuhari of any responsibility.
“Garba Shehu, @GarShehu, is a man without credibility. He is described by @AishaMBuhari, #Buhari’s wife, as a dishonest human being, and he has serially proven that that assessment is accurate by his many untrue statements, some of which I will list.
“Some of @GarShehu’s lies include the lie that bandits abducted only 10 Kankara boys, that @MBuhari has secured Nigeria, that ‘Nigeria achieved the record of the 2nd largest rice producer in the world’ (Nigeria is not even among the top 10 producers).
“@GarShehu is a paid sycophant, who lies without fear of God. To prove Buhari is irresponsible and incapable of leading Nigeria to anything other than total destruction, I will now list 20 reasons why @MBuhari is corrupt and the TI rating is justified.”
“According to a former @MBuhari insider, @farooqkperogi, #Buhari’s nephew, Sabiu ‘Tunde’ Yusuf, who used to sell recharge cards in Daura, is now a trillionaire in Naira, without any known source of income, wielding power and flies about in private jets.”