Reno Omokri engages in a banter with Peter Obi’s supporters over his controversial tweets

The Nigerian online space, which has always been very interesting, is becoming feisty these days, no thanks to this season of pre-election politics.

However, things often get nasty as they degenerate to the level of personal attacks by opposing supporters of politicians contesting electoral offices in the forthcoming 2023 general elections.

Some online influencers, especially on Twitter, have at some point been at the receiving end of such personal attacks for tweets that supporters of some presidential candidates consider are against the interest of their principals.

The latest to face such retaliatory attacks is a former media aide to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri.Reno Omokri is known for making unsavory and disparaging remarks about the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, and his supporters, in his tweets.

However, this time around he is currently getting more than he bargained for from supporters of the former Governor of Anambra State over his recent series of tweets.

Reno is in the eye of the storm!

It all began with a tweet in which he accused Obi of making condescending comments about the presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) and other candidates in the presidential race, during an Arise TV interview.

In the tweet, he said that if he were Kwankwaso, he would do a voiceover of what Obi said about him in the Hausa language and broadcast it widely in the North.

He took the matter even further by tweeting a Hausa language translation of the tweet. He also posted the translation on his Facebook page.

As to be expected, his tweet did not sit well with Obi’s supporters.

The OBIdients, as Obi’s supporters call themselves, viewed his tweet as going overboard beyond the regular political banter to causing bad blood between ethnic nationalities. Three of them wrote an online petition on Change.org requesting Twitter to ban Reno from the app for tweets capable of inciting ethnic hatred and a possible ethnic crisis.

That petition has gathered close to 120 thousand signatures as of this moment.

From then on the encounter between Reno and the OBIdients turned really nasty as it degenerated into personal attacks and even threats of bodily harm as Reno later claimed in subsequent tweets. The former presidential media aide, who lives in California in the United States of America, claimed that he is being stalked by Obi’s supporters. He even placed vicarious responsibility for any harm that comes to him or his family on Obi.

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However, instead of retreating, he continues to stoke the fire relentlessly with a series of provocative tweets. Of course, the OBIdients would return the fire, thus setting up a huge fierce supremacy battle whose end might not come soon because none of the warring parties is willing to call for a truce.

Reno has boasted that the Obidients picked the wrong candidate to attack or bully, adding that he survived worse orchestrated attacks in the past and would come out of this one unscathed.