2023: Omokri Ignores S/East, Declares Atiku ‘The Only Man Who Can Unite North, South’

A former aide to ex-president Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, has described former vice president Atiku Abubakar as the only man who can unite the country and bring prosperity to its citizens.

This is just as Omokri endorsed Atiku as the most qualified candidate to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2023 election.

He said apart from being able to unite the North and the South, the former vice president has what it takes to end poverty in the country.

Omokri shared a photo of Atiku on his social media accounts on Monday with the following caption:

“Look at him. Looking young, fit, trendy and in full holiday mood and mode. Alhaji @AAtiku Abubakar. By the grace of God, my choice as the next President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria who will help us bid farewell to poverty and welcome to prosperity!

“I wholeheartedly, with my full chest, endorse and support Atiku Abubakar to run for President in 2023 on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, and I urge all my supporters around Nigeria to throw their support behind the only man who can unite North and South at this delicate time in our national life.”

Atiku was the 2019 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Omokri, who served as Jonathan’s special assistant on new media, had in September backed the Northern Governors Forum’s rejection of power shift to the South, saying he wants power to remain in the North after 2023 to teach Southerners the power of unity.

“…Southerners united with Northerners to betray an innocent Southerner in 2015 and expect Northerners to trust them?

“Even you, will you trust someone who sells his next door neighbour to you? Betrayers are by their very nature unreliable. If they can betray one so close to them to you, they can also betray you to others. Look at Femi Fani-Kayode. No Northerner can ever exhibit such a trait! Tueh!” he wrote in an Instagram post.

Meanwhile in 2019, after the Yoruba Council of Elders and other prominent groups and individuals called for the presidency to be zoned to the South West in 2023, Omokri had said “if zoning should lead to anyone’s turn, it should be the Southeast’s turn.”

Nigeria’s presidential zoning practice, which can be traced to the annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential elections, is a  gentleman’s agreement designed to ensure that no region of the country is permanently excluded from power.