‘You’re A Busybody Consultant’, Omokri Knocks Ex-US Ambassador Over Comment On Jonathan

Former media aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, has fired back at Peter Campbell, describing the US diplomat, as a “busybody consultant” following comments he made about his former principal’s wife.

Campbell, a former US ambassador to Nigeria, had said former first lady Patience Jonathan was arrogant and flamboyant during her husband’s time as president.

He said the former first lady should be convicted of crimes she allegedly committed.

The ex-ambassador also alleged that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, are behind the push back against President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption campaign.

According to him, the move to arrest Ibrahim Magu, acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), by the House of Representatives, was spearheaded by southern Christian and the PDP.

Responding to the allegation via his Facebook page on Sunday, Omokri said the move by Campbell to insult the former first lady sunk his reputation to a record low.

“Ambassador Campbell should be informed that while it is the custom of his clients to consign women to ‘the other room’, President Jonathan had no such inclination and has the proud distinction of being the first and only Nigerian leader to have reserved 35% of all appointive positions at the federal level to women,” he wrote.

“Empowering women does not mean that you have made them arrogant. Former president Goodluck Jonathan empowered women and no one, not even Ambassador John Campbell, can put that genie back in the bottle.

“If Ambassador Campbell’s busybody-ness cannot be contained, then I advise him to get busy writing about the $26 billion NNPC, monumental fraud, the former SGF, Babachir Lawal’s grass cutter scandal and the indicted transport minister, Rotimi Amaechi, who admitted to spending $1 million on a one-day dinner for Professor Wole Soyinka.

“The house of representatives is a legally constituted legislative body with powers to summon and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is a legally constituted law enforcement body that should be subject to the law.

“How Ambassador Campbell can expect his readers to believe that a minority party like the PDP can dominate the House of Representatives, led on all fronts by members of the ruling All Progressive Congress beats the imagination,” Omokri added.

“Moreover, not that it should matter, but there are more Muslims than Christians in the house of representatives. How Ambassador Campbell wants any sane person to believe that Christians dominate Muslims in the house of representatives and have led them to issue a warrant of arrest on the acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission agains beggars belief.”