In his desperation over my recent expose about his 2015 blackmail targeted at me, Omoyele Sowore has today (Sunday, July 19, 2020) produced so called proof that I once worked with Nasir El-Rufai. Omoyele Sowore did not have to provide proof. I admit it. I admitted it while I worked with former President Jonathan. It is no secret. El-Rufai and I were once close. That is why El-Rufai felt comfortable enough to send me an email in which Southern Nigerian women were referred to as “whores”. The friendship ended in October 2010, when El-Rufai left the PDP to join Buhari’s CPC. I told El-Rufai I could not join him to support a man I had been fighting all my adult life. Thereafter we parted ways. If you Google it, you will see photos of El-Rufai and I, that I released while working as President Jonathan’s spokesman. In fact, when El-Rufai’s daughter, Yasmin, died, in February 2012, I went to visit him, despite knowing that he (El-Rufai) had leaked negative information about me to Sahara Reporters. I sat on the floor with El-Rufai and I wept with him, a man I knew was spreading falsehoods against me. Thereafter, I took out a full page condolence advert on his behalf in ThisDay newspapers, with other mutual friends. That is how a child of God behaves. Romans 12:21 urges us “do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.” Prior to that time, I spent good sums of money assisting Nasir El-Rufai, and bought him his first iPad as a gift (see attached email), as well as set up and managed his social media profiles, which I promoted with my own money (he later refunded me). Such was my generosity to El-Rufai that when my late father, Justice Jean Omokri, died in 2010, El-Rufai wrote in his condolence as follows:
“I first knew his son, Reno Omokri who displayed a loyal friendship to me. I recall writing Reno a letter saying to him that his generosity and loyalty continues to amaze me. It was when I got to know his father that I knew where those traits came from.”
You will note the words “loyal friendship”. Even my enemies recognise my loyalty. Can anyone say that about Omoyele Sowore?
Reno Omokri, is a former Media Aide to immediate past Nigeria President, Gospeller. Deep Thinker. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Avid traveller. Hollywood Magazine Film Festival Humanitarian of the Year, 2019 among other things.
