P resident Goodluck Jonathan has retooled his
social media team, sidelining his increasingly
controversial point man, Reno Omokri by
appointing Obi Asika as the new senior special
assistant on social media. Mr. Jonathan move is
seen as an apparent maneuver to re-energize his
social media image following a growing slide in
his electoral fortunes as well as a series of
scandals involving Mr. Omokri, who until now
shaped and ran the incumbent president’s
campaign on social media.
Reno Omokri
A source at the Presidency told SaharaReporters
that Mr. Omokri, who returned from California to
boost President Jonathan’s political campaigns in
2011, had become a huge liability and source of
distraction. Mr. Omokri, who also doubles as a
pastor, came to be known as “Wendell Simlin"
after tech-savvy Nigerian social media activists
caught him red-handed as he circulated reports
on the Internet that claimed to have found a link
between former Central Bank Governor, Sanusi
Lamido Sanusi, and Islamist terror group Boko
Haram. Enterprising social media sleuths
discovered that the so-called reports implicating
Mr. Sanusi as a sponsor of Boko Haram were first
created on and disseminated from Mr. Omokri's
personal computer in Abuja.
A few weeks ago, a California-based woman,
Deborah Campbell, who was once married to a
relative of Mr. Omokri’s, told SaharaReporters
that the presidential aide had stolen her son's
identity to engage in the circulation of fraudulent
news that smeared Mr. Sanusi, who is now the
Emir of Kano. Mr. Reno never denied the
woman’s allegations.
Last week, Mr. Omokri was accused of leading
policemen to burglarize a house in Warri, Delta
State that belonged to his late mother. The
occupants of the house, including Alex Oyoro, a
well known PDP political figure in Delta State,
alleged that Mr. Omokri had led a group of thugs
and mobile police officers who broke into the
property and stole N25 million in cash. The
money, according to Mr. Oyoro, was meant for
Mr. Jonathan’s re-election campaign.
Mr. Omokri denied being physically present at the
scene of the burglary, claiming he was at his desk
in Abuja and also doing some pastoral work at
the time of the reported burglary.
A source at the Presidency told SaharaReporters
that, in an attempt to present a more humane
outlook as his electoral fortunes slip and his
popularity plummets at home and abroad, Mr.
Jonathan decided to push Mr. Omokri aside. Mr.
Obi Asika, who has been elevated to serve as the
new presidential strategist on social media, was
described as one of the co-organizers of “Social
Media Week” in Lagos. “Obi Asika is a serious
personality who is also refined and self-
controlled,” a source at the Presidency said.
Apart from his dubious activities and
cantankerous personality, Mr. Omokri has
committed a series of blunders in recent months
that cast Mr. Jonathan’s campaign in bad light.
He organized two online polls that eventually
showed that President Jonathan would lose the
2015 elections to the opposition APC presidential
candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, by a wide margin.
Several sources at the Presidency said Mr.
Omokri’s cup became full after he engineered a
poll on Twitter where informal posts showed that
Mr. Jonathan’s electoral prospects had become
wretched. “That ill-advised Twitter poll backfired
and caused embarrassment to Mr. President,”
said a source close to the Jonathan campaign.
In a short email obtained by SaharaReporters
earlier today, presidential spokesman Reuben
Abati confirmed Mr. Asika's appointment to take
charge of the president’s social media coverage.
A source in the Presidency disclosed that Mr.
Omokri was now in a subordinate position to Mr.
Asika in the hierarchy of aides working on the
president’s social media image.
“If Reno decides to remain here, he will have to
be reporting to Obi Asika,” a source at the
Presidency revealed.

http://saharareporters.com/2015/02/17/jonathan-sidelines-omokri-appoints-asika-new-social-media-strategist

Jonathanohhhhh makes another move....


We are waiting.... Obi welcome on board, we are waiting for you and your ****tribal deleted***** made ideas.

pictures of Obi Asika

@reno.....is that Goodluck or hardone on you?!

If dem like make dem appoint Tools of beat fm.i still rep CHANGE

End of the road for Omokirikiri.

News of the day

GEJ sure know what He's doin.
Sure Omokri understands.
He will have his place after march.

Uummmh, No amount of media propaganda can change the situation on ground, the fact remains that people are tired of the situation and don't wanna listen to anything again.

Ah this is very funny. So no more PDP money changing hands with nairaland ogas. No more pdp e-rats. no more money flowing

Jonathan using and dumping Omo-kirikiri like tissue paper gives me joy.

But the problem is not the hawkers but that it is an expired product we have in Abuja.

I hope he base his own campaign on issues not religion, tribalism and lies like the other president team has done in the past.

Lmao!! Confused folks. Omockery's days are numbered. He's gonna wind up like you-know-who!!

OKUPE is next

Beaf?

I'm not sure whether to laud Jonathan for this little piece of intelligence he's show in a looooooooong while but still, confusion runs in his DNA. GEJ is confusion and confusion is GEJ.

Oooo GEJ appoint a lady now we don tire for guys.

Obi Asika is the son of Ukpabi Asika from Onitsha..

Obi Asika is someone I've never really liked. He's always struck me as an opportunists that takes advantage of people. I still don't understand how Jonathan attracts these kind of characters.

On a good note though, Obi was very instrumental with the rise of the music industry as we know it today with storm records. Maybe he'll be able to use his influence in the music industry to get the cool kids on GEJ's side. Only time will tell

Chai! Omokri don jam gbege...... Waiting to see him criticize Jonadumb

Wow! If this is true then good move by GEJ. Reno Omokri was a terrible nuisance! Even PDP folks will celebrate this. Next should be Doyin Okupe.

However, this move should have been made years ago!! It may be too little too late!

Watch out for possible rants and leaks (a la Labaran Maku). Reno knows too many secrets (which is probably why it has taken this long)

Omokri down, okupe next, GEJ gradually getting rid of the nuisance around him. Too little too late though, the damage as been done already.

najoke:
You mean no February salary for those PDPiigs pay per post
temitemi ,temitemi1,anonimi,iichido ......una boss has been replaced o!
Obasanjo farms is collectinv C.V O!

Why do you think your situation of pay per post from APCheat applies to others

Struggle continues... GEJ till 2019!!!

Lastminute.com........

finally!!! we shouldnt be happy at another man's misfortune, but come on!!

that man has done more than any other to Oga Jona's image, except maybe FFK........

this is tantamount to crying after the milk is spilt tho

uh la lala..If anyone deceives himself that Omokri is a pastor that person would be deluded for life. Ordinary burglary isn't corruption afterall! Reno collects filthy lucre for the hatchet job he does, he is two sides of the same coin. Lining his pockets by collecting money from corrupt politicians to malign their opponents. Telling lies against people. we pray that when the real change comes, Omokri might be sharing the same prison cell with his corrupt politician paymasters.
Reno Omokri the fraudulent paid Media adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan is a confirmed fraud, he is irredeemably bad, gone and dead morally. propagandists like Omokri , FFK, OKupe are famous for their ability to change truth to untruth and vice versa.

Another PDP member that must keep away from US. It is a govt. of criminals, run by criminals for criminals.

General Buhari said "Our resolve will be tested and all kinds of evil tricks will be on display. But do not despair.
The goal is in sight. Change is coming.
The people of Nigeria will prevail.
God has destined Nigeria to be a great country.
We shall overcome and Change shall be achieved.”


SAI Buhari

The end of an era for Reno








He has begin to grow wings in the presidency and he needs to be chop down
Just like Mbara maku, he is now used for the dirty works and dump.
GEJ using and dumping people, but he will still pick the kind of personality he just dump.

A prayer for Buhari supporters
They told us we are leaders of tomorrow and here we are today, they are still dragging the tomorrow with us. So Buhari supporters
May you clock 73 before you actualize your dreams. You don't need to say Amen, it has been sealed already.

Good Omokri is an slowpoke.
Okupe should be next