By Ishaya Ibrahim, News Editor
This is not the best of times for a former social media aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri.
In attempting to demarket the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and promote the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, Omokri has incurred the wraths of the Obidients.
In less about 48 hours, more than 100,000 Obidients have signed a petition calling on Twitter to ban Omokri from the microblogging app.
The grouse of the petitioners is that Reno Omokri has made targeted tweets aimed at rousing northern Muslims against the person of Peter Obi, using religion as bait.
The petitioners cited two tweets of Reno Omokri to prove their claim. The first was when Omokri said Obi’s description of Kwankwaso as a car driver instead of a pilot, was an insult to the people of Kano State. Omokri made the tweet in both English and Hausa languages.
The second tweet was when Omokri alleged that Obi’s supporters committed sin against Islam by embossing the photograph of the Labour Party presidential candidate on the mat. Obi swiftly disclaimed the mat.
The petition was launched Thursday with the aim of initially targeting 30,000 people, later raised to 50,000 and now 150,000. The petition has already been signed by more than 110,000 persons within 48 hours. At 150,000 signatures, the petition is set to be one of the most signed on change.org, which is the website that provides the services.
Recall that Reno Omokri has championed a petition against Bola Tinubu during the 2019 election campaigns.
In 2019, Omokri started a petition seeking to compel the EFCC to probe Tinubu’s 2019 election bullion van.
Omokri, who started the petition, solicited the signatures of 5,000 Nigerians who would want the EFCC to investigate Tinubu for allegedly contravening the Money Laundering Act, by ferrying bullion vans to his home.