Controversial former media aide to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, has stylishly blasted Yorubas, especially those who are rich.
This he did while reflecting on the inability of any surety to pay the N50m bail money earlier imposed on Sahara Reporters Publisher and convener of Revolution Now protest, Omoyele Sowore.
According to him, if Sowore was Igbo, his kinsmen would have provided the fund and got him out.
Here is Omokri on IG:
Despite the stringent bail conditions set for Nnamdi Kanu, Igbos wasted no time fulfilling it. Sowore’s bail terms are nowhere near as tough as Nnamdi Kanu’s, yet no one has stood for him. Yet, while he was in detention and court, many people were talking tough in his defence. It just tells you a lot about Igbo communal spirit as compared to other ethnic nationalities. If Sowore was Igbo, he would have been out of jail by now.
An Igbo Senator, Enyinnaya Abaribe, risked jail, put his Senatorial office on the line, to stand as surety for Kanu. Are you trying to tell me that none of Sowore’s kinsmen have ordinary ?50 million? I am yet to see a people who love themselves like the Igbo.
In America, believe it or not, Igbo unions give new comers loans to set up their own businesses. I have seen news stories of destitute Nigerians abroad who need assistance. That can never happen to an Igbo. Other Igbos in that community will rally round and rehabilitate him or her. Let us all learn that self love from Ndi’Igbo and Nigeria will be better for it.”
