Reno Omokri Praises Peter Obi's Foresight: says leaving ADC was politically crucial

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:14]All right, welcome to Landslide News.

[00:00:17]It's already Monday in the city of Abuja and I have my guy back, Malam Okafo. Thank you.

[00:00:27]>> Did you miss me? I don't know.

[00:00:31]I miss you.

[00:00:33]Well, I had missed him. I missed him.

[00:00:36]You missed him. That's that's >> all right. You're welcome.

[00:00:41]>> Yeah. Thank you.

[00:00:42]>> All right. Is what do we call it sometime smartness, brilliance or just being objective or playing to the gallery of politics of the day or reno or mock calling or be a smart man.

[00:00:57]That's that's how I will summon you. A smart man that it was better he left ADC. Sudden praise. Good nice word for Obi.

[00:01:07]>> What what what what's he up to?

[00:01:09]>> Yeah. You know, let's speak it into into two ways. Okay.

[00:01:12]>> On the first front is about P2B. In all the spectrum from the beginning to the end, you are going to rate Mr. P2B smart. Reason is this. Even though he had known he wasn't going to be given ADC ticket, >> he also didn't want to be seen as not wanting to work with no position. He also didn't want to be seen as wanting to go alone and not wanting to work with others. He moved into ADC clearly knowing he wasn't going to be given that ticket. And as God will have it, there's no, you know, if you want to quarrel, there will always be a reason for quarrel.

[00:01:47]>> You know, you can just say that this thing is not straight. is B like this and forest that so while he was in ADC he was assuring Nigerians that you must be on ballot for you to be assuring Nigerians that you must be on ballot where where there are other presidential aspirants it means that you have alternative you have the mind to go elsewhere but he just didn't leave he waited until the court case you know started jumping on each other that of Nafu Gome that of Dumi Kachiku and AD ADC became three faction. He also even beyond the three faction was the front line. He a stable ground.

[00:02:25]>> Yeah, he was a stable ground. So he went even until the judgment that said okay why David Mh remains the chairman chairman but he should go back to the federal accord to answer the questions that were left before the court. So he held that ground but he still didn't move until they went to the convention or do I call convention or conference he never done there after it became very clear that they they wanted to back article he his toolbox in his portfolio he had every reason to show his followers why he should move to another political party I mean having a fashion in a party is enough to move as at that time he was moving nobody was going to blame him Again you know PW has a way of running away without blame at least his his followers. So that was enough smartness BUT ON THE SIDE OF Reno Moki you know Ren Mo is a political jobber election is coming close they do know that the future is mystery to any man living on the wall. So while looking for he's also trying to see that there could be miracle becomes THE PRESIDENT.

[00:03:35]LET'S LOOK at it two ways. Number one, he is a designate to Mexico. He has to resume.

[00:03:41]>> Yeah.

[00:03:42]>> Election is fast coming. The guards may change.

[00:03:45]>> Yes.

[00:03:46]>> So he wants to be on the red team.

[00:03:48]>> Yes.

[00:03:48]>> He's not here. Here. So he's giving some kudos. Reno is just a political job.

[00:03:53]Okay. I'll keep that word then I'll come back to you. Beta O I mean being smart.

[00:04:00]But Reno, let's focus on Reno now. him calling obese man and for the first time has had good words to speak about OB because every time he speaks word is always about either insult or something or I have to be but this one mockery no like said it done what he just did is a balancing act you won't accuse him of supporting OP you won't say he's antiu but all politicians what do they do they do political calculation Mr. This is out there for everybody to see now. Everybody have seen Trumbus score card. Everybody knows if this score card can be related. I know he's a smart guy. He has seen it. He knows what is before his principal. You know it's going to be hard for his principal to win. So what do you do? You start many faces fences gradually without being too loud. But he has no reason to come and make comments. He made he has no business making his comments. So he's trying to mend fences. Very soon you hear him talk about two end. These are smart political jobers. Politics what they end from and once you eat from politics is very very difficult for you to be truthful at all time. You need to balance the arts. So red I give give thumbs up to you. He has not balancing the act because election is fast coming.

[00:05:27]Like said, you cannot but talk about PW in good light because look at all everything has played at NDC ADC rather look at everything everybody blame PW for running away firstly it was a me that said that if someone else I didn't want primaries you should say I think he doesn't want primaries if conception it should be him or the primary but what was narative earlier that didn't want primaries I really reled it that Obi wasn't afraid of losing primaries.

[00:05:59]That ground was a shaky ground. He could get the nomination and control the way.

[00:06:06]It will be too late for you to move. So on on all front, Obi has shown he has political foresight. I feel sorry for those that didn't see OB as a politician. For me, Obi is a politician.

[00:06:18]>> Okay.

[00:06:20]A different kind of politician. NOW THE PRESENCE of men, someone described it like twing. Yeah.

[00:06:26]>> He said take it, put it in your mouth, >> chew it, chew the juice out of it, but don't swallow it.

[00:06:33]>> Now that there are some praises coming obese way, what do you think you should do? You know, you you just you just summarized it. The same thing men praised you for the same thing they will condemn you. The same people that condemn for not being able to put his labor in order because the house was divided. He was not able to put it in order. He was supposed to put it in order and not jump ship. They are the same person now praising him for jumping ship. Why didn't Renault blame P2B for not putting ADC in order the way they were blaming P2B for not putting Labour party in order the mouth of men. SO BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT IT like he said Obi is not as a weak politician as they you know make him ser this this is a two-time governor who what we call target election today started because of P2B what to call target election at least for that on governatorial level started as a result OF P2B HE'S SOMEONE that knows how to play his own kind of politics and the most economic way the reason why he avoid primaries is not only because he think he's not popular because he knows how Nigerian party MEMBERS BEHAVE. PRIMARIES are very expensive like what you see NBC just did. I wish had done something you know different. Did you see what they did THAT PRIMARIES COST ALL THE ASPIRANTS ALMOST HALF of the money they use in general election because party officials know that you do not have other electorate except them but general public somebody from another party can vote for you. So you are not limited your popularity transcend across partisan lines when it comes to general election but when it comes to primaries it has to be within your party. The widest you could even go is this direct primaries. But let me let me throw this jab on you. The presidency for NDC was not primarily based.

[00:08:31]>> But why did they choose the other side for other aspir?

[00:08:35]>> Well, I don't speak for NDC.

[00:08:36]>> Exactly. On your views.

[00:08:38]>> I don't speak for NDC. Your views?

[00:08:40]>> Yeah. You know, my views remains that the party leadership have decided on what to do. You know when it comes you also know very very well that um uh to the best that we know you know who the party presents or nominate to represent them is not justiceable completely. You understand? So the parties still reserve the right to say oh we are not going to do primaries or we will do primaries or if I to do primaries that is where the electoral advance them to. It's either you do consensus to where others are to sign you know accepting showing that they have accepted the consensus candidate or you do direct primaries.

[00:09:14]The party has another way they could as well screen out every other person and have just one person qualify. You know one thing you have to know is this when you do what you are authorized to do legality against you is limited. It could only be out of moral concern. The moral question might be, oh, PTOB saved himself but unleashed primaries against his followers or Dixon he saved himself unleashed primaries against his followers or the party was just all for P2B to save his own money while wasting money for all the followers but mind you some of these aspirants were also asking for the primaries you know if you I know you were there during the aspirants dinner I I I had felt that Dixon was going to stick to that you know on the positive side even though he he also opened up the avenue for primaries. He said something that the primary election that NC was going to be doing was going to be electronic primaries where you can be in your office and vote. You can be in your car and vote and you know nobody has dual uh serial number. Everybody every party member registered electronically has a unique number. So you can only vote once and when you do that all these um bringing boys into the field and uh counting going to pack going to pack non party members counting going to pro without doing accreditation when the rules failed that it is only those that their names were submitted to on or before May 10th to vote in that PRIMARIES THEN YOU NOT GET INTO THAT PRIMARIES everybody even APC member everybody counting NO ACCREDITATION I HAVE NO video of where accreditated voters WERE DONE NOT ONE PARTY IDENTITY PARTY IDENTITY CARD TO SHOW EVEN PARTY DOES NOT EVEN QUALIFY PARTY identity card that was registered BEFORE MAY 10TH UNTIL THAT ACCREDITATION is done all primaries or any other primaries you can't completely substant I mean the question is was it used do we have do we have evidence that those were So if let me tell you everybody would have forgiven NDC for a new party that in this first election we use the screening and all this to select the best candidates by appealing to others AND GO AHEAD BEFORE NEXT two three months five months implement this electronic voting such that even other bi-elections electronic voting will be USED DOING A SHAM WE WE WILL TAKE A story getting a sham I'm coming getting a sham that looks like what even APC was doing like population sensors. We will take a full story on the NDC primaries.

[00:12:00]In fact, I'm sure our next story will be a full analysis of the NDC primaries whether they are smarter than the others. But what I'm coming to is the fact that mockery right now is praising beta for being smart. Now in moving forward WILL BE SMART BECAUSE RIGHT NOW there's an influx of people into NDC people from other political party other than building on those people will take a risk of building on new structures in the party. Well it's not his party is he's a member of that party that party belongs to and the executives. So they should look at what's where the level party got it wrong and guide the house and make sure that they must set up a structure that can at least a little bit based on what the governor was saying. I I wondered why did I make insider that party should go and register their members. I thought that situation was to get on these primaries.

[00:13:08]I don't understand why they should go and let people line up. You have registered numbers. How many people were registered in data state for example?

[00:13:17]How many people in data not have the numbers? So how come the numbers they turn out if it's more than that?

[00:13:26]He should be worried. is this cross every party lines since they had a a recent numbers of party members. They should have used that to do the primaries. But what we saw today shows that most parties the powers were almost not the same wrong counting, intimidation, uh vote buying. It was it WAS AWFUL.

[00:13:51]HE'S NOT SHOWING good of Nigeria. OKAY.

[00:13:53]ALL RIGHT. LIKE I SAID, we are going to take a an analysis on these primaries and compare all the promise have been done either by the APC, the NDC or the ADC and see the way to go in the fourth committee election. We'll be right back.