The subtle war of words and exchange of barbed insults between former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri and veteran journalist and publisher of Ovation International Magazine, Dele Momodu, may not end anytime soon following a resumption of hostilities.
The resumption of the war was kick-started by Omokri in a post on X on Monday where he compared bandits and criminals who are loyal to their colleagues to politicians and christians who are not loyal to their principals and pastors.
With an old picture of President Bola Tinubu alongside that of Momodu when they were political allies, Omokri wrote:
“When Bandits Are More Loyal To Each Other Than Pastors
“You cannot be a good Christian if you cannot be a good friend. It is not possible. How can people in cults, confraternities and occult groups be more loyal to each other than people who are meant to be leaders in the body of Christ?
“Anini and Monday Osunbor showed more love for each other than some Pastors. And these bandits now troubling the Northwest have a greater bond of love than some in the household whose foundation ought to be love. We saw how they welcomed Sheikh Gumi. They were humble and respectful to him even while draped with bullets and brandishing guns.
‘You should be able to stand by your friends in good times and bad times. No matter what a person has done to you, for the fact that they once helped you, you ought to bite your tongue. Let others hit them if they deserve it. Not you.
“These pastors should learn from Peter Obi. Peter Obi can NEVER amount to anything politically in Nigeria because he is a serial betrayer of his benefactors.
“Perhaps their association with Obi has had this contagious effect on them.
“And this was my main grouse with Egbon Dele Momodu. Irrespective of the fact that he and President Bola Tinubu are now in different political camps, he ought to have respected their decades-long bond of friendship, and anything he had to say to him could have been said privately instead of playing to the gallery.
“There is a man in Peter Obi’s camp that I cannot even attack because of how good this man has been to me in the past. Peter Obi would not have become the Labour Party presidential candidate without him. But if this man belches in front of me, I will say, ‘E pele sir!’
‘I am not joking. That is the way I was brought up. If something was white and my father said it was black, I publicly agreed with my father.
‘What these pastors are doing would be like me taking pen and paper to castigate Waziri Atiku Abubakar publicly. Why? When I have multiple avenues to reach him personally and through proxies.
‘You have each other’s contact details. Say what you have to each other privately. When you say things publicly about those who were or were not your benefactors, you just show that you are not better than politicians who can be in the Peoples Democratic Party today and then jump to the All Progressives Congress and start demonising their former parties.
‘That I speak up for friendship should not be taken to mean I endorse any man of God’s attack on other men of God. You brought this on yourself. But two wrongs do not make a right.
Who the cap fits, let him wear it.”
https://x.com/renoomokri/status/1830531625475506354?t=JGxQOeyrmNInMqo8i5vfLA&s=19
But shortly after the post went up, Momodu came out firing with his own subtle attack without calling names but social media users were quick to decipher who he was addressing his comments to.
With the caption, “WHEN SOME NAMES LEAVE SOUR TASTES IN THE MOUTH…” Momodu said:
“It takes a demented soul to deliberately equate loyalty to a MAN to loyalty to a nation…
“Husbands and wives disagree and even break up due to irreconcilable differences… Children and parents sometimes disagree so vehemently…
“All political leaders are friends but differ on certain principles… Democracy is a game of choice and not by force…
‘It takes a serial blackmailer with bipolar symptoms to seek the downfall of every imaginary enemy in sight…
“It takes a maggot to eat its own vomit… It takes a pig to perpetually look for who to wrestle with in the mud… We shall continue our intercession to rescue every disturbed soul…
“If you know any such persons, let us intensify our prayers…”
https://x.com/DeleMomodu/status/1830613279170851031?t=-hnmSf8ge1jZ_opVi9pXqw&s=19
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