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By John Ogunsemore
Ambassador-designate to Mexico, Reno Omokri has described President Bola Tinubu’s two-day state visit to the United Kingdom as Nigeria’s biggest diplomatic triumph in 37 years.
Omokri said this in a Facebook post on Friday.
The non-career diplomat has been engaged in a war of words with African Democratic Congress (ADC) chieftain, Chief Dele Momodu, who stirred the hornet’s nest on Sunday by comparing President Bola Tinubu to late military dictator, General Sani Abacha.
However, he said some traditional rulers and senior citizens had reached out to him to bury the hatchet.
Omokri said he was miffed that Momodu chose to launch a diatribe against Tinubu during the president’s much-publicised state visit to the UK, where he was feted by British monarch, King Charles and Prime Minister, Keir Starmer.
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He described the visit, which took place between March 18 and 19, as Nigeria’s biggest diplomatic triumph in 37 years.
Omokri said, “Out of respect for Traditional Rulers and Senior Citizens of the Federal Republic of Nigeria who have intervened, as an Otonolu, I will cease hostilities on the matter of Mr Dele Momodu.
“However, should he revert to type and resume maligning the reputation of the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces, the ceasefire will be revoked, and he will rue the day!
“For the avoidance of doubt, let it be known that I will not sit idly while a man who should know better chooses the occasion of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s State Visit to the United Kingdom, which is Nigeria’s biggest diplomatic triumph in thirty-seven years, to go on a globally watched programme to liken the Head of State of the Nigerian nation to a known murderer and kleptocrat like the despot, General Sani Abacha.”
He noted that as a member of the Diplomatic Corps, he has the responsibility to protect the reputational integrity of the Nigerian nation and its Head of State from character assassination.
He described Tinubu as a “thoroughbred democrat and an astute economist, who has turned around the political and economic fortunes of Nigeria in record time, moving us from a nation that had suffered two recessions in the last ten years, to one that, under President Tinubu, became the sixth-largest contributor to global GDP growth in 2025, a fact celebrated by Elon Musk, the world’s richest man”.
