Controversial influencer, Mr. Reno Omokri, is being paid a humongous US$20,000 monthly by the Nigerian Government to consistently demonise Mr. Peter Obi, former Anambra State Governor and 2023 Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party. This is according to veteran journalist and erstwhile ministerial adviser, Mr. Sunny Igboanugo.

Converted to naira using the current parallel market exchange rate, the money amounts to close to N30 million per month.

Igboanugo made the claim in a post on his Facebook wall, writing: “We hear that he's on a $20,000 monthly contract in the Obi project.”

The firebrand journalist popularly known as The Tiny Voice made the claim while reacting to Omokri’s recent claim that Obi is not intelligent.

Berating Omokri in a piece entitled “So Reno still get mouth?” Igboanugo wrote:

“After about a week's hiatus since Mike Arnold's bombshell Reno returns with his Project-Obi.

“This time, he's displaying Obi's WAEC result to prove that the former governor is not intelligent.

“Now Reno forgets that with that same result, Obi not only gained admission into UNN, one of Nigeria's most iconic ivory towers, but gone ahead to break many grounds.

“Not only that he went through the great institution, he distinguished himself in an extraordinary manner as a creator of wealth, with record-breaking achievements in this regard.

“Reno seems to forget that outside the record of becoming a student-millionaire he rose to sit on the boards of some of the topmost blue chip companies in the country including holding the enviable record of the youngest Chairman of a major bank in Nigeria's history.

“With the same certificate Reno is displaying derisively, Obi, not only emerged a governor but one of the most influential politicians in modern Nigerian history.

“On the flipside, what has Reno got to show for his own "first-class" brain? The highest attainment is perhaps his stint as social media anchor for President Goodluck Jonathan.

“Since then, what else? From false Lear Sharibu project to trolling Buhari to licking his own spittle by bootlicking Tinubu, the same man he called a druglord to visiting Dangote and other successful people in power and authority, for photoups, what has he to his name?

“Okay, we hear that he's on a $20,000 monthly contract in the Obi project. But this is a chicken-feed for Obi. Save that he would consider it a waste, Obi could double that amount without thinking anything about it.

“Curiously, the selfsame Reno doesn't have the presence of mind to post either the primary or secondary school certificate of Tinubu, the man he advertises as a genius.

“He fails to tell his audience why Tinubu's is blank in the same INEC records from whence he pulled out Obi's WAEC result.

“Couldn't he have tried to solve the mystery of the "genius" reportedly passing out of Government College Lagos four years before it was established?

“Isn't that more interesting than telling his audience that Obi, who, even as a student was once a landlord to the iconic Sultan of Sokoto and Savannah Bank is not intelligent?

“Isn't it akin to arguing that Bill Gates is not intelligent because he's a university dropout?

“Meanwhile, shouldn't he be telling his audience something about that his fancy Lamborghini which he claimed he was covering the plate number to prevent Obidients from using it to trace his house in California and harm him?

“But what do you say of someone who has clearly sold his shame completely? What else remains of the madness that has gone to the market? Isn't it beyond redemption?

“Indeed, that Reno would open his mouth so soon after this Mike Arnold's saga is the height of it! Pity! _ The Tiny Voice!”