One of the aides to Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, the former president of Nigeria, Reno Omokri has lashed out at president Muhammadu Buhari and his media aide Garba Shehu.
Omokri said Shehu made a grave mistake by publicising the fact that the first page the president visits in any newspaper is the cartoon page.
He also commented about the umbrella used to shelter the president from the rain when he was travelling to Nairobi, Kenya saying it was almost like a canopy.
“What type of Presidential aide tweets that ‘When he picks a paper, the first page he (President Buhari) reaches for is the cartoon page. He laughs and laughs,” Omokri wrote on his facebook page.
He said he always thought Garba Shehu was a professional and he had publicly celebrated him but he was at a loss as to how to explain this Freudian slip.
Omokri wrote, “In the midst of a ₦415 to $1 economy, should cartoons be the priority of the President of the largest Black nation on earth? And even if it is, should that be revealed by his aide?
“When former US President, Harry S. Truman said ‘not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers’ he obviously could not have contemplated that there would ever be a president who would prefer cartoons over more serious reading materials.
“And when we were trying to come to terms with the reality of a cartoon loving President we were proudly regaled by his aides with pictures of the President being sheltered from the rain by an aide carrying the biggest umbrella most people have ever seen.
“In fact, the umbrella that covered President Muhammadu Buhari as he walked majestically to enter one of his 10 Presidential jets is better described as a canopy!”
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