Reno Omokri responds to Segun Showunmi

Dear Citizens of Nigeria,

Please find attached an email between Waziri Atiku Abubakar and me at exactly 9:54 PM, on Wednesday, April 18, 2018, after I had just interviewed Mr. Segun Showunmi and negotiated his salary.

I am willing to provide the metadata of this email and an IP trace to journalists who reach me privately.

There are even more damning evidence than this to establish that I singularly recruited Mr. Segun Showunmi, but to preserve the privacy of people that I respect, I do not wish to publish them.

However, if Mr. Segun Showunmi continues to deny that I interviewed and recruited him and negotiated his salary, before approving him to resume duty, then they may be published.

I thank the then National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr. Olisa Metuh, who recommended Segun Showunmi to me, for corroborating the fact that I employed him as Waziri Atiku Abubakar’s spokesman.

And just like I have done with Mr. Showunmi, I have facts and if I am nothing at all, I am a meticulous record keeper. In May 2018, Olisa Metuh, the former spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party, recommended Segun Showunmi for the role of spokesman to Waziri Atiku Abubakar. Mr. Metuh asked Segun Showunmi to send his resume (what we call a CV) to me. Thereafter, Olisa Metuh asked Segun Showunmi to contact me for a job interview.

I spoke to Segun Showunmi from California and negotiated his salary with him. I thereafter informed Waziri Atiku Abubakar, and Segun Showunmi was announced as his spokesman on the terms I negotiated with him.

If there is any controversy or if anybody is using foul language to deny the obvious truth, then I urge the media to contact Mr. Olisa Metuh, who is an eyewitness and who was the one who recommended Segun Showunmi to me for employment as Waziri Atiku’s spokesman.

After he was employed, Mr. Segun Showunmi returned to Mr. Olisa Metuh to thank him for recommending him to me.

I do not want to be forced to publish documentary evidence. I would rather not. But if I have to, then I can.

I urge anyone wanting to deny the obvious to think twice. Again, I repeat that if I am nothing at all, at least I am a meticulous record keeper.

Reno Omokri

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