Segun Showunmi dismisses Omokri’s claim over Atiku spokesperson appointment, Metuh reacts

Abdullateef Fowewe

Segun Showunmi has rejected former presidential aide Reno Omokri’s assertion that Omokri hired him as spokesperson to Atiku Abubakar, calling the claim “rubbish” and “a waste of saliva.”

Showunmi in an X post said, “It will be waste of saliva responding to this rubbish. Amina Jambo my friend got Lulu Obaifo to convince me to visit Waziri and when I did. I asked the questions then visited Uyi Giwa Osagie.

“Then got a call from Ogd while they were in Dubai then got to Abuja, then agreed with Atiku then met with Dane Waters of trippi then met Eta Uso then met Yemi Hilda. The younger man is delusional. I first set eyes on him at a defence of London advertising in Dubai! Believe Reno if you like nonstop talking of rubbish. Ask him what the terms were and what was the role of the then COS of Atiku the Maiduguri man. Hire ko, Hire ni.

“That was how he kept screaming rubbish about drugs and the president and what he was later to pretend to forget now that he talks rubbish. Na who no know reno dey listen to his trash!”

Omokri had earlier claimed on The Honest Bunch podcast that, “Atiku wanted me to be his spokesperson. I said no, I’m not going to be a spokesperson for a president and then be a spokesperson for a presidential candidate. But, I hired his media team, I hired Segun Showunmi; I interviewed him and set his salary.”

Former PDP spokesperson Olisa Metuh, however, corroborated Omokri’s version, stating,

“It happened in 2018. I recommended Segun to Reno. I told him to call Reno and he did. There is absolutely no controversy about that.”