Charly Boy, whose real name is Charles Chukwuemeka Oputa, has strongly criticized the federal government for including Reno Omokri in the new ambassadorial nominees. The Imo-born musician said Nigeria has become a “sour nation,” adding in pidgin that “Nigeria don Sawa.”
He said he is shocked that President Bola Tinubu would forward Omokri’s name to the Senate despite what he described as months of “bigotry against the Igbo” by the former presidential aide. According to him, nominating Omokri is the same as approving everything he has said online.
In his statement on X, Charly Boy wrote:
“Perhaps Tinubu endorses the filth that issues from Reno’s mouth. Ambassador Reno Omokri, that’s a spectacular mockery of this country. That’s a continental joke. His lies and general stupidity aside, with the volume of bigotry against the Igbo that Reno Omokri has vomited in the last few months, how can anyone who cares about national unity make the clown an Ambassador.
“It is difficult to see hope for this country. So how can any Igbo go to an embassy run by Reno with a sense of belonging or pride?
“Some might say after all he had told the world that Tinubu was a drug baron. So we should see him for what he is, a moron. So why make such a hustling moron an Ambassador?
“Tinubu’s such a let down. Why wash our national dirty linens in public? Reno is such filthy underwear. Tinubu ought to have compensated him with some backyard job, but again who knows.
“Tinubu might be sending a message. Endorsing the bigotry that Reno embodies. It’s a deliberate gut-punch to national unity, the kind that makes ‘one Nigeria’ sound like a bad Nollywood script.
“Ambassador Reno…Tufiakwa! [God forbid]! I will never go that embassy.”
Charly Boy said no Igbo person can feel safe or respected in an embassy led by Omokri, insisting that the appointment undermines national unity and is an embarrassment to the country.
