President Goodluck Jonathan has sacked his social media strategist, Reno Omokri, due to Twitter Blunders that showed that the president’s chances of winning the 2015 election are slim.
The president has now appointed Obi Asika as the new senior special assistant on social media in a bid to re-energize his media image.
According to Sahara Reporters, the president’s former social media strategist had organized two online polls that showed that President Jonathan would lose the 2015 elections to the opposition APC presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, by a wide margin.
Several sources at the Presidency said Mr. Omokri’s removal became imminent after he engineered a poll on Twitter where informal posts showed that Mr. Jonathan’s electoral prospects had become wretched. “That ill-advised Twitter poll backfired and caused embarrassment to Mr. President,” said a source close to the Jonathan campaign.
Mr Omokri was also said to have been involved in a series of scandals which may have also lead to his sack.
Sahara Reporters has it that that the presidential aide had stolen the identity of the son of Deborah Campbell, a California-based woman who was once married to a relative of Mr. Omokri, to engage in the circulation of fraudulent news that smeared Mr. Sanusi, who is now the Emir of Kano.
The media platform also reports that Mr. Omokri was last week accused of having a hand in the in the disappearance of N25 million cash meant for President Jonathan’s re-election campaign.
Presidential spokesman, Reuben Abati has confirmed Mr. Asika’s appointment to take charge of the president’s social media coverage.
Mr. Omokri who was once the lead media strategist is now in a subordinate position to Mr. Asika in the hierarchy of aides working on the president’s social media image.
In a seperate incident, members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Senate have accused the ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) of plotting to postpone the 2015 general elections again.
The APC senators who raised the alarm today, February 17, alleged that the Presidency and the PDP were plotting how to make INEC shift the elections again using the card reader as an excuse.
The president has now appointed Obi Asika as the new senior special assistant on social media in a bid to re-energize his media image.
According to Sahara Reporters, the president’s former social media strategist had organized two online polls that showed that President Jonathan would lose the 2015 elections to the opposition APC presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, by a wide margin.
Several sources at the Presidency said Mr. Omokri’s removal became imminent after he engineered a poll on Twitter where informal posts showed that Mr. Jonathan’s electoral prospects had become wretched. “That ill-advised Twitter poll backfired and caused embarrassment to Mr. President,” said a source close to the Jonathan campaign.
Mr Omokri was also said to have been involved in a series of scandals which may have also lead to his sack.
Sahara Reporters has it that that the presidential aide had stolen the identity of the son of Deborah Campbell, a California-based woman who was once married to a relative of Mr. Omokri, to engage in the circulation of fraudulent news that smeared Mr. Sanusi, who is now the Emir of Kano.
Presidential spokesman, Reuben Abati has confirmed Mr. Asika’s appointment to take charge of the president’s social media coverage.
Mr. Omokri who was once the lead media strategist is now in a subordinate position to Mr. Asika in the hierarchy of aides working on the president’s social media image.
In a seperate incident, members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Senate have accused the ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) of plotting to postpone the 2015 general elections again.
The APC senators who raised the alarm today, February 17, alleged that the Presidency and the PDP were plotting how to make INEC shift the elections again using the card reader as an excuse.
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