{"id":237808,"date":"2025-12-01T19:51:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T19:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.name.ng\/news\/hell-embarrass-nigeria-on-world-stage-u-s-activist-asks-senate-to-reject-reno-omokris-ambassadorial-nomination\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T19:51:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T19:51:59","slug":"hell-embarrass-nigeria-on-world-stage-u-s-activist-asks-senate-to-reject-reno-omokris-ambassadorial-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/hell-embarrass-nigeria-on-world-stage-u-s-activist-asks-senate-to-reject-reno-omokris-ambassadorial-nomination\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHe\u2019ll embarrass Nigeria on world stage\u201d \u2014 U.S. activist asks Senate to reject Reno Omokri\u2019s ambassadorial nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p data-start=\"192\" data-end=\"360\">A U.S.-based activist, Mike Arnold, has urged the Nigerian Senate to reject the ambassadorial nomination of Reno Omokri, describing him as a \u201cdanger to your country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"362\" data-end=\"602\">Arnold, in a letter addressed to the Senate, listed several allegations against Omokri, including abandoning his autistic son in California, failing to attend his father\u2019s funeral, and allegedly covering for his brother who raped a minor.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"604\" data-end=\"802\">He also accused Omokri of sexual harassment at a State House event involving Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduagahn and criticised his alleged inconsistencies in publicly supporting and opposing Nigerian leaders.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"804\" data-end=\"973\">\u201cThis is no diplomat. This is an effeminate, preening peacock who plucks his eyebrows and prances like a pixie in selfies for cheap social media clicks,\u201d Arnold wrote.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"975\" data-end=\"1161\">He further warned that Omokri \u201csells his tongue to the highest bidder and his soul to the nearest camera,\u201d claiming that any foreign offer could lead him to betray Nigeria\u2019s interests.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1163\" data-end=\"1312\">Arnold emphasised that Omokri\u2019s nomination fuels negative international stereotypes of Nigeria, portraying the country as home to \u201cslick scammers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1314\" data-end=\"1429\">\u201cDo not let this man carry your flag. He will embarrass you on the world stage within six months,\u201d Arnold warned.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1431\" data-end=\"1598\">He concluded by insisting that the Senate should deny Omokri the nomination, saying Nigeria \u201cdeserves better than a paid liar who wouldn\u2019t even bury his own father.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S.-based activist, Mike Arnold, has urged the Nigerian Senate to reject the ambassadorial nomination of Reno Omokri, describing him as a \u201cdanger to your country.\u201d Arnold, in a letter addressed to the Senate, listed several allegations against Omokri, including abandoning his autistic son in California, failing to attend his father\u2019s funeral, and allegedly covering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":237809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Mike-x-Reno.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}