Critic and a former presidential spokesman, Reno Omokri on Sunday said President Bola Tinubu is showing too much weakness by not arresting those calling for coup to topple his government.
“President Tinubu is showing too much weakness. How can there be a military coup in your next door neighbour, and prominent citizens, as well as influencers, are calling for a coup in the traditional and social media, and they are still sleeping in their houses?
“If I were the President, by now, such people would be in an underground DSS cell, where they won’t see sunlight for a week, and they will lose track of time before being hauled to a court to answer for treason charges,” he said.
Omokri stated that nobody consolidated power by showing weakness.
“Nobody! Freedom of speech does not include calling for a military takeover. Buhari was a disaster in the area of the economy and security. Still, I have every confidence in him and President Obasanjo that if you tried this under them, you would pray for death because of what they will use their legal powers to do to you.
“If you want to be President of Nigeria, you cannot be nice. Niceness is for useless things like #BBNaija, owambe, and flirting. But to be a leader, you must punish even the slightest hint of disloyalty to the state and reward good behaviour.
“If even the Pope ‘misyarns’, underground bunker straight! Otherwise, you are sending a very wrong message to people who are looking for weakness,” he said.
