Reno Omokri blasts President Buhari for addressing Nigerians in Hausa language

Reno Omokri blasts President Buhari for addressing Nigerians in Hausa language

- Reno Omokri, former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, attacks President Buhari

- The cleric questions why Buhari a national leader, would in his Eid-El-Fitr message address Nigerians in Hausa

- Omokri adds that it would have been better if the president didn't talk

The former aide to ex-president Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri has questioned why President Muhammadu Buhari, would address Nigerians in his Eid-El-Fitr message, in Hausa.

In series of tweets on Sunday, June 25, he stated: "President Buhari is the President of all Nigeria. He is not the President of only those who can speak/understand Hausa! This is an outrage!!"

Lashing out at the president, Omokri stated that it would have been better for Buhari to have kept quiet than for him to have spoken and erased any doubt that he is a sectional leader.

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Earlier, Legit.ng reported that former minister of aviation Femi Fani-Kayode alleged that it was not President Muhammadu Buhari speaking in today's sallah audio message.

Fani-Kayode, a chieftain of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in a tweet on Sunday, June 25, said: "It was NOT Buhari that spoke in todays sallah day audio recording. And for whoever it was to address the nation in hausa is insulting."

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