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Popular Nollywood actress, Nkechi Blessing, has lambasted the ex-aide to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, for linking her to the National leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.

Omokri, while reacting to the viral video of Tinubu where he took the credit for Buhari’s emergence in 2015, likened the former Lagos State Governor to Blessing and another Nollywood actress, Tonto Dikeh.

He claimed Tinubu behaves like Blessing and Tonto Dikeh, who are exploding on the internet after they were promised marriage but never got to the altar.

Omokri wrote on Twitter: “Tinubu is just behaving like Tonto Dikeh and Nkechi Blessing. Like a woman who was promised marriage and jilted and is now exploding and exposing the jilter. Buhari don buy market. He either builds another ‘other room’ for Tinubu, or marries him as promised!”

In response to Omokri’s jab, Nkechi said Omokri should not allow God to punish him, adding that he doesn’t have common sense.

“I used to think you have sense but it’s obvious you lack common sense. Why put me in this context in the first place? Welcome to Nigeria, when a relationship ends, automatically it’s the man that left the woman…I for like talk more but Instagram guidelines won’t allow. Mr Reno leave my name out of your mouth..no let God P#nish you,” Nkechi wrote on Instagram.

TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) recalls that sometime August 2020, a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, ‌Babachir Lawal, spoke of how the former governor of Lagos State (Bola Tinubu) raised money for then-candidate Muhammadu Buhari to win the 2015 presidential election.

Lawal, who was removed from office for alleged misappropriation of funds, stated that it was Tinubu who raised funds for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to defeat the then President, Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in 2015.

Lawal argued that Buhari and his supporters had no money to win an election except “ideas, zeal and fanaticism”.

“Tinubu, who had his tentacles spread across the corporate world, was the only man who knew where and how to raise the funds needed. He was the one that reached out to all the ‘big men’ who were at the time scared of the then President Goodluck Jonathan.

“These were all rich men that depended on the government’s patronage. But somehow, Tinubu was able to persuade some of them to support Buhari. We had so many experiences, Timipre Sylva (now Minister of State for Petroleum Resources) and I thought we could do it but found out we couldn’t until Tinubu came in and we won the election,” he said.

Lawal said Tinubu spent enormous money “out of his pocket” to finance the party’s campaign.

He said Tinubu was responsible for the lobby of a U. S. consultant who handled President Barrack Obama’s campaign and they did the same for Nigeria’s current president.