Reno Omokri material). On August 17, 2017, the Department of State Security attempted to arrest him at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja but failed. Three days after the failed arrest attempt, the ruling party in Nigeria, the All Progressive Congress, named Omokri, along with former President Goodluck Jonathan and Governors Nyesom Wike and Willie Obiano as some of those showing "hatred, narrow-mindedness and meanness" to President Muhammadu Buhari. Until May 29, 2015, Omokri was a spokesperson for President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria. He was one of three spokesmen to the former President, and is credited with pioneering the use of social
Muhammadu Buhari opposition to corruption. Buhari won 12,214,853 votes, coming in second to the incumbent president Goodluck Jonathan of the PDP, who polled 22,495,187 votes and was declared the winner. In the runup to the 2015 Presidential elections, the campaign team of incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan asked for the disqualification of General Buhari from the election, claiming that he is in breach of the Constitution. According to the fundamental document, in order to qualify for election to the office of the President, an individual must be "educated up to at least School certificate level or its equivalent". Buhari has failed to submit