Former presidential aide Reno Omokri in a latest post that surfaced online showered encomium on Ademola Lookman after winning the 2024 CAF Men’s Player of the Year and by extension went ahead to tell singer Davido and British Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch to learn from him.
Note that Super Eagles and Atalanta of Italy forward Ademola Lookman who was born in Wandsworth in the UK put the country name on the World Map as he wins the best player at the CAF Award yesterday, December 16th 2024 in Marrakech, Morocco and also went ahead to shower encomium on Nigeria for their love and support.
However, Davido, the “DMW” hitmaker made headlines few weeks ago as he advised black Americans against relocating to Nigeria, citing the country’s current economic woes.
“It is not cool back home. The economy is in shambles. I do my part, I am an ambassador. When I go home and I am filming, I am not going to show the bad parts,” he explained. Watch the video below;
Also, British Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has been making headlines following his negative remarks about Nigeria. In an interview with The Free Press, which began trending on Saturday, Kemi Badenoch speaks on how Nigerian police stole his brother’s shoes.
In her words; “I do. My experience with the police in Nigeria was very negative, and coming to the UK, my first experience with the police was very positive. The police in Nigeria would rob us. “I remember the police stealing my brother’s shoes and his watch. It’s a very poor country, so people do all sorts of things.”
Watch the video below;
Meanwhile, in a latest post, Reno Omokri hailed Ademola Lookman over the way he brought the Nigerian culture to the CAF Award despite being a British-born Nigerian Footballer. He also praises him for expressing gratitude to his fans on stage at the award in Yoruba Language. The former presidential aide concluded that the development by Ademola Lookman shows that Wisdom is not by age.
Reno Omokri wrote; Ademola Lookman Showed Davido and Kemi That Wisdom Is Not By Age
Recently, the singer David Adeleke was given a global stage to do whatever he wanted and deliver any message.
Sadly, Mr. Adeleke used the opportunity to speak in an American accent. Not only that, he used that American accent to talk down on Nigeria and tell the world not to invest in Nigeria because, as he put it, Nigeria’s “economy is in shambles”.
Coincidentally, a month after his faux pas, Kemi Badenoch, probably inspired by Davido, used her British accent to talk down Nigeria, calling us “a very poor country” where the police rob citizens.
But the interesting thing about her own case is that the next day, the BBC featured a panel of Conservative Party big shots, and one of them, Albie Amankona, a party chieftain from Chiswick, who is also a celebrity broadcaster, said, and this is a direct quote:
“If you are a Brexiteer, and you are saying we need to be expanding our global trade beyond the European Union, we want to be looking at emerging markets for growth, don’t slag off one of the fastest growing economies in Africa.”
Is it not strange that it took the BBC and a British politician to promote Nigeria as one of the fastest-growing economies in Africa? In contrast, Davido and Kemi Badenoch used their global platforms to pooh-pooh our economy.
And just when we thought it was all bad news, God gave us a breath of fresh air in the youthful Ademola Lookman, who used the global podium granted to him by his winning the 2024 African Footballer of the Year award to promote and project Nigeria and the Lukumi Yoruba language to the world.
Wisdom is not by age. If not, Ademola Lookman, who is just twenty-seven, will not have displayed greater wisdom than David Adeleke, who is thirty-two, and Kemi Badenoch, at forty-four.
Mr. Lookman proved that the age of Methuselah has nothing to do with the wisdom of Solomon.”
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