According to Reno Omokri, a former aide to former president Goodluck Jonathan, Kashim Shettima of the All Progressives Congress (APC) dressed so shabbily at the Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) to divert Nigerians’ attention.
The former governor of Borno State, who used to be a banker, should have known better than to dress so shabbily for an occasion that the country pays attention to according to Reno.
Reno stated that the vice presidential candidate for the APC dressed that way to divert attention away from the party’s presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who may have travelled to Paris for medical reasons.
For this, Reno characterized Shettima as a deep thinker and a clever person.
He bemoaned the fact that Nigerians are now making fun of Shettima, stating that “everybody is talking about him. But nobody noticed that Tinubu may have sneaked out of Nigeria to fix his health in Paris”
Reno said, “I am a deep thinker. I even think in my sleep. Too often, I have suddenly woken up in the early hours of the morning with a solution, or insight, to a challenge or puzzle, or riddle my mind was ideating upon.
“And knowing what I know about Senator Kashim Shettima, it was obvious to me that he knew better than to dress so shabbily to an event that the nation had been focusing on. He is a former banker. He is used to corporate dressing. He knows how to wear a suit and tie with the right pairs of shoes.
“As a matter of fact, I Googled him, and behold, there was not one, but five photos of him properly suited up in well-fitting suits, with the right button buttoned, and shod with the appropriate pair of shoes, including the power dressing he projected when he gave an interview to CNN.
“You see, when something is too obvious, then it may not be as obvious as we think. My intel on Shettima is that, like me, he is also a deep thinker. And unlike me, I am informed that he is very calculating. He is not vain. He is capable of looking the fool and wearing a poker face if it will help him pull off a classic sleight of hand!
“Hillary Clinton once said if I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.”