{"id":44292,"date":"2020-11-01T23:40:46","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T22:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=44292"},"modified":"2020-11-01T23:40:46","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T22:40:46","slug":"reno-omokri-vs-lt-gen-buratai-who-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/reno-omokri-vs-lt-gen-buratai-who-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"Reno Omokri vs Lt Gen Buratai: Who wins?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By: Okosun Dennis<\/p>\n<p>In what seems to be a no-hold-bound wrestlemania, the former aide to President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, has challenged the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.General Tukur Buratai to a physical combat.<\/p>\n<p>Although the venue of the proposed fight was not stated, Omokri had in his Twitter handle @renoomokri, wants to avenge the killing of unarmed protestors by soldiers at the Lekki Toll Gate on the 20 October, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Describing Buratai as &#8220;spineless coward,&#8221; Omokri boasted that, &#8220;My greatest desire in November is to be in a room with General Buratai. No weapons. No referee. Man to man combat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Only one man coming out alive. Let God use me to avenge the cowardly slaughter of peaceful, unarmed, #EndSARS protesters at #LekkiMassacre by that spineless coward!\u201d<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>Since the tweet went viral early Sunday morning, it has elicited a lot of comments and condemnation on social media.<\/p>\n<p>A Facebook commentator advised Reno Omokri to look for another place to die rather than challenging the army chief to a one-on-one fight that would have no referee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Reno, abeg look for another place wey you go die. You think say e pick that thing wey e hang for shoulder? 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