Former presidential aide Reno Omokri has stated that he never betrayed nor disclosed confidential information about his former boss, ex-VP Atiku Abubakar.

He said despite what happened after 2023, nobody can say he attempted to profit privately or publicly from such confidences, whether politically or economically.

Omokri, who now supports President Bola Tinubu, who defeated Atiku in the 2023 presidential election, said this after Atiku's camp attacked him.

Reacting, Omokri revealed that he recruited some of those attacking him in Atiku's camp today.

In a post on Facebook, he said, "I have refrained from crossing swords with those around Waziri Atiku Abubakar, some of whom I recruited. Which is why I find it odd that they would do so to me.

"Waziri Atiku Abubakar may want to think about the quality of media people he engages if they fight people who do not fight him.
To therefore attack me, when I have never even as much as said one negative word about Waziri or his immediate coterie, is most unkind. Nevertheless, I will not respond in kind.

"Waziri Atiku Abubakar has been good to me, and I will still be true to the friendship that led to the confidence he reposes in me.
I will say to these people who do not understand how to disagree without being disagreeable that nobody profits from a mud fight. And nobody knows tomorrow.

"Finally, I thank Waziri Atiku Abubakar for the confidence he reposed in me. I note his last conversation with me in which he spoke glowingly about me and, therefore, I choose to suffer the insults hurled at me without any retaliation.

"I am only observing restraint out of respect, not out of cowardice.

"As for Peter Obi, nobody in Waziri Atiku's media team is my peer, or big enough to stop me from saying what I want to say, when I want to say it, and how I want to say it about Mr. Obi. As long as Obi takes on President Tinubu, I will tackle him."

ASA