Big Story: ‘Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu Was Never Nigeria’s Richest Man, Queen Elizabeth Didn’t Ride In His Rolls Royce’

Former presidential aide Reno Omokri has rubbished claims that the late Sir Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu was once the richest man in Nigeria and that Queen Elizabeth rode in his car when she visited Nigeria... Read ..Full.. Article.. .

He said he had to debunk the claims after a number of his followers shared fallacious information that they say they got from a video by veteran actor Mr. Peter Edochie, who made several claims about Sir Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu.

“With the advent of AI, it is possible that the person I saw making those claims is not really Mr. Edochie but a deep fake AI,‘ Omokri said.

“However, and I say this respectfully, not spitefully, Sir Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu was never the richest man in Africa. He was not even the wealthiest man in Nigeria at any point in time.”

He stated that the suspected AI video also contained another fallacious claim that Sir Louis was a billionaire. “No, he was not. And it was not just him. There was no billionaire in Nigeria for the first forty years of our existence as an independent nation,” he said.

He further stated, “Throughout the 1960s, Nigeria’s GDP was between $4.2 billion in 1960 and $6.6 billion in 1969. A billionaire at that point would have owned one-quarter of Nigeria’s wealth.

“Yet another historically inaccurate claim made by the person purporting to be Mr. Edochie, who again might be an A.I., and others before him, is that Queen Elizabeth II rode in Sir Louis’s Rolls-Royce during her 1956, and..  Read . .More —