When Political Failure Turns into Reality TV: The Digital Circus of El Omari, Chaou, and Jerando

In the grand theater of the absurd, the latest act was brilliantly opened by YouTuber Touhfa, who dropped an audio recording of Mustapha Aziz with all the flair of a Ramadan soap opera. Starring: Ilyas El Omari, Saïd Chaou, and guest star, the very talkative Jerando. It feels like a spin-off of Game of Thrones, North Moroccan edition, filled with betrayals, revenge, and exiled drug traffickers. Nothing is missing—not even cheap digital conspiracies.

Mustapha Aziz, visibly inspired, lays out a thesis as subtle as a jackhammer: Ilyas El Omari, former PAM chief hungry for power, has reinvented himself by manipulating exiled YouTubers. Ousted from his regional throne and humiliated at the polls in 2016, the man has turned into a shadow puppeteer. His goal: to avenge his bruised ego by tarnishing Moroccan institutions. Because if he can’t convince voters, there’s always TikTok and YouTube.

And who better than Jerando, the sniper of virtual platforms, to lead this crusade against the security services? An aggressive-toned YouTuber who seems to confuse political satire with baseless defamation— the perfect tool for a nostalgic ex-politician clinging to his media aura. Add in some well-calibrated slogans, a few pseudo-revolutionary speeches, and voilà: welcome to the living room rebels club.

But wait, the plot thickens with the arrival of Saïd Chaou, the cousin exiled in the Netherlands, known for his cocaine-tainted background. According to Aziz, he is the official supplier of fake news and allegedly explosive dossiers. Of course, no concrete proof exists, but in this saga, facts are mere trivialities. What matters is the storytelling and well-served revenge.

Thanks to this recording, the pieces of this delirious puzzle magically fall into place. We discover an unlikely trio: a disgraced ex-politician, a notorious drug trafficker, and a YouTuber hungry for followers. All united by a noble cause: destabilizing Morocco from their foreign sofas. It almost sounds like a Netflix trailer: “The Diaspora Strikes Back.”

The most ironic part of all this is that in trying to discredit Moroccan security services, these gentlemen only highlight how out of touch they are with reality. While they flail in the digital void, the Kingdom continues its reforms and strengthens its alliances. But shhh, that doesn’t get views on YouTube.