IBADAN, Nigeria (VOICE Of NAIJA)- Media personality and ex-presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party, Dele Momodu, has said he will not support the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, despite his wife’s plea.
According to Momodu in an Instagram post on Friday, himself and Tinubuās wife, a Senator representing Lagos Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly, met at an event in Ikeja, the Lagos State capital.
Momodu said though he loves the APC presidential candidate, he wonāt support Tinubuās 2023 ambition because the āAPC has done too much damage to Nigeriaā.
He wrote, āOnly two people, apart from the photographers, witnessed what happened between me and SENATOR MRS OLUREMI TINUBU yesterday, at the funeral service of CHIEF MRS KEMI NELSON, at Archbishop Vining Memorial Church in Ikeja, Lagos. Before some people add salt and pepper to it, I need to state precisely what happened.
āSENATOR TOKUNBO ABIRU and DR TUNJI OLOWOLAFE and I had walked in about the same time and we went to greet my very dear Sister, SENATOR MRS OLUREMI TINUBUā¦ Immediately she saw me, we exchanged our usual pleasantries and then she asked me āso Bob Dee, youāre not going to campaign for my husbandā¦ā I smiled and remained very calm before replying: āYour Excellency, Iām in PDPā¦ā She apparently didnāt find it funny and regaled us with the past I shared with her husband and I tried to calm her downā¦
āAnyway, I went back to my seat and pondered on what just happened and I soliloquised: āBefore the PDP Primary, I had been asked repeatedly by journalists if Iāll dump PDP if I donāt get the ticket, my answer was NO. So if I had gotten the PDP ticket, would I step down for TINUBU of APC, the answer is NOā¦ā
āI joined PDP because APC was leading Nigeria to Golgotha. APC candidates are promising to continue BUHARIāS āgood works!ā I joined PDP in order to sack APC from power and to do this I needed a strong opposition party. I had preached to my younger friends that only a mainstream party like PDP can achieve this in 2023. This remains my conviction. I practice what I preach. Those who disagree are in other parties and I respect their opinions and wish them well. Iām in PDP.
āI love ASIWAJU BOLA AHMED TINUBU. Weāve truly come way back. I love PROFESSOR YEMI OSINBAJO. I love RT. HON. CHIBUIKE ROTIMI AMAECHIā¦ And all my APC friendsā¦ But APC has done too much damage to Nigeria.
I choose to place Nigeria above friendshipā¦ I will try my best to support and encourage our PDP candidate ALHAJI ATIKU ABUBAKAR to do the right things in our party and to rescue our dear beloved country from the vestiges of oppression, religious intolerance, poverty, terrorism, infrastructure decay, economic wows, unemployment.ā