Dele Momodu, a presidential candidate in the 2011 presidential election, on Friday said that he is opposed to President Muhammadu Buhari because the Nigerian leader’s “administrative style is horrible”.
Momodu who joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in October said he took the decision to team up with Nigeria’s opposition party because the PDP is the ‘only practical and available opposition that can sack the All Progressives Congress, APC’.
Momodu, the publisher of the Ovation Magazine, discussed his sojourn in Nigerian politics in a post on his verified Facebook page.
Read Momodu’s full post below:
MY SIMPLE PHILOSOPHY OF POLITICS… I started active politics in 1982 just before my final papers in Yoruba studies at then University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University… As a poor student, I used my talents in languages to make some money by writing and translating campaign leaflets. I started meeting the political juggernauts and soon became the Private Secretary to then Deputy Governor of Ondo State but I was never a member of any political party. I was only a technocrat hoping to help individual candidates. This was how I cut my teeth in politics. Fast forward. I would later work for CHIEF MOSHOOD ABIOLA (1993), CHIEF OLU FALAE (1999), MAJOR GENERAL MUHAMMADU BUHARI (2015), ALHAJI ATIKU ABUBAKAR (2019), all on the principle of supporting underdogs, except CHIEF MOSHOOD ABIOLA, who was my adopted father… It was easier to follow government candidates and make easy money but that was never my motive…
My opposition to BUHARI today is nothing personal. He is likable when you meet him but his administrative style is horrible. His government has taken Nigeria back to the Stone Age. We have never been this divided. The economy is wobbly while insecurity is at its worst ever in supposed peace time…
Realistically, PDP is the only practical political available within which serious opposition can hope to sack the APC behemoth and send them back to wherever they came from…
