Media entrepreneur, Dele Momodu, has asked Nigerians to retrieve the country from the control of the All Progressives Congress (APC) among others.
POLITICS NIGERIA reports that Momodu, a 2023 presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was speaking in a recent interview with Vanguard. There, he expressed displeasure with the performance of the Muhammadu Buhari administration.
“Muhammadu Buhari’s regime is not only about non-performance but also the near disintegration of Nigeria,” Momodu said.
“If there’s anything I have against Buhari, I don’t care if he doesn’t know about economy, he’s not an economist. I don’t care if he had not worked on electricity, he won’t be the first. I don’t care if he has not been able to tar roads, we have seen it before!
“However, since the civil war, we have never been in this state of near-disintegration. In fact, I think it’s only God that is tying us together. We could easily have exploded in the last two years and would have caused monumental disaster to the world because of our population. Nigerians would have spilled in different directions like locusts and the world would have suffered heavily for it. Maybe God is a Nigerian so we have managed to keep going.
“In the last election in 2019, I supported Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. Unfortunately, that is the downside of democracy. There are no guarantees that elections would produce the best candidate. In fact, more often than not, elections always produce a candidate who is worse than the previous.
“So, I sat down and tried to look at the way forward, now that Buhari got a second term and Atiku would be about 77 approaching 80 if he decides to contest again, many of the governors except a few, have not performed up to expectations. Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has been phenomenal.
“A lot of people underrated him when he first came, they thought he would be unserious and unable to perform but he performed spectacularly. If the Federal Government had done half of what Wike did in Rivers, across Nigeria, by now, we will be begging Buhari not to go! Wike is the best governor we have in Nigeria today.
“I realised that if care was not taken, we are going to have another election and the same people who have put us in crises are going to come back. Nigeria is the only country where you find a student who has failed an exam, insisting he must be promoted to the next class. That is the best analogy for what is going on in Nigeria. And I liken myself to a parent who is complaining while watching Miss Nigeria, that Miss Nigeria is too ugly while having his beautiful daughters at home.
“So if Miss Nigeria is too ugly, how come you didn’t bring your daughter to compete? That is what brought me back to politics. I tried Buhari, no joy, I tried Atiku, and he didn’t win. Another problem is that we choose people based on primordial sentiments like religious and ethnic permutations instead of their performance, and accomplishments.”
