Ovation publisher Dele Momodu has reacted to former Governor of Ekiti state remark that former Vice President Atiku is too old to contest the next presidential election.
Abubakar, who lost to the incumbent President Bola Ahmed Tinubu last year, sources close to him said, is preparing to contest Nigeria’s next presidential election slated for 2027 and
Momodu, a renown journalist and one of the spokesman for Atiku in the 2023 Presidential election said Fayose cannot prevent the former vice president from contesting, stressing that the former governor’s right is only limited to voting for any candidate of his choice during the election.
Fayose had while speaking on the state of the nation said Atiku would be too old to contest the 2027 Presidential election.
A member of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Fayose, a former governor of Ekiti state has been hobnobbing with the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, he supported President Tinubu in last year’s presidential election against his party candidate, Atiku.
There are serious indications that Fayose will still support the reelection bid pf President Tinubu.
Reacting in a statement, Momodu, a former presidential candidate said Fayose’s call for the younger generation to be allowed to rule the country has no basis, stressing that Fayose’s generation has brought “Absolute CALAMITY and CHAOS and unprecedented CORRUPTION” to the country.
Momodu said age should not be a major factor for Nigerian Presidency, citing other countries where their leaders are over 80 years old.
Atiku is 78 years old, and will be over 80 years old by the next presidential election in the country.
He wondered why Fayose did not support younger presidential candidates in previous elections.
He said the former vice president is a true Democrat who deserves to rule the country because “ATIKU ABUBAKAR has carried himself admirably as a true Democrat.”
Below Momodu’s statement in full
“WHO’S AFRAID OF ATIKU ABUBAKAR?
I have read a statement credited to former GOVERNOR PETER AYODELE FAYOSE advising ALHAJI ATIKU ABUBAKAR to stay away from ever contesting Presidential election again in Nigeria. This has raised a few salient questions.
Who are the younger persons he has in mind for 2027? MINISTER NYESOM WIKE or PRESIDENT TINUBU of APC that they are supporting openly while still in PDP?
It is undemocratic to tell anyone not to contest an election. If ATIKU contests and you don’t like him, you have the right to oppose him but you can’t stylishly disqualify him. AGE alone can’t invalidate a leader’s vision and mission in life or in politics. Who would have expected a PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN to come on the global stage after POTUS BARACK OBAMA? Or that a former POTUS DONALD TRUMP will be contesting against a much younger and smart woman VP KAMALA HARRIS today?
Let’s go further. What has been the effect of the participation of many of the younger folks in Nigerian politics of former GOVERNOR FAYOSE’s generation? (Absolute CALAMITY and CHAOS and unprecedented CORRUPTION). How many members of that generation have done meaningful and visible BUSINESS since leaving power other than continuing to live parasitically on the nation?
It must be noted that ATIKU ABUBAKAR has carried himself admirably as a true Democrat. He does not have a tyrannical grip on any STATE in Nigeria. He has never sponsored thugs or INEC to hijack elections. If GOD has blessed him with good health, what stops him from contesting? Why did the proponents of younger candidates not support VP YEMI OSINBAJO, ABUBAKAR BUKOLA SARAKI, CHIBUIKE ROTIMI AMAECHI, OMOYELE SOWORE, AMINU WAZIRI TAMBUWAL, DONALD DUKE, KAYODE FAYEMI, NASIR EL RUFAI, PETER OBI, RABIU MUSA KWANKWASO, and others but they worked actively to install PRESIDENT BOLA AHMED TINUBU!!
Is FAYOSE assuring us that members of their group will soon come out boldly and openly to advise TINUBU not to contest in 2027?” – DELE MOMODU speak
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