By Gideon Njoku
“Wike keeps belching orders at helpless Governors who are too jittery to stand firm against daredevil dictatorship.”
Chief Dele Momodu, Publisher, Politician, former Presidential Aspirant under about two Political Parties, including the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, former chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and currently, a chieftain of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, has said that the PDP should stop deceiving itself and lying to Nigerians by pretending it would have a Presidential candidate in 2027. All the talks, he said, about fielding former President Goodluck Jonathan, or Peter Obi, Labour Party Presidential Candidate in the 2023 general election, or Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, to fly its flag in 2027, are just what they are meant to be – talks.
This, Momodu said, is because President Bola Tinubu will be the Presidential Candidate of both the APC and the PDP in 2027.
Momodu said these in reaction to the zoning by the PDP, of its Presidential ticket to Southern Nigeria.
He described it as a monumental mistake which has finally taken the Party out of any calculation in 2027. He is of the opinion that the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, finally blackmailed the PDP into zoning its ticket to the South knowing fully well that Wike would use the PDP structure to work for Tinubu in 2027.
In a post on his Instagram page, Momodu explained that the PDP has finally, surrendered its structure to President Bola Tinubu and described the party’s decision as “the most reckless decision in the history of our nascent democracy”. It has “shot itself in the leg”, Momodu declared.
His words: “Yesterday (Monday) one of Africa’s biggest, but seriously embattled political parties, shot itself in the leg by choosing to hide behind one finger. The PDP finally succumbed to the cheap and puerile blackmail of the black sheep in the opposition party who are openly and daringly working for the ruling party.
“The shame of it was seeing the so-called seasoned politicians engage in self-adulation for taking the most reckless decisions in the history of our nascent democracy by zoning the 2027 Presidential candidacy to Southern Nigeria.
“Who did not know that ultimately the hand was that of Wike while the voice was that of Tinubu. Their gameplan is not hidden. Wike keeps belching orders at helpless Governors who are too jittery to stand firm against daredevil dictatorship. They could not even rescue one of their prominent members in Rivers State, SIM FUBARA, when his boat of governance capsized. The same man that threw out zoning in 2022, and even lobbied to be Vice President of a Northern Candidate, is the one now crying loudest that power must be ceded to the South in 2027.
“The geniuses should be courageous enough to admit that Tinubu will be the joint Candidate of APC and PDP in 2027. There’s nothing to be ashamed of. Give it to Wike, love him or loathe him, you will always know where he stands no matter how preposterous or ludicrous.
“No Jupiter will stop Wike from using PDP structures for Tinubu. That’s already a done deal. Let PDP stop deceiving Nigerians that it will field a Southern Candidate against Tinubu. Speculations about the possible candidacy of Goodluck Jonathan, Peter Obi or Seyi Makinde are blatant lies from the pit of hell.
“What is more, the hypocrisy behind the reason for zoning power to the South stinks to high heavens. Where were these guys when President Umaru Yar’adua died, and no one fought for his replacement from the North after Jonathan completed their first term? In fact, Jonathan would have spent 9 years as President but for the defeat by Buhari in 2015. Where were they when Tinubu ran on a Muslim/Muslim ticket? The questions can continue ad infinitum!! Truth must not be selective.”
Instructively, in Rivers State, Wike is the Leader of both the APC and the PDP. In the Local Council polls scheduled for the State on August 30, both parties are fielding same Candidates. And in Oyo State where PDP Governor Makinde is speculated to be seriously warming up to run for the Presidential seat, recall that like Wike, he openly worked for Tinubu in 2023 against his own Party’s Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar.
In Osun State too, PDP Governor Ademola Adeleke, has pledged to work for Tinubu’s victory in 2027. And so has All Progressive Grand Alliance Anambra State Governor, Professor Charles Soludo. Both Delta and Akwa Ibom Governors, Sheriff Oborevwori and Umoh Eno respectively, have since dumped the PDP for the APC, and pledged the votes from their States to Tinubu.
The question then is: who, in the South, will work for the PDP?
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