Presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Dele Momodu says he did not endorse National Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu for the 2023 presidency.
The Ovation publisher lambasted Tinubu’s media handlers for claiming that he endorsed the former Lagos governor.
Momodu claimed that the media handlers passed off an article he wrote on October 26, 2019, as an endorsement of Tinubu for the 2023 presidency.
“If you ask me if he is a saint, I will say no. None of us is. Not even Buhari. Not you, not me. Nations are not governed by saints but by performers,” the article read in part.
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Last Monday, Tinubu met President Muhammadu Buhari and informed him of his presidential ambition.
Since Tinubu’s declaration, many prominent Nigerians have been erroneously quoted as endorsing his candidature.
In an Instagram post, Momodu said he is the latest victim of the media handlers concocting the supposed endorsements.
Sharing a screenshot of a news item supposedly containing the endorsement, Momodu wrote: “In all honesty, I do not know who the media handlers of ASIWAJU BOLA AHMED TINUBU are but I can reasonably confirm that they’ve been fumbling too much by being so cheap, unimaginative and jejune in their campaigns.
“Are they not ashamed that several people, including the respected DR AKINWUMI ADESINA of the African Development Bank, have publicly denied endorsing TINUBU for the 2023 Presidential election because of this unfortunate desperation to sell him as the only candidate of APC in 2023.
“Now, I’m their latest victim. An article I wrote two years ago about TINUBU has suddenly become a fresh endorsement in 2022.
“What chicanery is this? While I have tremendous respect for ASIWAJU BOLA AHMED TINUBU, his handlers have no right to engage in pure mischief by abusing our relationship. They’ve even made pamphlets of my article. But unknown to them, a lot of water has passed under the bridge since I wrote that article and I have my cogent reasons for not joining APC – PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI’s divisiveness and the culpable silence of TINUBU and the Vice President PROFESSOR YEMI OSINBAJO in condoning his excesses and keeping mute in the face of barefaced tyranny.
“Southern Leaders who crave to be President have failed to protect their own people from the blistering attacks they’ve endured under the Buhari government, most especially the people of the South East.
“The whole country is in turmoil and Northern Leaders have been more courageous in telling Buhari the blatant truth while ours have been so cowardly because of their insatiable propensity for power…”
Momodu asked the media handlers, whom he called ‘spin doctors’, to “to delete my name from their reckless and self seeking endorsements.”