Watch out for Tinubu, he is a dictator disguising as a democrat, Momodu says, citing Tinubu’s treatment of Saraki, Fashola, and Ambode
By Jeph Ajobaju, Chief Copy Editor
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“When he was a governor, I supported him from the distance while he surrounded himself with some people who pretended to love him.
“When he was busy distributing land to journalists in Lagos, I refused to collect my papers because I love my freedom, the reason I was able to tell him truth regularly.”
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Veteran journalists Dele Momodu has warned Nigerians that Bola Tinubu is a dictator trying to grab the most powerful job in the land in the guise of a democrat even when his well documented antecedents reveal his true nature.
The publisher of Ovation magazine and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) Communications Director warned on Channels Television Tinubu will only take Nigeria backwards.
He said the former Lagos Governor now All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate wants everyone subservient to his whims and caprices.
He cited how former Senate President Bukola Saraki, and former Lagos Governors Akinwunmi Ambode and Babatunde Fashola all suffered Tinubu’s dictatorship.
“Bola Tinubu is the only Governor I know who had two Deputy Governors and they both got into trouble. I am inferring dictatorship and nothing else.
“I will never support dictatorship. Dictatorship has no way in my books and Bola Tinubu is a potential dictator,” Momodu said, per reporting by The PUNCH.
Bones of disagreement with Tinubu
Momodu later wrote a detailed statement saying he loves “the man Tinubu” but disagrees “vehemently with Tinubu the politician”.
He said Tinubu has declined over the years, is no longer a man of his people, and his allies cannot tell him this “truth” because of financial gain.
His statement titled, “Festus Keyamo and his erratic vituperation”, also knocked the APC Campaign spokesperson who had accused him of executing a cheap “hatchet job” to impress his paymasters by taking on the APC.
“I have just read Festus Keyamo’s response to my critique of the APC manifesto of lies. I’m not surprised that all he could do was yell as usual without examining or practically addressing the content of my article.
“Unfortunately, he picked on a wrong customer,” Momodu said in the statement, per The PUNCH.
“Let me take a few minutes to educate this young friend of mine who has since become a shadow of his old self since he was offered an appointment, that makes him look so incompetent, by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.).
“What did Festus say I did wrong? He quoted copiously from an article I wrote about two years ago, which the Tinubu media teams have been using to campaign endlessly, because they have no stronger voice of their own. I’m indeed flattered.
“There is no doubt that I love Tinubu the man but I disagree vehemently with Tinubu the Politician. This is not the first time I will say it publicly.
“Since I now have the opportunity of presenting the bones of my disagreement with Tinubu, courtesy of Festus Keyamo, I will lay them bare.
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Tinubu desperate to be President
“Tinubu has declined in the last few years. I used to see him as a man of his people but no supposed generalissimo would ever abandon his people in the days of trouble and tribulation. None of the people around him could tell him the truth for pecuniary reasons,” Momodu added.
“He knows it himself but he desperately wants to be President of Nigeria, by fire by force, after he has lost most of his formidable foot soldiers, and now relying on outsiders to activate and actualise his lifelong ambition for him, which is his legitimate right. But Nigerians have the right to scrutinise his action plans.
“When he was a governor, I supported him from the distance while he surrounded himself with some people who pretended to love him.
“When he was busy distributing land to journalists in Lagos, I refused to collect my papers because I love my freedom, the reason I was able to tell him truth regularly.
“When he was to be impeached for some infractions, and many of his so-called loyalists were washing off their hands clean, like the Biblical Pontius Pilate, my very dear friend, Tokunbo Afikuyomi, stood by him like the Rock of Gibraltar.
Momodu said Tinubu’s greatest sin is that he went quiet when the APC became a totally hopeless case, “just because he is hoping to inherit Buhari’s structures.
“Lastly, I hope he would have the energy to make himself available for a rigorous scrutiny of his manifesto.
“He wants to renew what actually? He wants to turn Nigeria into another Lagos? Many of those who love him genuinely know that the demystification process has started.”
