The Lagos State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has described former presidential candidate, Dele Momodu as a “serial political vacationer” who lacks the credentials to supply strategic counsel that will defeat President Bola Tinubu in 2027.
It made the comment whereas countering Momodu’s declare that the opposition ought to play the ethnic and spiritual playing cards.
The spokesman of the state arm of the get together, Mogaji Seye Oladejo, knowledgeable Momodu that ethnic politics can’t defeat Tinubu’s efficiency.
In a press release he signed, Oladejo mentioned the get together notes with attribute amusement, the most recent outburst from “serial political vacationer, Mr. Dele Momodu, who has out of the blue anointed himself as a strategic adviser to a confused opposition – urging them to play the ethnic card since, in his personal phrases, “Jonathan and Obi can’t defeat Tinubu.”
“Whereas we thank him for lastly admitting the apparent – that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu stays politically unstoppable – we should query the audacity and credentials of a person whose personal political historical past is nothing however an extended story of experiments, misadventures, and failed auditions for relevance.
“What ethical or strategic authority does Dele Momodu possess to lecture anybody about political technique? A person who’s actually hooked up to the apron strings of a profession presidential aspirant. A presidential candidate whose electoral outing was so embarrassing that even his polling brokers couldn’t find his tally on the consequence sheet?
“If something, Momodu must be the final particular person to talk on profitable methods. His personal document reads like a handbook on how to not win in politics – loud on commentary, empty on substance, and perpetually chasing validation from political heavyweights who by no means take him severely.
“It’s, subsequently, sheer comedian reduction {that a} man whose whole political relevance is confined to social media timelines now presumes to dictate the opposition’s roadmap to 2027. Nigerians know higher. They know that management is earned via imaginative and prescient, efficiency, and consistency – not via editorials written from the sidelines of social gigs.”
Oladejo knowledgeable the veteran journalist that the times of weaponizing ethnicity as a shortcut to energy are lengthy gone, including that Nigerian citizens has advanced. “They’re now targeted on who can ship outcomes, not who can divide the nation.”
Stating that beneath President Tinubu, Nigeria is being rebuilt on the inspiration of fairness, inclusion, and reform, Oladejo mentioned from “infrastructural renewal to financial stabilisation and social funding, this administration is proving that management is about concepts, not id.”
Oladejo charged Momodu to give attention to rediscovering his personal political path earlier than making an attempt to supply others recommendation.
“If the opposition is actually determined for steerage, maybe the primary counsel they need to heed is to cease listening to those that have by no means gained something – not even a councillorship election. Fact be informed, political realists have accepted the defeat of the opposition, come Yr 2027, individually and collectively.
“The 2027 election might be a referendum on competence and efficiency, not on ethnicity or nostalgia. And in that contest, Dele Momodu’s model of political showmanship may have no place,” he added.
