Media personality and ex-presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party, Dele Momodu, has narrated how Senator Remi Tinubu sought his support to campaign for the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu.
According to Momodu in an Instagram post on Friday, he and Tinubuโs wife, a Senator representing Lagos Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly, met at an event in Ikeja, the Lagos State capital.
The Ovation International publisher said though he loves the APC presidential candidate, he wonโt support Tinubuโs 2023 ambition because the โAPC has done too much damage to Nigeriaโ.
He wrote, โOnly two people, apart from the photographers, witnessed what happened between me and SENATOR MRS OLUREMI TINUBU yesterday, at the funeral service of CHIEF MRS KEMI NELSON, at Archbishop Vining Memorial Church in Ikeja, Lagos. Before some people add salt and pepper to it, I need to state precisely what happened.
โSENATOR TOKUNBO ABIRU and DR TUNJI OLOWOLAFE and I had walked in about the same time and we went to greet my very dear Sister, SENATOR MRS OLUREMI TINUBUโฆ Immediately she saw me, we exchanged our usual pleasantries and then she asked me โso Bob Dee, youโre not going to campaign for my husbandโฆโ I smiled and remained very calm before replying: โYour Excellency, Iโm in PDPโฆโ She apparently didnโt find it funny and regaled us with the past I shared with her husband and I tried to calm her downโฆ
โAnyway, I went back to my seat and pondered on what just happened and I soliloquised: โBefore the PDP Primary, I had been asked repeatedly by journalists if Iโll dump PDP if I donโt get the ticket, my answer was NO. So if I had gotten the PDP ticket, would I step down for TINUBU of APC, the answer is NOโฆโ
โI joined PDP because APC was leading Nigeria to Golgotha. APC candidates are promising to continue BUHARIโS โgood works!โ I joined PDP in order to sack APC from power and to do this I needed a strong opposition party. I had preached to my younger friends that only a mainstream party like PDP can achieve this in 2023. This remains my conviction. I practice what I preach. Those who disagree are in other parties and I respect their opinions and wish them well. Iโm in PDP.
โI love ASIWAJU BOLA AHMED TINUBU. Weโve truly come way back. I love PROFESSOR YEMI OSINBAJO. I love RT. HON. CHIBUIKE ROTIMI AMAECHIโฆ And all my APC friendsโฆ But APC has done too much damage to Nigeria.
I choose to place Nigeria above friendshipโฆ I will try my best to support and encourage our PDP candidate ALHAJI ATIKU ABUBAKAR to do the right things in our party and to rescue our dear beloved country from the vestiges of oppression, religious intolerance, poverty, terrorism, infrastructure decay, economic wows, unemployment.โ
