(2023 Presidency) Dele Momodu: Tinubu and Osinbajo are failures–Adesanya-Davies concurs
OpenLife Nigeria reports on January 18, 2022 that an aspirant who has officially declared his interest in Nigeria’s 2023 presidency, Chief Dele Momodu, has described Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and the national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as failures. The Media Entrepreneur’s claim has been bolstered up with more evidence by the academic guru and linguistics and communication expert, Prof. Funmilayo Adesnya-Davies, the female Presidential candidate of Mass Action Joint Alliance (MAJA) in the 2019 election, who is now contesting for 2023 presidency under the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
“Dele Momodu spoke on AIT live programme on Tuesday morning; he anchored his argument on the grounds of the inability of the duo to elevate the socio-economic and political relevance of the South West in the past seven years despite their high positions in government and governance. While expanding his scope of argument, Momodu said he still has tremendous respects for both Osinbajo and Tinubu but grossly disappointed in them for being “swuirmish and timid” and not being able to speak up when things have practically gone bad in the country.
Surprisingly, “It’s as if Dele had read my mind”, Adesanya-Davies remarked, “We kept writing, speaking and travelling up and down, and these two leaders kept numb, dumb and mute as if it were none of their business. Haba! Only to now suddenly show up, they want to be presidential candidates seeking for presidential tickets for 2023 election for God’s sake!” She exclaimed.
Dele Momodu further explained that he is yet to fathom the reason Osinbajo and Tinubu have decided to keep mute in the face of growing fascism given that they demonstrated courage against former President Obasanjo’s fiscal onslaught. The Media Entrepreneur noted that as far as the two South West foremost leaders have failed to lead the war against tyranny in the front, they are failures and therefore, undeserving of 2023 electoral rewards. “They abandoned the people,” he stated adding that his presidential aspiration is resonating round the world and shaping the 2023 conversations.
Adesnya-Davies said,” They have been silent in the face of the worsening situation of things in the country, is it because they don’t want to offend Buhari or because they are afraid of him? Or because they don’t care about the poor masses. Kudos to the likes of Pa Ayo Adebanjo, the National Leader of the Pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, who has refused to be silenced. Pa Adebanjo, had also said that “Tinubu is unaware that Buhari has an ulterior motive, noting that the president is only using the All Progressives Congress (APC) national leader to achieve his own political goal.”
According to him, “They are deceiving themselves that Buhari would hand over to him (Tinubu) since they supported him (Buhari). I have said it openly before and I would say it again that Buhari is deceiving Tinubu and Tinubu is deceiving Buhari. I’m an old man and I’m a funeral candidate already, so quote me. If Tinubu contests the primary in APC today, he will fail.” Moreover, “He wondered why Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, who challenged former president Olusegun Obasanjo in court after the Nigerian government withheld local government funds belonging to Lagos State, has become quiet under the current administration too.
“The Yoruba leader said Buhari has continued to insist Nigeria is indivisible without any concrete steps to tackle the challenges confronting the country headlong. He continued: “All the time we have been shouting that Nigeria would break, what has Buhari said? What has he said to assuage those fears or to tell people it won’t happen? We just have to keep talking. That is why people are being killed and he sits in the Aso Rock. People were killed and kidnapped and he said we should make friends with our neighbours, and another time, it was to appease kidnappers with government money.
“We are all witnesses. Why are we all living in denial? If the people in government are living in denial, what about the victims? If you live in denial you would die in it. Young people won’t say Adebanjo didn’t warn them. If it’s not living in denial, (Governor Rotimi) Akeredolu asked herdsmen to vacate Ondo State forests reserves because of kidnapping and rape. They tried to change the narrative that he said Fulani people should leave the West.
“Have you asked yourself, are southerners in the North raping their (northerners) wives; are they killing or kidnapping them? Did he ask northerners to go? No. When they are talking like that, they don’t refer to the offence their people have committed. Have they arrested these people? No. That is why I said Buhari has a private agenda. These people killed and raped people in Makurdi (Benue) and the governor, Samuel Ortom, reported the matter to the President that about 70 people were killed. Ortom asked the Federal Government to intervene. Instead of going after those perpetrators; what did Buhari say, he said go and make friends with your neighbours.
“When I say Buhari is a fake and he has a private agenda, I know what I’m saying. He wants Fulani to take over and that was why he allowed them to come in. When we ask them about the herders killing people, they would say they are foreigners. Government is in charge of security, so how did they enter the country to do damage to your citizens and their property? How many have been arrested not to talk of prosecution? After that, they would go and negotiate with them. If people can’t see, I have said enough. If people don’t make the government realise that they are no fools, they would be taking them for a ride. But some people kept quiet because they were getting the crumbs on the table.”
Adebanjo said Nigeria would cease to exist if the extant constitution is not changed. He added that he was not worried about being accused of hate speech by Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed. He asserts: “If they don’t change this constitution, that would be the end of Nigeria. I’m not saying it in a corner; I’m saying it for Lai Mohammed (Minister of Information and Culture) to come and charge me for hate speech. I’m not a novice in this country. I’m not just an old man; I’m a lawyer by training.
“I am telling you that the governors, lawmakers and the other political office holders people are relying on to change the constitution cannot do it because they are products of the fraudulent constitution. When we say a document is fraudulent, do you want to build something on fraud?”
Similar to what Pa Ayo Adebanjo has been saying, the duo media, communication experts and 2023 Presidential aspirants, Funmilayo Adesnya-Davies and Dele Mamodu are therefore on the same page on the issue of Ahmed Tinubu and Yemi Osinbajo being failures having disappointed the Yorubas and as need not to contest for presidency in 2023 elections.
