Media personality Dele Momodu has denied endorsing the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Bola Tinubu for the 2023 presidency.
Momodu is the latest in a string of denials of endorsement of the former Lagos senator and governor.
The chairman of Ovation Media Group, who is himself a presidential aspirant in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), said in a statement on Saturday posted to Instagram that Tinubu’s media team was acting “cheap” by faking endorsements.
“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,” he said.
“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.”
Momodu said things have changed since he wrote the article, adding that he did not join the APC for several reasons, some of which he highlighted.
“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,” he said.
According to Momodu, only northern leaders have been more courageous in telling Buhari the truth.
