Lere Olayinka, the Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication and New Media to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has lambasted a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dele Momodu for criticizing the Minister’s latest remark regarding the party’s 2027 presidential ticket.
Olayinka said Momodu hates to hear the truth and wants to keep eating the money of former PDP’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.
He maintained that Wike has said the truth about PDP’s 2027 presidential ticket.
In what appears to be a message directed at Atiku, Wike during his monthly press briefing in Abuja, said PDP will not zone its presidential ticket to the North.
He said: “PDP cannot give the presidential ticket to the North (in 2027).”
Displeased by his remarks, Momodu said Wike’s boastfulness will end, adding that the Minister will be humbled when the time comes.
Posting on Facebook, Momodu wrote: “The PDP cannot send the presidential ticket to the North in 2027. I’m building the PDP, not tearing it apart – Wike.
“History has taught the world that Nyesom Wike’s boastfulness will end and he shall eat the humble pie when the time comes.
“When did he become the Chief Justice of Nigeria that he can misinterpret our Constitution as he wishes. He said the North will not be allowed to pick the next Presidential ticket of PDP and that he is fighting for justice.
“At what point did he discover that Justice or injustice?
“It is surprising that all the respected journalists in the room could not tell him to stop the HYPOCRISY and ask if he did not want to be ALHAJI ATIKU ABUBAKAR’s Vice Presidential nominee!! That’s the only truth that haunts and gets him livid with rage.”
Momodu also berated Wike over his comments regarding the suspended Governor of Rivers State.
He noted: “On FUBARA, did Wike ever allow any soul to control himself as Governor, including those who helped him to the top? Has he not rained torrents of insults on all of them?
“Since almost three years when he lost the PDP Presidential Primary, MR PROJECT has remained inconsolable and my appeal to him is no man can have his way always. In a Democracy, everyone has the right to contest or not, based only on the CONSTITUTION of NIGERIA, and not the whimsical decision of one man, WIKE. Oju lo pe si… Time flies.”
Responding, Olayinka said Momodu considers anybody who tells Atiku to bury his presidential ambition as his enemy.
In a chat with DAILY POST, Olayinka said: “Babalawo Dele Momodu sha wants to be eating Atiku’s money. Anyone who tells him the truth that Atiku should bury his thought of contesting the Presidency again in 2027 is Dele Momodu’s automatic enemy.
“The millions he collected as Campaign Director of Media in 2023 don sweet Ẹ̀gbọ́n oníkùn gbẹ̀ndu gbẹndu bí ọ̀yà.
“Wike has said the truth that must be said to Atiku.”
