A former presidential candidate, Dele Momodu, has described the decision of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to zone its presidential ticket to the South as a done deal for President Bola Tinubu’s re-election.
Momodu said the decision was the most reckless in the history of Nigeria’s nascent democracy.
In a post on his Instagram handle on Tuesday, Momodu said PDP has shot itself in the leg by bowing to what he called cheap and puerile blackmail from opposition figures secretly working for the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.
“Yesterday, one of Africa’s biggest, but seriously embattled, political parties shot itself in the leg by choosing to hide behind one finger.
“The PDP finally succumbed to the cheap and puerile blackmail of the black sheep in the opposition party who are openly and daringly working for the ruling party.
“The shame of it was seeing the so-called seasoned politicians engage in self-adulation for taking the most reckless decision in the history of our nascent democracy, by zoning the 2027 presidential candidacy to Southern Nigeria.
“No Jupiter will stop Wike from using PDP structures for Tinubu. That’s already a done deal. Let PDP stop deceiving Nigerians that it will field a Southern candidate against Tinubu. Speculations about the possible candidacy of Goodluck Jonathan, Peter Obi, and Seyi Makinde are blatant lies from the pit of hell,” he wrote.
