The Director of Strategic Communications of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) campaign council, Dele Momodu, has said that the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, is a potential dictator, who does not know how to treat his friends.
Momodu made this assertion on Tuesday while featuring on Channels TV political programme, Politics Today.
Momodu said, “Anyone who knows me very well knows that I respect people, I love my friends but I tell my friends the gospel truth.
“When Bola Ahmed Tinubu was governor of Lagos, he had issues with Senator Tokunbo Afikuyomi, I came out openly to confront him that what you are doing is wrong. In fact, that night, he called me to his office in his house in Bourdillon and said, “Why are you attacking me because of Tokunbo?” I said because you could have told the man that you are not going to support him so that he will not waste his time and resources.
“When he was having issues with Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola and he was almost dropping him, I wrote an article between Bola Tinubu and Babatunde Fashola in which I warned him that their marriage was consummated in heaven. Either of you or both of you, if you go for a divorce, you are going to perish. On that occasion, he backtracked.
“When he was having issues with (Akinwunmi) Ambode, I wrote a letter. I remember I was in Turkey. One of my best, most passionate letters ever; I wrote to him again and said, look, I’m twenty times closer to Sanwo-Olu. I love him like my own brother but don’t humiliate Ambode.
“This man has done great for Lagos State and Nigeria. He refused. I told him you can hold the gun but don’t fire the bullet. When he had a problem with Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, he said the man would not become the Senate President, I came forcefully out to say look, CPC has produced Buhari as number one, your party ACN has produced Prof. Yemi Osinbajo as number two, the Vice President, now, the breakaway faction of PDP, you are saying one of them cannot be Senate President, I’m sorry sir, I disagree with you, let the man be.
“He refused and the man became the Senate President and he hunted him from the beginning to the end. The man never had peace.
“Bola Tinubu doesn’t know how to treat his friends and I gave copious examples. He is the only governor I know, maybe there are others I don’t know, who had two deputy governors and they both got into trouble.
“I’m inferring dictatorship, nothing else. I will never support dictatorship. I suffered under dictatorship. I was in detention. I was in exile for three years. I will never. That is why some of those who are trying to dictate that by fire by force, someone must be a president, I have told them, count me out of it.
“Dictatorship has no way in my book. Once you begin to demonstrate dictatorship, I’m out.
“Bola Tinubu is a potential dictator, let me use that word. The spirit of my article was an academic exercise, there was nowhere I disparaged him but because Festus Keyamo is always an attack dog, he likes to yell, even when he is in court, he is yelling, I don’t know where he got that kind of training from.
“When he is talking, he doesn’t know how to calm down. He is someone we have been very close to but since they gave him this job of minister, a ministry where he has been less than competent, a ministry where everything is in shambles. If I were in his shoes, I know by now I would have resigned.”
