Saturday, October 18, 2025 - The Lagos State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has described former presidential candidate, Dele Momodu as a “serial political tourist” who lacks the credentials to offer strategic counsel that would defeat President Bola Tinubu in 2027.
It made the remark while countering Momodu’s claim that the
opposition should play the ethnic and religious cards.
The spokesman of the state arm of the party, Mogaji Seye
Oladejo, informed Momodu that ethnic politics can’t defeat Tinubu’s
performance.
In a statement he signed, Oladejo said the party notes with
characteristic amusement, the latest outburst from “serial political tourist,
Mr. Dele Momodu, who has suddenly anointed himself as a strategic adviser to a
confused opposition – urging them to play the ethnic card since, in his own
words, “Jonathan and Obi can’t defeat Tinubu.”
“While we thank him for finally admitting the obvious – that
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu remains politically unstoppable – we must question
the audacity and credentials of a man whose own political history is nothing
but a long tale of experiments, misadventures, and failed auditions for
relevance.
“What moral or strategic authority does Dele Momodu possess
to lecture anyone about political strategy? A man who is literally attached to
the apron strings of a career presidential aspirant. A presidential candidate
whose electoral outing was so embarrassing that even his polling agents
couldn’t locate his tally on the result sheet?
“If anything, Momodu should be the last person to speak on
winning strategies. His own record reads like a manual on how not to win in
politics – loud on commentary, empty on substance, and perpetually chasing
validation from political heavyweights who never take him seriously.
“It is, therefore, sheer comic relief that a man whose
entire political relevance is confined to social media timelines now presumes
to dictate the opposition’s roadmap to 2027. Nigerians know better. They know
that leadership is earned through vision, performance, and consistency – not
through editorials written from the sidelines of social gigs.”
Oladejo informed the veteran journalist that the days of
weaponizing ethnicity as a shortcut to power are long gone, adding that
Nigerian electorate has evolved. “They are now focused on who can deliver
results, not who can divide the nation.”
Pointing out that under President Tinubu, Nigeria is being
rebuilt on the foundation of equity, inclusion, and reform, Oladejo said from
“infrastructural renewal to economic stabilization and social investment, this
administration is proving that leadership is about ideas, not identity.”
Oladejo charged Momodu to focus on rediscovering his own
political direction before attempting to offer others advice.
“If the opposition is truly desperate for guidance, perhaps
the first counsel they should heed is to stop listening to those who have never
won anything – not even a councillorship election. Truth be told, political
realists have accepted the defeat of the opposition, come Year 2027,
individually and collectively.
“The 2027 election will be a referendum on competence and
performance, not on ethnicity or nostalgia. And in that contest, Dele Momodu’s
brand of political showmanship will have no place,” he added.
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