Stop attacking Atiku – Dele Momodu tells Amaechi

Dele Momodu, publisher of Ovation magazine, has appealed to Rotimi Amaechi, former minister of transportation, to tone down his rhetoric on former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar.

In an interview on Tuesday, Amaechi said Abubakar has nothing new to offer the country as president, adding that although the ex-number two has consistently emerged victorious in party primaries over the years, he failed to convert those victories to electoral success at the national level.

In a riposte on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’, Momodu described Amaechi’s remarks as unbecoming of a presidential hopeful.

“Mr Amaechi, in the name of Almighty God, should please cool his temper,” Momodu said.

“A potential presidential candidate and possible president of Nigeria must watch his temper and temperament and does not need to attack Atiku.”

Momodu said the 2027 presidential race is going to be a contest dominated by heavyweights across Nigeria’s geopolitical zones.

He pointed to reports of a potential declaration by former President Goodluck Jonathan from the south-south, the incumbency advantage of President Bola Tinubu from the south-west, and a possible alliance between Peter Obi (south-east) and Rabiu Kwankwaso (north-west).

“President Jonathan is formidable. President Bola Tinubu, being the sitting president, is extraordinarily formidable. And the combination of Peter Obi and Kwankwaso, if what they are planning goes through, is going to be formidable,” Momodu said.

“Which means we are going to have a very, very big fish from the south-south, a lesser big fish from the south-east, and the biggest fish of them from the south-west. So which direction would ADC look strategically?”

(TheCable)