A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dele Momodu, has said that some of the top members of the main opposition party have decided to leave the party for the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, to join the new opposition coalition.
Wike, who is serving as a minister under the All Progressives Congress administration, has remained in the PDP which has been embroiled in an internal crisis for years.
“Without any doubt, people are leaving the carcass of PDP to Wike and his cronies, that’s all. It was a prophecy foretold,” Momodu said when asked on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Thursday if he was leaving the PDP.
He accused the APC of sending moles to opposition parties, saying that the ruling party does not want competition in the 2027 election.
“The ruling party does not want competition in 2027, so what they are doing now is to send their moles into any major formidable party,” he said.
The media personality expressed his optimism about the formation of a coalition by opposition leaders to wrest power from the ruling APC in 2027.
At a meeting in Abuja on Wednesday, the leaders of the coalition announced the African Democratic Congress (ADC) as their adopted platform for the 2027 election.
Momodu said that not even the coalition that brought Mohammadu Buhari to power in 2015 was as powerful as the new coalition.
“I have never seen that kind of coalition, even when we were doing coalition for Buhari in 2014 and 2015, it was not this powerful and impactful.
“What I saw on Wednesday rekindled my hope in Nigeria that Nigerians will not sit down and allow one man to hijack the country,” Momodu said.
He slammed the Tinubu administration, saying that it has made Nigeria worse than the Buhari administration left it.
“I know you might not be able to answer but is this the Nigeria of your dreams? Are you better today than you were two years ago? At least when Buhari left, we saw what he left no matter how bad it was, but it is much worse today,” he added.
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