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Veteran journalist and former presidential candidate, Dele Momodu has revealed what he did immediately the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared President Bola Tinubu as the winner of the 2023 presidential election.

In the election, Tinubu polled a total votes of 8,794,726 ; Atiku Abubakar scored 6,984,520 votes, and Peter Obi of Labour party polled 6,101,533 votes. The presidential candidate of New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP), Rabiu Kwankwaso came a distant fourth with the total votes of 1,496,687 votes.

Momodu, who was Director of Strategic Communications for the 2023 Atiku Abubakar Presidential Campaign Organisation in an interview with Tribune said as a part-time politician who is fanatical about journalism, he went back to his desk at Ovation immediately Tinubu was declared the winner.

According to him, most politicians abandon their profession or businesses immediately they get into political office

He says “I didn’t go into democracy for me to be rewarded. I am very passionate and very fanatical about journalism and making my mark and leaving my legacy. That is why I am a part-time politician, I am not a full-time politician. A few days after INEC declared that we lost the election in 2023, I was back at my desk in Ovation”.

“When I went to the primaries of the PDP and I didn’t make it I was back at Ovation. When I lost the presidential election in 2011 on the platform of the National Conscience Party, I returned straight to Ovation. So I have a job waiting for me at all times but most politicians abandon everything that ever made them who they were. I cannot do that”.

Momodu also hailed former Vice- President, Atiku Abubakar, saying it is very rare to find politicians like him in Nigeria.

He said he admired Atiku because he is not a career politician like many in Nigeria today who cannot survive once they quit politics or are out of political office.

“So, I am not a career politician and that is one of the things I admire in Atiku Abubakar. The fact that he left power in 2007 and is still surviving on his businesses speaks a lot; not many politicians can survive like that. He still maintains his personal lifestyle, he is still employing so many Nigerians. He does not practice thuggery and you will never find a thug around Atiku”.

“When you talk to me about democracy that is what democracy is all about, it is not about gangsterism; it is not about what would scare people – you can’t vote because of where you come from or because of religion or they can’t vote because you must be the winner at all times. For me, that is not my idea of democracy. When we fought the military we were fighting for a Nigeria which would be a land of freedom but today, Nigeria is not a land of freedom”.
https://thescrutinyng.com/what-i-did-few-days-after-inec-declared-tinubu-winner-dele-momodu/

Thugs and Touts are not popular in North

So tell us, who killed Bola Ige? Who coordinated the rigging of the 2003 general election? Who killed Harry Marshal?

Dino Melaye nko?

Fat foolish bastard

nairavsdollars:
Thugs and Touts are not popular in North

Almajaris are what? Priests or Clergy?

nairavsdollars:
Thugs and Touts are not popular in North

Who were those that wanted to bring down the North during the last protest, Northern leaders were running helter skelter

nairavsdollars:
Thugs and Touts are not popular in North

hahaha.the day I was travelling through zamfara to kaduna, I been seeing plenty of thugs that day will weapons they were majorly PDP thugs.
5/6days later when I was coming back to my base and on getting to sokoto come and see 100's of APC thugs with dangerous weapons.they even pass security checkpoints on the way and they passed without any form of questioning or arrest.

The truth here is that you can't see thugs and louts around Atiku Abubakar. I can confirm this.

Grandpa like uncle Dele shouldn't be sounding like a boy

Dey play

nairavsdollars:
Thugs and Touts are not popular in North

And Dino milaye is not a thug abi

Hmmm

Mc oluomo is family...

Almajiris are what? Priest or bishop ... Uncle wey dey sound like idiot

MadamExcellency:
The truth here is that you can't see thugs and louts around Atiku Abubakar. I can confirm this.

Save your sweat, a politician of Atiku’s calibre does not need to be physically present in the midst of thugs, he has designated aides who take care of them nationwide, even without making a recourse to him.

MadamExcellency:
The truth here is that you can't see thugs and louts around Atiku Abubakar. I can confirm this.

What about Dino melaye?

Should thugs and area boys be seen around decent people normally?

seunmsg:
So tell us, who killed Bola Ige? Who coordinated the rigging of the 2003 general election? Who killed Harry Marshal?

So tell us also who killed Funsho Williams?

seunmsg:
So tell us, who killed Bola Ige? Who coordinated the rigging of the 2003 general election? Who killed Harry Marshal?

Ask Buhari and APC.

ganisucks:
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has attacked President Muhammadu Buhari for anointing Iyiola Omisore who is the prime suspect in the murder of late Attorney General, Bola Ige, as National Secretary of the APC.

Omisore was last Saturday elected National Secretary of the ruling APC during its National Convention held at the Eagles Square, Abuja, Nigeria.

Soyinka’s reaction was contained in a statement issued on Saturday, titled: “Perhaps closed files should remain just that-Closed?”

He said barely three months had passed since the 20th anniversary of the murder of the late Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Bola Ige, an occasion that he utilized to remind Buhari, of a subsisting election pledge.

‘That pledge was to re-open the files on the spate of unsolved political assassinations that had plagued the nation in recent decades. Prominent among those cases was that of the Minister of Justice, murdered on his way to take up a prestigious position with the United Nations.

“Presidential response was swift. Buhari ordered the Inspector-General of Police to re-open those files and resume investigations.

The nation has patiently awaited even a hint of Work in Progress. Most, I am certain, expect no less than a revaluation of prior investigative efforts. None, to my knowledge, has attempted to rush the Chief of Police and his team into judgment. We all take solace in the knowledge that the wheels of justice grind slowly, but they arrive. Eventually,” he said.

Soyinka said an unusual turn of events has raised questions, as the ruling party, headed by the same President, had just elected as its National Secretary one of the prime suspects of this most notorious of the nation’s unsolved murders.

“Not for a moment does one suggest that mere accusation, even trial, presumes Guilt. More than mere verdict is involved in any trial however. The process of arriving at that ultimate destination – justice – is integral to the very concept of democracy and equality under the law. That process is one of the structures of civic education.

“Unresolved till today were quite a number of untidy, even suspect aspects of investigation, prosecution and trials, aspects which revealed improper cell co-habitation by suspects under custody. That this led necessarily to recantations of earlier depositions is not thereby proven, but the fact remains that such U-turns did take place.

“One was so brazen that it induced a heart attack that proved fatal to the victim’s wife, another Justice – Mrs. Atinuke Ige.

That the prime suspect was privileged in a number of improper ways went beyond mere allegation. Political interventions, including pressure on the judiciary during bail hearings, cannot be denied. A judge under such pressure kept a diary with accusations, pages of which he consigned to friends for safekeeping,” he added.

Soyinka asked: “With the emergence of the said prime suspect as National Secretary of the Ruling Party, is the Inspector-General of Police equipped to confront political obstacles in a resumption of investigation? Is there any guarantee that the result will see the light of day? How suspect, ab initio, will be the conclusions, given the present political ordering?

“I repeat: we are speaking of blatant, undeniable exercise of political interventions during investigations and the arraignment of suspects. Prior incumbency of the position of National Secretary of a ruling party has demonstrated the potent interventionist clout that can be wielded from that office.

“The president has personally received, and thus anointed the new incumbent. Since he remains central to any re-investigation – whatever form or direction it takes – just what value of objective assessment can be placed on the presidential pledge?”

With this scenario, the Nobel Laureate said that investigative revisit was already hamstrung and disrobed of credibility.

“I think the nation should simply relieve President Buhari of his pledge. I am certain the Inspector-General of Police will be equally relieved and can now turn his mind and energy to the national accustomed posture – Business as Usual ,” he stated.

https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2022/04/02/bola-ige-soyinka-bombs-buhari-for-anointing-omisore-as-apc-national-secretary/

tunjijones:
What about Dino melaye?

It’s quite troubling that Dino is so prominent in our political system in both APC and PDP.

seunmsg:
So tell us, who killed Bola Ige? Who coordinated the rigging of the 2003 general election? Who killed Harry Marshal?

Who killed Funsho Williams, if you can answer. Then you know killer of Bola Ige. Why are you defending people using thugs to suppress people's wish and lives. Atiku is not your mate.

nairavsdollars:
Thugs and Touts are not popular in North

Almijiris are who u will find around him.

iwaeda:
Who killed Funsho Williams, if you can answer. Then you know killer of Bola Ige. Why are you defending people using thugs to suppress people's wish and lives. Atiku is not your mate.

The Pdp killed all of them, blame it on Obasanjo like Milli Vanilli.

anonimi:
Ask Buhari and APC.

But he was in The Pdp when he killed Bola Ige?

anonimi:
It’s quite troubling that Dino is so prominent in our political system in both APC and PDP.

Prominent just like your oga Atiku.

favor914:
The Pdp killed all of them, blame it on Obasanjo like Milli Vanilli.

Seunmsg, PDP wouldn't have killed Funsho for sure. Who killed Saka Sahula?