Dele Momodu, a spokesperson for the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Council, has denied that his party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, would sell Nigeria to his friends if elected.
On Thursday, Momodu answered questions on Arise TV’s Morning Show.
“On him selling Nigeria to his friends, it is part of the ignorance that we find in the political cell in Nigeria; ignorance because today, every presidential candidate is talking about privatization,” Momodu said.
“When he [Atiku] said [it] in 2019, they attacked him. So that is the difference, and that is why today it is clear you can see all the adverts on the front page of the newspaper. Today, it is Atiku Abubakar, [whose] time has come.”
“He has matured from that 1993 thirty years ago when he competed against Chief Moshood Abiola and Baba Gana and he was humble enough to step down for Chief MKO Abiola; he was supposed to be a running mate to Abiola, but he didn’t get it, he went home.”
Stressing that Atiku is the kind of leader that Nigeria needs, Momodu claimed: “All the nations of the world are already meeting in Atiku’s house in Abuja, he is discussing with them. He has said that before, [that] one week after he has been announced and he takes power, he could announce his cabinet, it would be a government of national unity.”
Momodu added: “He is the only one who is ready from day one. The others are busy fighting; if they are not fighting the leadership of their own political party are, they are busy telling lies and all these high polity theories they have never put to practice.”
This comes less than a week after Adamu Garba, a spokesperson for the Tinubu, Shettima Presidential Campaign Council, insisted that Atiku intends to sell national assets to himself if elected.
