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Keyamo Is Shameless, Only Tinubu Could Offer A Certified Nuisance Appointment – Dele Momodu

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The publisher of Ovation International and Director of Strategic Communications for Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Council, Dele Momodu, on Tuesday tackled the spokesman of All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, Festus Keyamo, over his response to his critique of the ruling party’s manifesto released days ago.

Momodu in a lengthy press release on Tuesday labelled Keyamo as a shameless being, saying that only Tinubu could give an appointment to a person of his character.

Naija News recalls that Momodu had earlier accused APC’s presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu of copying the manifesto of late Moshood Kashimawo Olawale (MKO) Abiola.

According to him, Tinubu co-mixed Abiola’s Hope 1993 manifesto with President Muhammadu Buhari’s manifesto of 2015.

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The renowned author slammed Tinubu for allowing some members of the APC to plagiarise and repackage some people’s manifestos for him.

Keyamo, however, in a swift response, joined other party stakeholders to lampoon Momodu for calling Tinubu’s manifesto a copy and paste.

Replying to Keyamo in a statement obtained by Naija News today, October 25, 2022, Momodu said he was not surprised that all Keyamo could do was yell as usual without examining or practically addressing the content of his article about his principal’s manifesto.

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Momodu said the APC spokesman picked on the wrong customer and he will educate him since he has become a shadow of his old self after getting an appointment with the incumbent government led by President Muhammadu Buhari.

“Any self-respecting soul would have since resigned but Festus Keyamo was not at home the day shame came visiting. The Ministry in which he’s a mere figurehead is in total shambles and only a Bola Tinubu would have given the job of a spokesperson to such a certified nuisance.

“What did Festus say I did wrong? He quoted copiously from an article I wrote about two years ago, which the Tinubu media teams have been using to campaign endlessly, because they have no stronger voice of their own. I’m indeed flattered,” Momodu said.

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I Use To See Tinubu As A Man Of His People

Momodu acknowledged that he once loved Tinubu for the man he used to be but has now disagreed vehemently with the former Governor due to the politician he has now become.

“This is not the first time I will say it publicly. Since I now have the opportunity of presenting the bones of my disagreement with Tinubu, courtesy of Festus Keyamo, I will lay them bare,” he said.

According to the PDP chieftain, Tinubu has declined in the last few years. Momodu said that he used to see Tinubu as a man of his people but that no supposed generalissimo would ever abandon his people in days of trouble and tribulation.

“None of the people around him could tell him the truth for pecuniary reasons. He knows it himself but he desperately wants to be President of Nigeria, by fire by force, after he has lost most of his formidable foot soldiers, and now relying on outsiders to activate and actualize his lifelong ambition for him, which is his legitimate right. But Nigerians have the right to scrutinise his action plans,” Momodu said.

The PDP chieftain’s statement read further: “When he was Governor, I supported him from the distance while he surrounded himself with some people who pretended to love him. When he was busy distributing land to journalists in Lagos, I refused to collect my papers because I love my freedom, the reason I was able to tell him truth regularly.

“When he was to be impeached for some infractions, and many of his so-called loyalists were washing off their hands clean, like the Biblical Pontius Pilate, my very dear friend, Tokunbo Afikuyomi, stood by him like the Rock of Gibraltar. But how did he repay Tokunbo who took all the bullets? This shameless Festus Keyamo was one of those who wanted to run Tinubu out of town.

“Nduka Obaigbena and I had to step in at some point before he could consider Tokunbo for anything. Tokunbo had wanted to be the Governor of Lagos State and Tinubu goaded him on and allowed him to waste his resources. It was when I got Chief Harry Akande to give Tokunbo the ANPP Governorship ticket for Lagos State that Tinubu suddenly realised he had offended his “suicide bomber!”

“During his battle to stop Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki from becoming the Senate President, we all saw how the younger politician outsmarted him. I had warned him to leave the gentleman alone because no one should play God, but he went ahead until the gentleman floored him effortlessly. During his egoistic battle against Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola, I wrote an article asking him not to try it because their marriage was consummated in heaven. Somehow, he backtracked. In spite of him, Fashola continues to remain relevant in Nigerian politics.”

Tinubu Had Lost The Likes Of Osinbajo, Aregbesola, Adelaja

Momodu continued with his disclosure of Tinubu’s character, saying years ago when the former governor continued his tradition of “hire-and-fire” and started plotting against Governor Akinwumi Ambode, he (Momodu) buried his love for Babajide Sanwo-Olu to speak up against the injustice of removing a great technocrat who was doing well in Lagos.

According to him, the President of Nigeria, the Vice President, the Governors’ Forum and many distinguished Nigerians begged him to no avail.

“He must have his way always. The same personalities are now the people he needs and wants to make him President. Nigeria is looking for a President, with compassion and competence, not an Emperor!

“Tinubu is a man who loves to bait the Masquerade with a goat but will never release the rope. That’s why he kept losing his best friends like Musiliu Obanikoro, Ambode, Muiz Banire, Opeyemi Bamidele, Rauf Aregbesola, Fuad Oki, Adenrele Adeniran-Ogunsanya, Babafemi Ojudu, Rahman Owokoniran, Kashim Ibrahim-Imam, Aminu Tambuwal, Yakubu Dogara, Nasir El Rufai, Babachir Lawal, Rotimi Akeredolu, Kayode Fayemi, Aro Lambo, Adeseye Ogunlewe, Jimi Agbaje, Ibikunle Amosun, Femi Pedro, Gbenga Daniel, Kofo Akerele Bucknor, Remi Adikwu Bakare, Tunji Abayomi, Tokunbo Ajasin, Mulikat Akande, Chief Dapo Sarumi, Adeniran Ogunsanya Amos Akingba, Bolaji Akinyemi, Mojisola Akinfenwa, John Oyegun, Godwin Obaseki, Yinka Odumakin, Papa Ayo Adebanjo, Papa Abraham Adesanya, Dupe Adelaja, Toyin Fagbayi, Papa Olanihun Ajayi, Prince Dipo Eludoyin, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, who seems to be aloof to Tinubu’s campaign, and so many others, even if some of them have since reconciled due to political expediency,” Momodu alleged.

He further that Tinubu personally decimated the pan-Yoruba group, Afenifere, after enjoying their massive support when we came back from exile in 1998. For Momodu, Tinubu’s biggest sin is the fact that he went funereally quiet when APC became a totally hopeless case, just because he’s hoping to inherit Buhari’s structures.

Concluding on his epistle, Momodu said he hope Tinubu would have the energy to make himself available for rigorous scrutiny of his Manifesto.

He said: “He wants to renew what actually? He wants to turn Nigeria into another Lagos? Many of those who love him genuinely know that the demystification process has started. They wished he had not subjected himself to this agony and anguish. But they can only say so in hushed whispers. Nigerians deserve better. I have been actively involved in politics.

“I hope Keyamo does not delude himself that I cannot make my own choices. I certainly have, and done so openly boldly. Atiku Abubakar is my choice. He is not a pretender to the throne. He has pursued his dreams with grace, good comportment, self-discipline and uncommon equanimity.

“Festus and his gang keep quoting a 2019 article that I wrote. They should go and frame my other writings too. As for that political neophyte called Keyamo, he still has a lot to learn while trying hard to be a lap-dog. He should be reminded that he is still a Minister of State of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, paid at tax-payer’s expense. He should learn to moderate his undue exuberance.

“I could go on ad infinitum but let’s cool temper for now,” Momodu ended.