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2027: Intimidating Opposition Won’t Work For You, Don’t Be Misled By Advisers, Momodu Tells Tinubu

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By Kolawole Ojebisi

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, Dele Momodu, has advised President Bola Tinubu against cowing opposition into submission as a strategy for retaining his seat in 2027.

Speaking on Channels Television’s The Morning Brief on Monday, Momodu admonished Tinubu not to be misled by his circle of advisers stressing that “he should just do his job”

The publisher of Ovation Magazine also condemned Tinubu’s declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State, calling it “anti-democratic.”

Momodu said, “I think it is very unfortunate. I know President Tinubu very, very, very well. Though I’ve not been in the same party with him and all that, we were together in exile, and he fought gallantly for this democracy. So a lot of us, co-comrades at that time, are actually very embarrassed that we have a pro-democracy leader in government, and yet what we are witnessing is worse than dictatorship.

He added, “And I have said it openly so many times, in many open letters, you can fail in economy, no problem; people will forgive you and say you’re not a professor of economics. You can fail in other areas, but don’t fail in democracy.

“You must deepen our democracy, which President Goodluck Jonathan succeeded in doing, which Obasanjo succeeded in doing, despite allegations and accusations of a third term attempt, still managed to hand over power to President Yar’Adua.”

He urged Tinubu to reconsider his approach.

“I’m pleading with President Bola Tinubu, ‘Please don’t kill democracy in Nigeria.’ Everybody who loves him will tell him this. I don’t; I’ve not asked him for anything, but we love him for his contributions to the motivation in the back, which is what is going down the drain,” Momodu stated.

“I’m saying it now openly to millions of Nigerians that people are deceiving President Tinubu, and he should not allow people to deceive you.

“He should just do his job. The only thing that can guarantee a second term is to do your job well. You do not need to intimidate anybody.”

Tinubu’s decision, which includes suspending Governor Siminalayi Fubara, Deputy Governor Ngozi Odu, and the Rivers State House of Assembly for six months, has sparked widespread criticism.

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