‘PDP Now Cadaver Room Hijacked By APC Agents,’ Says Ex-Chieftain Dele Momodu

Publisher and politician, Chief Dele Momodu, has described the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) arsenic a “cadaver room,” alleging that agents of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) person hijacked the one-time governing party.

Speaking during an interrogation connected Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily connected Monday, the erstwhile PDP chieftain explained his defection to the African Democratic Congress (ADC), stating that helium could nary longer, successful bully conscience, stay successful a enactment helium believed has mislaid its soul.

“It’s a conjugation of antithetic governmental parties, and I resigned from PDP due to the fact that I saw that we had reached a benignant of telephone to sack, truthful I joined ADC,” Momodu said.

“We could spot that PDP has been wholly hijacked by agents of the ruling enactment who importune connected staying successful PDP portion moving for the APC. It’s a benignant of anomaly, but that is fine. If I don’t hold with my party, the honourable happening to bash is to resign, and that’s what I did.”
The seasoned writer said his determination was not caller to his governmental character, noting that helium has ever chosen to permission alternatively than compromise connected principle.

He recounted his earlier foray into authorities erstwhile helium contested the 2011 statesmanlike predetermination connected the level of the National Conscience Party (NCP), aft resigning from the Labour Party which, astatine the time, showed nary involvement successful fielding a statesmanlike candidate.

“Anyone who knows maine and remembers my trajectory volition retrieve that I contested the presidency successful 2011 connected the level of the National Conscience Party. I came to the National Conscience Party from the Labour Party erstwhile I discovered that the Labour Party was not funny successful contesting the presidency then.

“I resigned honourably, and past I moved to the National Conscience Party. Of course, I got astir 26,000 votes nationwide, and I consciousness privileged to person been a statesmanlike campaigner successful Africa’s biggest country, Nigeria. So the acquisition I learnt from it is that it volition beryllium hard for a unusual governmental enactment to triumph a statesmanlike election,” helium explained.

Momodu said helium aboriginal joined the PDP aft losing religion successful the Buhari-led APC, seeking a broader level to prosecute his governmental aspirations.

However, helium said his acquisition astatine the party’s 2022 statesmanlike primaries, wherever helium scored zero votes, exposed the dominance of moneybags successful the system.

“I wasn’t satisfied with the mode Buhari’s APC was going, truthful I joined the PDP to person a larger governmental platform. In 2022, we had our primaries, truthful I scored zero due to the fact that I couldn’t lucifer the billionaires who contested astatine that time,” helium noted.

The erstwhile statesmanlike aspirant painted a bleak representation of the PDP’s existent state, accusing entrenched interests of keeping it connected beingness support.

“PDP is astatine the dormant end. Some radical are desperate; they don’t privation to termination it, but they privation to support it successful ICU for immoderate intent successful the future. That is wherefore they person refused to leave. Everybody is present leaving PDP arsenic a cadaver room, which is simply a spot wherever you support bodies that are dead, oregon if not dead, you support them successful the ICU. It’s a shame, but I person learnt, and I person left,” Momodu declared.

Beyond politics, the Ovation International steadfast stressed that his halfway individuality remained that of a writer and nationalist commentator.
“Of course, isolated from being a part-time politician, I americium a writer and a reporter, and I volition beryllium a writer for the remainder of my life. I show the events successful the PDP and different governmental parties, and I americium astir definite that the PDP volition not beryllium capable to rescue itself from the agents of the ruling party. That is wherefore I left,” he said.