Gbenro Adesina
A Nigerian journalist, businessman and publisher of Ovation Magazine, Chief Dele Momodu, who has joined 2023 presidential race has appealed to Nigerians home and abroad and other interested individuals to donate to his presidential campaign.
Momodu, on Friday March 25, 2022, obtained a N40 million Expression of Interest and Nomination forms to officially declare his entry into the presidential race under Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Momodu will be slugging it out for PDP Presidential ticket with the likes of former Vice President, Atiku Abubakah, former Senate Presidents, Dr Bukola Saraki and Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, ex-governor of Kano State, Rabiu Kwankwaso, former Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, Governor Nyeson Wike of Rivers State, Governors of Sokoto, Aminu Tambuwal, Governor of Bauchi states, Bala Mohammed and former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi.
According to a trending poster on social media, Momodu said, “Please Donate! Fellow Nigerians, good news is a new Nigeria for all is possible and the EPIC journey has started … Be a stakeholder in the new Nigeria for all…Nothing is too small.”
In the poster, the journalist turned politician listed six bank accounts where local and foreign currency could be donated.
Joining the race, Momodu said, ” “I am proud to stand resolutely to challenge those who feel Nigeria and Nigerians can be bought or bribed by the highest bidder. The time for the rejection of such a notion is now.
“Nigerians will no longer sell their soul for 20 pieces of silver, and I make bold to say that they are prepared to make this statement and are relying on the political parties for the opportunity to demonstrate that this is the case, by giving to the worthy candidates rather than a recycling of the failed so-called political juggernauts.
“I wish to appeal to all men and women of good conscience to join me in this movement to put a stop to the rascality of those who feel Nigerians are permanently helpless and hopeless and that we can be Lorded upon simply because we have chosen to be silent.
“We will no longer acquiesce in this state of affairs. I modestly say that through our collective efforts, the silent and voiceless majority now have a voice and representative in me.”
