Publisher and politician Chief Dele Momodu has quit the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) following a statement in which he described the opposition party as a “cadaver room” said to have been captured by agents of the APC.
During a Monday interview on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily, the presidential candidate at the last PDP primaries affirmed that he could no longer, in good conscience, remain in a party in which he believed had lost direction.
We could see that PDP has been completely dominated by the ruling party agents who wish to stay in PDP but serve the APC,” Momodu said. “If I do not share the same opinion as my party, the decent thing to do is to resign, and that’s what I did.”.
Momodu, now defected to the African Democratic Congress (ADC), said his move was consistent with his political temperament, reminiscing about how he had quit the Labour Party for the National Conscience Party (NCP) in 2011 when the former showed no interest in endorsing a presidential candidate.
He stood for president that year as the candidate of the NCP and received about 26,000 votes nationwide a “privilege” he said but also proof of how difficult it is for small parties to win an election nationwide.
Elucidating why he later joined the PDP, Momodu stated he sought a bigger platform after losing faith in the APC under Buhari. His disappointment was also fueled at the 2022 presidential primaries of the party when he received zero votes, whose results he attributed to the influence of “moneybags.”
“In 2022, we held our primaries. I got zero because I could not match the billionaires who contest at that time,” he stated.
Painting a dismal picture of the PDP’s future, Momodu claimed that intrinsic interests kept the party on life support:
“PDP is in ICU. Some people are desperate, they do not want to kill it, but they want to put it in ICU to leave it for whatever purpose in the future. Everyone now leaves PDP like a cadaver room, where you keep corpses that are dead, or if not dead, you keep them in ICU. It is pitiful, but I have learned, and I have left.”
Though he ventured into politics, the Ovation International publisher insisted that his first vocation is journalism.
Apart from being a part-time politician, I am also a journalist and a reporter. I will continue to be a journalist throughout my life. I keep track of the trends in the PDP and other political parties, and I have nearly made up my mind that the PDP cannot redeem itself against the agents of the ruling party. That is why I resigned.
