Friday July 18, 2025
By TheNewsDESK |
The publisher of Ovation magazine, Chief Dele Momodu, on Monday backed former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to pick the presidential candidate of the opposition coalition adopted platform, African Democratic Congress (ADC).
Aare Momodu, who spoke on a Channels Television’s programme, Politics Today, picked Atiku as the best among the politicians jostling for the ADC ticket.
He, however, encouraged members of the Obidient movement to back their principal, Peter Obi, when the ADC members cast the ballot to pick their presidential candidate next year.
The Ovation Publisher claimed the All Progressives Congress (APC) feared Atiku and would therefore prefer a southerner to emerge as the ADC candidate.
He said: “My best choice is Atiku, and that is what I expect Obidient to say, which I expect those who support Amaechi to say, there’s nothing wrong with that.
“And this game is a game of numbers, and the people who are most aggrieved today are in the northern part of Nigeria.
“If you listen to Wike very well, they’ve all been campaigning that the next president sould still come from the southern Nigeria but they know very well that there’s no southerner today, the only one who could have attempted it is Wike and since he is supporting Asiwaju, he is no longer available.
“The moment they started pushing campaigns of calumny against Atiku, you must know that they feel threatened by Atiku.
“I have never asked anyone not to support Obi. Obi is my very good friend. If you asked me about one of the people who should lead the coalition, I would say it should be Obi.
“As a democrat, I am appealing to them, hoping they will be able to do it democratically so that they will not say they were forced upon them.
“Let them all go to the field. Let all Obidient campaign for Obi , let those Atikulate campaign for Atiku and let the Amaechis campaign for Amaechi, that is my believe.”