Dele Momodu made his statement while speaking in an interview on Channels Television on Friday.
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Dele Momodu, the publisher of Ovation Magazine and chieftain of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), has rejected claims that the opposition is responsible for President Donald Trump’s allegation of genocide against Christians in Nigeria.
Speaking in an interview on Channels Television on Friday, Momodu described those making such claims as individuals who have “run out of ideas.”
“Look, my brother, anyone who sees opposition behind this is just being clear that they have run out of ideas,” the publisher said on the breakfast show.
“The opposition that is trying to put its act together now has time to go to Washington?
So anyone blaming the opposition — of course, everything in Nigeria, when it’s not APC, they blame the immediate predecessor, even a man who has gone to join his ancestors, former President Muhammadu Buhari,” he said.
Recall that the Minister of the FCT, Nyesom Wike, had accused the opposition of instigating Trump’s move to label the killings in Nigeria as Christian genocide, describing it as ‘politics taken too far.’
“It is very obvious, and I have said this. The problem we have today is Mr President’s own nature of politics. You can see the collapse of the opposition.
“It will be difficult for anybody. The opposition today has seen that no party is prepared to challenge the President returning to power.
“What do we do? Should we allow him to just go in like that without challenges? We must do something, and one of the things to do is bring up such a thing that will divide the country,” Wike had said.
However, Momodu urged the government of President Bola Tinubu to stop politicising the matter and confront reality.
“If you know of a man called El-Buba in Jos, I’ve been to his church before. He has cried out that Christians are being targeted and wiped out.
“He never said Muslims aren’t being killed, but life has become so cheap that even when 100 people die, the president can still travel that night. No empathy, no sympathy. That’s what the opposition is talking about — and it has nothing to do with politics,” the ADC chieftain emphasised.
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