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The Peoples Democratic Party, or PDP Governors’ Forum, rejected the opposition coalition led by its former presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, a move that veteran journalist and politician Dele Momodu has criticized.

Momodu claimed that PDP governors might be supporting President Bola Tinubu’s administration by declining to join the opposition coalition.

Remember that Atiku, Nasir El-Rufai, the former governor of Kaduna State, and Peter Obi, the former presidential candidate of the Labour Party, had declared their intention to create an opposition coalition.

But following its meeting in the capital of Oyo State, Ibadan, the PDP Governors’ Forum declared it would not be joining the coalition.

In the meantime, Momodu stated during his Monday night appearance on Arise TV’s Prime Time: “Opposition leaders are very determined to work together this time around, the truth of the matter is that Atiku cannot do it alone, Peter Obi cannot do it alone, and Kwankwaso cannot do it alone, and whosoever wants to run.

“They have to find a way to pay the APC back in its own coin. I was one of those who supported APC in 2014 and 2015, they are going to pay them back in their own coin by at least trying to get a chunk of all the parties including APC to come together.

“If our (PDP) governors are saying, ‘Oh, we don’t go into coalitions,’ it means you are probably working for a Tinubu presidency.

“People must learn from history and I’m a good student of political history, the only way Lagos State under Tinubu survived blistering attack from Obasanjo’s government was because they were able to stand alone, a bully only respect a bully.

“But all of us are already behaving like chicken, people panic because of Tinubu, o they are going to use EFCC, they are going to arrest me.

“The thing is that we all like to read about Mandela in South Africa, we all read about the Mau Mau struggle, even in Nigeria, we had the nationalists who struggled for our independence but everybody suddenly feels power can be offered to you on a platter.

“But I can tell you that any governor, senator, or House member who may be tempted to jump ship, may jump into the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

“That is why some of us are appealing to people that this thing is doable if they agree to work together.”

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