Veteran journalist and publisher of Ovation Magazine, Dele Momodu, says he’s determined to effect change if elected Nigeria’s president in 2023.
The veteran journalist-turned-politician said if Nigerians give him a chance, he would transform the power sector which he believed has been the bane of the country’s development.
He blamed the drawback in the power sector on “unnecessary bureaucratic bottlenecks emplaced by the so-called cabals.”
He said the unstable power supply has been the handiwork of “a very few individuals who are the enemies of the country.
“I hate that word ‘cabal’ and they are the ones that hold the power sector.”
On how he intends to tackle the protracted problems in the power sector, the publisher said “the determination of one leader to succeed where others failed will change the bureaucracy holding the power sector.”
“I have the knowledge and solutions to fix the power sector problem. If you don’t know how to go about it, they (cabal) will browbeat you and you can’t give what you don’t have,” Momodu said.
The former staunch supporter of President Muhammadu Buhari said he backed the president’s candidacy in 2015 believing he would change the energy and other sectors but ended up disappointed.
“That’s one of the reasons we supported Baba Buhari, and everybody knows he is a very disciplined man,” Momodu said.
“Unfortunately, I don’t know what happened, maybe ill health, he couldn’t do those things we expected him to do especially in the power sector the way we expected him to.”
Momodu said to tackle the challenges in the power sector, he would have to confront and conquer the “cabals”.
“I’m not joking here. Anyone who knows me is aware that I have been imprisoned, forced into exile for three years. I have what it takes to fix the problems in the energy sector.”
Momodu made the comments during a visit to fellow members of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, on Monday.
