“When a man who had been a nobody gets power, he begins to change slowly and steadily,” he said.
Dele Momodu, publisher of Ovation magazine and former presidential aspirant, has alleged that Nyesom Wike, now minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), paid $30,000 to each delegate during the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) 2022 presidential primaries.
Speaking on Politics Today on Channels Television, Momodu claimed a former Nigerian president warned him against contesting due to Wike’s financial influence.
“A former president of Nigeria sent someone to tell me not to waste my money on the PDP 2022 primaries because Wike had raised the stakes to $30k per delegate; $30k multiplied by 774 delegates,” he said.
Momodu criticized Wike’s transformation in public office, calling it troubling. “When a man who had been a nobody gets power, he begins to change slowly and steadily,” he said.
He added, “Wike is consumed by the power he holds… He drinks early in the morning… This is someone in public office.”
Urging President Tinubu to distance himself from Wike, he said, “He is not the kind of young man who should hijack our common patrimony.”