Dele Momodu, a Nigerian politician and presidential aspirant under the platform of the PDP has written an exclusive piece for Nigerians regarding the 2023 general elections.
“Earlier today, I submitted my PDP Presidential nomination form at our party headquarters in Abuja. After purchasing the N40 million expression of interest and nomination forms, I was happy to achieve yet another milestone.
Whilst I query the wisdom in demanding such a huge sum from presidential aspirants, which could easily discourage and eliminate younger and more vibrant aspirants, I decided to pay because it had been demanded by the party and it was thus a necessary step in the right direction as I seek the requisite mandate of my party in my mission, alongside other like-minded Nigerians, to liberate our country, Nigeria, from the vestiges and bondage of insecurity, ignorance, corruption, division and disunity, backwardness, inequality, infrastructural decay, intolerance, vindictiveness, oppression, mass unemployment and the general malaise that has endlessly afflicted our great country.
Nigeria is blessed with some of the most brilliant, well-educated, ambitious, hardworking and upwardly mobile souls. Examples of our global excellence and exploits abound and are well documented. However, the lack of visionary, selfless, frugal, disciplined, determined, knowledgeable purpose-driven leadership has slowed down the remarkable work of our phenomenal men and women.
I take this opportunity to salute them and assure them that, wherever they may be, a Dele Momodu Presidency will tap into their talents and resources to rebuild Nigeria and make our Nation a 21st century giant in the comity of nations. These are not mere words or platitudes but the conviction of a patriot who knows that a true visionary and missionary leader identifies, harnesses and utilises the human and material resources at his disposal, not someone who has a Messianic complex.
The time has come when politics can no longer be the exclusive preserve of profligate politicians who are more interested in the actualisation of their inordinate ambition, egocentric power-grabbing, greedy venality and unwholesome scaremongering rather than the welfare and well-being of the people they are meant to serve.
In this quest, I have traversed every region and sub-region of Nigeria and, indeed, some parts of the Diaspora, reaching out to my fellow citizens and re-establishing old alliances w