Dele Momodu, the publisher of Ovation magazine, has described the manifesto of Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as an appropriation of MKO Abiola’s legacy.
Momodu — who is the director of strategic communications of the PDP presidential campaign — criticized the document in an article published on Sunday.
In the article titled ‘APC: Renewed hope or forlorn hope?’, he said the document is filled with “half-thoughts, poor reasoning, and copied notes” from Abiola’s ‘Hope ’93’ manifesto.
Abiola was the presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the 1993 election.
He was adjudged to have won the presidential poll before it was annulled by Ibrahim Babangida, then head of state.
Momodu emphasized the difference between Abiola and Tinubu, describing the latter’s presidential bid as a “forlorn hope”.
He described the manifesto as “an insult to the sensibility and needs of Nigerians” and accused the authors of “copy and paste”.
