Veteran journalist and politician Dele Momodu has strongly responded to the recent warning issued by former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai, who declared that “We may not have a country if APC retains power in 2027.”
In a lengthy Instagram post on Tuesday, August 5, 2025 captioned “THE LESSONS THE PRESIDENT MUST LEARN,” Momodu offered a scathing critique of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Federal Government, accusing them of mismanaging the country and endangering its democratic foundations.
Momodu began by faulting APC’s key strategists, claiming they imported the Lagos State governance model into federal administration without understanding the significant differences.
He wrote: “The so-called APC strategists forgot that the Lagos State government is different from the Federal Government. Unfortunately, they landed suddenly in Abuja and started the bad behavior of holding Nigeria to ransom by unbundling themselves on the nation’s capital and seizing control of virtually most juicy Ministries and parastatals.”
He condemned the abrupt removal of fuel subsidy, stating it was done without consideration for its impact on everyday Nigerians: “The hurry to remove the subsidy regime in one fell swoop without thoroughly studying its concomitant effects on average Nigerians and, in particular, the ‘lumpen proletariat’ was a most unfortunate and highly catastrophic polity decision.”
Momodu likened it to “a doctor giving an injection that knocked out a victim of headache,” accusing the government of ignoring alternatives and enabling subsidy corruption.
Momodu expressed dismay that a president once viewed as a pro-democracy champion has presided over the decay of Nigeria’s democratic institutions: “For a President that rode to power as a pro-Democracy fighter and benevolent leader, it is sad and saddening that Democracy is in tatters in Nigeria today. All our Democratic institutions have been compromised. None is trusted or trustable.”
He lamented that even civil society and traditional institutions have become “moribund and pathetically ineffective”: “Elections have taken a cataclysmic dive into the abyss. It is like going to war instead of being a free and fair contest.”
