Media mogul and ADC Chieftain, Dele Momodu has fired back at Nigeria’s Minister of Aviation, Festus Keyamo, over his recent dismissal of a potential political alliance between former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and Labour Party’s Peter Obi ahead of the 2027 general elections.
In a pointed response posted to his verified Instagram account on Monday, August 4, 2025, Momodu took a swipe at Keyamo’s political analysis and questioned the logic behind his predictions.
“Let’s ask NOSTRADAMUS why Christians didn’t pull out of a MUSLIM/MUSLIM ticket arrangement,” Momodu wrote, referencing the All Progressives Congress (APC)’s controversial 2023 ticket of Bola Tinubu and Kashim Shettima.
Keyamo, during a live interview on Channels Television, had branded the Atiku-Obi strategy as “dead on arrival.” He argued that any attempt to merge their political bases would collapse due to conflicting interests among key demographic groups.
“Once you make Peter Obi the deputy to Atiku, Christians will pull out,” Keyamo said. “The South-East will feel cheated, and the youth won’t rally behind an 80-year-old candidate,” he added.
He claimed Obi’s 2023 electoral performance was based on three distinct pillars — Christian votes, South-East identity, and youth support — which, in his view, cannot be combined with Atiku’s base. Keyamo also warned that Atiku cannot run as vice president again due to constitutional limitations and claimed that Obi lacks the national political structure to win in the North.
“We [APC] have governors, senators — our structure in the North is intact,” Keyamo added. “The president’s wife is a pastor. That alone can help us reclaim Christian votes,” he added.
Momodu, a long-time critic of the APC and its leadership, dismissed these arguments and called for transparency and inclusiveness in Nigeria’s evolving political space. “ADC has to be transparently DEMOCRATIC in order to be a counterforce to APC,” he stated.
