Atiku not an an Agent of Miyetti Allah – Dele Momodu Replies Ortom
POLITICS DIGEST- The Director of Strategic Communications of the Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Council, Dele Momodu, has faulted Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state for allegedly labeling the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP’s candidate, Atiku Abubakar, as ‘agent of Miyetti-Allah.’
Momodu made this assertion while reacting to Ortom’s comment on Atiku and Miyetti Allah in Benue on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Tuesday.
Ortom had described Atiku’s comment on the recent killings in Benue as divisive and insensitive.
Momodu said; “To label him an agent of Miyetti-Allah, that’s wrong. He can say anything about Atiku Abubakar, but to call him an agent of Miyetti Allah, I disagree vehemently with that.
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“If you don’t want to support a man . . . it’s very easy to give a dog a bad name, in order to hang it. But it is wrong to disparage a man who has served his country meritoriously, who has done everything he could for every part of his country . . .
“But because you are playing politics, because you disagree with him, then, you use such weighty words against him. Well, there’s always another time.
“I am telling you that even Governor Wike, who is supposed to be the angriest among them, because he participated in our primaries, he has not used such words against Atiku Abubakar.”
Ortom is one of PDP Governors who have vowed not to support Atiku’s presidential ambition. Other governors include Nyesom Wike of Rivers, Seyi Makinde of Oyo, Ifeanyi Uguwanyi of Enugu and Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State.
The governors, led by Wike, have mounted calls for the replacement of the PDP National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, with a Southerner.
According to the aggrieved governors, Ayu, a northerner, had promised to resign if the PDP ticket goes to a northerner. But Ayu has indicated he will not step down, at least, until after the elections in February.
