PDP primary: I can’t compete financially with Atiku, Wike, says Dele Momodu

Ahead of the presidential primary of the Peoples Democratic Party, publisher of Ovation magazine, Dele Momodu, has admitted that he lacks the financial capacity to compete with former President Atiku Abubakar and Rivers State Governor, Nyesome Wike.

He however said he would not chicken out of the race, stressing that he had a strategy to win the PDP ticket.

Momodu said he was ready to lock horns with Atiku and Wike with other PDP presidential aspirants at the primary of the party slated for May 28 and 29.

He spoke in an interview on Arise TV on Tuesday night, noting that there was no way he could match the Atiku and Wike “cash for cash”.

The renowned journalist said he would be relying on his strategy of interfacing with people and his interactions on social media.

Momodu said, “I cannot compete money for money, cash for cash with Wike, or with Atiku.

“But I am using what I have. I have used my strategy, and there is nobody I am to reach that I have not reached either directly or through my writings or through my interactions on technology or social media.

“I am reaching a mass of the people. I have 66,000 Nigerians today on my database. I am talking to young people. I am speaking about the problems of Nigeria.”

Momodu said the presidential aspirants should be worried about the lingering strike action of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and not about how to “buy” delegates to win the party’s ticket.