Dele Momodu, publisher of Ovation magazine and former presidential candidate, has resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) hours after former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar dumped the PDP.
Momodu announced this in a letter dated July 17 to the PDP ward chairman in Ihievbe, Owan East LGA, Edo State.
Momodu announced his intention to join the African Democratic Congress (ADC), the platform adopted by opposition coalition politicians to unseat President Bola Tinubu in 2027.
“I wish to inform you of my decision to resign from our political party, PDP, with immediate effect,” Momodu said.
“My reason is straightforward. Our party has been unarguably hijacked by antidemocratic forces, from within and outside, in broad daylight.
“It is, therefore, honourable to abandon the carcass of the party to them while the majority of us earnestly sign up with the new coalition party known as the African Democratic Congress (ADC).”
Abubakar, the PDP presidential candidate in the 2023 election, said the party has strayed from the ideals on which it was founded.
Momodu is one of the staunchest supporters of the former vice president.
In October 2022, the publisher was appointed as Director of Campaign on Strategic Communications for the PDP Presidential Campaign Council.
