The following is a very long read and was written by FFK about Bobby Dee. After thoroughly reviewing the article, I wrote my thoughts thereunder, and I humbly implore you to read till the end.
DELE MOMODU: FROM BREAD-HAWKER TO POLITICAL PROSTITUTE AND GLUTTON OF THE AGES
Apologies to my dear aburo Kayode Ajulo SAN and others who have said I should leave Dele Momodu alone. When Dele was at university, he was a fraudulent rainmaker who claimed to be able to “tie the rain” for people on the day they were having special outdoor events. He duped the owner of a beauty pageant in this way in 1982, collected his money, yet the rain still fell.
After leaving university, he couldn’t get a job, so he started off as a bread hawker on the street after getting a 3rd class degree in Yoruba at OAU. He was spotted on the street by MKO Abiola, who bought him shoes and put him in charge of his Wonder Bakery. He eventually brushed up on his English and spelling and became a journalist and later an Editor in MKO’s Concorde Newspaper. He followed MKO around and later betrayed him.
After MKO was locked up, he attached himself to Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and collected handouts from him for years. After that, he started taking pictures of people for his Ovation magazine. He failed in all these endeavours, and everything he attempted to do always crashed. So he went into politics, ran for President and got one vote. His ambition crashed. He became a spokesman for Atiku and was the only person who did not want power to come to the South in 2023.
We are approaching 2027, and he wants power to go back to the North, already calling PBAT, who once fed him a dictator. Is this guy OK at all? Everything about him eventually crashes, and just as he crashed Atiku’s campaign and ambition in 2023, so he will crash it again in 2027.
Let me go a little further. Dele’s pattern of betrayal cannot be denied. It is unmistakable. He called Asiwaju his “friend” and “brother” after collecting money from him in 1996 to feed. When the money stopped flowing from Asiwaju to him, he started to smother and bother his brother from another mother. He said he fled Nigeria because of Abacha, only to flee England to Kano to eat from the same Abachas when Tinubu’s money stopped flowing to him.
Ile-Ife, where he grew up, is abuzz over how Dele Momodu, who once called Governor Ademola Adeleke his “friend” and “brother” and was dancing different salve moves with Adeleke, is now supporting Adeleke’s opponent in the Osun gubernatorial election. Who would have believed the dance parents would now be at loggerheads? All because of Dele’s uncontrollable appetite for food. No wonder Gen Z calls him DFFO, Dele For Food Only. Google it! He is indeed a shameless GLUTTON. No wonder he claimed his restaurant business in Ghana collapsed. He must have eaten all the food meant for his patrons!
From Adekeke, he moved to Nyesom Wike and was always around the dining table at the Rivers State Government House, overeating, according to Wike’s testimony. Then all of a sudden, he posted to Atiku, after Wike’s money dried up, and started insulting the Wike he was once consulting for and consorting with.
Atiku would be well-advised to be very afraid of Dele, especially as Peter Obi and Amaechi are eager to spend as well. Who knows? Tomorrow, Dele may not delay in relaying insults on Atiku once he sees a bigger payload from either of those guys. What else can one expect from a bread hawker, political prostitute and GLUTTON of the ages?
By Femi Fani-Kayode
My thoughts:
A Tale Of Two Hyenas – When the Pot Mocks the Kettle for Being Black
It is often said in my mother’s village that when two elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers. But in the sad, comedic spectacle unfolding between Chief Femi Fani-Kayode (FFK) and Chief Dele Momodu, we are not witnessing a fight between elephants. No. We are witnessing a quarrel between two hungry hyenas fighting over the same bone, each accusing the other of having bad breath. I am sharing my thoughts on the above missive written by FFK against Bobby Dee, not by defending Momodu, but by exposing the case of a pot calling the kettle black, when both are not only black, but are cracked, leaky, and have been thoroughly blackened by the same firewood of political opportunism.
“The Leopard Does Not Change Its Spots; It Only Changes Its Hunting Ground”. Unquote: Femi Fani-Kayode writes as though he is a saint delivering a sermon from a pure white pulpit. But we who have followed the twists and turns of Nigerian politics know that FFK is not a messenger; he is a message, a warning to all about the dangers of absolute principle-lessness. He speaks of Dele Momodu’s “betrayal” of MKO Abiola as if FFK himself did not abandon the progressive platform faster than a rat abandons a sinking ship. Let us take a short walk down memory lane. This is the same Femi Fani-Kayode who was once a fiery member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), serving under President Olusegun Obasanjo as a Minister. When the political winds shifted, did he stay and fight? No. He fluttered away like a dry leaf in a Harmattan wind to the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC). When that leaf dried up, he fluttered back to the PDP. And when the breeze from Aso Rock became too perfumed with the scent of Tinubu’s victory in 2023, FFK did not walk; he flew on the wings of a vulture to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
He calls Dele Momodu a “political prostitute.” But in the market square of Nigerian politics, FFK is not a prostitute; he is the Madame of the brothel, the one who has sampled every political bed from Abuja to Lagos and back again, leaving behind nothing but the stench of hypocrisy.
“The Chickens Have Come Home to Roost” Unquote: FFK accuses Dele of being a “glutton,” a man who follows the dining table. But is this not the same Femi Fani-Kayode who was arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for allegedly collecting money illegally? Is this not the man who has faced trials for money laundering? A man who has lived a lifestyle so opulent that it would make a Roman Emperor blush? When FFK mocks Dele for taking money from Tinubu and then turning on him, we must laugh. It is like the axe telling the tree, “I am not the one who cut you down,” forgetting that its handle came from the same forest. FFK himself has had more political godfathers than a chameleon has colours. He has sat at the feet of Obasanjo, Atiku Abubakar, and now Bola Tinubu. The only difference between him and Dele is that while Dele is currently hungry and waiting for Atiku’s table to be set, FFK is currently full, licking his fingers after dining at the presidential villa.
“He who eats with a long spoon should not accuse his neighbour of having a long neck”. Unquote: FFK is enjoying the crumbs from Tinubu’s table today, and so he sings the master’s tune. But we remember when he was singing a different song, calling the same administration names that would burn the ears of a deaf man.
“A Mountain Calling a Hill Valley”. Unquote: FFK speaks of Dele’s failed business ventures. But what of the political bridges FFK has burned? He moves from party to party, leaving behind a trail of bitterness. He calls Dele a “bread hawker” as an insult, forgetting that in the eyes of the suffering masses, the bread hawker who is honest is worth more than the political merchant who sells the future of an entire nation for a ministerial/ambassadorial slot.
Honestly, the two are both cooked on the same firewood. They are two sides of the same tainted coin. While FFK accuses Dele of crashing Atiku’s campaign, we must ask: what has FFK ever built that did not crash? He has been a pilot of propaganda for every regime, and his plane always crashes, leaving the passengers (the Nigerian people) to pick up the pieces.
“Two Masquerades Dancing for the Same King”. Unquote: In the end, this fight is not for the benefit of the common man. The common man is looking for bread, while Dele Momodu and Femi Fani-Kayode are fighting over who gets to lick the butter.
· Dele Momodu wants us to believe he is a statesman, but he is merely a freelancer waiting for a contract or appointment.
· Femi Fani-Kayode wants us to believe he is a crusader, but he is merely a mercenary who fights for the highest bidder.
When the axe is deep in the wood, it remembers that the handle came from the tree. Both of these men came from the people, but they have forgotten the people. They are like two goats fighting on a bridge; eventually, both will fall into the water, and the owner of the bridge (the Nigerian masses) will be left to clean up the mess. Let them fight. But as they throw stones, let them remember that the one who lives in a glass house should not throw stones at all, especially when his own house was built by the same rain that flooded his neighbour’s. They are both gluttons, both political prostitutes, and both unworthy of the trust of the Nigerian people. The only difference is the colour of the party flag they are waving today.
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