Dele Momodu accuses Tinubu, APC of plagiarizing MKO Abiola's 'Hope '93' manifesto

Dele Momodu, the director of strategic communications for the Peoples Democratic Party's presidential campaign, has accused All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Bola Tinubu and his team of plagiarizing the late Moshood Kashimawo's 1993 manifesto Olawale ( MKO) Abiola and mixing it with the 2015 APC-Buhari manifesto.

Tinubu and the APC released the 80-page manifesto titled "Renewed Hope 2023" on Friday with a promise to solve Nigeria's security and economic problems if it stays in power at the end of the presidential election in next February.

Momodu, however, criticized the document in an article published on Sunday.

In the article titled "APC: Renewed Hope or Desperate Hope?", Momodu said his former political ally's document was filled with "half-thoughts, bad reasoning and copied notes" from the "Hope '93' by MKO Abiola, who 29 years ago was the presidential candidate of the defunct Social Democratic Party (SDP).

Momodu highlighted the difference between Abiola, who was deemed the winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election before it was canceled by General Ibrahim Babangida's military administration, and Tinubu, calling the manifesto that last of "insult to sensibility". and needs of Nigerians” before accusing its authors of plagiarism.

Read the full article below:

After carefully reading APC's long-awaited Presidential Campaign Manifesto that was released over the weekend, we can only conclude that the elephant gave birth to an ant. After such a long delay, what the CPA presidential candidate has come up with is a series of platitudes, half-thoughts, bad reasoning and copied notes packaged and presented as "Renewed Hope".

The APC and its presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, couldn't even come up with something original: 'Renewed Hope 2023'. Oh good? This is yet another attempt by the APC candidate to appropriate the legacy of Bashorun MKO Abiola. It would be more salutary if he were to run on his own instead of copying the memory of a man whose life trajectory was out of this world and whose hope for Nigeria was noble. And the APC candidate must be reminded that 1993 is very different from 2023.

The late MKO Abiola was known for his industry and genius. Are we going to ask what the APC candidate is known for? While MKO's Hope '93 was a real journey; for APC and Nigerians, it is a vain hope, and that is the message of Bola Tinubu and the APC campaign in 2023.

In fairness, the 80-page document that the APC has produced comes across as little more than an insult to the sensibilities and needs of Nigerians.

At a time when the country desperately needs clear leadership with vision and courage, all the APC seems able to do is generally copy and paste the regurgitated ideas of others without anything original or original. breathtaking.

Asiwaju says he "knows the way". With all due respect, he doesn't. On more than one occasion, he presented himself as the architect of the APC's victory in 2015. Their party's slogan then was "Change". In eight years, they have not been able to change anything positively. They have led Nigeria into an abyss. Inflation is close to 21%. The unemployment rate is 33%. The naira is one of the worst performing currencies against the dollar in the world. The suicide rate in the country has increased terribly as people have lost hope. The divorce rate also because the APC and its leaders have castrated families, and ruined the "other room", thus, they have aggravated the condition of Nigerians.

Now in 2022, Tinubu says he wants to take Nigerians on a trip. A trip to nowhere, to be sure; or, to be precise – to perdition. A week ago, he promised that he would ensure the continuity of the current administration. What does he want to continue? If I may ask: the poverty, agony and ignorance that the APC has imposed on Nigerians?

Like a cunning student trying to avoid being caught in the act of plagiarism, the paper's authors attempted to rewrite some unoriginal ideas. The authors of the document are not only offending Nigerians with their collection of cliches and mundane ideas, but they are offending, exposing and indicting the APC candidate, Chief Bola Tinubu. I urge you, in the spirit of fairness, to question what the APC calls a manifesto. You will see that they promise exactly what they have not been able to achieve in eight years.

Chief Bola Tinubu is not new to Nigerian politics. It is sad that he allowed some people to copy and repackage, without tact or grace, the Abiola Hope '93 manifesto and mixed it with the 2015 APC/Buhari manifesto for him . They even have the audacity to label it "Renewed Hope". Nigerians don't need a cut-and-paste manifesto. They want original details and ideas. In the current state of this country, offering the people empty promises would not get us any further...