Dele Momodu joins ADC, guidelines out senatorial, gov ambition

Veteran journalist, Dele Momodu, has turn out to be the most recent addition to the African Democratic Congress practice by formally declaring his membership within the occasion months after dumping the opposition Peoples Democratic Party.

The previous presidential aspirant declared his ADC membership in Benin Metropolis on Thursday, Momodu whereas placing to mattress attainable questions on the place his political ambitions lie by stating that he doesnt have curiosity in turning into a senator or governor in his hometown, Edo State.

“Folks have requested me, ‘What would you like? Do you wish to be governor or senator?’ No,” he stated. “I simply wish to promote the perfect pursuits of our folks,” he stated.

“It’s laborious to think about the pleasure I really feel at this second as I undertake my self-led occasion in DC to choose up the membership card of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, the brand new opposition coalition in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation. That is solely the primary and most essential leg of this political journey.”

Momodu continued by stating that his mission after becoming a member of the ADC is to rescue Nigeria from one-party dominance.

“My mission in politics is to affix palms of fellowship with residents of like minds to rescue, get better, and reset Nigeria. Nigeria should be rescued from a one-party state and one parliament,” Momodu stated.

Talking on his connection to his ancestral roots, Momodu stated, “It took me a very long time, over 30 years, earlier than I may uncover my ancestral dwelling.

“Let me thank one in every of my fathers who’s current right here right this moment, Senator Isa Raymond. From the very first day he met me, he adopted me as a baby. After I got here dwelling for the primary time, he coordinated all the things.”

Momodu additionally revealed that his transfer to the ADC was pushed by his want to play a significant position in Edo’s political improvement and to maintain the folks’s welfare on the coronary heart of presidency.

“It took me over 50 years — you received’t consider it — of excruciating laborious work and meticulous planning to plant roots for my modest revenue in the US . As we speak, no one can say I’ve no roots in the US. However right this moment, I’m standing earlier than you as I firmly reintegrate myself into the political strategy of my state,” he stated.

Punch reported that Ovation Journal founder introduced his resignation from the PDP in July 2025, citing what he described because the occasion’s hijack by “antidemocratic forces” in a letter addressed to the Chairman of PDP Ward 4 in Ihievbe, Owan East Native Authorities Space of Edo State.

“My motive is straightforward and easy. Our occasion has been unarguably hijacked by antidemocratic forces, from inside and outdoors, in broad daylight,” the letter learn.

He added, “It’s, subsequently, honourable to desert the carcass of the occasion to them whereas the vast majority of us earnestly enroll with the brand new coalition occasion referred to as the African Democratic Congress.”