Publisher and former presidential aspirant, Dele Momodu, has said he would go to great lengths to support President Bola Tinubu if his administration practised the democratic principles they fought for during the military era.

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Momodu said he would even “swim to the depth of the Atlantic Ocean” for Tinubu if the President upheld those principles, stressing that his major concern was the possibility of replacing military dictatorship with civilian dictatorship.

He made this known during an interview on Arise TV on Thursday.

Momodu said, “I will ordinarily swim to the depth of the Atlantic Ocean for Tinubu if he was practising what we fought against when we were fighting the military.

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“There is no earthly reason why I would not, but I would be a bloody hypocrite if after we claimed to have changed the way of military dictatorship, we now replace it with civilian dictatorship. That’s my only problem with him.”

The publisher added that his criticism of the President was selective and did not extend to personal attacks.

He said the President was among those who trained him and instilled in him the discipline to challenge established authority.

“Everything else, you see, when they are abusing him, you won’t see me abusing him. I have tremendous regards for him, and he was one of those who trained me and instilled this kind of discipline that, look, you can take on the establishment and win. And he did win,” Momodu said.

Momodu said Tinubu’s political success was responsible for the reputation he carried from Lagos into national politics.

“And that is why that was the record he carried from Lagos as a local champion to a national champion,” he said.

📰 Source: Punch Nigeria