The Lagos State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has described former presidential candidate, Dele Momodu as a “serial political tourist” who lacks the credentials to offer strategic counsel that would defeat President Bola Tinubu in 2027.

It made the remark while countering Momodu’s claim that the opposition should play the ethnic and religious cards.

The spokesman of the state arm of the party, Mogaji Seye Oladejo, informed Momodu that ethnic politics can’t defeat Tinubu’s performance.

In a statement he signed, Oladejo said the party notes with characteristic amusement, the latest outburst from “serial political tourist, Mr. Dele Momodu, who has suddenly anointed himself as a strategic adviser to a confused opposition – urging them to play the ethnic card since, in his own words, “Jonathan and Obi can’t defeat Tinubu.”

“While we thank him for finally admitting the obvious – that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu remains politically unstoppable – we must question the audacity and credentials of a man whose own political history is nothing but a long tale of experiments, misadventures, and failed auditions for relevance.

“What moral or strategic authority does Dele Momodu possess to lecture anyone about political strategy? A man who is literally attached to the apron strings of a career presidential aspirant. A presidential candidate whose electoral outing was so embarrassing that even his polling agents couldn’t locate his tally on the result sheet?

“If anything, Momodu should be the last person to speak on winning strategies. His own record reads like a manual on how not to win in politics – loud on commentary, empty on substance, and perpetually chasing validation from political heavyweights who never take him seriously.

“It is, therefore, sheer comic relief that a man whose entire political relevance is confined to social media timelines now presumes to dictate the opposition’s roadmap to 2027. Nigerians know better. They know that leadership is earned through vision, performance, and consistency – not through editorials written from the sidelines of social gigs.”

Oladejo informed the veteran journalist that the days of weaponizing ethnicity as a shortcut to power are long gone, adding that Nigerian electorate has evolved. “They are now focused on who can deliver results, not who can divide the nation.”

Pointing out that under President Tinubu, Nigeria is being rebuilt on the foundation of equity, inclusion, and reform, Oladejo said from “infrastructural renewal to economic stabilisation and social investment, this administration is proving that leadership is about ideas, not identity.”

Oladejo charged Momodu to focus on rediscovering his own political direction before attempting to offer others advice.

“If the opposition is truly desperate for guidance, perhaps the first counsel they should heed is to stop listening to those who have never won anything – not even a councillorship election. Truth be told, political realists have accepted the defeat of the opposition, come Year 2027, individually and collectively.

“The 2027 election will be a referendum on competence and performance, not on ethnicity or nostalgia. And in that contest, Dele Momodu’s brand of political showmanship will have no place,” he added.