Media entrepreneur and politician Dele Momodu has dismissed claims that he is opposed to former Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi.
Mr. Momodu said he has consistently supported the former Anambra State governor and cannot be described as anti-Obi.
He was responding on Monday to an X user @Blazeregent who accused him of harbouring anti-Obi sentiments.
The user reacted to a post in which Momodu asked Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain Bode George to purge himself of anti-Atiku sentiments.
The user wrote, “Purge yourself anti-OBI first. You have no moral right to criticize matters like this. If you have the right to be perpetual anti-OBI, so is anyone else to be perpetual anti-ATIKU. Daddy wa, please go and rest.”
Reacting, Momodu said he first supported Obi when former Vice President Atiku Abubakar selected him as his running mate in the 2019 presidential election.
“I can never be anti-Obi. The first time I supported Obi was when Atiku picked him as running mate. I’m not aware they are enemies. They always treat each other with mutual respect in private and public,” he wrote.
Momodu also dismissed suggestions of a rift between Obi and Atiku, stating that both politicians have maintained respect for each other.
In September 2025, Momodu hosted Obi at his residence in Accra, Ghana.
He shared a video showing himself receiving Obi at the airport before driving him home. The two later held a meeting, the details of which were not disclosed.
“Earlier this morning, I welcomed the former Labour Party Presidential candidate and former Anambra State Governor, His Excellency Peter Obi, to the city of Accra, Ghana, and we headed to my home for breakfast,” Momodu wrote at the time.
Dele Momodu is the publisher of Ovation International magazine and a former member of the PDP. He contested the party’s presidential ticket in 2022.
Peter Obi was the Labour Party’s candidate in the 2023 presidential election and came third, according to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
