He was reacting to the views of some individuals that his recent open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari was informed by his failure to make the ministerial list.
Momodu’s letter to the President was published in a national newspaper on Saturday.
In the letter, Momodu, stated that Nigerians were expecting the President to fix the country as his party promised during the electioneering.
But Momodu told our correspondent that he had written several open letters to the President before he constituted his cabinet.
He said, “I never requested to be made a minister. I never defected from the NCP to the APC in anticipation of a ministerial appointment. I even wrote in my column ahead of the cabinet announcement that those mentioning my name as a nominee missed the point. And I gave reasons why it won’t fly. Why do we read meaning to every action? I wrote a simple and objective letter to my President and I’m sure he appreciates such a gesture.”
He also said he was being disturbed both at home and abroad by those who knew of his faith in President Buhari to turn things around in the country.
According to him, it is his responsibility as a volunteer in the Buhari campaign to keep the President informed at all times.
He further said those who accused him of hating ex-President Goodluck Jonathan would now know that he wrote the letters to him at that time out of his passion for Nigeria.
The Ovation publisher said a person’s true friends are those who tell him the truth in good faith.
He added, “It was what I promised to do when he invited me to Aso Villa for a meeting and I gave him a special compilation of my admonitions to President Goodluck Jonathan. Whatever you do in life, people must complain. I wrote letters publicly to President Jonathan; why can’t I write to President Buhari? I’m a journalist before being a politician. I realised that leaders often react quicker to what is in the public domain than when it is made private.”
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