Former Minister of Information, Prince Tony Momoh has reacted to reports that he is nursing ambition to contest the National Chairmanship position of the All Progressives Congress (APC), at the expiration of Chie John Oyegun's tenure in June, 2018.
The report went viral few days after President Muhammadu Buhari, at the last National Executive Council meeting of the party declared the recent elongation of the tenure of the current National Working Committee of the party as illegal, explaining that such move could expose the party to litigations.
Reacting to the report, the former Chairman of the defunct Congress for Progressives Change (CPC) said he was too old to vie for such office.
“No way! I am not looking at choice of national chairman upon the expiration of the tenure of Chief John Odigie-Oyegun in June. What am I doing? I will be 79 on the 27th of April. So, I have paid my dues.”
On the publication of the list of looters by the Federal Government, Momoh said
“The fact is, if people said people should release those they said were accused of diverting our money and then they released it, is it not now that they have released [the names] that people now know that ‘this is involved’, ‘this is involved.
“It is a question of [whether to] release the list or not to release the list. Don’t forget that Nigerians have been asking him [President Buhari] to release the list. People have been saying ‘release, release, release, release.
“If they said ‘release’ and they now take a decision to release, obviously, people will say ‘you are not even releasing enough’. So, it is a question of political decision to release.”
