The governor of Bauchi state, Senator Bala Mohammed, has been accused by Senior Special Assistant to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister on Public Communications and Social Media, Lere Olayinka, of not having the ability to lead the Governors’ Forum of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), claiming that his 2027 presidential ambition was doomed from the start.
“As for us, we are done with any object by the name Bala Mohammed. Reason is, we have better things to do, and we won’t be available to be used by any ineffectual being to launch a dead-on-arrival 2027 presidential ambition”, he stated.
According Olayinka statement yesterday, “The appointment of Barrister Nyesom Wike as a Minister has remained the only excuse available for the Bauchi State governor to defend his glaring lack of capacity to lead the PDP as Chairman of the PDP Governors Forum.”
He asserts that Wike is neither the first nor the last member of Nigeria’s opposition parties to hold the office of minister.
Mohammed claimed that Wike lacked integrity and that he should leave the PDP in order to focus entirely on working for the All Progressives Congress (APC), which is led by President Bola Tinubu.
“The late Chief Bola Ige, a member of the Alliance for Democracy (AD), was a Minister under the PDP Govt of Obasanjo,” Olayinka said.
“Dr Olu Agunloye, a member of AD then was a Minister under the PDP Govt of Obasanjo.
“Mrs Modupe Adesanya, daughter of the late Afenifere leader and a member of AD was a Special Adviser under the PDP Govt of Obasanjo.
“Ibrahim Dasuki Nakande, a member of ANPP then, was a Minister under the PDP govt of late Umar Yar’Adua.
“Present Governor of Bauchi, Bala Mohammed, who was a Senator under ANPP, resigned from the Senate to accept Ministerial appointment under the PDP govt of President Goodluck Jonathan.
“Barrister Nyesom Wike, a member of the PDP is currently serving as a Minister under the APC govt of Tinubu.
“Bianca Ojukwu, a member of APGA, is currently serving as a Minister under the APC Govt of Tinubu.
“Now, the same Bala Mohammed, who left the Senatorial mandate he got as ANPP member to become Minister under a PDP govt is running his mouth like a faulty tap.
“He said he resigned after becoming a Minister, issorite. But the question is, as a Senator elected under the platform of ANPP, should he have accepted to be Minister under a PDP govt?”, he queried.
A few months after becoming a minister, Bala Mohammed defected to the PDP, which Olayinka said “is a further demonstration of his anywhere-belly-face politics and obviously, if he was offered even a Special Assistant position by the APC Govt of Buhari in 2015, he would have accepted it and defected to the APC.”