The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike has slammed the governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed over a recent verbal attack against him.
News360 Info recalls that the Bauchi governor, who doubles as Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Governors Forum, on Thursday slammed Wike, calling him a “transactional politician” whose loyalty shifts with his personal ambitions.
Reacting, Wike in a statement by his media aide, Lere Olayinka, tackled Mohammed, accusing him of being a greedy politician.
Olayinka urged the governor to stop using the appointment of the minister by President Bola Tinubu as an excuse for his “lack of capacity to provide leadership as chairman of the party’s Governors’ Forum”.
According to him, “It is funny that a known fairweather politician like Bala Mohammed was the one calling someone else transactional politician.”
Olayinka reminded Mohammed how he dumped his political godfather and former governor of the state, Isa Yuguda in 2007 and as a member of the defunct All Nigeria People’s Party, ANPP, also dumped former President Muhammadu Buhari in 2010 for a ministerial appointment under the PDP government of President Goodluck Jonathan.
He asked how Wike, being a minister under the All Progressives Congress, APC, administration was the reason Bala Mohammed “failed as Chairman of PDP Governors Forum, while running after PDP ticket to contest for President in 2027”.
The statement read, “Our attention has been drawn to the ‘say nothing’ press statement that took six days to write, issued by the Governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed, and we can’t but sympathize with a man who, out of political greed, has chosen to plunge himself into the deepest part of the river despite not knowing how to swim.
“First, Governor Bala Mohammed is holding the position of Chairman of the PDP Governors Forum out of political greed, because by convention and practice, the position should be held by one of the PDP Governors in the South.
“Reason being that the immediate past Chairman of the Forum was from the North, same as the PDP National Chairman.
“Secondly, despite usurping the position of the PDP Governors Forum because of his rapacious nature, Bala Mohammed, has demonstrated lack of capacity to lead the PDP, reason the party is how it is today.
“Sadly, rather than taking responsibility for leadership and acting the same, Bala Mohammad opted to divide the PDP’s National Working Committee, NWC, relating with a faction while neglecting the other.
“For his ineptitude and lack of capacity to lead, Bala Mohammed, has been blaming Chief Ezenwo Nyesom Wike’s appointment as FCT Minister.
“Do we still need to feed Bala Mohammed with the fact that Wike, a committed member of the PDP is serving in the APC government of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, is not new in the history of politics and governance in Nigeria?
“Between 2009 and 2003, there were three political parties – PDP, All Nigerians People’s Party (APP) and Alliance for Democracy (AD). PDP won the presidency, but President Olusegun Obasanjo appointed members of APP and AD to serve in the government.
“Funny enough, this same Bala Mohammed, became Minister in 2010, while still being a member of the defunct ANPP. His defection to the PDP, months after being appointed as Minister, was to demonstrate his fairweather and anywhere-belle-face politics.”
