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Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, has slammed the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, describing him as a ‘political orphan.’
Naija News reports Governor Mohammed said this while responding to Dogara’s recent remarks.
Recall that Mohammed had, last week, described President Bola Tinubu’s nationwide address over the hunger protest as ’empty speech’.
Mohammed, who doubles as the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Governors Forum, also urged President Tinubu to change his policies, adding that it may jeopardise his reelection come 2027.
Reacting to Mohammed’s outburst in a press release titled “On Governor Bala Mohammed’s Latest Tirade and Truculent Buffoonery,” Dogara blasted the Governor for a sudden U-turn against Tinubu.
The former Speaker claimed that after allegedly rigging his way into office, Mohammed sought Tinubu’s help to avoid legal trouble while singing the President’s praises.
However, just months later, Governor Mohammed has labelled Tinubu as “inept, incompetent, and incapable of running Nigeria.”
In a statement on Sunday by his media aide, Mukhtar Gidado, Mohammed said Dogara is an “opportunistic political turncoat” trying to return to President Bola Tinubu after allegedly betraying him.
He said, “All along, Dogara had been looking for an opportunity to retrace his step after abandoning Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the candidate of his party in the 2023 presidential elections, for another candidate on the pretext that he was averse to a joint Muslim ticket.
“Unfortunately for Dogara, it was common knowledge that his real reason was the loss of the Vice Presidential slot, which he had severally bragged was already in his kitty.
“So, what has changed? Or is he now at home with the ticket? Maybe after finding himself adrift due to his inconsistency and treachery.
“Now a political orphan due to his inconsistency and betrayal of the ladder through which he secured uncommon political ascendancy, he sees his only way back as heaping hubris on a man whose political ascendancy was preceded by an illustrious career in the federal civil service, where not only did he acquire broad inter-ministerial exposure, but indeed rose to the directorate cadre.”
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