‘It Is Not My Fault That You Lack Capacity To Lead PDP’ – Wike Fires Back At Bauchi Gov, Bala

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has responded to Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, over a statement casting aspersion on his person.

Naija News reported that Mohammed, in a statement on Thursday, stated that Wike’s erratic behaviour and opportunistic alliances expose him as an unreliable and fair-weather friend.

In a statement on Friday, through his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media, Lere Olayinka, Wike urged Governor Bala to stop using him as an excuse for his lack of capacity to provide leadership as Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors Forum, a position he usurped.

Wike recalled how Mohammed dumped his political godfather, the former Governor of Bauchi State, Isa Yuguda, in 2007 and former President Muhammadu Buhari in 2010 for a ministerial appointment under President Goodluck Jonathan’s PDP government.

The Minister further questioned how serving under the government of President Bola Tinubu was the reason Bala failed as Chairman of the PDP Governors Forum while running after the PDP ticket to contest for President in 2027, a position that will remain in the South till 2031.

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. The 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 responsibilities of leadership and acting 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.

“Even at that, is it because Wike is a Minister that Bala Mohammed has faltered in carrying out the responsibilities of the position of Chairman of PDP Governors’ Forum that he usurped? Could Bala Mohammad have displayed the capacity that he obviously lacked if Wike is not serving in Tinubu’s government?

“Bala Mohammed’s lack of capacity was the reason the PDP was not allowed to campaign in Bauchi in 2015, even with him as a serving FCT Minister, a shameless history that no politician worth his salt will want to be associated with.

“For a man like Bala Mohammed to call Wike a ‘transactional politician’, is not only ridiculous, but preposterous.
“Records of his political treachery are open for everyone to see, except perhaps ostrich Bala Mohammed himself. Despite serving as Personal Assistant (PA) to former Governor of Bauchi State, Isa Yuguda, when he was Minister of Aviation, he fell out with his political godfather, after he (Yuguda) married President Umaru Yar’Adua’s daughter and decamped to the PDP. But when Yar’Adua died, Bala Mohammed quickly took ministerial appointment under the same PDP government.”