Bauchi state governor Bala Mohammed has responded to comments by Yakubu Dogara, a former speaker of the House of Representatives.
Dogara had in a statement on Sunday berated Mohammed for criticising President Bola Tinubu’s polices, noting that the governor has performed dismally in Bauchi state.
However, reacting to Dogara’s vituperations in a statement on Monday, the governor said the former speaker is trying to return to President Bola Tinubu after allegedly betraying him during the 2023 general elections.
Mohammed, in a statement on Sunday by Mukhtar Gidado, described Dogara as an “opportunistic political turncoat”.
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.”
The governor maintained that Dogara is desperate because he is a political orphan.
He said, “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.
