Bala Mohammed: Dogara retracing steps to Tinubu after abandoning him

Bala Mohammed, governor of Bauchi state, says Yakubu Dogara, a former speaker of the house of representatives, is trying to return to President Bola Tinubu after allegedly betraying him.

The governor said this while responding to Dogara’s remarks.

The former speaker had tackled Mohammed for criticising Tinubu’s polices. 

“It is certainly not a time to engage in blowing all the dog whistles at once in the irresponsible manner Governor Bala Mohammed did,” Dogara had said.

In a statement on Sunday, Mukhtar Gidado, Mohammed’s media aide, quoted his principal as describing the former speaker as an “opportunistic political turncoat”.

“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,” the governor said.

“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.”

Mohammed said Dogara is “desperate” because he is a “political orphan”.

“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,” he said.