EXTRA: We’ll employ Tinubu as campaign director of PDP in 2027, says Bala Mohammed

Bala Mohammed, governor of Bauchi state, says if President Bola Tinubu continues with his policies, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will coast to victory in the 2027 presidential poll.

Mohammed said he would invite Tinubu to manage the PDP presidential campaign at the rate the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is going.

The governor spoke on Wednesday when he flagged off the PDP local councils election campaign in Bauchi.

“There is hunger and anger. We have to address our problems of development. Unemployment is everywhere, our educational system is not working, and the new policies of the federal government are not working,” he said.

“They have to understand that. It’s their problem; it’s their programmes that have caused all these problems. On your behalf, I am telling Mr President Tinubu to change his policies because it is not working.

“If he continues like this, in 2027, I will invite him to be our campaign director because everywhere would be PDP, and we are going to win because it is self-inflicted injury.”

Mohammed wondered where all of the federal government’s palliatives have ended up.

“I have heard with regrettable attention some of the ministers of the federal government saying that we have been given 70 trucks, given over N500 million — how much is the federal government making?” he asked.

“The salary does not pay the bill. We pay salaries on time but it doesn’t buy a bag of maize. Who brought such a situation?

“He removed the fuel subsidy. He made N30,000 unable to buy a bag of maize.”

The governor also said the #EndBadGovernance protest should serve as a “wake-up call” for the northern elite.