Bauchi State, Governor, Bala Mohammed, has said he told
former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, to allow him contest the presidency
because he is old and fatigued with Nigeria.
He said this in his speech while receiving the report of a
Contact and Consultation Committee which he established for his presidential
ambition which held on Friday at the Old Banquet Hall of the Government House,
Bauchi.
The Committee, headed by Senator Adamu Gumba, which was
inaugurated 15th August, 2021, visited 16 northern states where it interacted
with various stakeholders in those states.
Mohammed said, “I am aware that even in Bauchi, people are
divided, my elder brother, Bala Hadith, had the courage to tell me that people
of Bauchi don’t want me to go to the center and I appreciate him. This is
because this is the opinion of Bauchi which is the appreciation of what we are
doing together. Bauchi can be better if I’m at the center.
“But certainly, we have to manage the two together (Bauchi
and the Presidential campaign). I told my younger brother and my colleague
(deputy governor) that he should not be happy to send me forth so that he will take
over the governorship, I will do the two together.
“One of my brothers, a formidable and astute politician,
Matawalle Sokoto (Aminu Tambuwal) did it before, so we are going to also test
it. And I will not give (the governorship seat) to hold forth, such a big man,
he will not give me back when I come back, but if he will give me, I will give
it to him.
“There is no need for us to be greedy; of course, my
presidency will not cause division. You can see that at the heat of the time
that my elder brother, Malam Adamu was going round, we invited our elder
statesman, the one that we respect so much, the Waziri Adamawa (Atiku
Abubakar), we named a road after him.
“We invited him to Bauchi and we interacted and I told him
that in this game, I know he’s the most senior, he’s very qualified but because
of his age and fatigue that he has suffered so much for Nigeria, he should
allow his younger brother to be his spare tyre not to take over just like that.
But if Nigerians prefer him, I will support him. I am not too desperate but he
should know that Nigerians like me too. And whatever he wants, I will do it for
him, so this is our agreement, he has the highest respect from me.”
The former minister of the Federal Capital Territory said
that Nigerians are disillusioned and in poverty adding that the selection
process is one of the problems in the country.
“We have a lot of insecurity, we have a lot of poverty,
people are disillusioned, governance has never been like before, even the
centre is confused because our leadership recruitment is very poor. And today,
for some of us that know, we have been trained in this job as federalists, we
know the civil service, we know the bureaucracy, we know the institutions of
the federal government and the states, we know the parliament, we know the
politicians and the politics, so we should be given the opportunity.
“Reward system has never been so poor, politics is not the
winner takes all. Even before we come in, we will make sure that there is
complete redistribution of the national resources. There must be equitable
distribution; nepotism should be done away with. We have so many positions
other than the presidency which will make all the federating entities to be
happy.
“All the presidential aspirants from all the sections of the
country are eminently qualified, so we should be left to discuss with each
other. At this moment, we should be most concerned with our unity and the
economics of the country.”
“It will not just be the group of Bala Mohammed, we will
change the narrative, we will make sure we get the best and those people that
that will be going back to their micro-constituencies to drop something. Not
those kind of people we have today that are sitting in Abuja, we don’t see
them. We have to change the governance, the selection, the distribution, the
mannerism and the reward system, this is how we need to do it.
“I am happy that I see so many people joining the PDP
because that is where the hope is. We should be able to come into politics with
hindsight of mandate from the people,” he stated.
Advertise on NigerianEye.com to reach thousands of our daily users
No comments
Post a Comment
Kindly drop a comment below.
(Comments are moderated. Clean comments will be approved immediately)
Advert Enquires - Reach out to us at NigerianEye@gmail.com