“…Undoubtedly directly or indirectly, he (Atiku) is in league with some political stakeholders from Bauchi state, who have constituted themselves into a “Bala Must Go” conspiracy.”
Bauchi state governor, Bala Mohammed has written to the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Iyorchia Ayu to inform him of alleged sponsored ‘treacherous treatment’ by some political stakeholders who are threatening him with a “Bala Must Go” slogan.
Mohammed in an eight page letter dated November 3, 2022 (READ THE LETTER HERE) obtained by ASHENEWS on Monday said “I am constrained by the shoddy and treacherous treatment that I have been subjected to in the aftermath of our party’s presidential primary to forward this protest and to seek your decisive intervention and rectification, the outcome of which will determine my next line of action.”
According to governor Mohammed, in spite of his conceding defeat to Atiku, the presidential candidate snubbed him while visiting other aspirants who ran against him.
“To expect that I will remain frozen to the spot where I am being politically guillotined, will be the height of delusion: only a tree would be so dumb and indifferent. If all that I can get for my loyalty to the party is the current betrayal by an arrogant and defiant group, then I should be free to take my salvation in my own hands,” the Bauchi governor enthused.
“…Notwithstanding that I promptly conceded defeat and congratulated him upon his nomination, he excluded me while visiting other aspirants who ran against him. Worse still, the fact that I swallowed my pride and led a delegation of my associates and major stakeholders of my state on a solidarity visit to his Asokoro residence in Abuja, to pledge my loyalty and support, was not enough for him to reciprocate my gesture of goodwill. Instead, he took advantage of the occasion to express his displeasure with me and to hint (FOREWARN ME) that for the purpose of his 2023 presidential campaign in Bauchi state, he would rely on his aforementioned associates, many of whom have turned out to be my traducers.
“Despite my purported appointment as Vice Chairman of the Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), which unlike others, I accepted in good faith, I was excluded from the activities of the PCC as it relates to my office, I was deliberately sidelined from the reach-out campaign of the PCC in Kaduna which interacted with major stakeholder groups and the Northern political establishment such as the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), Northern Elders Forum (NEF), Sardauna Foundation, Arewa Research and Development Project, etc.
“Open fraternization with “Bala Must Go” exponents, most of them from the opposition, without detoxifying them of their virulent and destructive animosity towards me and the PDP-led administration in the state.
“Undisguised efforst to sabotage my re-election and impose on the state a governor from another party who is ready to satisfy their selfish interests to the detriment of the larger interest of the people of the state,” the governor wrote.
He said he would not accept further humiliation in a party he belongs.
“To expect that I will remain frozen to the spot where I am being politically guillotined, will be the height of delusion: only a tree would be so dumb and indifferent. If all that I can get for my loyalty to the party is the current betrayal by an arrogant and defiant group, then I should be free to take my salvation in my own hands,” the Bauchi governor enthused.
