Bala Mohammed also described Dogara’s suggestion that the President helped to protect his victory as political rascality and juvenile recklessness
By Kehinde Okeowo
Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed has hit back at former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, describing him as an opportunist who once betrayed President Bola Tinubu.
While the recent nationwide hunger protest was going on, Mohammed during a rally by the major opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), criticised the president’s policies, saying they led to hardship in the country.
He also advised him to change the policies, adding that it would make the 2027 election easier for the opposition.
Reacting to the statement, Dogara slammed the governor for his utterances, saying they were uncalled for and unnecessary.
The former lawmaker added that the responsibility of leaders, irrespective of the political tribe they belong, “is to ensure that we bring this crisis to a responsible end by appealing to governments at all levels to scramble to meet some of the legitimate demands of the protesters, most especially hunger and pervasive insecurity in the national interest.
“It is certainly not a time to engage in blowing all the dog whistles at once in the irresponsible manner Governor Bala Mohammed did.”
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However, responding via a statement by his Media Aide, Mukhtar Gidado titled: ‘Dogara’s Opportunistic DIATRIBE and Hypocrisy’, Gov Mohammed accused Dogara was trying to return to Tinubu after betraying him during the last presidential election.
He said, “As usual, the opportunistic political turncoat left the substance of the current national discourse in an ignoble and unpretentious effort to ingratiate himself with a president who, but for providence, would have been a victim of Dogara’s legendary betrayal.
“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 the political con man called 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,” he added.
Mohammed further said those familiar with Dogara’s penchant for exploiting other people’s misfortune for personal benefit would easily see through his latest diatribe against the governor.
He stated that the ex-Speaker, “must be taking the President for a ride. Or how else does one describe a character who plainly accuses the President of masterminding a miscarriage of justice through a subversion of the electoral process?”
He stressed that for Dogara to now suggest that the President helped Governor Bala Mohammed to protect the landslide victory given to him by the Bauchi electorate was the height of political rascality, juvenile recklessness and unbridled indiscretion.
“His statement is a slur on the judiciary and the mindless vituperation of a self-seeking scoundrel who has little or no regard for the judiciary.
“But we can understand Dogara’s predicament, indeed desperation.
“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 further stated.