The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, on Sunday, said he would not allow Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, to launch his presidential ambition, which he described as “dead on arrival.”
Wike made the remark amid his continued face-off with Mohammed.
The minister stressed that he was not the only opposition member to have ever worked for the ruling party.
A statement from Wike’s media aide, Lere Olayinka, said: “As I said yesterday, the appointment of Barrister Nyesom Wike as minister remains the only excuse available for the Bauchi State governor to defend his glaring lack of capacity to lead the PDP as chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum.
“Wike is not the first member of opposition parties in Nigeria to serve as minister, and he won’t be the last.
“Now, the same Bala Mohammed, who left the Senatorial mandate he got as an ANPP member to become minister under a PDP government, is running his mouth like a faulty tap.
“He said he resigned after becoming a minister, which is fine. But the question is, as a senator elected under the platform of the ANPP, should he have accepted to be minister under a PDP government?
“That he (Bala Mohammed) defected to the PDP a few months after becoming a minister is a further demonstration of his ‘anywhere-belly-face’ politics. Obviously, if he had been offered even a Special Assistant position by the APC government of Buhari in 2015, he would have accepted it and defected to the APC.
“As for us, we are done with any object by the name Bala Mohammed. The reason is, we have better things to do, and we won’t be available to be used by any ineffectual being to launch a dead-on-arrival 2027 presidential ambition.”
