The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), led by Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, says the Bauchi State governor and chairman of the party’s governor’s forum, Bala Mohammed, has denied defecting to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
On Sunday, reports emerged that Mohammed was finalising
plans to dump the PDP for the ruling APC.
The PDP had lost 10 governors to the APC within one year.
The most recent defection is Zamfara State governor Dauda Lawal of Zamfara who
defected last week after the Appeal Court voided last year’s national
convention in Ibadan, Oyo State, which produced the Turaki-led national
leadership.
The court verdict, however, prompted reconciliation talks
between the Turaki-led leadership backed by the PDP governors and the National
caretaker committee backed by the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike.
The National Publicity Secretary of the Turaki-led PDP,
Comrade Ini Ememobong, dismissed the defection story surrounding the Bauchi
governor, assuring the party leadership that he was not defecting to APC.
According to Ememobong, what the party knows is that he
(Governor Bala Mohammed) has told them that he is still in the party, saying
that even up till when he had conversations with their national chairman, he
insisted he is still with the PDP.
The National Publicity Secretary stated that the governor
has said it in several quarters that he is comfortable in the party, stressing
that they don’t know where the rumours are coming from.
On the proposed reconciliation talks within the party over
the crisis, Ememobong said discussions were ongoing among stakeholders and
would be guided by agreed strategies to facilitate decisions on which the
reconciliation committee is working on, it has been agreed that they should
keep their work an internal issue and not escalate it.
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