The Federal Capital Territory
Minister, Senator Bala Mohammed, has described the Bauchi State
Governor, Isa Yuguda, as an All Progressives Congress’ mole in the
Peoples Democratic Party.
Mohammed, who denied being the
mastermind of the attack on President Goodluck Jonathan’s convoy in
Bauchi by political thugs on January 22, described Yuguda’s allegation
against him as irrational.
The governor had fingered Mohammed as
the sponsor of the attack on the President’s convoy during a campaign in
Bauchi, but the minister in a statement by his special aide on media,
Nosike Ogbuenyi, in Abuja on Monday, stated that Yuguda’s allegation was
embarrassing.
He queried the governor’s allegiance to the PDP and wondered when he became the APC spokesman.
Mohammed said, “It is simply irrational
for Governor Yuguda to allege that the minister hired thugs to stone and
embarrass himself (minister) while addressing the presidential rally in
his home state. By this claim, Yuguda has proven correct the allegation
that he has been hobnobbing with the APC at night and running with the
PDP in daytime.
“By Yuguda’s latest embarrassing
conduct, he has successfully exposed his chameleonic character as an APC
mole in the PDP. We call on Isa Yuguda to please respect himself by
leaving Senator Bala Mohammed alone.”
The minister wondered why the governor
exonerated the APC of culpability in the attack on the PDP presidential
campaign team in Bauchi, noting that Yuguda had not been campaigning for
Jonathan in his state.
“Many Nigerians still remember recent
media reports that Yuguda is the real godfather and sponsor of the APC
governorship candidate in Bauchi State and that he has not been
campaigning for President Jonathan’s re-election in the state. Again,
history is there to expose the governor as an unabashed fifth columnist
in the PDP,” Mohammed stated.
He said that he had consistently
suffered attacks from the negative politics in the state for his support
for the President, adding that in 2011, thugs protesting against
Jonathan’s victory in the elections, razed down his two-storey building
and almost killed his mother and other relatives in Bauchi.
The minister stated that his only sin
was that he mobilised lawmakers to invoke the ‘Doctrine of Necessity’ to
confer powers on the then Vice President Jonathan to act as President
while the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua was away in Saudi Arabia
for medical attention.
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