Eldest son of the Bauchi State governor, Engr Shamsudeen Bala said the forthcoming 2027 general elections offers an opportunity for his father, Governor Bala Mohammed to pay back former Vice President Atiku Abubakar for working against his reelection in 2023.
Engr Bala claimed that Atiku, the 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) worked against his father’s re-election after the former VP defeated him at the party’s presidential primary.
He further claimed without evidence, that Atiku, despite sharing the same political platform with his father, supported Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Bauchi State governorship election.
“Atiku vehemently worked against my father’s re-election as Bauchi governor in 2023. He mobilised elites who worked against us,” Engr Bala said in a post on X (former Twitter) over the weekend in a reply to another X user, Abdul-Aziz Na’ibi Abubakar, @jrnaib2.
LEADERSHIP reports that Abubakar had in a X post pleaded with both Governor Mohammed and Atiku to work together and resolve internal PDP fracas.
Engr Bala further added that Atiku would not come down handy for reconciliation with Governor Mohammed, “because we are not regarded as respected people who have a role to play.”
LEADERSHIP recalls that in the buildup to the 2023 governorship election in Bauchi State, major political gladiators from the PDP worked for other opposition parties in the election.
Notable was the former Wazirin Bauchi, Muhammadu Bello Kirfi who was removed from his role as a kingmaker in Bauchi Emirate few months to the election.
Another Atiku ally who allegedly worked against Governor Muhammed in the state was a former PDP national chairman, Ahmed Mu’azu who is an in-laws to the former vice president.
