Bala-Wike Tackle Each Other over Crises in PDP

*Bala: FCT minister should go bury his face in shame  

*Wike: But you left the senatorial mandate you got as ANPP member to become minister under a PDP govt

Segun Awofadeji in Bauchi and Olawale Ajimotokan in Abuja

The Bauchi State Governor, Senator Bala Abdukadir Mohammed, yesterday, took huis feud with the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, to another level, when he described him as transactional and bat-like politician.
But Wike, in an instant response, said he was not the first and not going to be the last member of the opposition parties to serve in the government of another party.
Mohammed, who is also the chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum, added that, “His (Wike’s) conducts are littered by treachery, betrayal and lack of respect to those who have elevated him in life and helped in advancing his social and political career.”
He also advised the minister to go and hide his face in shame because his betrayal of the PDP and erratic governance style as well as his history of treachery have made him unfit to criticise other leaders.
Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to Bauchi State Governor, Comrade Mukhtar Gidado, in a statement, stated that the state’s media team was compelled to respond to the ‘puerile and reckless’ statement issued by the Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media to Wike.
Gidado, who is the head of the Media Team said, “The statement put out on behalf of Chief Wike  marked even a new low for a man given to unbridled excesses, and is indicative of the descent of governance in today’s APC-led Nigeria into moral infamy and intolerable putrescence.
“As repugnant and loathsome as Wike’s empty press release is, we will still endeavour to respond to his catalogue of falsehoods and glaring deceits for the sole reason that we want the facts deposited as public records.
“Our response is not for the benefit of the morally bankrupt actor whose tantrums have become an embarrassing spectacle, but to set the record straight for Nigerians who deserve facts, clarity, and the truth.
“For starters, it is on record that Sen. Bala Mohammed started his distinguished career as a journalist and a public servant, who rose to become a Director in the Public Service of the Federal Republic of Nigeria before retiring and being elected a Senator of the Federal Republic in 2007.
“Nyesom Wike, on the other hand, appeared from the blue, virtually from nowhere except perhaps for the rumours that he operated out of the transport sector in Port Harcourt before Sen John Azuta Mbata- who he eventually betrayed and is currently bad mouthing – hauled him out of total obscurity and made him the Chairman of Obio Akpor LGA.
“Indeed, it must be noted that a world of difference exists between a Director – the highest earned position in the Public Service and a man of indeterminate background who benevolent spirits cracked his undeserving palm kernels,” he added.
Wike, in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media, Lere Olayinka, lambasted said his appointment as a minister has remained the only excuse available for the Governor of Bauchi State to defend his glaring lack of capacity to lead the PDP as Chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum.
He listed the late Chief Bola Ige and Dr Olu Agunloye, both members of Alliance for Democracy (AD), who served as ministers  under the PDP government of President Olusegun Obasanjo.
He also cited other examples of Mrs Modupe Adesanya, daughter of the late Afenifere leader, Senator Abraham and a member of AD, who was a Special Adviser under the PDP government of Obasanjo as well Ibrahim Dasuki Nakande,  a member of ANPP then, who was a minister under the PDP government of late President Umar Yar’Adua.
He said: “Present Governor of Bauchi, Bala Mohammed, who was a Senator under ANPP, resigned from the Senate to accept Ministerial appointment under the PDP government of Jonathan.
“Barrister Nyesom Wike, a member of the PDP is currently serving as a minister under the APC government of Tinubu. Bianca Ojukwu, a member of APGA, is currently serving as a minister under the APC government of Tinubu.
“Now, the same Bala Mohammed, who left the Senatorial mandate he got as 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. It’s all right. But the question is, as a Senator elected under the platform of ANPP, should he have accepted to be minister under a PDP government?”
He rebuked further Mohammed, saying the mere fact that he defected to the PDP a few months after becoming a minister was a further demonstration of his anywhere-belle-face politics.
Wike added that, if Mohammed was offered even a Special Assistant position by the APC administration 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. Reason is, we have better things to do and we won’t be available to be used by any ineffectual being to lunch a dead-on-arrival 2027 presidential ambition,” Olayinka concluded.