Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State has described former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara as an opportunist who betrayed President Bola Tinubu.
Mohammed said Dogara was trying to return to Tinubu after betraying him during the last presidential election.
In the wake of the EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protest, Mohammed had criticised the President’s policies for causing hardship on Nigerians.
He challenged Tinubu to change his policies, adding that it would make the 2027 election easier for the opposition.
Reacting, Dogara said the governor’s recent utterances were uncalled for and unnecessary.
However, Mohammed, in a statement by his Media Aide, Mukhtar Gidado titled: ‘Dogara’s Opportunistic DIATRIBE and Hypocrisy,” said: “As usual, the opportunistic political turncoat left the substance of the current national discourse in an ignoble and unpretentious effort to ingratiate himself with a president who, but for providence, would have been a victim of Dogara’s legendary betrayal.
All along, Dogara had been looking for an opportunity to retrace his step after abandoning Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the candidate of his party in the 2023 presidential elections, for another candidate on the pretext that he was averse to a joint Muslim ticket.”
“Unfortunately for the political con man called Dogara, it was common knowledge that his real reason was the loss of the Vice Presidential slot, which he had severally bragged was already in his kitty.
So, what has changed? Or is he now at home with the ticket? Maybe after finding himself adrift due to his inconsistency and treachery,” he added.
He added that those familiar with Dogara’s penchant for exploiting other people’s misfortune for personal benefit would easily see through his latest diatribe against the governor.
He stated that Dogara “must be taking the President for a ride. Or how else does one describe a character who plainly accuses the President of masterminding a miscarriage of justice through a subversion of the electoral process?”
He stressed that for Dogara to now suggest that the President helped Governor Bala Mohammed to protect the landslide victory given to him by the Bauchi electorate was the height of political rascality, juvenile recklessness and unbridled indiscretion.
“His statement is a slur on the judiciary and the mindless vituperation of a self-seeking scoundrel who has little or no regard for the judiciary.
“But we can understand Dogara’s predicament, indeed desperation.
“Now a political orphan due to his inconsistency and betrayal of the ladder through which he secured uncommon political ascendancy, he sees his only way back as heaping hubris on a man whose political ascendancy was preceded by an illustrious career in the Federal Civil service where not only, did he acquire broad inter-ministerial exposure but indeed rose to the directorate cadre,” he further stated.