‘You’ve Turned Against Tinubu After Saving You’ – Dogara Slams Bala Mohammed

Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has berated Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, for criticising President Bola Tinubu’s policies in the wake of the #EndBadGovernance protest.

CityNews Nigeria reports that Governor Mohammed had, earlier this week, described Tinubu’s nationwide address over the hunger protest as ’empty speech’.

Mohammed, who doubles as the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Governors Forum, also urged President Tinubu to change his policies, adding that it may jeopardise his reelection come 2027.

Reacting to Mohammed’s outburst in a press release titled “On Governor Bala Mohammed’s Latest Tirade and Truculent Buffoonery,” Dogara slammed the Governor for making a sudden U-turn against Tinubu.

The former Speaker claimed that after allegedly rigging his way into office, Mohammed sought Tinubu’s help to avoid legal trouble while singing the President’s praises.

However, just months later, Governor Mohammed has labelled Tinubu as “inept, incompetent, and incapable of running Nigeria.”

Dogora admitted it is a trying moment for Nigeria but the Governor’s recent utterances regarding Tinubu were uncalled for and unnecessary.

He said, “To buttress the point being made, when Gov. Bala Mohammed was in court after rigging himself into office and desperately needed PBAT to save him, he was busy singing his praises to the highest heavens and telling the world how amazing PBAT was, not even minding the fact that he is the Chairman of the PDP Governors Forum.

“Just months after PBAT saved him, he has turned around to describe the President as ‘now inept, incompetent, and incapable of running Nigeria.’ I will even invite him to chair our 2027 presidential campaigns if he continues this way.

“No doubt, these are trying moments in Nigeria, with lots of nerves in the air and lots of spitting into the political wind. The job of leaders, irrespective of the political tribe they belong to, is to ensure that we bring this crisis to a responsible end by appealing to governments at all levels to scramble to meet some of the legitimate demands of the protesters, most especially hunger and pervasive insecurity in the national interest.

“it is certainly not a time to engage in blowing all the dog whistles at once in the irresponsible manner Gov. Bala Mohammed did.

“For me, it didn’t come as a surprise because I had long ago, both in writing and on live TV, denounced him as a thug who speaks in the manner of thugs and understands only the language of thuggery.

“I am penning these lines to further disavow him and to tell those who don’t know that although Gov. Bala Mohammed is one of us, he is not all of us. Bauchi State is home to tested leaders who were not raised like mushrooms and who will not dare speak or operate in a manner that reveals contempt for rules, precedent, order, stability, and national cohesion. But Gov. Bala Mohammed does not only do so; he thrives in it.”