“PDP Governors Will Unite Behind Presidential Candidate In 2027” – Forum’s Chairman, Bala

By Ayodele Oni

Denies five Governors are in support of Obi/El-Rufai ticket

Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum, and Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, has clarified that there is no division among members of the forum on the choice of Presidential candidate for 2027 election.

He denied speculations that five of their members were in support of an El-Rufai/ Obi 2027 Presidential ticket.

The PDP Governors Forum, Chairman, made the remark  in a statement signed on his behalf by the forum’s Director-General, Dr. Emmanuel Agbo, on Saturday.

He said, it is incumbent on the PDP Governors’ Forum through its leadership anchored by the Governor of Bauchi State, Senator Bala Mohammed, to openly denounce the rumor seen as handiwork of the ruling party.

“Unsatisfied with the results their clones have gotten in the low-willed factions they keep financing within our party structure, they have proceeded with direct confrontation on the Governors towards creating a one-party entrapment.

“This is with intention to split the opposition and thereby cripple democratic institutions and values through questionable adoptions and misinterpretation of the law, all to strangle the lifeline of our nation to enforce dictatorship and one-party rule.

“The PDP Governors’ Forum is not in consonance with these actors, neither does it enjoy any ambience of political space to discuss nor seal the auction of the PDP through lowlife grifters, who are allegedly working behind the scenes to support a “potential Nasir El-Rufai/Peter Obi presidential ticket in the 2027 election.

“As a formidable party, all organs of the party have continually been engaged in attaining reconciliation across the board and reconsolidation of progressive development made in our Subnational to ameliorate the lives of our people.

“It is obvious that these mischief makers and detractors, who are bewildered at the way and manner PDP Governors are daily performing to pull the people out of economic hardship despite the intimidation by the ruling APC, are only intimidated and can only throw mud at our good works.

“In the world of politics, rumors and speculations are common, as such, we will not allow these ‘Enemies of Progress’ and ‘Agents of Confusion’ to gaslight the Nigerian people to draw wrong and erroneous conclusions.

“Our principles are for equity, social justice, sincerity of purpose, accountability, enthronement of undefiled electoral process, enhancement of the lives of the people, and propagation of humanity.

“Suffice it for us to irrevocably state here that in 2027, PDP Governors as disciplined leaders and stakeholders will exemplify this by wholeheartedly supporting whoever emerges as the flag-bearer of our great party in the battle to wrestle power from the non-performers at the centre.

“As a creed we all share, the dreams of the founding fathers of our great party will not be in vain.”