Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi state has hinted of the plan to reconcile the Governor of Rivers state, Simi Fubara with his erstwhile political godfather, Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT.
Mohammed who doubles as the Chairman of the PDP Governors Forum made this known on Sunday spoke in Port Harcourt, the state capital, barely hours after Governor Fubara sworn in 23 local government chairmen in the state.
The magazine reports that 22 of the council elections seats were won by the Action Peoples Party, APP while the Action Alliance, AA won one seat.
The governor, had few weeks to the election, directed his supporters to contest under the APP as the battle for the control of the PDP between him and Wike raged on.
Governor Fubara and the FCT Minister had clashed over the council elections, held last weekend. While the Wike factions in the APC and PDP said the election should not hold, citing an Abuja federal high court order, the governor’s group said they relied on another order made by a high court in the state.
Speaking yesterday at the Government House, Mohammed said the PDP governors have embarked on a reconciliation move to bring Fubara and Wike together. According to him, “we cannot throw away the baby and the bad water” adding that Governor Fubara and Wike has “come a long way.”
The latest move by the PDP stakeholders to unite the feuding parties comes after various reconciliation efforts had failed. For instance, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu had, early this year, tried to reconcile Wike and his successor to no avail.
The FCT Minister later declared that the door for reconciliation between him and the governor has been shut, declaring that nothing will make the two of them work together again. Governor Fubara, the Minister said, has lost his confidence because he betrayed him.
“I will never support Fubara in my political life again. Anybody knows me, it’s not about me. People laboured to put up a structure,” Wike said recently.
The minister added “People laboured, you wouldn’t have even taken the 50th position. I sacrificed to talk to the Ogonis, I sacrificed to talk to several other people who let us go this way.
“You turned it that I am asking for N50 billion, N100 billion. You turned up lies against me, I brought you up, put you here. Today, I turned to be over-demanding.”
There are pointers that the minister will not support Governor Fubara in the next 2027 governorship election in the state, watchers of what’s going on the oil rich state said.
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