Bauchi attack on Jonathan: Yuguda lied, says FCT Minister

Bauchi attack on Jonathan: Yuguda lied, says FCT Minister

The attention of the Hon. Minister of FCT, Senator
Bala Mohammed, has been drawn to an allegation by
the Governor of Bauchi State, Mallam Isa Yuguda,
that he was the sponsor of the thugs that attacked
the presidential campaign team of His Excellency,
President Goodluck Jonathan, in Bauchi on Thursday
22nd January, 2015.

It is simply irrational for Governor Yuguda to allege
that the Hon. Minister hired thugs to stone and
embarrass himself (Hon. Minister) while addressing
the presidential rally in his home state. By this
claim, Yuguda has proven correct the allegation that
he has been hobnobbing with the APC at night and
running with the PDP in daytime.

The question that the Governor must answer quickly
without equivocation is: why did the thugs not stone
him (Yuguda) whilst he was addressing the same
rally, on the same podium and on the same day?

Yugudu should also tell the world why he has
suddenly turned into an APC spokesman, by
exonerating the opposition party of culpability in the
attack of the PDP presidential campaign team in
Bauchi.

Many Nigerians still remember recent media reports
that Yuguda is the real godfather and sponsor of the
APC gubernatorial candidate in Bauchi State and that
he has not been campaigning for President
Jonathan’s re-election in the state. Again, History is
there to expose the Governor as an unabashed 5th
columnist in the PDP.

It would be recalled that the first attack Senator Bala
Mohammed received for wholeheartedly supporting
Dr. Goodluck Jonathan (then Vice President) was in
2010. The same Yuguda, early in 2010, did
everything humanly possible to recall and politically
annihilate Bala Mohammed from the National
Assembly as the Senator representing Bauchi South
Senatorial District.

Bala’s only sin was that he mobilized fellow
lawmakers to invoke the famous ‘Doctrine of
Necessity’ to confer powers on the then Vice
President Jonathan to act as President while former
President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua was away in Saudi
Arabia receiving medical attention.

The second attack of the FCT Minister by Yuguda
came later again in 2010, when he deployed
enormous energies into creating all manner of
obstacles to block Senator Bala Mohammed’s return
and re-registration as a member of the PDP in his
native Alkaleri LGA of Bauchi State. Again, that
attempt was futile as it failed disastrously for
Yuguda. Since then, Senator Bala Mohammed has
become a force to recon with at the highest echelon
of the PDP.

Furthermore, in 2011, political thugs who were
protesting the victory of President Jonathan in that
year’s presidential election razed down a two-storey
building belonging to the FCT Minister and nearly
killed his mother and other relatives in Bauchi. The
thugs touched none of the property of Governor
Yuguda. The simple reason Senator Bala’s house was
torched and his relatives traumatized was the
unequivocal support and contributions to President
Jonathan’s electoral victory.

On Thursday, 22nd January 2015, those who are
conversant with the negative trend of Bauchi politics
since the Yuguda era were not surprised when the
FCT Minister paid another price for supporting
President Goodluck Jonathan. Sen. Bala Mohammed
was stoned and assaulted by political thugs while he
was on stage passionately addressing the PDP
presidential campaign rally. Those behind the attack
on Bala Mohammed clearly are those who do not
want his star or that of the President to shine.

Unfortunately for them, they are too late on that
mission.

All that said and done, the minister has no apology
whatsoever for consistently supporting his principal,
Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. He supports him
because he believes in Nigeria’s oneness and peace
as well as the Transformation Agenda of his
Administration. The Hon. Minister will never be
deterred by attacks on his person and/or malicious
fabrications by selfish, mischievous and insincere
politicians.

Senator Bala Mohammed has consistently repeated
that politics is not a do or die affair, hence he
sacrificed his gubernatorial bid to allow peace to
reign in Bauchi State. He is also sharply aware that
this is the time for everyone to focus on issues that
would promote rancour-free campaign and elections
to ensure victory for the PDP. It is on these bases
that it would be ridiculous to suggest that Senator
Bala would hire thugs to attack the PDP and
discredit the Governor in the state – more so,
because he (the Minister) is not contesting any
position with the Governor.

Finally, we wish to state categorically that based on
his personal convictions and principles, Senator Bala
Mohammed cannot sponsor thugs to stone himself or
his boss. We, therefore, enjoin all well-meaning
Nigerians to completely disregard Yuguda’s
outrageous allegation. In fact, anyone who believes
his wild allegation would believe anything! By
Yuguda’s latest embarrassing conduct, he has
successfully exposed his chameleonic character as an
APC mole in the PDP. We call on Isa Yuguda to
please respect himself by leaving Sen. Bala
Mohammed alone!”