Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, has said that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will not repeat the APC’s mistake of fielding a Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket in the 2027 elections.
He recently dismissed the narrative about a possible Seyi Makinde/Bala Mohammed pairing for the PDP.
Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Tonight, Bala shared that the PDP is yet to settle on any presidential candidate ahead of 2027.
According to him, the party’s presidential ticket is still up for grabs, so the onus is on the South to present a credible Christian candidate to represent PDP in two years.
He stated that the plan is for the party to have a Christian presidential candidate and a Muslim vice presidential candidate.
“Everybody should know that PDP is open, and it’s open in a manner that it is for the southerner to bring somebody.
We don’t want to make the mistake of the APC.
We need a Christian from the South to emerge as presidential candidate so that he will lead the majority of Christian southerners to come and pick the majority Muslim vice president in the North, not to put ourselves in a cul-de-sac the way and manner APC did in 2023,” he said.
Mohammed further noted that the APC’s decision to run a Muslim-Muslim ticket “did not take into cognisance our diversity.”
He concluded by saying that Nigerians must decide to end the reign of Tinubu’s clueless government when the time comes.
“It depends on what Nigerians want. If they want the continuation of this clueless administration, then it is the choice of Nigerians.
But certainly, they have seen the pedigree and capacity of Seyi and my humble self at subnational level.
And of course, it is not only Seyi that is there — there are so many people that may even come up and so many people that can be good vice presidents,” he added.
