Muslim-Muslim: PDP Not Ready to Make APC’s 2023 Mistake - Bauchi Gov

Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, has said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will not repeat what he described as the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)’s “mistake” of fielding a Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket in the 2027 elections.

The governor while speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Tonight on Tuesday, dismissed the narrative about a possible Seyi Makinde/Bala Mohammed pairing for the PDP, insisting the party has not settled on any candidate.“Everybody should know that PDP is open, and it’s open in a manner that it is for the southerner to bring somebody,” Mohammed said. “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 argued that the APC’s decision to run a Muslim-Muslim ticket “did not take into cognisance our diversity.”

When asked about the possibility of a Makinde/Mohammed ticket to match President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima in 2027, the governor said it could “match even better.”“It depends on what Nigerians want. If they want the continuation of this clueless administration, then it is the choice of Nigerians,” he said.

“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.”

Mohammed stressed that the PDP has “so many options in terms of pairing” adding that whoever emerged as the presidential candidate of the party would get his support.