For daring to allege that some Abuja-based top members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are responsible for the recent attack on President Goodluck Jonathan and his campaign team when they visited Bauchi, the Federal Capital Territory Minister, Senator Bala Mohammed, has described Governor of the state, Isa Yuguda, as a mole working for the All Progressives Congress in the PDP.
Yuguda, a PDP Governor in the State, had alleged in an interview with the BBC Hausa Service that the APC was not responsible for the attack on the President and his team but that those who pelted the President with stones and sachet water on January 22 were actually sponsored by some PDP members based in Abuja who he refused to mention.
But since he made the statement, fingers had been pointed at Bala Mohammed.
The governor did not go into details.
Before Yuguda’s outburst, PDP had accused the opposition APC of sponsoring the youths to disgrace Jonathan and give the impression that he was not welcomed in the state.
In his response to Yuguda’s allegation, Mohammed, through his media aide, Nosike Ogbuenyi in Abuja on Monday, described the accusation as irrational and embarrassing.
Mohammed said he was not comfortable that the governor exonerated the APC of culpability in the attack.
He noted that Yuguda had not been campaigning for Jonathan in his state.
He also accused the governor of already joining forces with the APC to derail the PDP in the state.
“Iit is simply irrational for Governor Yuguda to allege that the Minister hired thugs to stone and embarrass himself (Minister) while addressing the presidential rally in his home state,” Mohammed said.
“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.
“By Yuguda’s latest embarrassing conduct, he has successfully exposed his chameleonic character as an APC mole in the PDP.
“Many Nigerians still remember recent media reports that Yuguda is the real godfather and sponsor of the APC governorship 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 fifth columnist in the PDP.”
Mohammed said that because he supported President Jonathan by mobilising lawmakers to invoke the ‘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, thugs protesting against Jonathan’s victory in the elections, razed down his two-storey building and almost killed his mother and other relatives in Bauchi.
