Ahead of the People’s Democratic Party Presidential primary, the Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, on Sunday said he would support whoever emerges as the party’s presidential candidate.
Bala said this while engaging with party delegates in Anambra, Ebonyi, and Enugu who are set to vote in the May 28 presidential primary elections.
Mohammed is one of the 15 presidential aspirants who were cleared by the David Mark-led screening committee last month after two aspirants, a US-based Medical Doctor, Nwachukwu Anakwenze, and the immediate past Deputy Speaker of the Abia State House of Assembly, Cosmos Ndukwe, were disqualified from the race.
Bala had also emerged as one of two northern consensus candidates in the Prof Ango Abdullahi-led Committee of Northern Elders.
In Anambra, Mohammed told delegates “I am presenting myself for election and I seek your support but if I don’t win, I will support the eventual candidate of PDP because we have to rescue Nigeria.”
He noted that his campaign team is made up of Nigerians from various regions, especially the Southeast, including Prof. Udenta Udenta from Enugu State and other Directors and members cutting across the country.
He vowed to run an inclusive government if given the presidential ticket.
Addressing party delegates from Ebonyi and Enugu, Mohammed called on the delegates to join him in retrieving, rescuing, and renovating the country with knowledge-based solutions.
“I am a visionary leader who is fully prepared for national sacrifice, who is tried and trusted, and whose compelling life journey and exposure as a journalist, civil servant, senator, minister, and governor have equipped me with the skills set to tackle the myriad of frightening problems this clueless APC administration has bequeathed to the nation.
“Under my watch as the president, I will leverage the nationalistic instincts inherent in Nigerian citizens to drive national development both from the individual and from the community in a vertical and horizontal manner,” he said.
In his address, a chieftain of PDP in Anambra, Okey Muo-Aroh, said the main opposition party would not want to go into the election with the luggage of excluding a section of the country.
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