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2023: Tinubu would have been given ticket if in PDP — Bala Mohammed
Governor of Bauchi State and Presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has claimed if the national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is in the party, he would have been offered the ticket for the 2023 presidential candidate.
Mohammed who was one of the presidential aspirants that honoured an iftar invitation by the Nigerian first lady, Aisha Buhari said Tinubu during the event was calling him “consensus”.
Speaking when he appeared on an Arise TV programme said he attended the iftar to prove that he is a product of consensus.
“I knew it was an opportunity to meet other eminent Nigerians who are stepping out to present themselves,” he said.
“And I was lucky I met Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, we discussed, he was calling me consensus and I told him that: ‘if you were in PDP we would have just given you the ticket because we knew that without you Buhari wouldn’t have been a president’ and so in PDP we recognise contributions.
“We have some people in Nigeria that we must recognise and it was definitely a good outing for me yesterday. The First Lady is a unifier. She has shown that she is a mother of the nation and all the presidential aspirants not only in PDP, APC but all the other parties were there. It was an opportunity to show that I’m really a product of consensus or closing rank irrespective of party differences.”
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