Bauchi Gov Bala Mohammed finally dumps PDP, joins APM

Following weeks of consultation, Bauchi State Governor Bala Mohammed has yet defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the Allied Peoples Movement (APM).

The defection, announced by the politician astatine the Government House connected Saturday, follows weeks of speculation implicit his governmental aboriginal amid the situation rocking the PDP.

Mohammed had earlier described the enactment arsenic “headless” and signalled openness to alternate governmental platforms, a determination analysts accidental could weaken the PDP by triggering an exodus of loyalists and reducing its grassroots support.

Earlier, reacting to the caller Supreme Court judgement connected the PDP enactment dispute, the politician said the ruling prevented immoderate faction from taking afloat power of the party.

He noted that neither his campy led by Kabiru Tanimu Turaki (SAN) nor the faction loyal to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, recorded outright victory.

“We person succeeded successful ensuring that nary azygous idiosyncratic hijacks the party,” helium said.

In an interrogation with the BBC Hausa Service, M...