The Peoples’ Democratic Party Governors’ Forum (PDP-GF) has vowed to not only uphold the vision of the founding fathers of the PDP but also improve on it for the betterment of Nigeria and Nigerians.
This was contained in a statement signed by the Director-General of the PDP-GF, Dr Emmanuel Agbo, on behalf of the “Chairman, Governor Bala Mohammed and members of the forum,” in Abuja, yesterday.
He dismissed speculations by a member of the PDP, Rivers State chapter, Samuel Nwanosike, who during a live television programme, claimed that the PDP-GF, Chairman, Bala Mohammed, was luring Rivers State Governor, Similaye Fubara, to contest the 2027 Presidential Election as Vice President.
Agbo said, “The Forum under Bala Mohammed’s leadership, will be convergent rather than divergent.
“It is an oath he swore to, and will always keep, to enhance the vision of the Party’s founding fathers making better what we inherited. “It is our turn to make our sacrifices, sincerely creating room for growth and fresh ideas; not heating the polity, bloating in imaginable thrones, and/or dramatising in garbs of an emperor.”
Agbo further noted that the PDP-GF Chairman, on behalf of all member-Governors, has listened to and properly analysed a viral clip of a live coverage by TVC of Samuel Nwanosike, a member of the PDP in Rivers State and former Chairman of Ikwerre LG Council, wherein he allegedly stated that Governor Bala Muhammed, has made it clear that he intends to run for the presidency in 2027.
Agbo also said that “He equally alleged that Governor Mohammed wants Governor Sim Fubara of Rivers State to be his vice-presidential candidate and that Gov. Muhammed plans to combine resources from Rivers State and other states to try and challenge the current President, Bola Tinubu, in the next presidential election.
“Ordinarily, the Forum would never indulge in the profanity of glorifying such diatribes, but to correct the erroneous impression that will be implanted in the minds of unsuspecting indigenes and residents of Rivers State, the sub-nationals and the general public in general, we resolve to state as follows;
“The Governor of Bauchi State, H.E. Senator Bala A. Mohammed CON, has since his emergence by the grace of the Almighty God, as Chairman of this Forum, guided and unified the Forum’s members with purposefulness affirming it as an effective organ of the party, PDP. “The watchword of the Forum has been the unity of its members with its focus of playing party politics in a multi-party system, anchored on delivering dividends of democracy via good governance to the governed with integrity on either side at all times, against the vagaries of abuse of power. “In this light, Gov. Mohammed personally sees politics as a call to service, not a profession, having humbly grown with the mindset that by tomorrow, we shall leave the spaces and positions we see ourselves occupying now, mindful of accountability to our Creator and the State.
“As such, the permutations of Samuel Nwanosike in a daylight broadcast on television is only precariously balanced since he chose to be a bark dog for his employer, more so as he is pained by the expiration of a three-year term in office without an extension as earlier promised by his sculptors.
“We advise him (Samuel Nwanosike) to keep a healthy relationship with the youths in his local constituency and be dissuaded from myopic polarisations traced to a fizzling political crisis he has engulfed himself in whereas his Governor, Sir Siminalyi Fubara, only stands for peace.
