The planned move of Bala Mohammed, the governor of Bauchi State, from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC) has fallen through because the two parties couldn’t agree on a proposed power-sharing plan.
Sama’ila Burga, the head of the Turaki-led PDP faction in the state, told reporters in Bauchi on Saturday that this was the case.
Burga said that talks between the governor, his Turaki-led PDP faction, and the APC leadership ended in a deadlock because the ruling party reportedly turned down a 60/40 plan for how to run the party in Bauchi State.
The governor and his supporters, on the other hand, have said that they are open to working with other political parties. They have also said that they are looking into new ways to switch parties from the ward level to the state level.
Burga also said that the APC had shown it wasn’t willing to work with the PDP structure and the state government.
He said that the APC started talks through the governor. The national leadership of the APC and the governor of Kano State, Abba Yusuf, went to Bauchi to try to convince Mohammed to join the party.
He said, though, that the talks broke down when the APC wouldn’t agree to the 60–40 sharing plan, which he said had been used in other states when people left the party.
“This is how it has been done in other places where governors switched to the APC. They turned down this formula, so we are done talking about it. You can’t expect a government that runs from the ward level to the state level not to have control over the party.
He said, “We have called this press conference because His Excellency, the Governor, is leading the talks.”
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