The governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed has pleaded with the former vice president, Atiku Abubakar and other members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who are part of the coalition team not to demarket their party.
Mohammed made the appeal at the Consultative Conference of PDP Founding Fathers and Stakeholders in Abuja on Wednesday.
He urged the party members decamping to the newly adopted coalition party, African Democratic Congress (ADC) to desist from remarketing the PDP.
Stating that the PDP members are leaving the party for one that has no office anywhere across the country, Mohammed said it is also wrong for the politicians to claim membership in two parties.
He also stated that it is unfortunate that the key leaders and members of the PDP were leaving a strong platform for a coalition without any form of solid foundation.
“We cannot take indiscipline to a level where it becomes contagious. If you are in PDP, you are in PDP. You cannot be in PDP and be in coalition with another party. We cannot do this. But you have all the time to decide. Coalition is an aberration, yes, I said it.
“You cannot belong to two places. You cannot be a man and a woman at the same time. Be who you will be. But we will still give you the opportunity to have a thought, because you are our leaders.
“But if you are going, don’t demarket us. Demarketing of the PDP is not fair. Most of you actualised your political aspirations through this party. Some of them left us and caused our loss in 2015, and yet we accommodated them,” the governor said.
Also describing PDP as a party with history and numerous legacies, Mohammed noted that governors of the party are doing well across the states of the country.
He added that politics is local and he believes those decamping would be proved wrong.
“Even our elders that have gone, we don’t want to diminish them, we don’t want to denigrate or abuse them.
“We are telling them with humility: come back. That’s what the National Chairman has said — come back. This is what you have built.
“Maybe in terms of their own calculation, they want to actualise their aspiration — to get tickets. But do you want to get a ticket and lose? So please, come back. You have no reason to go anywhere,” Mohammed added.