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Governor Bala Mohammed Distances Self from Dogara’s Defection to APC
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Governor Bala Mohammed Distances Self from Dogara’s Defection to APC

  Bala Mohammed, Bauchi State Governor has distanced himself from the defection of erstwhile Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara to the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) describing him as a “pandemic” in politics. The governor also alleged that Dogara was involved in constituency project contract inflation. He disclosed these on Tuesday at the Government House, Bauchi when a multitude of party faithful from Dogara’s constituency - Dass, Tafawa Balewa and Bogoro local government areas paid him a courtesy visit. He said, “Besides the Bauchi LGA, there is no place that gave me many votes like Dass, Tafawa Balewa and Bogoro and in the past; these same votes were given to me at the time I contested under the ANPP; the votes I got then were 20 times more t...