Okechukwu: your outburst against Gov Mohammed reckless and arrogant – Northern youths

The North-East Youth Democratic Vanguard has described as reckless and arrogant a recent comment attributed to the Director-General of Voice of Nigeria (VON), Dr Osita Okechukwu, against Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, by the Director-General of Voice of Nigeria.

As previously reported, Mohammed recently stated that the decision of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to zone its presidency to the southern region posed no threat to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ahead of the 2023 general election in the country.

Okechukwu, on the other hand, believes Mohammed’s argument against the party’s zoning of the presidency to the south in 2023 demonstrates the lack of dynamism in the party’s political thinking.

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However, the group’s leaders, Mr. Istifanus Darius and Malek Zulum, issued a joint statement on Saturday in which they stated that Okechukwu should desist from his unsavoury attacks on Mohammed.

In their letter, the members of the group reminded Okechukwu that his party was still in complete disarray, having failed to elect a National Working Committee (NWC) and having resorted to the interminable postponement of its convention.

It observed that, rather than attempting to save his sinking party, Okechukwu was attacking a principled leader like Mohammed, whose record of service is unrivaled in the country.

“The recent attacks by the DG of VON were reckless and arrogant,” the letter stated. Bala Mohammed, who had a distinguished civil service career prior to that, demonstrated a strong record of leadership and management through diversity and gender inclusion during his tenure as Minister of the Federal Capital Territory.

“As Governor of Bauchi, his transformational work is astounding, and he is widely regarded as a revolutionary by his peers.

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It is clear that Mr Okechukwu is holding up a mirror to his own abjectly tarnished reputation when he uses words such as deceitful, duplicity, selfish, and failure to disparage the person of Governor Bala Mohammed.