I told Tinubu PDP would’ve given him presidential ticket – Bauchi governor

Governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed said he told National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu he would have been handed the presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party if he was a member a the party.

Mohammed said this while featuring on Arise TV programme ThisDay Live on Sunday.

He said he met Tinubu at the Ramadan iftar organised for presidential aspirants by first lady, Aisha Buhari.

Speaking on his attending the iftar, he said: “I knew it was an opportunity to meet other eminent Nigerians who are stepping out to present themselves.

He added: “And I was lucky I met Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, we discussed. He was calling me consensus and I told him that: ‘if you were in PDP we would have just given you the ticket because we knew that without you, Buhari wouldn’t have been a president’ and so in PDP we recognise contributions.

“We have some people in Nigeria that we must recognise and it was definitely a good outing for me yesterday. The First Lady is a unifier. She has shown that she is a mother of the nation and all the presidential aspirants not only in PDP, APC but all the other parties were there. It was an opportunity to show that I’m really a product of consensus or closing rank irrespective of party differences.”