Bala Mohammed, governor of Bauchi State, has said Bola Tinubu, former Lagos State governor would have gotten the presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) if he were a member of the party.
Mohammed, who is also a PDP presidential aspirant, said despite being an aspirant, he has great admiration for Tinubu, an aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress.
Speaking as a guest on AriseTV, Mohammed commended Tinubu for the formation of the APC and noted that if not for him, Buhari would not have been President.
“I was lucky I met Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, (vice president) Osinbajo we discussed, he (Tinubu) called me consensus,” he said.
“I told him (Tinubu), if you were in PDP, we would have given you the (presidential) ticket because we know that without you, (Muhammadu) Buhari wouldn’t have been the president.
“In PDP, we recognise contribution. We have people in Nigeria that we must recognise and it was definitely a good outing for me.”