The Bauchi State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has commenced preparations for a fresh governorship Primary election.
This was confirmed to ARISE News by Alh. Hamza Koshe, Bauchi State PDP Chairman.
Former Secretary to Bauchi State Government (SSG), Ibrahim Kashim, had clinched the ticket of the party in the primary conducted last week
The Returning Officer for the election, Hassan Ahmed Grema, had declared Kashim, the sole aspirant, as winner, saying he polled a total of 655 votes out of the 656 votes, while one was invalid.
Shortly after the declaration, Kashim said he had accepted the mandate given to him by the delegates.
“The contest has just begun for 2023. The PDP is ready to beat every other opposition,” he had said.
But Governor Bala had on Saturday confirmed to ARISE News that he was going to get his governorship ticket back if he loses the PDP Presidential Primary (which he eventually lost) and that there was nothing wrong in doing that.
The former SSG was just a placeholder, according to the plan.
However, there are reports of disagreement between Kashim and Governor Mohammed after the primary.
According to reports, Kashim refused to hand over the ticket to the governor who lost the PDP presidential ticket to former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar.
Mohammed, a first term governor, polled just 20 votes in the presidential primary.
A PDP spokesman in Bauchi said a fresh exercise would be conducted because Kashim said he no longer had interest in the election and had withdrawn his candidature.
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