You Can’t Put Fire in My State, Mohammed Replies Ex-Rivers Governor, Nyesom Wike

•Says PDP governors remain united

Chuks Okocha in Abuja

Governor  Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State, has said nobody could put fire in his state “because we have a volume of water to quench the fire.”

He said this when he received a delegation from the National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on yesterday.

He said, “We are together. Nobody can put fire in Bauchi. We have a volume of water that will quench the fire, even my friend that said that did so because he is annoyed. May be I have said something that annoyed him but it is not personal.

“My friend is my friend, my job is my job and leadership is leadership,” the governor said.

Also, speaking in Benin, Edo State, in a viral video, Mohammed said, “Together, we are unified. There is no division in the PDP Governors’ Forum. We are not pompous, proud or arrogant. We are not joining the APC or anybody.

“We are not going to join issues with ignorant people. We are going to use strategy and tact and knowledge to ensure the PDP wins the governorship election in Edo State,” he said.

At a meeting around mid-August, governors elected on the platform of the PDP had declared Siminalayi Fubara, estranged godson of Wike, leader of the party in Rivers.

This decision annoyed Wike, who alongside his supporters organised a congress in the state to further strengthen their grip of Rivers PDP.

Speaking at the congress, Wike had said, “Let me assure all of you, not while we live will anybody take away the structure of PDP from us.

“But let me tell people, I hear some governors who say they will take over the structure and give back to somebody. I pity those governors because I will put fire in their states.

“When God has given you peace, you say you don’t want peace – anything you see you take,” Wike said.