Yobe Governor Mai Mala Buni denied that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and other opposition figures have reportedly led the opposition coalition ahead of the 2027 election.
In a statement issued by Mamman Mohammed, director of news and media affairs in the governor’s office, Buni dismissed plans that he and four other four Progressive Party Congresses (APCs) are finalizing plans to violate the plans to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
The statement describes the report as “unfounded imagination, and assumptions that do not transcend reality in any way, shape and form.”
According to Mohammed, the author of the news lacks distance or understanding of Buni’s political stance and cannot make such predictions. He stressed that Buni was deeply rooted in the APC and pointed out his important contribution as two-term state secretary and former president, as chairman of the party’s conference committee.
“Buni is not an ordinary member of the APC; he is not only the APC governor. He is an APC in all consequences, and the APC flows in his blood vessels.” Mohammed further pointed out that those who spread the rumor were motivated by admiration for Buni’s political experience and hoped that they would have his talents in their ranks, calling it “wishful thinking.”
