Mohammed, on Tuesday visited the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, in Abuja, Tribune reports.
This visit comes on the heels of insinuations that the governor was set to withdraw from the Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) of the main opposition party after he was allegedly snubbed by Atiku.
But Bala Mohammed wrote on his Twitter and Facebook accounts: “Today, I led a delegation of Bauchi State stakeholders of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to Abuja on a courtesy visit to the PDP Presidential Candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.”
The governor further wrote that “key to our discussion were issues relating to the progress of our great party.”
The delegation included respected elders of the party who are either personal friends of the presidential candidate as well as party leaders in the state including the Speaker of Bauchi State House, Rt Hon Abubakar Suleiman.