Bauchi State governor, Sen Bala Mohammed has declared that it was not his intention to drop his Deputy, Sen Baba Tela as a running mate during the last general elections, but was forced to do so due to political permutations.
The governor made the declaration on Thursday while addressing members of the State Executive Council (SEC) for the last time before the dissolution of the Council preparatory to his inauguration for a second term.
According to him, “This cabinet is the engine room of the administration, my Deputy is here, even though I am not going with him for the second term but he is part and parcel of my administration because we are there in the same political party but it was permutations that left him out of the system.”
