2027: Buni speaks on joining Atiku’s coalition

Yobe State Governor Mai Mala Buni, has said he is not joining the opposition leaders’ coalition being spearheaded by former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar.

Buni made the declaration in a statement issued by the Director-General, Press and Media Affairs, Alhaji Mamman Mohammed, in Damaturu on Saturday.

The governor made the declaration in reaction to alleged indication that he and four other All Progressives Congress, APC, governors had concluded arrangements to defect to the opposition PDP and join the coalition before the 2027 general elections.

The governor was said to have described the alleged message to that effect as false.

“Buni is no ordinary member of APC; he is not just an APC governor. He is APC in all ramifications, with APC flowing in his veins.

“His contributions to building APC as a two-term National Secretary and National Chairman who chaired the party’s convention committee makes him unique and whose imagination of leaving the party cannot be speculated,” the statement reads.