JUST IN: Again Dogara dumps APC for PDP
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Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has once again dumped the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Hon. Dogara was received into the party during the presidential campaign by the party’s presidential candidate and former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar in Lagos State.
This comes barely 48 hours after Dogara and some aggrieved northern APC leaders declared support for the presidential candidate of the PDP, Alhaji Abubakar, after the Northern Elders Consultative Forum, including APC Christian leaders in northern Nigeria, on Friday, formally adopted Alhaji Abubakar following several months of political permutations.
According to them, Atiku was adopted following the resolve of the Northern Christian leaders to work with their Muslim counterparts to adopt one of the presidential candidates in a bid to defeat the same-faith presidential ticket of the APC.
Meanwhile, it could be recalled that in 2020, Dogara dumped the PDP to join the APC.
The development back then was announced to State House correspondents by the chairman of the APC Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Committee, Mai Mala Buni, who said that President Muhammadu Buhari was happy seeing Dogara return to the party.
Earlier in 2018, the same Dogara had left APC to join PDP.
Dogara, alongside former President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, and some governors had left the ruling party for the PDP ahead of the 2019 general election.
Fast forward to 2022, Dogara not only declared support for Atiku but has defected to the opposition party, after the Dogara-led Northern Elders Consultative Forum, claimed the Muslim-Muslim ticket of the APC was a minus to the ruling party.
The group had said the leaders took consideration of the existing structure of the PDP, capacity of the candidates, evidence of national penetration, religious and ethnic balance, among others to arrive at the decision.
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Dogara lamented APC’s “unfortunate self-inflicted divisive same-faith-ticket which cannot guarantee the desired peace, unity and cohesion in Nigeria, a decision that has been kicked against by a huge population of Nigerians.”
He was appointed as a member of the PDP Campaign Council on Sunday.
In a statement on Sunday, Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State, who also doubles as the Director-General of the PDP PCO, said the appointment was with immediate effect.
Part of the statement reads: “The leadership of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council wishes to formally announce that Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has been appointed as a member of the Presidential Campaign Council with immediate effect.
“This is part of our continuous effect in joining hands with our presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, to recover our great country, Nigeria.” Read more.
