Yakubu Dogara, speaker of the
house of representatives, says he was asked to beg for the ticket of the ruling
All Progressives Congress (APC).
Dogara said this when he played
host to some of his supporters at his Abuja residence on Thursday.
The supporters had presented 2019
forms of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to him, urging him to pull out of
the ruling party.
But Dogara, who said he does not
need the APC to be reelected, appealed to the people to give him more time for
consultation.
“Truly, I have decided that I
will not seek election again. They said they will give me ticket in APC but
that I must go and beg for it. I said I do not need the ticket. In politics, I
have never gone to anybody’s house to beg for ticket.
“My ticket is my people. I have
assured them that even if I run under zero party, my people will vote for me.
So long as it is Bogoro/Dass/Tafawa Balewa, even if we run under zero party; we
will win by God’s grace. We have thrived well in many political battles in the
past and this one too, we shall overcome it. Nobody can threaten us or tell us
that we cannot contest election in a political party we spent our resources to
establish, only God can stop us.
“I had heard your voices and the
voice of the people is the voice of God. We are in politics to serve and not to
be served. As I said, if it were for myself, I will quit because truly I am
tired and even thought of stepping aside. But we must run election so long as
our people say so.
“I have seen the forms you
brought. I don’t know how you got it but I must thank you for this sacrifice.
Left for me; I will appeal that you give me sometime to go and consult further.
“I have a lot of supporters in
the APC but I have not told any of them what I intend to do or where I will go
because I was not given the opportunity but I will assure you that wherever you
want me to go or whatever you want me to do I will obey you because you have
been with me. This is leadership.”
Dogara also narrated how he gave
the APC the condition to pacify some federal lawmakers before he could
reconcile with the leadership of the party.
“Even when they were talking
about reconciliation in APC, we told them that even if I will be given free
ticket in APC, so long as they do not do justice to Senator Sulieman Nazif,
Senator Isa Hamma Misau, Honourable Ahmed Yerima, Hon. Aminu Tukur, Hon. Maryam
Bagel and others, I will not accept it. I even said that if they will do
justice to these people I will be satisfied,” he said.
“You have now given us another
opportunity to correct the greatest mistake we did in politics, which was to
bring this present government in Bauchi State. This is one of the reasons we
must run for election and do away with this plague, chase these termites from
Bauchi State.
“I will not disobey you but
before I fill these forms, I will have to inform all my supporters in the APC
about the decision taken by my constituents since all politics is local.”
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