Olusegun Bamgbose, National Coordinator, Concerned Advocates
for Good Governance, CAGG, has claimed that the sudden return to the ruling All
Progressives Congress, APC, by a former Speaker of the House of
Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, was masterminded by Bola Tinubu.
Bamgbose also insisted that Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the
presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2019
general elections, will also make his way back to the ruling party.
In a statement on Tuesday, the senior lawyer
noted that these are part of the 2023 political arithmetic and permutations.
He maintained that stakeholders are strategizing to position
themselves, in order to achieve their desired aims, adding that Dogara’s
defection was part of it.
“Bola Tinubu is certainly not prepared to be caught panting,
as things unfold,” he said.
“Tinubu, as a master strategist possibly masterminded
Dogara’s defection, to enable him to have a popular candidate, as his Vice,
come 2023 Presidential elections.
“His greatest challenge would have been securing a
Northerner who is a Christian, as a vice. Someone who will be generally
acceptable to the North, and also one whose political pedigree is intimidating.
“Dogara, being the immediate past Speaker of the House of
Representatives, to him will be the candidate to look out for.
“Tinubu possibly went out for him. PDP is getting weaker by
the day. The surprising thing is that many PDP bigwigs have kept mute about
Dogara’s defection because some of them may follow suit soon.
“I still foresee Atiku defecting back to APC. Tinubu and
Atiku are two inseparable political friends. They may throw banters at each
other in the public arena, but privately they are friends.
“Since Dogara’s
defection, Atiku has kept mute, because he may equally have plans to move in
the nearest future. It’s most likely we are heading for a one party state.
“As a Presidential aspirant, I’m not perturbed, as I have my
plans to defeat Tinubu if chosen as APC Presidential candidate come 2023. He is
no doubt more experienced but I’ve my strategies to defeat him.”
Dogara decamped from the PDP, to the APC late last week.
Later on, the former Speaker explained why he left the
opposition party for the ruling APC, citing failure of governance in his home
state, Bauchi, under the administration of Governor Bala Mohammed whom he
helped install as a governor in 2019.
But in a swift response to his claims, the PDP Board of
Trustees (BoT) said that Dogara returned to the APC simply because he wants to
be President or Vice President come 2023.
The PDP BoT claim is in accordance with an earlier
submission by Bamgbose that his defection may not be unconnected to 2023
presidency but wondered if Nigeria “deserves such an unprincipled person to be
President or Vice President.”
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