Bashir Ahmad, Personal Assistant on New Media to the
President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has said former Speaker of
the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, broke no law with his decision to
dump the opposition Peoples Democratic Party for the ruling All Progressives
Congress.
Dogara, who represents Bogoro/Dass/Tafawa Balewa Federal
Constituency in Bauchi State, alongside former President of the Senate, Bukola
Saraki, and some governors had left the APC for the PDP ahead of the 2019
general election.
Dogara was later reelected into the House of Representatives
on the platform of the PDP in 2019.
But the lawmaker sprang up a surprise on Friday when he
visited the President at the Aso Villa in the company of the Chairman of the
APC Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Committee, Mai Mala Buni.
Buni, who is also the Governor of Yobe State, told reporters
after the duo met with the President that Dogara was back to the APC and Buhari
was excited at the development.
“They shouldn’t be surprised because the former Speaker is a
member of the APC and it is because the reason he left the APC is no more
there.
“He (the President) welcomed him. He is happy with the development.
That is what he’s looking for. We are rebuilding the party and these are the
steps we are taking towards rebuilding the party,” he said.
Reactions have, however, trailed the defection move of the
former Chairman of the screening committee of the PDP for the 2020 Ondo
governorship election.
Responding to such criticisms, Ahmad, who had gleefully
announced the defection of Dogara, tweeted, “That’s purely politics, no rule is
broken here, Obaseki left and Dogara is back. That’s the law of this game, when
you leave, another will come and fill the space. And it will continue to be
like that till the end of the game. The best, don’t stress yourself over it. Be
moderate!”
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