We are sure that at the end of the day the party will be
proud of the exercise that we have done.
Those were the exact words of Yakubu Dogara, former speaker
of the house of reps, after the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) appointed him as
chairman of the panel which screened its aspirants for the governorship primary
in Ondo state.
Three weeks after carrying out such an important exercise
for the opposition party, the former number four man in the country turned his
back against the PDP.
Earlier on Friday, Mai Mala Buni, governor of Yobe state and
chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) caretaker committee, announced
that Dogara had returned to the ruling party.
He made the announcement shortly after he led Dogara to meet
with President Muhammadu Buhari.
The ex-speaker had defected from the APC to the PDP at the
height of his misunderstanding with Mohammed Abubakar, then governor of Bauchi
state, where he hails from.
Abubakar had vowed to retire Dogara from politics but the
former speaker said he was waiting for him on the other side.
In the end, Mohammed lost his election while Dogara was
releected to represent Bogoro/Dass/Tafawa Balewa federal constituency in the
house of reps.
Speaking on September 28, 2018, when he picked the PDP
nomination and expression of interests forms, Dogara had said he left the APC
because it had failed Nigerians.
The former speaker had said he rejoined the PDP because of
pressures from his constituents, lamenting how APC’s initial agenda of bringing
positive change to Nigeria was thwarted by “wayward sense of entitlement of
some people.”
He said he left APC in order to the PDP where his “dream of
making Nigeria better could be realised”.
“For some of us who are here, today’s event marks the end of
all speculations. To begin with, I was a founding member of the PDP, which some
of you don’t know. So, this is home to me,” he had said.
“I was also one of those that built APC in Bauchi state, and
I can tell you that we have not fulfilled a single promise that we made. At the
national level, we all know what is happening.”
Dogara’s exit from the PDP was announced 48 hours after
Eyitayo Jegede, one of the aspirants he cleared for the primary, was elected
governorship candidate of the PDP.
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