Yakubu Dogara, former speaker of
the house of representatives, says he defected from the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) because of the
alleged failure of governance in Bauchi, where he hails from.
Mai Mala Buni, chairman of the
caretaker committee of the APC, broke the news of Dogara’s defection to state
house correspondents after he led the former speaker to a meeting with
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday.
In his letter of resignation
addressed to the Bogoro ‘C’ ward chairman of the PDP, Dogara said Bala Mohammed,
the governor, whom he helped into power, has not lived up to expectation.
The lawmaker currently
representing Bogoro/Dass/Tafawa Balewa federal constituency said failing to
tell the truth to power in Bauchi, having done same under the administrations
of Isa Yuguda and Mohammed Abubakar, former governors of the state, will make
him irresponsible.
Below is Dogara’s letter of
resignation:
I write to intimate you of my
decision to resign my membership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
This became necessary because the
same reasons why we fought hard in 2019 to effect changes in the Governance of
our dear state are festering now.
I intend to bring these issues to
the front burners once again as the fight to install decent
and egalitarian government in our
dear state continues.
Specifically, I intend to ask
questions about the following:
a. What has happened to LGA
allocations since May 2019?
b. What happened to our campaign
promise to conduct LGA elections within six months of the PDP government?
c. What happened to the N4.6
billion loan taken from a bank and paid directly into an private company’s
account?
d. Why are we segmenting salaries
and why is payment of salaries of state workers outsourced to a private firm as
consultants?
e. Why are contracts inflated,
awarded and payment of mobilisation done in violation of extant rules on
procurement?
f. Why are our highly revered
Traditional Rulers and Elders treated with odium contrary to the guarantee we
gave during the campaign that such will not happen under a PDP government?
Mr. Chairman, you will agree with
me that I cannot raise these issues and many more questions without a charge of
disloyalty levelled against me if I were to remain a member of the PDP.
I cannot also fail to raise these
questions now, having raised similar ones during the administrations of
Governors Isa Yuguda and Mohammed A. Abubakar. If I abdicate this
responsibility on the altar of partisan loyalty, I will be the most
irresponsible and unprincipled politician in Bauchi State.
Thus, by this letter, I have
resigned my membership of the PDP to enable me keep faith with my principle of
fighting for good governance in our Dear State.
Thank you for your kind
considerations.
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