Former House of Representatives Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, has
spoken out on the speculations that he would run for the presidency in 2023
with former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu, in 2023.
Tinubu is the national leader of the All Progressives
Congress (APC).
In July, Dogara dumped the opposition Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) for the ruling APC.
On Sunday, his spokesman reacted to “stories and images are being circulated on social media.”
“Our initial decision was to ignore them since they are
utterly baseless but it appears that the promoters of this fallacy are
unrelenting in spreading the falsehood and have now succeeded in making it
sound believable to the extent that even some conventional and ‘credible’ media
platforms are beginning to take it up.
“In order to stop the further spread of this deliberate
mischief whose objective is yet to be ascertained, the public is hereby advised
to disregard and totally discountenance the purported story and pictures for
what they are – handiwork of mischief makers.
“These stories and pictures we understand are being
sponsored by officials of the Bauchi State government in their desperate bid to
lend credence to the infantile delusions of their principal, captured in his
ludicrous postulations that Rt. Hon. Dogara left the PDP just because he was
“deceived” by the APC with the promise of a position come 2023.”
The statement said Bauchi state Governor, Bala Mohammed “had
publicly alluded to this and has continued to push these narratives all in an
effort to malign and disparage the person of Rt. Hon. Dogara and divert
attention of the people from issues of poor governance in the state.”
It said 2023 is still years away, “and therefore, it is
unnecessary, distracting and insensitive to start making unfounded declarations
at this time when all hands ought to be on deck in tackling the challenges of
our nationhood.”
“To our best knowledge, no political party sells nomination
and expression of interest forms for the post of a running mate as he/she is
only appointed or selected by a flag bearer. It is therefore preposterous for
anyone to claim that someone is running for the position of VP when no
flag-bearer has emerged.”
Dogara said he is busy helping to rebuild and reposition the
APC in Bauchi State and wishes to be allowed to focus on just that.
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