A former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has dumped the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
This comes barely 48 hours after Dogara and some aggrieved northern APC leaders declared support for the presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar.
Dogara has been aggrieved since the APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, picked a fellow Muslim, Kashim Shettima as his running mate.
However, Dogara was received into the PDP during the presidential campaign by the party’s presidential candidate and former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar in the nation’s commercial capital, Lagos State.
In 2020, Dogara dumped the PDP to join the APC.
Dogara has also been appointed as a member of the PPD Campaign Council on Sunday.
In a statement on Sunday, Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State, who also doubles as the Director-General of the PDP PCO, said the appointment was with immediate effect.
Part of the statement read, “The leadership of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council wishes to formally announce that Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has been appointed as a member of the Presidential Campaign Council with immediate effect.
“This is part of our continuous effect in joining hands with our presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, to recover our great country, Nigeria.”
