Dogara Rolls Again, Dumps  APC For PDP

By Adesina Soyooye

One of the highlights of the Presidential Campaign Rally of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, held in Lagos on Monday, was the expected defection of a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, to the Party.

This is the third time Dogara, derisively nicknamed the political rolling stone, would dump the All Progressives Congress, APC, for the PDP.

It became very obvious that he was going to defect to the PDP on Sunday when the PDP Presidential Campaign Council, in a letter signed by the Director General, Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, appointed Dogara a member of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council.

Dogara himself, had, 48 hours earlier, gave an inkling  to where he is headed when, while still a member of the PDP, endorsed, with his group, the Northern Leaders Consultative Forum, endorsed the Presidential Candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar.

Dogara and a number of others, including a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, began to part ways with the APC over the Party’s same-faith Presidential ticket. Bola Tinubu, the Presidential candidate of the APC, a Muslim, had picked former Governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima, another Muslim, as his running mate. They protested, vehemently, the same-faith ticket and dismissed it as satanic and a ploy to divide the North.

Sadly, Dogara and his group has also parted ways with the main Group led by Lawal.

While Lawal endorsed the Candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, Dogara endorsed the PDP Candidate, Abubakar Atiku.

Dogara was the Speaker of the House of Representatives. He later dumped the PDP for APC, dumped APC again for PDP, dumped PDP again for the  APC, and now back to the PDP.