Former Reps Speaker, Yakubu Dogara dumps PDP for APC

has dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

The Chairman of the APC Caretaker/Convention Planning Committee and Governor of Yobe State, Mai Malla Buni, made this known after their meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, yesterday.

Dogara, however, declined to speak after the meeting, but Mai Buni told State House Correspondents that the former Speaker “is now a member of APC.”

Buni explained that they paid courtesy call on the President in continuation of our efforts to rebuild the party and came to see Mr. President and brief him on the developments.

Commenting on why he was with Dogara, the Buni said: “There shouldn’t be surprise because the former Speaker is a member of the APC and he is because the reason he left the APC is no more there.”

The governor added that: the president welcomed him and he is happy with the development towards rebuilding the party and the steps they are taking towards rebuilding the party.

Speaking on how far he will go to get everybody back, the governor said: “Well, we are meeting all our aggrieved members particularly who have interest in coming back to the party. They should feel free to do so. We are assuring them and there is no crime in double assurance.

“We will do justice to all our members and that’s what will bring peace and that is what will guarantee peaceful co-existence, that is what will bring the consolidation of the party, the rebuilding of the party. Without doing justice, you cannot achieve that and we are sure of doing justice to all our members.”

When asked if reconciliation was part of the 2023 strategy, Buni said: “Well, of course, not only 2023 strategy, this party, we are rebuilding the party to outlive all of us. It’s not only about specific time or period, it’s not about election, it’s not about electioneering. It is about building a party.”