Dogara left APC weeks ago – Campaign Council

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has said a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara is not its member.

The Director-General, Media and Publicity of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, Bayo Onanuga, disclosed this in a statement on Monday in Abuja.

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Reacting to reports that Dogara and many others had met with some Northern Christians and Muslims in a bid to picking and supporting a candidate other than the party’s presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Onanuga said Dogara had left the APC weeks ago.

Dogara and a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, have been mobilising some Nigerians to vote against the APC in 2023, on grounds that the party has fielded a Muslim/Muslim presidential ticket.

But the APC Campaign Council said, “Yakubu Dogara, the peripatetic and politically unstable politician who organised the meeting left our party officially and unceremoniously weeks ago.

“And those who attended the meeting were representing themselves, their selfish agenda, not Northern Christians.

“Before then, the former speaker had spearheaded a campaign of vitriol and hate against our party, using religion as camouflage, after he lost the vice-presidential candidacy to a better qualified Senator Kashim Shettima.

“A careful reading of the people who attended the unholy meeting he called also showed that they were all PDP members, masquerading as APC members.”