Former Reps Speaker Dogara Not Our Member – PDP Insists
BY ADEYEMI AKANJI, BAUCHI – As the controversy over the political party, the former Speaker of House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara belongs to, the Bauchi State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has declared that he lawmaker is not a member of the party in the state. 
State Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Mr. Yayanuwa Zainabari who stated the position of the party while speaking with journalists at the party Secretariat, pointedly said; “Yakubu Dogara is not a member of the PDP in Bauchi State as far as we know. He tendered his resignation letter from the party to his Ward chairman in July 2020 which was copied to the State Secretariat.
“Also, during the last by-election for the State Constituency seat of Dass LGA in the State House of Assembly, Dogara participated fully in the campaigns of the All Progressives Congress (APC) against the PDP. If he is a member of the PDP, will he do that?
“Just recently, we started seeing his posters on the street of Bauchi with the Governor, Senator Bala Mohammed with an inscription of 4 + 4, what that portends, we don’t know but we are dissociating ourselves from whatever may be the reasons.
“He voluntarily left the PDP without any cogent reason. We have gone to court to seek redress so that we will retrieve the seat of Dass/Tafawa Balewa /Bogoro Federal Constituency,” the Bauchi PDP spokesman said.
The party therefore called on political jobbers who are trying to cause confusion in the state to desist, stressing that it will not allow anyone to rubbish what the party has done in two years.
Asked if the party will welcome Dogara back to its fold if he decides to stage a comeback, Zainabari however said; “He is welcome but he must go through the processes laid down in the constitution of the party because party politics is all about the people”.
The PDP filed a suit at a Federal High Court in Abuja seeking for the sack of Hon. Dogara as a member representing it in the House of Representatives having left the PDP on whose platform he was elected and defected to the APC.
