Dogara reportedly making moves to retain speaker’s seat of 9th National Assembly
- An APC lawmaker has alleged that Yakubu Dogara, speaker of the House of Representatives, is making frantic moves to retain his seat
- The PDP is said to have a little over 100 reps-elect against the 220 seats of the APC
- According to the lawmaker, Dogara wants to break the ranks of the APC members, just the way he used some members to become speaker in 2015
Emerging reports have claimed that speaker of the House of Representatives Yakubu Dogara has started making frantic moves to retain his seat when the 9th National Assembly will be inaugurated in June 2019.
Dogara’s moves, it was learnt, are coming despite the fact that he is now a member of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party. The PDP, so far, has a little over 100 reps-elect against the 220 seats of the APC.
Daily Trust reports that an APC member, who was a staunch Dogara supporter in 2015, said: “We’re very much aware that he wants to recontest for the speaker’s seat.
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“He wants to break the ranks of the APC members, just the way he used some of us to become speaker. But we supported him in 2015 because we all belonged to the same party then.
“This time around, he won’t get that support from us, because apart from leaving the APC that made him speaker, he has been one of those attacking our government. We can’t support such a person. Besides, Dogara would have wished PDP to form majority. So, why should we support him?"
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Legit.ng had earlier reported that the speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, said the life of the current house still lasts until the next three months, adding that there were many pending issues before shortly it.
Dogara made this known in a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Public Affairs, Turaki Hassan, on Sunday, March 3, in Abuja.
The speaker said that the pending issues before the House needed urgent legislative attention including the 2019 Appropriations Bill.
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