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Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara, may have finally defected from the All Progressives Congress to the Peoples Democratic Party.
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Our correspondent gathered on Wednesday night that the embattled speaker had picked the PDP nomination and expression of interest forms to return to the House in 2019.
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A member of the National Working Committee of the party, who spoke with our correspondent on condition of anonymity, said that the speaker had picked the forms.
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“Yes, he had picked our forms, but don’t quote me, he has joined us,” the source said last night.
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Dogara had two days ago expressed his desire to return to the National Assembly in 2019 when members of his constituents visited him in Abuja.
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However, he refused to state the political party that he would use to facilitate his ambition.
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The Speaker had been having running battles with the leadership of the APC in both his state, Bauchi and at the national level.
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Just like the President of the Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki, who had defected to the PDP from the APC, Dogara had also absent from the activities of the ruling party.
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Our correspondent gathered that the decision by Dogara was necessitated by the fear that his party no longer had faith in him.
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With this decision, it is expected that he would announce his defection to his colleagues in the House when the National Assembly resumes after the political parties’ primaries
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