By Bologi M. Maikudi
There are indications that the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has finally quit the All Progressives Congress and joined the Peoples Democratic Party.
According to sources in the main opposition party, the Speaker had picked the PDP nomination and expression of interest forms to return to the House in 2019.
“Yes, he had picked our forms, but don’t quote me, he has joined us,” a source in the PDP.
Dogara had on Tuesday expressed his desire to return to the National Assembly in 2019 when members of his constituency visited him in Abuja.
He however refused to state the political party that he would use to facilitate his ambition.
The Speaker had been having running battles with the leadership of the APC in both his state, Bauchi and at the national level.
Just like the President of the Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki, who had defected to the PDP from the APC, Dogara had also been absent from the recent activities of the ruling party.
It was gathered that the decision by Dogara was necessitated by the fear that his party no longer had faith in him.
Sources close to the Speaker also said that he would announce his defection to his colleagues in the House when the National Assembly resumes after the political parties’ primaries.
