Yakubu Dogara, former speaker of the House of Representatives, has finally broken silence on rumours making the rounds, surrounding his defection and linking him with the 2023 presidency. Dogara, in a statement titled 'Rt. Hon. Dogara is Concerned about tackling the challenges of our Nationhood Than 2023,' and released by his media aide Turaki Hassan on Sunday August 23, said his defection to the All Progressives Congress (APC) is not about his political ambition.
The statement read, "It has come to our notice that stories and images are being circulated on social media to the effect that His Excellency, Rt. Hon Yakubu Dogara, is running for the office of the Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigerian, with the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Sen. Bola Ahmed Tinubu, for President in 2023.
"Our initial decision was to ignore them since they are utterly baseless but it appears that the promoters of this fallacy are unrelenting in spreading the falsehood and have now succeeded in making it sound believable to the extent that eve some conventional and 'creditable' media platforms are beginning to take it up.
"In order to stop the further spread of this deliberate mischief, whose objective is yet to be ascertained, the public is hereby advised to disregard and totally discountenance the purported story and pictures for what they are - handiwork on mischief makers.
"These stories and pictures we understand, are being sponsored by official of the Bauchi state government in their desperate bid to lend credence to the infantile delusion of their principal, captured in his ludicrous postulations that Rt. hon. Dogara left the PDP just because he was 'deceived' by the APC with the promise of a position come 2023."
