Former lawmaker, Yakubu Dogara has denied claims that he joined the All Progressive Congress (APC) in order to fulfil his political ambition in 2023.
Social media reports emerged earlier that Yakubu Dogara will run for the office of the Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, with the National Leader of the APC, Sen Bola Ahmed Tinubu, for President in 2023.
In a statement sent to Grassroots.ng, the former lawmaker explained that the initial decision was to ignore the rumors, however, seems they are utterly baseless.
He expressed disappointment that the promoters of such fallacy are unrelenting in spreading the falsehood and have now succeeded in making it sound believable to the extent that even some conventional and ‘credible’ media platforms are beginning to take it up.
He said: ”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 of mischief makers.
According to him, the stories and pictures are being sponsored by officials of the Bauchi State government in their desperate bid to lend credence to the infantile delusions 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.
Recall that the Bauchi state Governor, Sen Bala Mohammed had publicly alluded to this and has continued to push these narratives all in an effort to malign and disparage the person of Rt. Hon. Dogara and divert attention of the people from issues of poor governance in the state.
Twenty twenty three (2023) is still years away and, therefore, it is unnecessary, distracting and insensitive to start making unfounded declarations at this time when all hands ought to be on deck in tackling the challenges of our nationhood.
”Furthermore, to our best knowledge, no political party sells nomination and expression of interest forms for the post of a running mate as he/she is only appointed or selected by a flag bearer. It is therefore preposterous for anyone to claim that someone is running for the position of VP when no flag-bearer has emerged.”