The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, is set to dump the All Progressives Congress (APC) this week, the Guardian reports.
Dogara, who was absent a when the APC House caucus with the Adams Oshiomhole-led National Working Committee ( NWC ) recently delayed his planned defection from the party last week when 36 of his colleagues decamped to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
A reliable source in the House of Representatives revealed that the Speaker will not be defecting from the ruling party alone, as not fewer that 15 more APC members in House are ready to join Rt. Hon Dogara to the PDP in what is described as “the movement of the second batch of defectors”.
It would be recalled that 37 members of the House of Representatives and 14 senators dumped the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, for the main opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) last week.
According to the Guardian, the speaker, who has allegedly been sidelined from the affairs of the party in his home Bauchi State due to a disagreement with Governor Mohammed Abubakar, is billed to formally announce his defection at his Bogoro/Dass/Tafawa Balewa federal constituency this week.
Already, a group of concerned members of the House of Representatives under the auspices of Parliamentary Democrats Group (PDG), has applauded the decision by Dogara to dump the APC.
Members of the group rose from an emergency meeting yesterday, warning the APC to desist from surreptitious attempts to prevent Dogara from defecting to PDP. Spokesman of the group, Mr. Timothy Simon Golu, in a statement, described as “futile and a sheer waste of time ” the desperate attempts by the APC to stop Dogara from going ahead with the decision.
Golu, who is the chairman of the House Committee on Legislative Budget and Research, said, “ It is laughable that the APC is running cap in hand begging the speaker to remain in a party that has for so long failed to acknowledge his relevance and contribution to its existence.
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