Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara has explained that he quit the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) because of the excesses of Bauchi State Governor, Senator Bala Mohammed.
Dogara’s return to the All Progressives Congress (APC) was made known on Friday. He quit the party ahead of the 2019 general election.
He currently represents Dass/Tafawa Balewa/Bogoro federal constituency of Bauchi State in the lower chamber.
The former speaker in a letter addressed to the Chairman of the PDP Bogoro ‘C ’ Ward, Bogoro LGA gave an insight into why he was quitting the party.
In the July 24 letter, he said the reasons for which he quit the APC and joined efforts to send Governor Mohammed Abubakar out of office were being repeated by Governor Bala Mohammed in the governance of the state.
Dogara vowed never to relent in demanding an egalitarian society and purposeful governance in Bauchi.
“Specifically, I intend to ask questions about the following: What has happened to LGA allocations since May 2019? What happened to our campaign promise to conduct LGA elections within six months of the PDP government?
“What happened to the N4.6 billion loan taken from a bank and paid directly into a private company’s account?
“Why are we segmenting salaries and why is payment of salaries of state workers outsourced to a private firm as consultants?
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“Why are contracts inflated, awarded and payment of mobilization done in violation of extant rules on procurement?
“Why are our highly revered traditional rulers and elders treated with odium contrary to the guarantee we have during the campaign that such will not happen under a PDP government?
“Mr. Chairman, you will agree with me that I cannot raise these issues and many more questions without a charge of disloyalty leveled against me if I were to remain a member of the PDP.
“I cannot also fail to raise these questions now, having raised similar ones during the administrations of Governors Isa Yuguda and Mohammed A. Abubakar, if I abdicate this responsibility on the altar of partisan loyalty, I will be the most irresponsible and unprincipled politician in Bauchi state.
“Thus, by this letter, I have resigned my membership of the PDP to enable me keep faith with my principle of fighting for good governance in our dear state,” Dogara said.