Powerful Critic of APC Muslim-Muslim Ticket Gets Big Appointment From PDP, After Dumping Tinubu

Powerful Critic of APC Muslim-Muslim Ticket Gets Big Appointment From PDP, After Dumping Tinubu

  • The PDP presidential campaign council has appointed ex-speaker of the house of representatives Yakubu Dogara into its circle
  • The appointment of Dogara was announced by the council director general, Aminu Tambuwal, in a statement on Sunday, December 4
  • Recall that Dogara recently endorsed PDP presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar after he had severally criticism the APC Muslim-Muslim ticket

Sokoto, Sokoto - Yakubu Dogara, the former speaker of the house of representatives, has been appointed as a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential campaign council.

The appointment was announced by the director general of the PDP presidential campaign organisation and governor of Sokoto state, Aminu Tambuwal, in a statement sent to Legit.ng on Sunday, December 4.

Atiku Abubakar/Bola Tinubu/Yakubu Dogara/APC/PDP/2023 Election
PDP appoints Dogara into Atiku/Okowa presidential campaign council Photo Credit: Atiku Abubakar
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According to the PDP PCC, the appointment is part of the efforts to work for the victory of Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the PDP.

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Tambuwal said:

"This is part of our continuous effect in joining hands with our Presidential Candidate, *H.E. Atiku Abubakar, GCON (Waziri Adamawa)* to RECOVER our Great Country, Nigeria."

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Recall that Dogara recently endorsed the candidacy of Atiku Abubakar after he had consistently expressed his grief with the Muslim-Muslim ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

On several occasions, Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the APC, had defended his decision to go for a fellow Muslim as running make.

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The former Lagos state governor reportedly told the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) that he did not Islamize his home, citing that his wife, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, is a pastor at the Redeem Christian Church of God.

PDP chieftain attacks southern men for having many 'side chick', calls for polygamy to stop prostitution

Legit.ng earlier reported that Ned Nwoko, a PDP senatorial candidate in Delta north, has said southern Nigerian men are responsible for the proliferation of prostitution in the region.

Nwoko, the husband of Nollywood celebrity Regina Daniels and 3 other women, said if the southern men were polygamous like their northern counterparts, many women would not resort to prostitution.

The father of 19 maintained that he and the first-class Yoruba monarch, Ooni of Ife, are helping society by marrying more women.

Source: Legit.ng

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Bada Yusuf (Politics and Current Affairs Editor) Yusuf Amoo Bada is an accomplished writer with 7 years of experience in journalism and writing, he is also politics and current affairs editor with Legit.ng. He holds B.A in Literature from OAU, and Diploma in Mass Comm. He has obtained certificates in Google's Advance Digital Reporting, News Lab workshop. He previously worked as an Editor with OperaNews. Legit’s Best Editor of the Year for Politics and Current Affairs Desk (2023). Contact: bada.yusuf.amoo@corp.legit.ng