Dogara rejoins APC
The move, the ruling party says, is the first step in bringing back its members who left its fold in the run-up to the 2019 elections.
Dogara was at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Friday to see President Muhammadu Buhari.
He was accompanied to the State House by the Chairman of the APC’s Caretaker/National Planning Committee and Governor of Yobe State, Mai Mala Buni.
Buni confirmed Dogara’s return to the APC after the meeting with Buhari.
Part of the Yobe governor’s brief is to rebuild the party ahead of its national convention where a new executive committee will be elected.
He told reporters on Friday that the process of regaining all aggrieved members of the party who left had commenced.
He said the party was already reaching out to others with a view to bringing them back.
“We are meeting all our aggrieved members, particularly those who have interest in coming back to the party,” he said.
He added: “They should feel free to do so. We are assuring them and there is no crime in double assurance.
“We will do justice to all our members. That is what will bring peace and that is what will guarantee peaceful co-existence. That is what will bring the consolidation of the party; the rebuilding of the party.
“Without doing justice, you cannot achieve that, and we are sure of doing justice to all our members.”
He said the ongoing assignment of his committee was not just about 2023 but to ensure that the party survived the crisis that threatened its continued existence.
His words: “It is not only about a specific time or period. It is not about election; it is not about electioneering. It is about building a party.
“We paid the courtesy call on the President in continuation of our effort to rebuild the party. We are here to see Mr. President and brief him on the developments.”
Dogara did not speak to State House correspondents, but Buni said the former Speaker “was a member of the APC and he is, because the reason he left the APC is no more there.”
On how President Buhari received the news, he said: “He welcomed him. He is happy with the development. That is what he is looking for. We are rebuilding the party and these are the steps we are taking towards rebuilding the party.”
Dogara was one of the APC’s influential members who dumped the party in July 2018, although he officially announced his own defection on January 29, 2019, citing “undemocratic practices” in the party.
Dogara had fallen out with the then governor of the state, Mohammed Abdullahi Abubakar, over the way Abubakar was running the affairs of the state and the party.
The Nation gathered that Dogara’s return to APC was without conditions.
Sources said the development was on account of irreconcilable differences with Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State.
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