Dogara dumps APC for PDP at Lagos rally

Serial defector and former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has dumped the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Dogara was received into the party during the presidential campaign by the party’s presidential candidate and former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar in the nation’s commercial capital, Lagos State. This […]

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Tinubu, Dogara and the Prison and Poison of Religious Politics, By Farooq A. Kperogi

The two most disadvantaged groups in Nigeria’s representational politics are northern Christians and Southern Muslims. In Nigeria’s internal geopolitics, these two groups are structurally invisible, politically subjugated, and told to be content with their political and symbolic marginality. Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a Muslim from Osun/Lagos states, and Yakubu Dogara, a northern Christian from Bauchi State, […]

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Buhari hosts Saraki, Dogara, Ekweremadu, others, at Aso Rock (Photos)

Nigerian Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki and President Muhammadu Buhari met on Tuesday, 14th May, for the first time since the 2019 general elections when Saraki lost his return to Senate bid. According to the official Twitter handle of the presidency, Buhari hosted him and the leadership of the National Assembly to the breaking of […]

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Reps Speaker, Dogara picks PDP nomination forms

Speaker, Nigeria’s House of Representatives, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, Wednesday, picked the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) expression of interest and nomination forms to bid for a return to the House in 2019. According to Thisday, the speaker, who is the number 4 in the country’s order of protocol, sent one of his trusted aides to pick […]

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