Former House of Representatives Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, has spoken out on the speculations that he would run for the presidency in 2023 with former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu, in 2023.

Tinubu is the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

In July, Dogara dumped the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the ruling APC.

On Sunday, his spokesman reacted to “stories and images are being circulated on social media.”

“Our initial decision was to ignore them since they are utterly baseless but it appears that the promoters of this fallacy are unrelenting in spreading the falsehood and have now succeeded in making it sound believable to the extent that even some conventional and ‘credible’ media platforms are beginning to take it up.

“In order to stop the further spread of this deliberate mischief whose objective is yet to be ascertained, the public is hereby advised to disregard and totally discountenance the purported story and pictures for what they are – handiwork of mischief makers.


“These stories and pictures we understand are being sponsored by officials of the Bauchi State government in their desperate bid to lend credence to the infantile delusions of their principal, captured in his ludicrous postulations that Rt. Hon. Dogara left the PDP just because he was “deceived” by the APC with the promise of a position come 2023.”

The statement said Bauchi state Governor, Bala Mohammed “had publicly alluded to this and has continued to push these narratives all in an effort to malign and disparage the person of Rt. Hon. Dogara and divert attention of the people from issues of poor governance in the state.”


It said 2023 is still years away, “and therefore, it is unnecessary, distracting and insensitive to start making unfounded declarations at this time when all hands ought to be on deck in tackling the challenges of our nationhood.”

“To our best knowledge, no political party sells nomination and expression of interest forms for the post of a running mate as he/she is only appointed or selected by a flag bearer. It is therefore preposterous for anyone to claim that someone is running for the position of VP when no flag-bearer has emerged.”


Dogara said he is busy helping to rebuild and reposition the APC in Bauchi State and wishes to be allowed to focus on just that.

https://dailypost.ng/2020/08/23/breaking-2023-presidency-dogara-opens-up-on-plan-to-run-with-tinubu/

Dogara left PDP due to some contending differences with his governor. He was never in the picture when it comes to potential vp. I laugh at some folks who in the corner of their room would always postulate, speculate, calculate, and even propagate and circulate political fallacies as if they knew it all.

There is no serious Nigerian politician that will be linked now to 2023 for a top position that will accept that he truely nurses such ambition. Have u ever seen a dog tell the owner it has ambition to eat up some dried fish kept under the sun by its owner? The hint you'll have that the dog will eat up the fish is when u see the dog hanging around the dried fish. This man is not hanging around APC now without a juicy reason.

It took him time to refute the story.


Time will tell.

make dem leave dogara alone. vp ko! spectator ni

Rubbish. He wants to be VP. Case close.

Politicians are only after their interest.