The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) has faulted the purported meeting of former Speaker Yakubu Dogara with some Northern Christians on the party’s 2023 presidential ticket.
Mr Bayo Onanuga, Director, Media, and Publicity of the council said this in a statement on Monday, October 10, in Abuja.
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He said the former speaker has apparently been bitter since he could not realise his self-imposed ambition of becoming the APC presidential candidate at the primaries.
On account of this, Dogara has become a reprobate and has been delivering hate speeches and whipping up emotions capable of setting the country ablaze, ahead of the 2023 general election.
The Tinubu-Shettima PCC is therefore not surprised by media reports about a meeting of some so-called Northern Christian leaders, who claimed to be members of our APC that was championed by Dogara and his likes.
The claim was totally fraudulent.
Dogara, the peripatetic and politically unstable politician who organised the meeting left our party officially and unceremoniously weeks ago.
And those who attended the meeting were representing themselves, their selfish agenda, not Northern Christians.
Before the so call meeting, the former speaker had spear headed a campaign of vitriol and hate against our party, using religion as camouflage.
This, he said, Dogara did after he lost the APC Vice-Presidential ticket to a better-qualified candidate, Sen. Kashim Shettima.
Onanuga said a careful reading of the people who attended the unholy meeting with Dogara showed that they were all Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members, masquerading as APC members.
Among the politicians at the unholy consultative meeting were Mukhar Shagari, Boni Haruna, Abdulfattah Ahmed; Damishi Sango; Sen. Idris Ahmed Umar; and two former deputy governors of Kogi, Yomi Awoniyi and Simon Achuba.
They are all PDP members working for the presidential ambition of Atiku Abubakar.
He added that the APC PCC was not surprised by the resolutions adopted at the meeting, saying it was, however, surprised that the media failed to read through their smokescreen.
He wondered how the assembly of strange bedfellows hoped to foster unity and cohesion in the country.
This, he said, was especially when their candidate represented the antithesis of the goal, having emerged the greatest divider of our polity, between the North and the South.
