Former Speaker, House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara’s political fortune may have crashlanded as the Federal High Court Abuja on Friday sacked him from the House of Representatives for defecting to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The former Speaker, who represents Bogoro/Dass Federal Constituency of Bauchi State, was the Speaker of the House of Representatives between 2015 and 2019. He was re-elected back to the House at the expiration of his Speakership in 2019 under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
But last year, Dogara defected to the ruling APC, an action that made the PDP to drag him to court to reclaim the mandate given to him.
Justice D.U. Okorowo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, who sacked Dogara, held that the lawmaker’s defection to the APC was not in order and ordered him to vacate his seat immediately.
