NEWS: Sultan of Sokoto Helped Me Defeat Tinubu's Candidate ---Dogara

Yakubu Dogara, speaker of Nigeria's house of representatives on Sunday disclosed how the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, helped him emerge speaker. 


* Yakubu Dogara

Speaking at a thanksgiving service held in his honour at the Church of Christ in all Nations (COCIN), Tafawa Balewa, Bauchi State, Dogara said, ''this victory that we celebrate here today won’t have been possible without God, the Sultanate and others across the country.

''For us who are Christian minorities in the North, we should acknowledge that this victory we are celebrating here today was made possible by the intervention of the Sultan and others. We should know that there is new thinking in the North.

''We owe it a duty to make sure we unite our own part of the country and other parts of the country. My emergence as Speaker is as a result of the support of all major tribes of Nigeria and all faiths in Nigeria''. 

Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, who was theAPC's preferred candidate in the June 9 House of Representatives speakership election was reportedly handpicked by the party’s National Leader, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.