“Saraki Helped Me To Become Speaker” — Dogara

the speaker of the residence of representatives, yakubu dogara, has explained how senate president bukola saraki helped him to emerge as speaker in june, 2015.

both saraki and dogara emerged as leaders of the countrywide meeting in opposition to the want of their party, the all progressives congress (apc) in keenly contested elections. they defeated sen. ahmad lawan and rep. femi gbajabiamila respectively, who were the party’s preference.

recounting how he emerged speaker, dogara stated, for the duration of a e-book launch to mark his fiftieth birthday in abuja on tuesday, that saraki became key to his victory as the senate president and donated each thoughts and cash to him.

“the story of my emergence as speaker is a tale of country wide consensus. it’s a assembly of human beings throughout board. my brothers and sisters sat inside the national assembly and said ‘look, we’ll make you speaker’.

“individuals made me speaker against all odds. i’m sorry i ought to remind us of this. definitely the whole lot turned into finished towards the mission. from the birthday party to even resources at our disposal.

“i know i’ve no longer said this earlier than, but the senate president played a key role. whenever we bumped into hassle in the course of the campaigns, we might visit him. he contributed a number of ideas and even money, although i’m now not going to mention how a good deal.

“my victory reassured my religion in task nigeria. that made me to mention everything is viable on this usa,” dogara stated.

talking on how to move the u . s . a . forward, dogara said nigeria should invest heavily on education to have the right kind of leaders that might take the u . s . to the preferred vacation spot.

“if we need to have the right kind of leaders, we ought to spend money on education. in other countries, they have ivy league universities that educate their leaders. in africa and nigeria, we should additionally try this,” he stated.

the speaker stated he has chosen to rejoice his fiftieth birthday for the primary time in his life which will review his adventure in life and make an effect within the lives of others, mainly people like internally displaced people (idps) and the less-privileged.

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