Yakubu Dogara opens up on who helped him win the speakership

Yakubu Dogara while speaking at a Thanksgiving Service held in his honor at the Church of Christ in all Nations, COCIN, Tafawa Balewa, Bauchi State,opened up on who helped him emerge as the speaker of the house.The speaker explained that the Sultan intervened in his election despite being a Christian. His statement,

“This victory,won’t have been possible without God, the Sultanate and others across the country,” he told the church congregation. “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 other 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,”

“Virtually all problems come with elements that are new. The tools we have developed, have become ineffective and without divine wisdom, we cannot deliver as leaders. As citizens of democracy, we must all go to work”
“The biggest problem we have in this country, is a lack of credible leadership. If we have credible leadership in this country, I believe Nigeria can go places”, he stated.