The 48 year-old lawyer, defeated Femi Gbajabiamila, also a lawyer, by eight votes, winning 182-174 and revealing once again the schism within the ruling All Progressives Party.
Gbajabiamila has the backing of the party, just like Senator Ahmed Lawan in the Senate.
But between 47 and 57 members of APC decided to defy the party, to collaborate with the Peoples Democratic Party to elect Dogara.
Unlike in the Senate where the PDP has 49 senators, the party only has 125 members in the 360-member House of Representatives. In contrast, the APC has 214 members in the House.
The three other parties, Labour Party, Accord Party and the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) share the balance of 10 seats.
Born in December 1967, Dogara is representing Bogoro/Dass/Tafawa-Balewa federal constituency. He was first elected in 2007.
He went to Gwarangah Primary School in Bauchi from 1976. Upon graduation in 1982, he went to the Bauchi Teachers’ College for his secondary education, and obtained a Grade II Teachers’ Certificate in 1987.
In 1988, he went on to the University of Jos, Plateau State, from where he obtained a Bachelor of Law (LLB Hons.) degree in 1992.He was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1993.
He later obtained a Masters (LLM) in International Commercial Law at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland.
Dogara also attended a course on Managing and Leading Strategic Change in 2006, the Oxford University Course on Negotiation in 2013, and a course on Leadership in Crisis at the Harvard Kennedy School in 2014.
After graduation as a lawyer, he has been into private legal practice. In 2005,he was appointed Special Assistant to the Minister of State for Transport. It was from this position that he ran for the House of Representatives election in Bauchi state.