Can what happened in the second republic serve as a legal precedence in a different republic considering the current constitution starts in 1999 and outlaws cross carpeting for legislators?

People need to stop making up the rules and ask Tambuwal to be a responsible citizen and resign!

mikeansy:
Can what happened in the second republic serve as a legal precedence in a different republic considering the current constitution starts in 1999 and outlaws cross carpeting for legislators?

People need to stop making up the rules and ask Tambuwal to be a responsible citizen and resign!

Sorry you are wrong, reps defected to NPN fron.NPP and sure did lose their seats. It is not a 1999 amendment at all. pDP can't cry wolf when it has benefited and is still benefiting from defection of legislators right from ogunlewe, obanikoro etc during obasanjo to the latest by LP and APGA lawmakers.

Tambuwal cant and won't resign let PDP bark for all it can. Nothing gonna happen.

Atiku defected to ACN whilst still maintaining his seat as the Vice President. The case of the 37 lawmakers who crossed to APC from PDP is still in court, PDP should wait for that judgement before seeking his resignation.

atlwireles:
The government of 1979 was formed by NPN/NPP. That was how NPP gained the speaker's seat, before a formal decampment by the speaker to NPN, after the 1981 crises.

God save us from the revisionist.

I'm sure you don't know the difference between a coalition and an alliance. I'm sure you will f00lishly delete my comment, akpa.

pendy79:


Why are you shouting here? Did you hear the house stand adjourned? When the time to resume proceeding reaches he will summon the house. The security details of Ngige were withdrawn by an ex IG in Anambra, did that remove him as the executive governor of the state until the end of the appeal process.

Who cares about the stupidity of an overzealous policeman who is ready the suck any ass of the pDP top echelon to get confirmation. He is just playing to the gallery to earn his garri. Forget hallucinating.

If he is no longer the speaker, can you give us the name of the new speaker? Since you're the unofficial spokesman of the house, Mr busybody pls I will appreciate if you will stop spamming my mention. I don't like sentimental gist I deal with facts and reality. If you have the name of the new speaker as officially announced please provide it.

Bro very well put.

baccaspace:
I don't know the PDP constitution and I don't care to knw, but according to Nigeria's Constitution, Aminu Tambawal have every moral and legal justification to remain speaker except 2/3 of reps decide otherwise.

You cannot be a speaker in a house of assembly that you are not a member of. By crosscarpetting, he has lost his seat in the National Assembly and invariably he has also lost the leadership of the house.

[quote author=chukwudi44 post=27586825]68. (1) A member of the Senate or of the House of Representatives shall vacate his seat in the House of which he is a member if -

(a) he becomes a member of another legislative house.

(b) any other circumstances arise that, if he were not a member of the Senate or the House of Representatives, would cause him to be disqualified for election as a member;

(c) he ceases to be a citizen of Nigeria;

(d) he becomes President, Vice-President, Governor, Deputy Governor or a Minister of the Government of the Federation or a Commissioner of the Government of a State or a Special Adviser.

(e) save as otherwise prescribed by this Constitution, he becomes a member of a commission or other body established by this Constitution or by any other law.

(f) without just cause he is absent from meetings of the House of which he is a member for a period amounting in the aggregate to more than one-third of the total number of days during which the House meets in any one year;

(g) being a person whose election to the House was sponsored by a political party, he becomes a member of another political party before the expiration of the period for which that House was elected;

Provided that his membership of the latter political party is not as a result of a division in the political party of which he was previously a member or of a merger of two or more political parties or factions by one of which he was previously sponsored; or

(h) the President of the Senate or, as the case may be, the Speaker of the House of Representatives receives a certificate under the hand of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission stating that the provisions of section 69 of this Constitution have been complied with in respect of the recall of that member.





He used to be a factional member of PDP in sokoto so he remains the speaker

The Precedence cited here of a Minority holding the Speakership is untenable and unsustainable. Barr. Chief Ume Ezeoke of the then Nigeria Peoples Party(NPP) was Speaker on the strength of an alliance between National Party of Nigeria(NPN) and NPP. This alliance also ensure the appointment of NPP members as Ministers in the Federal Executive Council of the NPN led Federal Government of Alhaji Shehu. Shagari. Therefore,on the strength of Section 168 19999 Constitution Tambuwal must resign honourably because he has lost his seat in the House of Representative because he has changed the Party which gave him the paltform to get to the House.

Some SaTAN commenting on this thread basically forgot how Tambuwal emerged as the speaker of the house. He was not the candidate of the PDP as the post was zoned to the South West and PDP presented Mulikat Akande. So why are they crying wolf over something they never wanted the man to be in the first place

So Tambuwal owes the PDP no alleigience or favour. He became the Speaker based on the magnanimity of the opposition and hence he is a product of the strength of the ACN, CPC and other opposition elements in 2011.

Let see who will lose here, when the same PDP need to pass its budget for 2015 and then need the opposition members to ratify and pass it into law.