The All Progressives Congress (APC) has called
on President Goodluck Jonathan to show better
understanding of democracy by immediately
restoring the police security details the Inspector
General of Police unlawfully withdrew from the
Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives,
Aminu Waziri Tambuwal.
According to a statement issued in Abuja on
Thursday by its National Publicity Secretary, Lai
Mohammed, the party described the
announcement of the withdrawal of the Speaker’s
security details by the Inspector General of Police
as a usurpation of the role of the judiciary by the
Inspector General of Police especially bearing in
mind that the question of the interpretation of
Section 68(1)(g) of the Constitution on which the
Inspector General of Police anchored his illegal
act is currently before the courts for resolution.
The party said for the avoidance of doubt, the
position, including the manner a person becomes
the Speaker of the House of Representatives is to
be found in the Constitution, and no
constitutional provision or legislation says
membership of the ruling or dominant party in the
House is a pre-requisite.
“Furthermore, as the number four citizen of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria, the security detail and
apparatus attached to the person of the Speaker
is not based on his lineage, person and or
political leaning. It is on account of the position
and the protection required for that position and
in Nigeria’s best interest.
“This unfortunate use and deployment of
Nigeria’s security forces in a partisan and political
way portends danger and further weakens
important institutions of governance and
jeopardizes national security. Under President
Jonathan, we now have a Police Force that is
monitoring and making conclusions with respect
to party membership, qualification, of an
otherwise elected official. This is unheard of in
any decent democracy.
“It is unfortunate that President Jonathan who
had been a successive long term and unique
beneficiary of our democracy and Constitution is
now demonstrating the greatest disregard for the
laws that govern and guide us as a people,” the
statement says.
President Jonathan who is the only individual
who benefited from the same Constitution to
become a Governor from a Deputy Governor
without an election and from a Vice President to
President in similar legal circumstances now
desecrates the same Constitution.
“The All Progressives Congress rejects this
challenge to democracy and modern society. We
reject President Jonathan’s illegality and call for
respect and compliance with the law. We reject
this meddling in the affairs of the Legislature
especially given the resolution of President
Jonathan and his close advisers yesterday at
their meeting to ask the Deputy Speaker Emeka
Ihedioha to unlawfully reconvene the House
before the adjourned date,” Lai Mohammed said.
The statement also reminded President Goodluck
Jonathan that under the House Rules, only a
resolution by all principal officers of the House
and not even the Speaker of the House can
reconvene the House before the adjourned date
not to talk of the Deputy Speaker.
“Regrettably, the priority of President Goodluck
Jonathan on the night that Mubi, a town with a
population of about two million people in
Adamawa state, fell to the Boko Haram
insurgents was how to illegally remove the Aminu
Tambuwal as the Speaker of the House of
Representatives.”
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No.not happening,hes no more da speaker.

Lier muhamed go chop shit!

Tanbuwal should not worry. I have engeged this army officer to guide him. He does not hear "NO". No English!

RESTORE OR WETIN GO HAPPEN

APC AND EMPTY TREATS SINCE 500BC

BUT GOD PASS UNA


GEJ TILL 2019

APC and double standard

Sometime last year when about 37 members of PDP defected to APC, dis same Liar Mohammed and his APC were shouting on top their voice that dey should produce de speaker since they are now in majority and PDP in minoritywith 171 vs 170 then.

so pls wat are they now saying cos de last tym I checked, PDP has 204 members and APC less than 150.
Therefore based on APC's position then, who should produce the speaker---apc or PDP?

I hate double standard
I like it when I can identify with ur position on issues and u do not waiver. u can't be talking from both sides of the mouth.

in as much tambuwal as decamp he should be retain as d speaker withdrawning his security details are just hitting d polity .well I know APC is winning d war against PDP.

I hope Jonathan's butt-lickers are telling him about the development in Burkina Suffer, sorry Burkina Faso. Jonathan and the puppet acting I.G. have withdrawn the security details of one of the heads of the legislative arm of government of the country. If the Army withdraws Jonathan's security details and locked him up in his house the way Shehu Sagari was locked up, or push him aside the way Ernest Shonekan was pushed away make nobody cry blood ooo. The first lady already called herself a widow some years back, I hope the power in her tongue is not about to manifest.