All Progressives Congress (APC) has warned
against the reported plan allegedly hatched by the
Presidency to arrest the Speaker of the House of
Representatives, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, could
trigger a crisis that will be fatal for the nation’s
democracy.
The party said there is the need to jettison the
plan.
Speaking in Ijebu-Ode, APC spokesman Lai
Mohammed, said the party said the Federal
Government will be pouring petrol on a naked fired
by arresting the Speaker, following the failed
attempt to prevent him from accessing the
National Assembly to preside over the affairs of the
House of Representatives on Thursday, and also in
an apparent attempt to halt the current move to
impeach the President.
“Published reports have corroborated what we
know: That the plan on Thursday was to prevent
Tambuwal from entering the National Assembly to
pave the way for his Deputy, Emeke Ihedioha, who
had already been allowed into the House, to
preside over the removal of the Speaker.”
“Were it not so, why would the police even try to
seize the mace from the Sergeant-at-arms, as
reported? Why would the police detain the
Sergeant-at-arms for his refusal? What is the
business of the police with the mace, which is the
House’s symbol of authority?
”It has also now been corroborated that the plan
hatched by the PDP and the Presidency was to
give Tambuwal the ”Ekiti treatment”, in which
seven PDP members removed the Speaker in a 26-
member House of Assembly.”
“But for the quick thinking and action by the
Honorable members who scaled the gate to access
the Assembly, that plan would have succeeded and
Tambuwal would have been removed as Speaker,
the consequences of which no one would have
been able to foretell.
”Therefore, instead of pillorying those who scaled
the gate, we should be commending them for
risking their lives to save our democracy. Those
who shut the gate against the lawmakers and
barred them from carrying out their constitutional
duties are the villains, not the honorable members
who acted in the nation’s interest,” it said.
APC said the ceaseless hounding of Tambuwal
allegedly by the President and the PDP is patently
provocative, to say the least, and calls into
question the stated commitment of the Jonathan
Administration to the rule of law.
”In the eyes of the law, Rt. Hon. Tambuwal
remains the Speaker of the House of
Representatives, despite his defection from the PDP
to the APC. No matter what the PDP and the
Presidency may feel, they are not the court of law,
which is the only body that can make a definite
pronouncement on the fate of the Speaker”
”The Speaker also remains the number two man in
the hierarchy of the Legislative Arm of government,
which is distinct from the Executive Arm headed by
the President. It is therefore not only
unconstitutional but also anti-democratic and
anarchic for the PDP-led government of President
Goodluck Jonathan to continue to hound the
Speaker and desecrate the hallowed chambers of
the National Assembly, using the police force that
has now become the enforcement arm of the ruling
party, having dropped all pretences to neutrality
and professionalism,” APC said.
The party said at a time the political atmosphere
has become so charged by the government-backed
police assault on the National Assembly, it is a
perilous game to seek to arrest the Speaker, for
whatever reason, unless of course the
Administration is bent on deliberately plunging the
nation into crisis.
“It is difficult to fathom the reason behind the
government’s increasing resort to recklessness, but
it may not be unconnected with the rising
desperation by the ruling PDP to hold on to power
at all cost. Perhaps now that it has started seeing
the handwriting on the wall with Nigerians
clamouring for change, this government may be
tilting towards its last option of throwing the nation
into crisis to prevent the 2015 elections from
holding.”
”We are therefore calling on all men and women of
good conscience, especially those who have the
ears of the President, to prevail on him not to push
the nation into any worse crisis than it is currently
encountering. With terrorists daily killing and
maiming Nigerians, forcing more than 1.5 million
people to flee their homes and threatening the
nation’s territorial integrity, the government’s
trifling is baffling, and should stop forthwith,”
Mohammed said. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=786267304768455&id=378378918890631&refid=7&_ft_=qid.6087997425944499043%3Amf_story_key.-2615493104785051771&__tn__=%2As

If he is arrested, he should bail himself.
Bail is free.

My dear talk is chip cheap. They should leave that man alone abeg. Defection is democratic.

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If he is arrested, he should bail himself.
Bail is free.

I wonder the kind of old men we have in this country, this Mr lai knows the truth, nd he also know that about 40-50% of nigerians knows the truth also, yet he still come out shamelessly to thwart the truth that everybody already known without thinking what harm it will do to his reputation, some people should know that history will capture everything that's happening now and then it will be our children, children that will be reading the kind of life we lived, now we already know that part of constitution that says one stop being the speaker once he defects from the party that sponsored his election into the house, OGA Mohammed should point out for us the part that counters this and stop blindfolding ur followers the more,I always think that great people value their reputation more than money.

pls and pls each and everyone should answer this hmmm when mimiko decamp who queried him hmmm when gov orji decamped from Ppa to PDP who queried him now speaker tambuwal decamp 2 weeks ago they are now queried PDP will loose in their bid they av failed in their bid in d past and they will fail again.