soroptimist:
Jonathanians are so daft and bereft of knowledge about the dictates of the Constitution.

To them,anyone that is against their Lord and Saviour GEJ must be crushed even if it means trampling on the constitution

eleko1:
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barcanista:
The Constitution is very clear on this, I don't see any controversy here. Tambawal can't be forced out of office by the PDP, Olisa Metuh is no member of the house and lack the moral privilege to call for Tambawal's ouster, when his Party received Segun Mimiko and the Legislators that defected from APGA to PDP.

Cleverly, you have done well! Well done

patriotic007:
busted

southsouthman:
Ops you forgot the part of the constitution that says a member of the national assembly stand to lose his/her seat if the person decamp away from the party for which he is voted into the house where there are no factions. So is it honourable for Tambuwal to resign knowing what the constitution says about decamping. Ops it is wrong for you to mislead the public by referring to only a section of the constitution

“Based on the provision of the 1999 Constitution and having regards to the development of PDP in my own state, Sokoto State, I hereby announce my membership of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
“

barcanista:
The Constitution is very clear on this, I don't see any controversy here. Tambawal can't be forced out of office by the PDP, Olisa Metuh is no member of the house and lack the moral privilege to call for Tambawal's ouster, when his Party received Segun Mimiko and the Legislators that defected from APGA to PDP.

Cleverly, you have done well! Well done

patriotic007:
when i see our so called progressives rejoice that people like tambuwal.sylva.atiku.yako.has joined them i jus bow my head in shame........these people are corrupt waste products from PDP..........they decamp and suddenly they become saints and progressives.........mtchew

Sibabasibaba1:
APCheats going bananas. They quote one section of the Constitution and forget the section that deals with legislators' defection to another party. Have they forgotten what happened to Plateau State legislators that defected to AC with Joshua Dariye in m2006/7? I will remind them that those lawmakers lost their seats.

Unless Tambuwal can prove in court that the PDP is factionalised in Sokoto State he is a gonner. The only thing that may save him is that elections are nigh and as such, PDP will be occupied more with elections.

Nevertheless, quoting the section of the Constitution that serves your need to create the impression that the PDP is ignorant of what the Constitution says, to my mind, smacks of mischief.

Clerverly:
I read an article somewhere, where Oliseh Metuh of PDP, called for the resignation of Hon. Tambuwal for ditching a party on whose majority he rose to the office of the speaker house of Representative.

In his exact words: “After a thorough consideration of the matter, the NWC came to a conclusion that the Hon. Speaker, as a responsible elected officer, knows full well what is needful and honourable of him since his new party is in the minority [in the House]” he said.

I have also read some comments offline and online, when some ignorant/paid commentators have started insinuating that Hon Tambuwal May lose his office for simply not fulfilling the requirements of the law as regards the position of speaker.

It is very unfortunate that some Nigerians including public office holders are too lazy, to read the elementary sections of our Constitution, some of which are self explanatory.

Now, let us examine what Chapter V, Part 1 (Composition Of National Assembly) sections 47 -50 of the Constitution Of The Federal Republic Of Nigeria holds:


There shall be a National Assembly for the Federation which shall consist of a Senate and a House of Representatives.

48. The Senate shall consist of three Senators from each State and one from the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

49. Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, the House of Representatives shall consist of three hundred and sixty members representing constituencies of nearly equal population as far as possible, provided that no constituency shall fall within more than one State.

50. (1) There shall be:-

(a) a President and a Deputy President of the Senate, who shall be elected by the members of that House from among themselves; and

(b) a Speaker and a Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, who shall be elected by the members of that House from among themselves.

(2) The President or Deputy President of the Senate or the Speaker or Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives shall vacate his office -

(a) if he ceases to be a member of the Senate or of the House of Representatives, as the case may be, otherwise than by reason of a dissolution of the Senate or the House of Representatives; or

(b) when the House of which he was a member first sits after any dissolution of that House; or

(c) if he is removed from office by a resolution of the Senate or of the House of Representatives, as the case may be, by the votes of not less than two-thirds majority of the members of that House.

So where did PDP find the supposedly "loophole" or authority in law, in asking Hon. Tambuwal to resign? The only option left for them, is to rally their members and see if they can muster the required number when plenary resumes in decemeber, in order to satisfy Section 50, subsection 2 C as highlighted above.

Anything else is calling for anarchy!

CC; Barcanista, Omenka, Berem, Obiagelli, Neenar, Donphilopus, ibsultan, Gbawe,pataki, edcure, pendy97, and the progressives!

omenka:
PDP is just a confused party. Now they want to play the "majority" card huh?? Make I laugh!! When APC was the majority and wanted to effect change in the leadership, I bet PDP simply granted their wishes, yes?? Selective amnesia I guess.

Indeed what goes around comes around. Karma is here to take her pound of flesh!!

Clerverly:
I read an article somewhere, where Oliseh Metuh of PDP, called for the resignation of Hon. Tambuwal for ditching a party on whose majority he rose to the office of the speaker house of Representative.

In his exact words: “After a thorough consideration of the matter, the NWC came to a conclusion that the Hon. Speaker, as a responsible elected officer, knows full well what is needful an.
honourable of him since his new party is in the minority [in the House]” he said.

I have also read some comments offline and online, when some ignorant/paid commentators have started insinuating that Hon Tambuwal May lose his office for simply not fulfilling the requirements of the law as regards the position of speaker.

It is very unfortunate that some Nigerians including public office holders are too lazy, to read the elementary sections of our Constitution, some of which are self explanatory.

Now, let us examine what Chapter V, Part 1 (Composition Of National Assembly) sections 47 -50 of the Constitution Of The Federal Republic Of Nigeria holds:


There shall be a National Assembly for the Federation which shall consist of a Senate and a House of Representatives.

48. The Senate shall consist of three Senators from each State and one from the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

49. Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, the House of Representatives shall consist of three hundred and sixty members representing constituencies of nearly equal population as far as possible, provided that no constituency shall fall within more than one State.

50. (1) There shall be:-

(a) a President and a Deputy President of the Senate, who shall be elected by the members of that House from among themselves; and

(b) a Speaker and a Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, who shall be elected by the members of that House from among themselves.

(2) The President or Deputy President of the Senate or the Speaker or Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives shall vacate his office -

(a) if he ceases to be a member of the Senate or of the House of Representatives, as the case may be, otherwise than by reason of a dissolution of the Senate or the House of Representatives; or

(b) when the House of which he was a member first sits after any dissolution of that House; or

(c) if he is removed from office by a resolution of the Senate or of the House of Representatives, as the case may be, by the votes of not less than two-thirds majority of the members of that House.

So where did PDP find the supposedly "loophole" or authority in law, in asking Hon. Tambuwal to resign? The only option left for them, is to rally their members and see if they can muster the required number when plenary resumes in decemeber, in order to satisfy Section 50, subsection 2 C as highlighted above.

Anything else is calling for anarchy!

CC; Barcanista, Omenka, Berem, Obiagelli, Neenar, Donphilopus, ibsultan, Gbawe,pataki, edcure, pendy97, and the progressives!

Sibabasibaba1:
Even recently when Atiku and co formed the newPDP last year, the court still ruled that there was no faction in PDP. The truth is that it is very difficult to prove factionalisation.

simplynola:
Op you dint get the point. What PDP was saying there is that he should resign so as to save his face from guilt or shame of impeachment. That if he refuses to save his face by himself otherwise they will institute their members to impeach him (which is in the constitution), they dint say resignation is part of the constitution. So the only thing PDP can do is to make his members sign his impeachment otherwise he remains the speaker till 2015