All the security details attached to the
Speaker of the House of
Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal,
have been withdrawn by the Federal
Government of Nigeria.
The Chairman of the House Committee on
Media, Zachary Mohamed, confirmed this
on Thursday.
A press release issued by the Police Force
Public Relations Officer, Mr Emmanuel
Ojukwu, cited the recent defection by
Aminu Tambuwal from the PDP to the APC
as reason.
Part of the statement read, “…having
regard to the clear provision of section
68(1)(g) of the 1999 Constitution of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended,
the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has
redeployed its personnel attached to his
office.”
Sources said that at about midnight on
Thursday, top level security report
informed the Speaker that “orders have
been given for the withdrawal of his
security details”.
As the number four citizen of the country
in the hierarchy of protocol, the Speaker is
entitled to a round-the-clock security made
up of men from the Police, Civil Defence
Corps and the Department of State
Security (DSS).
The withdrawal of the Speaker, Aminu
Tambuwal’s security details comes less
than 24 hours after he was formally
presented as a member of the All
Progressives Congress, APC, during the
party’s extraordinary national convention
held in Abuja, the nation’s capital on
Wednesday, October 29.
This was following the Speaker’s
announcement of his decision to leave the
ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP, for
the opposition on the floor of the House on
Tuesday.
Tambuwal told the party members that he
embraced the APC platform because he
saw it as a veritable instrument for
genuine change and enduring national
development, adding that “ APC represents
the hope for the change” which Nigerians
have been clamouring for.

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