NLC spits fire, says ‘Nothing should happen to
Tambuwal’
November 2, 2014 Press Release
Mr. Tambuwal's security vehicles parked
Thursday afternoon at his residence after
President Jonathan ordered him stripped of state
protection.
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, on Sunday
warned the federal government and security
agencies that they must ensure nothing happens
to the Speaker of the House of Representatives,
Aminu Tambuwal.
The NLC gave the warning in a statement by its
president, Abdulwahid Omar.
Mr. Omar described the withdrawal of Mr.
Tambuwal’s security details as “shameful,
distasteful, unconstitutional and demonstrates our
parochial sense of power and very little
knowledge of history.”
The Speaker’s security details were withdrawn by
the police because he left Nigeria’s ruling Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, for the opposition All
Progressives Congress, APC.
Since that decision by the police, ostensibly under
the instruction of President Goodluck Jonathan to
whom the police chief reports, the government
has come under attack by political, labour, and
human rights groups including the Nigeria Bar
Association, NBA, and now the NLC.
Read Mr. Omar’s full statement below:
We at the Nigeria Labour Congress are
appalled by the withdrawal of security
details of the Speaker of the House of
Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal,
ostensibly because he had decamped to the
All Progressives Congress, APC.
The act is shameful, distasteful,
unconstitutional and demonstrates our
parochial sense of power and very little
knowledge of history.
No part of the constitution of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria says the Speaker of the
House of Representatives should come from
the majority party. Section 50(1)(b) only
says, ” There shall be …a Speaker and a
Deputy Speaker of the House of
Representatives, who shall be elected by the
members of that House from among
themselves…”
In the Second Republic, the Honourable
Speaker of the House of Representatives,
Edwin Ume-Ezeoke, was elected from the
ranks of NPP, not just an opposition party
but the third strong , after UPN and NPN. We
have other precedents across the world.
We find it appropriate to cite the examples of
Mimiko and Ali Modu-Sheriff, governor of
Ondo State and former governor of Borno
State respectively. Their security details
were not withdrawn when they decamped to
the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
It gives us concern that our political leaders
are determined to learn very little about
democracy and always seem too keen to
overheat the polity over things that count for
little.
The police and other security agencies
complicit in this disgusting conduct should
hold their heads in shame. Herein lies the
essence of strong institutions which we have
always advocated.
For those who take pleasure in converting to
personal use, public/state institutions,
today’s men soon become yesterday’s men.
What goes around, comes around.
In light of the foregoing, we demand
immediate restoration of Tambuwal’s
security detail and all the rights and
privileges that accrue to the Office of the
Speaker. It is not about Tambuwal, it is
about the office which he holds.
And in any case, only few, arguably will
contest that he has not discharged and
acquitted himself as speaker.
We would like to be on record that we will
not fold our hands while little minds threaten
our hard-earned democracy. Nothing should
happen to Tambuwal.
Signed
Comrade Abdulwahid Omar
President

Wots his buisness, is d speaker paying him? Or is d speaker a member of nlc

Rubbishingly annoying! When it concerns the poor massess you won't find them


Talking about history! Where were they or where are they when we have so many employees suffering at their places of work

They say FG should hold their head in shame bla bla.. They should cut of their own head and bury it with sand of shame

Mtcheeeew... Noise.

Omar Abdulwahid should go and pay back civil servants their 10% subscription after the failed mortgage NLC did with Kriston Lally. The man is a serious scammer.

dimples2:
Rubbishingly annoying! When it concerns the poor massess you won't find them


Talking about history! Where were they or where are they when we have so many employees suffering at their places of work

They say FG should hold their head in shame bla bla.. They should cut of their own head and bury it with sand of shame

Mtcheeeew... Noise.

nothing shld happen to tambuwal: period.

All those stories are for the gods

SLIDEwaxie:
nothing shld happen to tambuwal: period.

All those stories are for the gods

Woreva
I am talking about NLC