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He's not the speaker simple make una no force am

The Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Suleiman Abba, was adamant on Wednesday, refusing to recognise the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Aminu Tambuwal, as the speaker.
He simply addressed him as “Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal”, a title that angered members‎ of the House Committee on Police Affairs.
A resilient ‎Abba insisted that it would be “subjudice ” for him to address Tambuwal as speaker or any matter relating to him so long as such a matter was in court.
The Chairman of the committee, Mr. Usman Bello-Kurmo, asked him a direct question, “Is Aminu Waziri-Tambuwal the speaker of the House of Representatives or not?”
The IG replied, “Mr. Chairman, you know that matters before the courts are subjudice.
“Commenting on them is subjudice until they are disposed of.”
The response brought session between Abba and the committee to an abrupt end, as the two parties stormed out of the venue.
The committee, acting on a House resolution, had summoned Abba to explain why the police shut the gates of the National Assembly against lawmakers on Thursday last week.
During the closure, Tambuwal and many lawmakers were disallowed entry by the police, resulting in violent reactions by the members.
In the process, many of them scaled the gates to enter the premises and later forcibly took the speaker into the House.
Riot policemen reacted by throwing tear-gas at the speaker and the enraged members.
As the meeting was about to start, Bello-Kurmo called for maturity, saying that the interest of the country must prevail at all times.
However, speaking on what transpired last week, the IG justified the police’ action.
He maintained that all those the police restrained from entering the National Assembly were ‘thugs’.
Rather than admitting that his men threw tear-gas at lawmakers, he claimed that “a tear-gas exploded.”
Abba also told lawmakers to their faces that it was his men who suffered physical assault and not the lawmakers.
He said, “The police management and particularly my own person, I was traumatised by what I saw happened to police officers that day.
“What happened was unprecedented worldwide; policemen were physically beaten and disobeyed, among other things that happened.”
He claimed that the police shut the National Assembly for security reasons after the Force Headquarters received intelligence that Rivers State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, and All Progressives Congress supporters were going to attack the legislature and other public offices on November 20.
According to him, a day earlier on the19th‎, the “leadership” of the APC, Amaechi and party members had blocked the Force Headquarters in Abuja, “where they made uncomplementary statements and threatened to do worse (things) in the days ahead.”
Among the places he claimed would have been attacked by the APC members and Amaechi were the Presidential Villa and the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission.
He added that his men merely asked for identification from lawmakers and allowed those who complied into the premises.
The IG stated that, bearing in mind that the parliament in Burkina Faso suffered a similar attack recently, he ordered the massive security beef-up to safeguard the National Assembly.
He added, “The procedure was orderly until the arrival of Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal and his men with quite a number of suspected thugs‎ to disrupt the security arrangements.
“Unfortunately, a tear-gas exploded at the gate; the situation is unfortunate and it is being investigated.”
He also claimed to have briefed the Office of the Sergeant-at-Arms ‎to the National Assembly and “some members of staff of principal officers” on the police action a day earlier.
Abba was very careful throughout his speech, avoiding use the word “speaker” when referring to‎ Tambuwal.
Members were already boiling with anger over the IG’s attitude and could barely wait for him to round off before they berated him for “disrespecting” the speaker.
Two members, Hakeem Munir and Victor Nwokolo, asked him to retract his earlier comment and address Tambuwal with his official title, but Abba was unmoved.
With members threatening to walk out of the meeting if Abba would not recognise Tambuwal as the speaker, Bello-Kurmo called off the session abruptly.
The committee resolved that the discussions could no longer hold since the IG would not accord Tambuwal ‎his respects.
Lawmakers stormed out of the venue angrily, stopping Bello-Kurmo from shaking hands with Abba or making efforts to see him off to the door.

http://www.punchng.com/news/ig-refuses-to-recognise-tambuwal-as-speaker/

samflexx:
landlord in hell fire.

Hehehe

What is rilwan akiolu? is he the Inec chairman of lagos state branch We don't know him here cos I schooled in.....

nigerianvenom:
obj can u mentioned ur achievement as a military personnel, military ruler and executive president?
this is a man that has ruled nigeria for 11 yrs,yet no significant achievement.

no wonder IBB referred to him as a foool

His achievement is to kill fumilayo kuti fela mum

chukwudi44:
no matter what evil GEJ has done,he did not sleep with his daughter-in-law.The m.oron that cnnot even advice his old and flaccid d-ick wants to advise GEJ on how to run Nigeria smh.

Abeg continue sniffing gbenga's wife's panties and let GEJ continue to transform the country.

See obasanjo is calling God, the blood of fumilayo kuti is still crying, he dethroned mbadinuju, committed so many atrocities and calling God? See kettle calling pot black

samflexx:
Jesus please blow that trumpet..

LoL jesus should wait for now am still a virgin when I disvirgin he can blow it

Rivers State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, has dismissed claims in some quarters that the All Progressives Congress is an Islamic party.

Describing those spreading the rumour that the APC is an Islamic party as mischief makers, Amaechi insisted that the party had no intention to Islamise Nigeria should it win the 2015 presidential election.

The governor, who spoke on Wednesday during an interactive session with students at the Ignatius Ajuru University of Education in Port Harcourt, also described the APC as a party for progressives.

He stated that the APC presidential aspirant was not behind the rumour that the party planned to islamise the country, adding that the APC means well for Nigerians and the development of the nation.

Amaechi urged Nigerians not to be worried by claims from APC detractors, maintaining that since Buhari never thought of islamising Nigeria when he was a military Head of State, he would not embark on such exercise as a democratically elected president.

He said, “APC is not an Islamic party. This is so because when General Muhammad Buhari (rtd) was Nigeria’s Head of State as a young man, he did not Islamize Nigeria, and to do that, he needs the endorsement of the National Assembly to debate over the issue. Buhari cannot Islamize Nigeria. Don’t be perturbed by what our detractors are saying.

“I am an ardent Catholic Christian and I converse with God a lot. It is not true that APC will Islamize Nigeria. The National Chairman of APC, Mr. John Oyegun is a Christian. Bola Tinubu’s wife is also a Christian, Buhari’s cook is a Christian from Igboland, his driver is also a Christian. As a father to all of those Christians, Buhari gives Sunday as a free day to his domestic staff to go to church and worship God. So, no one can believe what our detractors are saying about Buhari and APC.”

He, however, expressed dissatisfaction over the stagnated political economy of the state, alleging that the Presidency and his government’s detractors were responsible for the development.

“The political economy of Rivers State has been stagnated by the Presidency and our detractors. They are all thieves who don’t mean well for our state. They caused mayhem in the last administration. We assumed office and chased them away. Now, as my tenure draws close to an end, I can see, they have brought them back.

“You and I have a responsibility to stop them from repeating what they did before. We will not allow them again to steal our funds. Imagine the missing $20 billion that was stolen. We expect that our President would have sacked all those involved in the saga. But, he only threatened to sack the former CBN Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, who was only doing his legitimate duty at that time. Nigerians must have a rethink,” Amaechi said.

On the forthcoming general elections, the governor pointed out that the plan by the PDP to usher in another Ikwerre governor in 2015 was unreasonable, not feasible and would fail.

http://www.punchng.com/news/apc-not-an-islamic-party-amaechi/

Just incase

Hehe

Erm erm I tot they said they do internal democracy, that pdp don't don't do that, so what is dis 1 called? External democracy?

A major crisis is brewing in the Yobe State chapter of the All Progressives Congress following the refusal of the party to receive the completed nomination forms from a governorship aspirant, Mustapha Maihaja.

Maihaja, who was at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja on Tuesday, told reporters that he had gone to the state party secretariat to submit his nomination and expression of interest forms, but was turned back.

When he took his case to the national secretariat, he was advised to go back to the state.

He, however, said he was shocked when he was informed that the party’s national secretary, Alhaji Mala Buni, who is also from Yobe State, said the party has given automatic tickets to its governors who are eligible to seek a second term.  

According to him, he was earlier advised by the APC national organising secretary, Senator Osita Izunaso to take the forms to Damaturu the Yobe State capital but that he was prevented from doing so.

Maihaja said “We were denied entry into Damaturu yesterday (Monday) by the police on the order of the governor. But here I am again nobody is ready to receive the form from me everyone is avoiding me, not telling me why they are doing this to me.”

He lamented that no official of the party was willing to tell him why they are not collecting his forms because he was aware that some of his colleagues from other states were given the privilege of doing so.

He revealed that the state chapter of the party had refused to sell the forms to him but that he succeeded in getting one when the national chairman, Chief John Oyegun intervened.

The aspirant was however shocked when he was told he had to return to his state to submit the form earlier sold to him in Abuja.

He said, the APC Director of Organisation, Alhaji Abubakar Jari, who gave him the form, asked him to return to Damaturu, an instruction which the national organising secretary confirmed.

A mild drama played out when he made another attempt to submit his forms in Abuja on Tuesday.

After trying for over four hours to get an official to accept his forms, he was invited to join a governorship aspirant from Delta State, Olorogun O’tega Emerhor to take a group photograph.

Soon after the photograph was taken, Izunaso collected Emerhor’s forms but as soon as the Yobe aspirant brought his, he was asked to submit it to Jari, who earlier declined.

However, the aspirant was later invited to an expanded meeting with the party’s National Chairman in attendance.

None of the party’s officials spoke to journalists after the meeting.

The aspirant however said, he was told point blank that he would not be allowed to contest against the incumbent governor, Ibrahim Geidam.

He said “I was invited to a meeting with Alhaji Jari, Senator Osita Izunaso, George Morgalu and the National Secretary, Buni where the National Secretary told me that it was the policy of the party that nobody should contest against all the governors. This is strange to me and nobody had ever said that before.”

On his next line of action, he promised never to give up because he was convinced that the leadership of the party will revisit the issue and ensure justice is done.

A member of the party’s national executive committee who pleaded anonymity because the issue is “embarrassing” promised that the national leadership would intervene if the state chapter fails to deal with the matter.

The source said, “This is embarrassing to us because there was never a time when we gave automatic ticket to any governor. But let me assure you that the NEC would look into the matter dispassionately. Our policy is to allow every aspirant to participate in a level playing field.”

http://www.punchng.com/news/crisis-hits-apc-in-yobe/

kokoA:
you make me laugh.. who are the "they" that will fight for him? Same militants that are willing to surrender to any government that throws good money at them? Forget dat thing jare.. This is Naija where every man is fighting for his or her pocket. I doubt the impeachment move will sail through, but if at all it does by some strange miracles NOTHING and I repeat NOTHING will happen to Nigeria.. Besides, you have failed to understand that Niger delta is bigger than "ijaw".. Lol.. You think other tribes in the region will risk their lives fighting for an ijaw man?

Till then we go know

Curlieweed:
Little children playing with fire.

The impeachment doesn't end in their hands even if you pass it at the end the cjn will set up panel, of whoever he wants or who jonathan tells him cos gej appointed him let's see who has the last laugh

Billygee2u:
only the service chiefs they grilled ,what of the Chief Judge that acquitted the Nyanya bomb blast mastermind,Ogwuche?

What if his really innocent? Do you know court processes why pressing on the issue? The court dismissed the charges n you here doubting the whole process Nawa ooo

Why not think about your life than wasting ya time on others own that won't even fetch you nothing

warrior01:
You should have equally made it known to your audience that now is a good time for those creative hardworking men and women in Aba and other cities that produce those shoes, belts, weavons etc that are exported to African countries. If not for laziness and over dependence on government's welfare, you should have noticed the positive sides too.

Seconded

iluvnaija:
Obviously truth! Only the blind won't see GEJ desperation.

What is wrong is wrong even if everybody is doing it and what is right is right even if no one is doing it!

Go back to sleep no dey talk trash,

ISpiksDaTroof:
Why do most you PDP/GEJ supporters often come across as brutish, crude, semi-illiterate goons?

Nigga I can't see you. Gbagbe, dismiss, vamus, you looking for someone to e fight with? Go and creat an account wt ya calibre and fight them am an old man

Firefire:
Fixed!

On three different occasions, Buhari has run for the presidency. On three different occasions he has failed. That should really be enough. If, as seems likely, he were to run for the presidency a fourth time in 2015, there is no question that he would fail yet again. Try as he might again and again, Mohammadu Buhari can never be President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. - F. Aribisala

He knows he will fail again no doubt about that

Firefire:
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You have marginalised me from that list is disrespectful to my personality

cooltony09:
...The Dream School

Is that school in nigeria

chinwike2:
So APC has also joined SOME nairalanders in asking for sauce ?

When has apc provide evidence of their accusation...am still waiting for the day asari go beat the devil comot for lai mohammed eye

holatin:
just buy our form from the gene dat gonna visit you tonight in d dream

Which time en go come? make I cook food for am dey wait am.

Danhumprey:
^^^

No be lafing matter ooo seun, come and explain ooo

holatin:
tanx man.
been released from their dungeon

Me wan register for Nairaland oo