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Nigerians voted for a PDP Speaker, but got an APC wolf in PDP sheep’s clothing.
It is customary to refer to members of the House of Representatives as “honorable.” In which case, the appropriate title for the current Speaker might be the Right Honorable Aminu Tambuwal. But the activities of the Speaker over the last four years, capped by his recent defection to the APC, shows that such a title would be grossly misplaced if applied to him.
There is nothing honorable about Tambuwal pretence for the better part of three years that he is a PDP member, when in actual fact he has been nothing of the sort. There is nothing honorable about the way Tambuwal has despised the Constitution he was sworn to protect. There is nothing honorable about the wayTambuwal has betrayed the trust of the Nigerian electorate, as expressed in the 2011 election. I can find no better or more precise language with which to describe Tambuwal than that he is a traitor.

Tambuwal’s treachery

Tambuwal is a serial defector of dishonorable repute. He defected from the ANPP to the DPP, then to back to the ANPP, then to the PDP and now to the APC. He is a traitor for defecting from the PDP to the APC without first resigning from the House. He is the representative of a constituency in Sokoto comprising a majority of PDP voters. They elected him to represent them as a PDP legislator. He has now betrayed their trust by defecting to the opposition APC. This is nothing short of treachery. His constituents did not elect an APC man to represent them.

Tambuwal has shown that he is not a man of high principles. He is just another 419 politician. Nigeria is operating a democratic system largely borrowed from the United States. The Speaker of the House of Representatives comes from the majority party in the House. That party is the PDP. Tambuwal was elected under the PDP platform. However, he has been operating as an opposition APC man disguised treacherously as a PDP man.

The job of the Speaker is to spearhead the legislative programme of the government in the House. A Speaker who is in cahoots with the opposition is, in effect, a traitor to his party and to the government. That has been the case with Aminu Tambuwal. If Nigerian voters wanted the House of Representatives to have a Speaker who is from a different party from the President, they would have given the opposition a majority in the House of Representatives. They did not. They gave the PDP, the president’s party, the majority. Tambuwal’s shenanigans in the last four years have been designed to frustrate the express will of the Nigerian electorate.

ACN treachery

Aminu Tambuwal became Speaker by aligning himself with the selfish ambitions of Bola Tinubu and his ACN opposition party. Tinubu claims to be a leader of the Yorubas, but when the PDP zoned the position of Speaker to South-West Yorubas, Tinubu decided that the interests of the Yorubas would not serve his personal political ambitions. A Yoruba Speaker would provide another focal point for Yoruba leadership apart from the Asiwaju; therefore the ACN decided to frustrate the candidature of their kith and kin, Mulikat Akande.
To do this successfully, they needed a traitor from the PDP who would go against the directives of his party, while remaining a member of the PDP, and challenge the party’s chosen candidate to become Speaker. They found that traitor in Aminu Tambuwal. Here is how it worked. Tinubu used his political muscle to convince gullible Yoruba legislators to vote against a Yoruba woman, Mulikat Akande, in a post that was specifically designed by the PDP as a benefit for Yorubas. He then got these same “mumu” Yoruba politicians to vote instead for Aminu Tambuwal; a scion of the Sokoto Caliphate with a Hausa/Fulani agenda.

This is something that could never have happened the other way around. It is inconceivable that a Hausa/ Fulani legislator would be persuaded to give something that has been zoned to Hausa/Fulanis to a Yoruba man. To put it bluntly, the Hausas/Fulanis are not that stupid. But what does that tell us about Yoruba politicians? They are slave traders. They have no qualms about selling their own people into slavery. They have no qualms about throwing other Yorubas under the bus.

With the Yoruba politicians gullible enough to agree to be sold, yet again, into Northern slavery, at the treacherous plotting of their self-proclaimed godfather, it was not difficult to find Northerners from the PDP who gladly joined in this treachery to put another Hausa/Fulani into office as Speaker. Aminu Tambuwal was that choice.

False pretences

There are two quick lessons to learn from this. The first is that as Bola Tinubu and the ACN betrayed the Yorubas with the election of Tambuwal of Sokoto as Speaker of the House, so also are they determined to sell Yorubas into slavery again by their current alliance with the North-West and the Sokoto Caliphate through the APC. As there was nothing in Tambuwal’s Speakership for the Yorubas, so will there be nothing for the Yorubas in a North-West APC presidency. Yoruba voters really need to “shine their eyes.”
The other issue has to do with Aminu Tambuwal. Tambuwal became a Speaker under false pretences. Although he continued to parade himself as a member of the PDP, he was in actual fact no longer a member of the party. He shunned the party and became a mouthpiece of the opposition, all the while still pretending that he belonged to the PDP. Clearly, the honorable thing for Tambuwal to do, since he had clearly lost his affection for the PDP, was to resign from the party. However, Right Honorable Aminu Tambuwal did not do this because he is not an honorable man.

Violating the Constitution

Tambuwal’s other disaffected PDP colleagues were more honorable than him. 37 of them defected to the APC. But Tambuwal remained in the PDP in order to retain his job as Speaker. As long as he continued to claim he belonged to the PDP, even though he really no longer liked the party, he could continue to enjoy his rights and privileges as the Speaker. Tambuwal did not care what Nigerians think about his treachery. We voted for a PDP Speaker, but got an APC wolf in PDP sheep’s clothing.

Tambuwal’s treachery also meant he had to violate the Constitution of Nigeria which, as Speaker, he was sworn to protect. Section 68 (g) of the 1999 Constitution says: “A member of the Senate or of the House of Representatives shall vacate his seat in the House of which he is a member if being a person whose election to the House was sponsored by a political party, he becomes a member of another political party before the expiration of the period for which that House was elected; provided that his membership of the latter political party is not as a result of a division in the political party of which he was previously a member or of a merger of two or more political parties or factions by one of which he was previously sponsored.”

This required the Speaker to declare the seats of the 37 PDP House members who defected as vacant. There was no division in the PDP; its members simply defected to another party. But given that Tambuwal was really an APC man in PDP disguise, he refused to fulfil his constitutional duty as Speaker to declare the seats vacant, in spite of the proclamation of the courts. He betrayed his duty as a PDP Speaker to protect the interests of the PDP. He denied the PDP seats that rightfully belonged to the PDP. He violated the will of Nigerian voters who elected the PDP traitors.

Tambuwal’s defection

Tambuwal’s last act of treachery was his outright defection to the APC. He waited for the majority leader of the House to move for adjournment until 3rd December, 2014, before reading his defection letter. Having long manipulated the system to his selfish advantage, Tambuwal has now discovered that others can also manipulate the system to his disadvantage.

The police have been instructed to withdraw his security detail as Speaker, on the grounds that, with his defection, he is no longer a member of the House and thereby no longer the Speaker. In truth, the Speaker of the House of Representatives cannot come from the minority party. Tambuwal has now resorted to the courts. But this is the same Tambuwal who failed to declare the 37 seats of PDP defectors vacant, in spite of a court decision to that effect. People like Tambuwal who violate the verdict of the courts and show no respect for the courts don’t deserve protection by the courts.

If Tambuwal, as Speaker, can ignore the verdict of the courts; then Jonathan, as President, can equally ignore it. In this dog-eat-dog game that Tambuwal initiated, he deserves no sympathy whatsoever. He will quickly discover that a president has far greater nuisance value than a Speaker. If the president decides to make life difficult for Tambuwal, and I see no reason why not, then Tambwal is in for interesting times before his demotion to Sokoto Governor’s lodge.

He can be thrown out of his government house. He can then take the government to court, but the case might not be decided until June 2015. Tambuwal cannot have his cake and eat it. He cannot manipulate the system and then go to court to challenge others for also manipulating it. He started this nonsense. He deserves the repercussions. He should have done the honorable thing a long time ago. Resign as Speaker; and leave the House of Representatives.

If Tambuwal thinks Buhari and Co will give the presidential ticket of the APC to a former PDP man, he should think again. If he thinks Northerners will elect a North-West Sokoto man as president in 2015, he should think again. If he thinks Yorubas will vote a member of the Sokoto Caliphate as president in the current political environment of Nigeria, then he should dream on.

- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/11/aminu-tambuwal-traitor/#sthash.TwZd2luV.dpuf

This Tambuwal's defection really hit some people hard

Enough said.

Treachery is the word; Let's watch and see how minority will rule over majority in a game of numbers.

Ok

Lesson: pro GEJ articles got Abati and Okupe plum job,why shouldn't the same tactics rehabilitate Aribisala? A desperate job seeker will say anything. Orong Uko.

I tot this femi was a professor? Are people who support jonaTAN infected with being daft and lose all sense of commonsense? Femi has really taken azzlicking to a new height. Which nigerians voted for tambuwal? Tambuwal was voted by people in tambuwal federal constituency in sokoto state. He became speaker of the federal republic of nigeria not that of the PDP by popular choice of all elected reps.

He was never the choice of speaker of the PDP but became one on the strength of the opposition . PDP never supported him nor did they nominated him. Mulikat Akande was PDPs choice. So where is the betrayal rather he has shown he is a loyal and trustworthy to those who were his benefactor.

PDP just learn what real politiking is. Keeping your tricks to your heart till the last minutes. APC the mourinho of Nigeria's political field. Teaching them how's its done since 2012.

Femi needs to get rehabilitated cos it seems he's going senile.

pendicle:
I tot this femi was a professor? Are people who support jonaTAN infected with being daft and lose all sense of commonsense? Femi has really taken azzlicking to a new height. Which nigerians voted for tambuwal? Tambuwal was voted by people in tambuwal federal constituency in sokoto state. He became speaker of the federal republic of nigeria not that of the PDP.

He was never the choice of speaker on the strength of the opposition . PDP never supported him nor did they nominated him. Mulikat Akande was PDPs choice. So where is the betrayal rather he has shown he is a loyal and trustworthy to those who were his benefactor.

PDP just learn what real politics is. Keeping your tricks to your heart till the last minutes. APC the mourinho of Nigeria's political field. Teaching them how's its done since 2012.

Femi needs to get rehabilitated cow it seems he's going senile.

Please those in Sokoto that voted for Tambuwal are they from Burkina Faso

Aribisila: Eyeing Reuben Abati's job since the extinction of dinosaurs.

Descartes:
Please those in Sokoto that voted for Tambuwal are they from Burkina Faso

Comprehension is clearly a problem Sir. No offence intended please.

Femi Aribisala has written jargons. Am waiting for Femi Fani Kayode to write his own jargons about Tambuwal's defection.

A tale of two foolish Femis.

Descartes:
Please those in Sokoto that voted for Tambuwal are they from Burkina Faso

I didn't know there is a sokoto state in burkina faso.

Sorry no vex are you also named femi?

politricks:
This Tambuwal's defection really hit some people hard

Very hard bro. The sooner they started scuba diving without parachutes, the better for Nigerians!!

ibedun:
Comprehension is clearly a problem Sir. No offence intended please.

You are the one who lacks logic.

pendicle:
I didn't know there is a sokoto state in burkina faso.

Sorry no vex are you also named femi?

It seems you didn't get the reason why I bolded your statement. Now you said "which Nigerians voted for Tambuwal..."?You also said that "...the people of Sokoto voted for him...". Then if the people of Sokoto voted for Tambuwal...and Sokoto is in Nigeria, it means that those that voted for him are also Nigerians. Thanks

Descartes:
It seems you didn't get the reason why I bolded your statement. Now you said "which Nigerians voted for Tambuwal..."?You also said that "...the people of Sokoto voted for him...". Then if the people of Sokoto voted for Tambuwal...and Sokoto is in Nigeria, it means that those that voted for him are also Nigerians. Thanks

It seems you didn't get the sarcasm in my post asking you if you're bearing femi? Cos you asking me if those in sokoto state are from burkina faso shows you're not far from the description I gave femi in the first and last paragraph of my post.

Did tambuwal told you he came into the house to represent Nigeria or his constituency?

Descartespost=27733590:
It seems you didn't get the reason why I bolded your statement. Now you said "which Nigerians voted for Tambuwal..."?You also said that "...the people of Sokoto voted for him...". Then if the people of Sokoto voted for Tambuwal...and Sokoto is in Nigeria, it means that those that voted for him are also Nigerians. Thanks

Femi has just exhibited the traits of his payers. Tribal scentiments! He can speak for himself and his household, not for the yorubas. Yorubas will vote for whoever they think will give them good governance without recourse to ethnicity.

Jesus Christ!,
And this Aribasala guy is supposed to be a journalist?
Please can someone do me a favour and give him some tissue paper to blow his nose and not his brain?
He sound very distraught by the sound of things. If he thinks that this man was a traitor for changing his party affiliation, then he must first look at himself in the mirror and realize that he too is a traitor to his own suppose noble profession.
How can you be a journalist and be this partisan and emotional even more than the politicians themselves over a political issue?
If I were Okupe and Abati, I willbe worried about my job now, as this fella is seriously gunning for it in full throttle.

This Femi Aribisala is really daft

How can Tinubu and Yoruba APC reps who are in the minority decide by votes who becomes SPeaker?

Tinubu and his ACN guys voted Tambuwal, If the PDP caucus in the house really wanted Mulikat Akande, I beieve the overwhelming number of PDP reps would make that hapen in a landslide fashion

Pre 2013 defections PDP outnumbered ACN by at least a ratio 3 to 1

This just proves that to be a Jonathan supporter, you have to be borderline reetardeed and incapable of deep thinking

Pa Eziachi, I hail you, Hows your health and how was your surgery.

Aribisala is becoming a nuisance

Everyone is attacking speaker for house rep.

Why not check inward and find out what led to decamping

temitopeadeyemo:
Femi has just exhibited the traits of his payers. Tribal scentiments! He can speak for himself and his household, not for the yorubas. Yorubas will vote for whoever they think will give them good governance without recourse to ethnicity.

you are a bigggg bigot.
so good governance is fayemi buying gold bed of $50 million when he has not paid civil servants?
so good governance is fashola nd tinubu using lastma to kill okada people?
with nigerians like you, we better redefine patriotism.

In as much as i don't buy the idea of defecting, They should just leave the man alone,Is defection a new thing in Nigerian politics?.

The fact is this, the two parties involved are birds of same feathers, I just hope Nigerians can see between the lines.

dunkem21:
Enough said.

Treachery is the word; Let's watch and see how minority will rule over majority in a game of numbers.

The constitution does not say the party the Speaker will come from (minority or majority). But rather it stated that "Majority of the House Members will elect a Speaker"

Femi Aribisala number one critics of APC and its entire members. Anyone that feels that Tambuwal is not more the speaker should approach the law court for the constitution interpretation.

tit:
you are a bigggg bigot.
so good governance is fayemi buying gold bed of $50 million when he has not paid civil servants?
so good governance is fashola nd tinubu using lastma to kill okada people?
with nigerians like you, we better redefine patriotism.

@bolded Fayemi, i disagree with that , i want to believe Fayose is just saying that to ridicule Fayemi. We all know that Fayemi has fault for noting paying salary but on the issue of bed, i take that as big time fallacy. If Fayose cannot probe Fayemi to pay for his attrocities, then i will take everything he said against Fayemi as pure false .
@bolded 2 Lastma, with that school of your thought we can also assume that it was Jonathan that told Nigeria police to be committing evil attrocities, we can also assume that it was Jonathan that gives the order that Nigerians should be scam of their hard earned money courtesy of jamboree immigration scam job.

Hmm... This aribisala guy has said so much in one short piece.
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I most confess.
This has to be among some of the most Explosive, a piece as l've had to read in a while.
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Kudos atlwireles

How I wish Douglas Anele is on Nairaland.

Descartes:
Please those in Sokoto that voted for Tambuwal are they from Burkina Faso

Leave that one alone he is still learning!

egift:
The constitution does not say the party the Speaker will come from (minority or majority). But rather it stated that "Majority of the House Members will elect a Speaker"

One question for you: Will Tambuwal had emerged speaker under APC?

This man has hit Yoruba people very haaaard. Funny enough he is Yoruba too. Through hausa/fulani deception and Tinubu's greed, Yoruba was deceived and robbed of their speaker position. you are first Yoruba before APC but Tinubu's slavery will not allow some ppl think. pathetic

[quote author=atlwireles post=27714427]Nigerians voted for a PDP Speaker, but got an APC wolf in PDP sheep’s clothing.
It is customary to refer to members of the House of Representatives as “honorable.” In which case, the appropriate title for the current Speaker might be the Right Honorable Aminu Tambuwal. But the activities of the Speaker over the last four years, capped by his recent defection to the APC, shows that such a title would be grossly misplaced if applied to him.
There is nothing honorable about Tambuwal pretence for the better part of three years that he is a PDP member, when in actual fact he has been nothing of the sort. There is nothing honorable about the way Tambuwal has despised the Constitution he was sworn to protect. There is nothing honorable about the wayTambuwal has betrayed the trust of the Nigerian electorate, as expressed in the 2011 election. I can find no better or more precise language with which to describe Tambuwal than that he is a traitor.

Tambuwal’s treachery

Tambuwal is a serial defector of dishonorable repute. He defected from the ANPP to the DPP, then to back to the ANPP, then to the PDP and now to the APC. He is a traitor for defecting from the PDP to the APC without first resigning from the House. He is the representative of a constituency in Sokoto comprising a majority of PDP voters. They elected him to represent them as a PDP legislator. He has now betrayed their trust by defecting to the opposition APC. This is nothing short of treachery. His constituents did not elect an APC man to represent them.

Tambuwal has shown that he is not a man of high principles. He is just another 419 politician. Nigeria is operating a democratic system largely borrowed from the United States. The Speaker of the House of Representatives comes from the majority party in the House. That party is the PDP. Tambuwal was elected under the PDP platform. However, he has been operating as an opposition APC man disguised treacherously as a PDP man.

The job of the Speaker is to spearhead the legislative programme of the government in the House. A Speaker who is in cahoots with the opposition is, in effect, a traitor to his party and to the government. That has been the case with Aminu Tambuwal. If Nigerian voters wanted the House of Representatives to have a Speaker who is from a different party from the President, they would have given the opposition a majority in the House of Representatives. They did not. They gave the PDP, the president’s party, the majority. Tambuwal’s shenanigans in the last four years have been designed to frustrate the express will of the Nigerian electorate.

ACN treachery

Aminu Tambuwal became Speaker by aligning himself with the selfish ambitions of Bola Tinubu and his ACN opposition party. Tinubu claims to be a leader of the Yorubas, but when the PDP zoned the position of Speaker to South-West Yorubas, Tinubu decided that the interests of the Yorubas would not serve his personal political ambitions. A Yoruba Speaker would provide another focal point for Yoruba leadership apart from the Asiwaju; therefore the ACN decided to frustrate the candidature of their kith and kin, Mulikat Akande.
To do this successfully, they needed a traitor from the PDP who would go against the directives of his party, while remaining a member of the PDP, and challenge the party’s chosen candidate to become Speaker. They found that traitor in Aminu Tambuwal. Here is how it worked. Tinubu used his political muscle to convince gullible Yoruba legislators to vote against a Yoruba woman, Mulikat Akande, in a post that was specifically designed by the PDP as a benefit for Yorubas. He then got these same “mumu” Yoruba politicians to vote instead for Aminu Tambuwal; a scion of the Sokoto Caliphate with a Hausa/Fulani agenda.

This is something that could never have happened the other way around. It is inconceivable that a Hausa/ Fulani legislator would be persuaded to give something that has been zoned to Hausa/Fulanis to a Yoruba man. To put it bluntly, the Hausas/Fulanis are not that stupid. But what does that tell us about Yoruba politicians? They are slave traders. They have no qualms about selling their own people into slavery. They have no qualms about throwing other Yorubas under the bus.

With the Yoruba politicians gullible enough to agree to be sold, yet again, into Northern slavery, at the treacherous plotting of their self-proclaimed godfather, it was not difficult to find Northerners from the PDP who gladly joined in this treachery to put another Hausa/Fulani into office as Speaker. Aminu Tambuwal was that choice.

False pretences

There are two quick lessons to learn from this. The first is that as Bola Tinubu and the ACN betrayed the Yorubas with the election of Tambuwal of Sokoto as Speaker of the House, so also are they determined to sell Yorubas into slavery again by their current alliance with the North-West and the Sokoto Caliphate through the APC. As there was nothing in Tambuwal’s Speakership for the Yorubas, so will there be nothing for the Yorubas in a North-West APC presidency. Yoruba voters really need to “shine their eyes.”
The other issue has to do with Aminu Tambuwal. Tambuwal became a Speaker under false pretences. Although he continued to parade himself as a member of the PDP, he was in actual fact no longer a member of the party. He shunned the party and became a mouthpiece of the opposition, all the while still pretending that he belonged to the PDP. Clearly, the honorable thing for Tambuwal to do, since he had clearly lost his affection for the PDP, was to resign from the party. However, Right Honorable Aminu Tambuwal did not do this because he is not an honorable man.

Violating the Constitution

Tambuwal’s other disaffected PDP colleagues were more honorable than him. 37 of them defected to the APC. But Tambuwal remained in the PDP in order to retain his job as Speaker. As long as he continued to claim he belonged to the PDP, even though he really no longer liked the party, he could continue to enjoy his rights and privileges as the Speaker. Tambuwal did not care what Nigerians think about his treachery. We voted for a PDP Speaker, but got an APC wolf in PDP sheep’s clothing.

Tambuwal’s treachery also meant he had to violate the Constitution of Nigeria which, as Speaker, he was sworn to protect. Section 68 (g) of the 1999 Constitution says: “A member of the Senate or of the House of Representatives shall vacate his seat in the House of which he is a member if being a person whose election to the House was sponsored by a political party, he becomes a member of another political party before the expiration of the period for which that House was elected; provided that his membership of the latter political party is not as a result of a division in the political party of which he was previously a member or of a merger of two or more political parties or factions by one of which he was previously sponsored.”

This required the Speaker to declare the seats of the 37 PDP House members who defected as vacant. There was no division in the PDP; its members simply defected to another party. But given that Tambuwal was really an APC man in PDP disguise, he refused to fulfil his constitutional duty as Speaker to declare the seats vacant, in spite of the proclamation of the courts. He betrayed his duty as a PDP Speaker to protect the interests of the PDP. He denied the PDP seats that rightfully belonged to the PDP. He violated the will of Nigerian voters who elected the PDP traitors.

Tambuwal’s defection

Tambuwal’s last act of treachery was his outright defection to the APC. He waited for the majority leader of the House to move for adjournment until 3rd December, 2014, before reading his defection letter. Having long manipulated the system to his selfish advantage, Tambuwal has now discovered that others can also manipulate the system to his disadvantage.

The police have been instructed to withdraw his security detail as Speaker, on the grounds that, with his defection, he is no longer a member of the House and thereby no longer the Speaker. In truth, the Speaker of the House of Representatives cannot come from the minority party. Tambuwal has now resorted to the courts. But this is the same Tambuwal who failed to declare the 37 seats of PDP defectors vacant, in spite of a court decision to that effect. People like Tambuwal who violate the verdict of the courts and show no respect for the courts don’t deserve protection by the courts.

If Tambuwal, as Speaker, can ignore the verdict of the courts; then Jonathan, as President, can equally ignore it. In this dog-eat-dog game that Tambuwal initiated, he deserves no sympathy whatsoever. He will quickly discover that a president has far greater nuisance value than a Speaker. If the president decides to make life difficult for Tambuwal, and I see no reason why not, then Tambwal is in for interesting times before his demotion to Sokoto Governor’s lodge.

He can be thrown out of his government house. He can then take the government to court, but the case might not be decided until June 2015. Tambuwal cannot have his cake and eat it. He cannot manipulate the system and then go to court to challenge others for also manipulating it. He started this nonsense. He deserves the repercussions. He should have done the honorable thing a long time ago. Resign as Speaker; and leave the House of Representatives.

If Tambuwal thinks Buhari and Co will give the presidential ticket of the APC to a former PDP man, he should think again. If he thinks Northerners will elect a North-West Sokoto man as president in 2015, he should think again. If he thinks Yorubas will vote a member of the Sokoto Caliphate as president in the current political environment of Nigeria, then he should dream on.
when APC benefits from defection, it's usually seen as 'treachery'; but when PDP benefits from defection, it's seen as a good omen for 'democracy'...Hell was not let lose when Ribadu, Mimiko, Peter Obi and Ikimi defected! PDP..crying wolf since 1472 AD; OPINION: APC is 'more matured' politically than their so-called rivals! Cos in politics, u win some and lose some..

When APC gains from defection, it's usually tagged..'Treachery'; but when PDP gains, it's seen as a good Omen for 'democracy'...how long would the PDP continue to play politics with rancour and bitterness??...IMO, the individuals in PDP are not matured enough in the mind...

dunkem21:
One question for you: Will Tambuwal had emerged speaker under APC?

Yes. PDP party leadership did not want Tambuwal. He became a Speakers because majority of members of the house voted for him. Lawmakers from the Opposition and some PDP lawmakers elected him.

That is the reason from day one, the PDP have always believe he in PDP but his heart was in the Opposition.

FYI, the Legislative Arm of Government has it equality with the Executive and Judiciary - each having their responsibilities cut out for them in the constitution. So it is very wrong for the PDP as a Party to be plotting of Remote-Controlling the House from their Hideouts in the Coven.