abula112:
if u ask me..I'll say obasanjo@work...baba dn secretly port to apc....now he is paralysing pdp by decamping its major power to apc...pdp dn lose 2015 for sure.

thatposter1:

Yet, Boko Haram has been playing/joking with him since time immemorial. I'm not "pro-any party". I just hate BS

sucrev:
mr man datz how d game rolls and is being played tambuwal is off d track he himself knows*u can't eat ur cake and ve it*

leviizu:
both are political offices and should have the same application, whether tambuwal was voted because he was from pdp or not is of no consequences...stop being sentimental

abes:


All you stated above is not in the constitution.

Cubeet2:
What are you insinuating?
Does Lagos have any resources? Lagos is only booming cos its a business/commercial centre.
Answer me and dont lie, which tribe is holding the pillars of business in Lagos?

Demdem:


Then do the right thing by impeaching him if he refuses to resign.

chukwudi44:


Bros is Tambuwal still ba member of the HOR? That is the fundamental question u should try and answer

Chaino:
Impeaching someone who is not even a honorable member? Why are u just being daft?

hugoart:
Naira is in freefall to N174 to $1 today.
And we're the biggest economy in Africa.


Price of crude oil is in freefall at $75.
And this government is still borrowing.

Boko Haram is increasingly emboldened, capturing Nigerian territories.
And there has been a state of emergency since a year with billions spent/wasted.


Electricity is still at a low 3,000MW today.
And Jonadum lies about transformation.


Police is still killing people without challenge.
And government keeps lying.


Our federal roads are eyesores.
And Jonathan lies about transformation.



Our agriculture is still comatose.
And pdp has been in government since 1999.



Our military is being disgraced by a ragtag group under jonathan.
And jonathan spends billions in dollars.


Where's is jonathan's achievement?

Whitehorse:


Thank you sir for that.

Yes, in that respect, Tambuwal should/would not preside over such a session right? He can not be judge and jury over his own case.

If Tambuwal was an honest man, with integrity, he would have tabled his defection at the begin of discussing in the HOR, stepped aside to allow his deputy to head that session and let the house decide, but he was not honest, lacked integrity and was selfish, like all the politicians we have in Nigeria...

This is the result of his duplicity and PDP determination not to be used and dumped.

ichidodo:
Tambuwal should have been shot dead for having the effontery to dare GEJ even with members of his entourage trying to destroy public property.I blame the spineless police detachment deployed to secure order who should have shown more balls and tact in dealing with them Janjaweeed lawmakers,I blame the deputy speaker who has, fortunately for my principal Ararume, just killed off his imo ambitions with this brazen display of disloyalty and cowardice,I blame the PDP members in the house for not using this opportunity to reclaim the seat of the speakership for their party....#GEJ till 2019.

jamesandrew:




I keep seeing this comparison with Mimiko. Get this straight: Mimiko is a governor and Tambuwal is a member of the House of Reps, these are different positions! The Constitution provides specifically that a member of the House of Reps loses his seat if he becomes a member of another political party. (Section 68(g) of the 1999 Constitution).This section is crystal clear. Stop calling Mimiko who is a governor. The section does not apply to governors!

Dannyset:


Let me join u in making dis clear. If u are intelligently educated, practically schooled, and u know ur Geography well, u will know that the physical location of Lagos makes it so resourceful that all other resources(even the human resources) want to dwell in it. And that's also more reason why the Businesses will never leave Lagos. Pls I don't mean no harm.

2kris:
u are the only one who have been pouring insult through out these thread,is these the only way to make ur point clear by abusing tribes,truelly maturity is how u handle pressure ....but wait ohh what if jonathan wins 2015 general election hhmmm i gues u will stop existing.for peace sake and for every ones sake including.......millions of nigerians are reading ur comment apc and pdp i guess the know who to vote because am not voting anybody

Whitehorse:
Since folks have been too lazy to dig up stuff for themselves, here is the part of the Constitution of the FRN that pertains to the Tambuwal scenario

Chapter V
The Legislature
Part I

National Assembly

68. (1) 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 -
(a) he becomes a member of another legislative house.

(b) any other circumstances arise that, if he were not a member of the Senate or the House of Representatives, would cause him to be disqualified for election as a member;

(c) he ceases to be a citizen of Nigeria;

(d) he becomes President, Vice-President, Governor, Deputy Governor or a Minister of the Government of the Federation or a Commissioner of the Government of a State or a Special Adviser.

(e) save as otherwise prescribed by this Constitution, he becomes a member of a commission or other body established by this Constitution or by any other law.

(f) without just cause he is absent from meetings of the House of which he is a member for a period amounting in the aggregate to more than one-third of the total number of days during which the House meets in any one year;

(g) 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; or

(h) the President of the Senate or, as the case may be, the Speaker of the House of Representatives receives a certificate under the hand of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission stating that the provisions of section 69 of this Constitution have been complied with in respect of the recall of that member.

Now, the question is "Is PDP divided?" Remember that in the nPDP vs PDP scenario, a previous court ruling had ruled that PDP was not divided.

Tambuwal's best bet would been to allow the court explicitly state his case (even though its clear from above) AND not try to preside over the HOR. He pushed his luck too far...

For those that are interested below is the url for Constitution of the FRN

http://www.nigeria-law.org/ConstitutionOfTheFederalRepublicOfNigeria.htm#QualificationForMembershipOfNatAss

Whitehorse:


So, you would want Tambuwal to preside over a HOR discussion about his defection if he had tabled it at the beginning? Its very clear in law that you can not be Judge and Jury at the same time. Conflict of interest. It's really very simple..

Demdem:


Surely, only Jonathan has powers to move troops. He is behind this.

Chaino:
Stupiid military men, what stop you guys from shooting that gworo chewing bast.ard called tambuwal. Am highly disappointed that none of those abokkii bastard was shot. !diots

joker5180:
NATURALLY

Whitehorse:


So, you would want Tambuwal to preside over a HOR discussion about his defection if he had tabled it at the beginning? Its very clear in law that you can not be Judge and Jury at the same time. Conflict of interest. It's really very simple..

Curlieweed:


What can I say to these words of "wisdom"? If you don't have tertiary education (I guess that's probably what you mean by "higher institution", you're an "ignorant simpleton". Pray, what percentage of Nigerian voters have a tertiary education? Even Bin Buhari doesn't have a tertiary education.

While I actually find it interesting that our janjawid friends shall resort to alienating the vast majority of would be voters with careless statements like these, I will leave you with some quotes.

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

-Saskya Pandita

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Francis Bacon

obinoral1179:
you are sick to the bone marrow. Just because we gave power to the son of jonathan u are asking him to shoot the number four citizen of our country? You are really mad and u are insane for spitting this trash. Nonsense of the highest order.

GeneralBK:


Yes tambuwal should be dead.

Next time dont joke or play with c in c

vedaxcool:


Empty words, desist from quoting me any further, It is clear you want to argue over what you have little knowledge of!

The facts of the matter, Court stated unequivocally, Maintain the Status quo, if you cannot understand what that fact means and that they are well established ways of removing people from the national assembly, removing the speaker, declaring seats vacant then you are here spitting arrant nonsense!

Schematics:
This is a right move.

Is he still the speaker of the House? NO

He got Speaker's post because PDP was and is still the majority in the House. Now that he has pitched his tent with APC which has minority in the House, the right thing to do is to relinquish his position immediately he decamped.

I don't know why some people want to create unnecessary attention.

You can't eat your 'gworo kola' and have it back!

Schematics:
The position of governor is not the same as Speaker. The office of Speaker is naturally for the majority in the House, and in this case the PDP is the majority and not the other way round!

Put yourself together and reason properly..

Demdem:


Ibofool, let's even assume ur summation is sensible. the police didn't stop this former APGA ibo members ooo for months and now that it's Tambuwal’s turn, within weeks they want to stop him.
Is it because he is an abooki? Is it because it's against the killer party?
Can't u see that u, police, Jonathan ur god are all hypocrites

shurlermoz:
Mimiko decamped to PDP we didn't hear any noise about that, now Tambuwal decamped to APC hell is being let loosed.
Even if you say he is no longer the speaker, at least he is still a legislator.....or is it that he has been suspended all together by the police?

we should be reasonable in our arguments.