SPEAKER AMINU TAMBUWALS DEFECTION FROM PDP TO APC. MATTERS ARISING: Section 50 (1)b of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) says: there shall be a Speaker and a Deputy speaker of the House of Representatives, who shall be elected from the members of that House, from among themselves. REMOVAL OF A SPEAKER Section 50(2) The Speaker of the House of Reps. shall vacate his office (a) if he ceases to be a member of the House of Reps. (b) when the House of which he was a member first sits after any desolution of that House; or (c) if he is removed from office by a resolution of the House of Reps., as the case may be, by votes of not less than two-thirds majority of the members of that House. Having read through the entire 1999 constitution, I didnt not see any clause that says the political party with the highest number of members in the House must produce the Speaker. I expected the PDP to take this development in good faith and move on but I was surprised to hear the National Secretary of PDP, Olise Metu asking the Speaker to resign his position as the Speaker of the House. The question I asked myself was... RESIGN FOR WHAT??? Has he forgotten that what is good for the goose is good for the gander? Where was Olisa Metu when former Gov. Peter Obi decamped from the party (APGA) he was governor for 8 years to the PDP? Where was he when a sitting Governor Olusegun Mimiko decamped from Labour Party to PDP? Where was he when the Speaker of Ondo State House of Assembly decamped from LP to PDP? Now Speaker Aminu Waziri Tambuwal decamped from PDP to APC and he is being asked to resign honourably The PDP as it is today do not have the required two- third majority to unseat the Speaker so in the interest of peace and way forward, they should accept the defection in good faith and move on, as any attempt to remove the Speaker of the House of Representatives by any unconstitutional means will be firmly resisted by the Nigerian people.
Posted on: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 19:42:29 +0000
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