Tambuwal reacts to the withdrawal of his security details, says it’s unconstitutionalBy Olawale Kadir on October 31, 2014 @ 7:10 am@todayngr The speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, on Thursday told the acting Inspector General of Police, Sulaiman Abba that he breached the law by ordering that his security details be withdrawn from his residence following his defection from the PDP to APC. In a statement issued by his media aide Imam Imam, Tambuwal said the withdrawal is unconstitutional and was shocked by the statement issued by the Police Headquarters justifying the withdrawal of Police Security Personnel attached to him as Speaker of the House. It would be recalled that the police in a statement on Thursday said following Tambuwal’s defection from the PDP to the APC, the Hon Speaker is in breach of Section 68(1)(g) of the 1999 Constitution and is consequently no longer entitled to police security. The statement from Tambuwal’s media aide reads: “The implication of the Inspector General of Police’s statement is that as sanction for this alleged constitutional breach, he has removed Rt Hon Aminu Waziri Tambuwal from office of Speaker House of Representatives. For the avoidance of doubt the question of whether or not there is a division or faction in the PDP has been resolved by Lord Justice Faji of the Ilorin Division of Federal High Court in suit FHC/ABJ/CS/605/2013 in which the court held that indeed there were factions in the PDP. Again in suit no FHC/ABJ/CS/ 605/2013, the Sokoto Division of the Federal High Court per Justice Aikawa, the judgment of the court was that there was not only Division but faction in the PDP which later merged with the APC. As the number four citizen in the hierarchy
Posted on: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 07:34:44 +0000
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