NLC urges restoration of Tambuwal’s security details
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Sunday called for the immediate restoration of security aides and all rights and privileges accruing to the Speaker of the House of Representatives Aminu tambuwal, saying “nothing should happen” to him. The police and other security agencies withdrew officials guarding Tambuwal last week following his defection to the All […]
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Sunday called for the immediate restoration of security aides and all rights and privileges accruing to the Speaker of the House of Representatives Aminu tambuwal, saying “nothing should happen” to him.
The police and other security agencies withdrew officials guarding Tambuwal last week following his defection to the All Progressive Congress (APC) from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) saying he ceases to be speaker, following his defection.
A statement signed by NLC’s General Secretary Comrade Peter Ozo-Eson described the action as “shameful, distasteful, unconstitutional and demonstrates our parochial sense of power and very little knowledge of history.”
The statement said “no part of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria says the Speaker of the House of Representatives should come from the majority party. Section 50(1)(b) only says, ” There shall be …a Speaker and a Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, who shall be elected by the members of that House from among themselves…”
“In the Second Republic, the Honourable Speaker of the House of Representatives Chief Edwin Ume-Ezeoke was elected from the ranks of NPP, not just an opposition party but the third strong , after UPN and NPN. We have other precedents across the world.
“We find it appropriate to cite the examples of Mimiko and Ali Modu-Sheriff, governor of Ondo State and former governor of Borno State respectively. Their security details were not withdrawn when they decamped to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
“It gives us concern that our political leaders are determined to learn very little about democracy and always seem too keen to overheat the polity over things that count for little.”.