In reaction to Tuesday’s defection of the Speaker of the
House of Representatives from the People’s Democratic Party, PDP to the All
Progressive Party, APC, the leadership of the ruling party has urged Aminu
Tambuwal to step down as the leader of the lower house.
Members of the National Working Committee of the party
had met with PDP leaders in the House concerning the defection.
Speaking on the defection, the National Publicity Secretary
of the party, Chief Olisa Metuh, said to journalists in Abuja that the party
wants the Speaker to resign his position.
“After a thorough consideration of the matter, the NWC came
to a conclusion that the Hon. Speaker, as a responsible elected officer, knows
full well what is needful and honourable of him since his new party is in the
minority.
“We are not unmindful of the fact that Hon. Tambuwal became
Speaker on the platform of the PDP as the political party with the majority of
seats in the House of Representatives and that this incontrovertible fact has
not changed.”
It was later gathered that the ruling party might be pushing
for his impeachment if he refused to resign.
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