Speaker Aminu Tambuwal’s defection from PD to APC has set off a new wave of political intrigues as the ruling party is already kicking.After a meeting with the party’s leaders in the House of Representatives following the defection, PDP has urged the Speaker to do the “needful”:interpreted to mean, Tambuwal is being urged to resign from his post as Speaker.
“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”Olisa Metuh,PDP spokesman said in a statement today.
PDP’s statement signed by Metuh s said in full :“The National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has met with PDP leaders in the House of Representatives concerning the defection of the Speaker, His Excellency, Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal to the APC.
“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.
