(Photo:Tambuwal-In the eye of the storm)
The Peoples Democratic Party,PDP may have devised a new way of keeping its serving lawmakers under its control as it announced a special committee to screen serving members who wish to re-contest election.House of Reps members whose Speaker Aminu Tambuwal has defected to opposition All Progressives Congress,APC are believed to be the main targets of this latest move.
A statement by Olisa Metuh said “Owing the scheduled resumption of the House of Representatives on Thursday, November 20, 2014, the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has set up a Special Committee to screen all serving members of the National Assembly aspiring to re-contest in the 2015 National Assembly election in Abuja on Thursday, November 20th in the afternoon and Friday, November 21, 2014.
“All such members of the National Assembly are by this advised to appear before the special screening panel at the National Secretariat of the party in Abuja with their relevant documents for the screening on the above-mentioned dates.
The statement was issued after Speaker of the House of Representatives ,Tambuwal announced his directive for the House to reconvene on Thursday.
PDP’s announcement of this special committee could be interpreted to a means to get reps to do the party’s bidding it its well-known plot to oust Tambuwal.It was not clear whether there were other motives behind this move by the party at the time of writing this story.
