The ruling party asked the Speaker to resign since his new party is a minority in the House. It was gathered that the National Working Committee of PDP had met with its members in the House at an emergency session shortly after today’s sitting of the lower chamber.
“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”, Olisah Metuh, National Publicity secretary of PDP said in a statement issued after the meeting.
“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,” PDP NWC concluded in the statement.
Supporters of the Tambuwal had ahead of his defection argued that the Constitution did not stipulate that the Speaker of the House must be elected from the majority party.
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