All
the security details attached to the Speaker of the House of
Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, have been withdrawn by the Federal
Government of Nigeria.
The Chairman of the House Committee on Media, Zachary Mohamed, confirmed this on Thursday.
A
press release issued by the Police Force Public Relations Officer, Mr
Emmanuel Ojukwu, cited the recent defection by Aminu Tambuwal from the
PDP to the APC as reason.
Part of the statement
read, “…having regard to the clear provision of section 68(1)(g) of the
1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended, the
Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has redeployed its personnel attached to his
office.”
Sources said that at about midnight on Thursday, top
level security report informed the Speaker that “orders have been given
for the withdrawal of his security details”.
As the number four
citizen of the country in the hierarchy of protocol, the Speaker is
entitled to a round-the-clock security made up of men from the Police,
Civil Defence Corps and the Department of State Security (DSS).
The
withdrawal of the Speaker, Aminu Tambuwal’s security details comes less
than 24 hours after he was formally presented as a member of the All
Progressives Congress, APC, during the party’s extraordinary national
convention held in Abuja, the nation’s capital on Wednesday, October 29.
This was following the Speaker’s announcement of his decision
to leave the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP, for the opposition
on the floor of the House on Tuesday.
A statement by the police
spokesperson, Emmanuel Ojukwu, said Mr. Tambuwal was stripped of state
protection because he decamped from the ruling Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP.
The statement reads: “In view of the recent defection by
the Right Honourable Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, CFR, the Speaker of the
House of Representatives of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, from the
People Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressive Congress (APC), and
having regard to the clear provision of section 68(1)(g) of the 1999
Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended, the Nigeria
Police Force (NPF) has redeployed its personnel attached to his office.
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