AMINU TAMBUWAL'S DEFECTION: PDP REACTS

Aminu Tambuwal, said today during plenary as he defected: “Based on the provision of the 1999 Constitution, and having regards to the development of PDP in my own state, Sokoto State, I hereby announce my membership with the All Progressives Congress. This brings years of speculations to an end.

 However, the PDP response seemed normal, according to  Olisa Metuh, the PDP spokesman in a short statement said that the party’s National Working Committee met with PDP leaders in the House of Representatives following Tambuwal’s defection.

“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,” the statement said.