Speaker, House of Representatives, Hon Aminu Tambuwal has reacted to the withdrawal of his security guards on the directives of the acting inspector-general of police, Suleiman Abba, saying he did not breach any law.
In a statement issued by his special adviser on Media and Public Affairs, Malam Imam Imam, the speaker noted that not only is the IGP’s action a contempt of court, but a deliberate attempt to cause him bodily harm.
In the said statement, the force said that, by his defection from the PDP to the APC, the speaker was in breach of Section 68(1)(g) of the 1999 Constitution and was consequently no longer entitled to police security, a position the party faulted.
“The implication of the inspector general’s statement is that as sanction for this alleged constitutional breach, he has removed Hon Aminu Waziri Tambuwal from office of the speaker House of Representatives,” he said.
“As the number four citizen in the hierarchy of protocol in the country, the speaker is entitled to security protection by the security agencies; therefore, we see the action of the acting inspector general of police as not only contempt of the courts but a ploy to bring harm to the person of Hon Tambuwal,”
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