Tambuwal files suit to forestall impeachment

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, on Friday filed a suit before a Federal High in Abuja asking the court to restrain the Federal Government and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from impeaching him as Speaker of the lower chamber of the National Assembly.

The Speaker, who visited the Federal High Court, Abuja, with his aides, loyalists and lawyers, also asked the court to order that his security detail be restored.

In the suit filed through his counsel, Jibrin Okutepa, SAN, Tambuwal cited the PDP, its chairman, Adamu Muazu, the House of Representatives, the Deputy Speaker, the Inspector-General of Police, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Attorney-General of the Federation as the first to seventh defendants.

He stated that he was not appointed Speaker of the House of Representatives on the basis of his membership of the PDP and that he did not have to be a member of the party to hold on to the office.

Also, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has warned the Federal Government to desist from illegality by way of inducing members of the House of Representatives to sign a paper seeking to reconvene the House ahead of the December 3 adjourned date

“We have heard from the grapevine that the Federal Government is inducing legislators, with a view to reconvening the House, but this will amount to piling illegality upon illegality, since only a resolution by all principal officers of the House can reconvene the House,” the APC said in a statement issued by its national publicity secretary, Lai Mohammed, in Abuja on Friday.

The party said despotism, arbitrariness and impunity are the mark of the President Goodluck Jonathan administration, and it has desecrated most national institutions, including the judiciary, and has now put the legislature in its cross hairs.

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