Tambuwal: Legal expert urges NASS to tread cautiously

As controversies continue in the National Assembly over the defection of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal to the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the subsequent withdrawal of his security aides by the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), an Owerri, Imo State-based legal practitioner, Uche Dureke, has cautioned the National Assembly and warned that defection should not be done in such a manner as to expose the nation’s political system to international ridicule, contempt and disdain.

Speaking exclusively to Daily Independent, the legal luminary observed with regret that when elections are imminent, some politicians occupying elective offices desert the parties that brought them to power for other parties to obtain the tickets to realise their ambitions.

Dureke described such politicians as being anti-party primaries, who are afraid of their shadows, because of their failure to live up to the expectations of the people.

He said that Tambuwal quit the PDP because of local politics, to run for the governorship election of his state.

Source: dailyindependent