Reports reaching Daily Trust indicate that all the security details
attached to Speaker of the House of Representatives Aminu Waziri
Tambuwal have been withdrawn by the Federal Government.
Tambuwal
formally announced his defection from the ruling Peoples’ Democratic
Party (PDP) to the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) last
Tuesday.
A
source told daily Trust: “Early this morning, few minutes after
midnight to be precise, top level security report informed the Speaker
that orders have been given for the withdrawal of his security details.”
The
withdrawal of his security details may not be unconnected with his
defection from the PDP which didn’t go down well with the party and the
presidency.
The PDP had on Tuesday called on Mr. Tambuwal to
resign his position as Speaker having left the party that brought him to
the House of Representatives in 2011.
Tambuwal received a warm
welcome on Wednesday, a day after his formal defection at the
extraordinary national convention of the APC in Abuja when he showed up
at the convention ground accompanied by 160 of his APC colleagues.
He
later addressed the convention expressing his delight in joining the
APC and said he has embraced the APC platform as an instrument for
genuine change and enduring national development.
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).
Our
source said Tambuwal was told that “a verdict will be entered against
him by a Court in Abuja on Thursday. The thing here is that why not wait
for the verdict before any action is taken? ”
Efforts to reach the
Speaker have so far proved unsuccessful. Calls and SMS sent to his
spokesman Malam Imam Imam, have so far remained unanswered.
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