The simple fact is that the man has left the PDP. He said it, I did not say it. He said, ‘I am leaving PDP to APC,’ so I would expect that since he has left PDP for APC he should resign his seat which he got from the PDP.
He should resign as a member of the House of Representatives. That is the effect of crossing parties. If he resigns as a member of the House of Representatives, certainly he is no longer the Speaker. This is simple. That is why we are not moving forward in Nigeria. We tell lies to ourselves. Truth is overturned and I cannot stand it.
Another issue is if he does not go, how is he to be removed? If he does not go and he can show that he left the PDP because there is a division, then he is entitled to remain. But when he made that announcement on his Speaker’s throne, he only referred to the development in his state. He said, ‘Due to the development in my state.’
The constitution only allows division within a party. It is for Tambuwal to show that he is remaining in office as the Speaker because there is a division in PDP. He never showed it. As far as I am concerned, it is history; he should leave office. We are making a mountain out of a mole hill.
The constitution says clearly that if you leave your party, you resign. Has he resigned? Has he said he is not resigning because there is a division in PDP? Let Tambuwal tell us that he resigned because there is a division. If he had said, ‘I leave PDP because there is a division,’ that is a different thing. He did not say so. He used the word, ‘development.’ I watched it very carefully.
It is for him to prove that he left the PDP because of division. It is not too late. He can say, ‘Sorry, I can see that my statement was not fully clarified. I now clarify that I have left the PDP as a result of a division,’ and we can say, ‘Oh maybe that is true after all.’ But he has not said so. If the truth is that there is a division, then let him say so.
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