The Speaker of the House of
Representatives, Mr. Aminu Tambuwal, has said he cannot stop members of
the Peoples Democratic Party in the House from defecting to other
political parties.
Tambuwal spoke in Abuja through the deputy spokesperson for the House, Mr. Victor Ogene, at the 11th Annual Trust Dialogue with the theme, ‘Incumbency and impunity in politics-safeguarding our democracy beyond 2015′.
The Managing Director of Trust, Mallam Kabiru Yusuf, said the dialogue was not to heat up the polity, but to add to its quality.
A former President of the Civil Liberties Organisation, Ms. Ayo
Obe; a former Chairman of the Transition Monitoring group, Festus Okoye,
and a Senior Fellow at Centre for Democracy, Dr. Jibrin Ibrahim, at the
event, expressed fears about the level of impunity in the country ahead
of the 2015 general elections.
Ogene, who represented Tambuwal at the event, said faulting the
Speaker for reading the letter by members, who defected from the PDP to
the All Progressives Congress, was an “encouragement of impunity”, was
inappropriate.
He said, “All of us know that no fewer than four governors had
defected from their political parties and issues were not made out of
it. If some members, representing different federal constituencies
decide to defect, I don’t think it is right for anybody to expect Mr.
Speaker not to read the correspondence that comes to his table.
“He is first and foremost an embodiment and expression of the will of all members of the House.”
Ogene also faulted the letter written by the Minister of Finance
and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, in
response to the 50 questions given to her by the House.
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