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The Speaker
of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, has defected to the All
Progressives Congress (APC) from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
He said his
defection was because of his political future and the political consideration
of his own state, Sokoto.
Mr Tambuwal
defected to the APC on Tuesday days after a rumour of her defection was denied
by his spokesman, Mr Imam Imam.
After
rumours of his defection was published on different media, Mr Iman denied the
claims in a statement.
The
statement read: “Monday, 20/10/2014, the Chairman of the Board of Trustees
(BoT) of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Tony Anenih, led other
members of the party to a reconciliation meeting in Sokoto but the Speaker of
the House of Representatives and a member of the NEC of the PDP, Rt. Hon Aminu
Waziri Tambuwal CFR, was not invited to the meeting.
“Rt. Hon
Speaker Aminu Waziri Tambuwal was later invited by His Excellency, the
Executive Governor of Sokoto State, Alhaji Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko, to attend
the meeting of their political family to discuss the political future of Sokoto
State.
“The
Speaker, Rt. Hon Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, duly obliged and attended the meeting.
The meeting had in attendance prominent Sokoto citizens, many of who have no
known political affiliation. The most notable being the Sardauna of Sokoto and
former Minister of Finance, Alhaji Abubakar Alhaji.”
He added
that consultations on the Speaker’s political future had continued and that the
outcome would be made public at the appropriate time.
Online media
had been agog with reports about his defection to the APC, quoting him to have
asked the party members present in the meeting to accept him “as one of you,
starting from today”.
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