Tambuwal's Security Details Withdrawn

All the security details attached to the Speaker of the House of
Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, have been withdrawn by the Federal
Government of Nigeria.

The Chairman of the House Committee on Media, Zachary Mohamed,
confirmed this on Thursday.

A press release issued by the Police Force Public Relations Officer,
Mr Emmanuel Ojukwu, cited the recent defection by Aminu Tambuwal from
the PDP to the APC as reason.

Part of the statement read, "...having regard to the clear provision of
section 68(1)(g) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria as amended, the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has redeployed its
personnel attached to his office."

Sources said that at about midnight on Thursday, top level security
report informed the Speaker that "orders have been given for the
withdrawal of his security details".

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).

The withdrawal of the Speaker, Aminu Tambuwal's security details comes
less than 24 hours after he was formally presented as a member of the
All Progressives Congress, APC, during the party's extraordinary
national convention held in Abuja, the nation's capital on Wednesday,
October 29.

This was following the Speaker's announcementof his decision to leave
the ruling People's Democratic Party, PDP, for the opposition on the
floor of the House on Tuesday.

Tambuwal told the party members that he embraced the APC platform
because he saw it as a veritable instrument for genuine change and
enduring national development, adding that " APC represents the hope
for the change" which Nigerians have been clamouring for.
--Channels