Speaker of the House of
Representatives, Honourable Aminu Tambuwal, on yesterday, attended a
stakeholders’ meeting of Sokoto State chapter of the All Progressives Congress
(APC), and allegedly told those that attended the meeting that he should be
seen “As one of you, starting from today.”
Speculations have been making the
rounds that his presence at the meeting in his home state was expected to pave
way for his eventual defection from Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to APC. However
his media aide, Imam Imam, said Tambuwal attended the meeting of the Sokoto
political family to “Discuss the political future of Sokoto State, on the
invitation of the state governor, Alhaji Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko.”
Imam also said the meeting had in
attendance many prominent Sokoto indigenes who had no known political
affiliation, the most notable being the Sardauna of Sokoto and former Minister
of Finance, Alhaji Abubakar Alhaji.
He also disclosed that the
chairman of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP),
Chief Tony Anenih, led other members of the party on a reconciliation meeting
to Sokoto, but the speaker and member of the National Executive Council (NEC)
of PDP, Tambuwal, was not invited. Imam continued, “Consultations on the
Speaker’s political future continues and the outcome will be made public at the
appropriate time.”
APC National Publicity Secretary,
Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said, “I am also just reading the story and would respond
appropriately during the week.” The PDP leadership was locked in a meeting well
into the night yesterday, presumably discussing the speaker’s rumoured
defection.
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