Tambuwal Wants Court To Jail Police Boss

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The Speaker of the House of Representatives in Nigeria, Mr  Aminu Tambuwal, has asked a Federal High Court in Abuja to remand the Inspector General of Police, Mr Suleiman Abba, for disobeying the order of the court which directed that status quo be maintained pending the determination of a suit filed by the Speaker.

Mr Tambuwal stated this at the resumed hearing of the suit he and his new party All Progressives Congress, APC had filed against the Federal Government and six others on Friday October 31 over attempt to declare his seat vacant and withdrawal of his security aides following his defection from the People’s Democratic Party, PDP.

In his ruling, Justice Ahmed Mohammed directed Mr Tambuwal to put the Inspector General of Police on notice to appear before the court to show why the Speaker’s application should not be granted.

Lawyer to the Speaker, Mr Latter Fagbemi complained that the police boss had refused to maintain the status quo as directed by the court and prevented the Speaker to have access to the National  Assembly on the 20th of November .

Mr Fagbemi also complained that the Inspector General, while appearing before the House committee on Police Affairs on November 26th refused to recognize Mr Tambuwal as the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

In his short ruling, Justice Mohammed said the court hinged its ruling on ground that the Inspector General is already a party in the subsisting suit.

Meanwhile in the subsisting suit, the Chairmen of Nembe and Tambuwal Local Government Councils in Sokoto State have brought an application for joinder as co-defendants in the suit.

Also, three members of the Sokoto State House of Assembly, brought application to be joined as co-defendants.

Mr Tambuwal defected to the APC on October 28 from the PDP on which platform he became Speaker in 2011.