Tambuwal’s Defection: Lawyers Accuse IGP Of Partisanship …Peterside Assures On PIB,Kerosene Report

Lagos lawyer, Mr Femi Falana, SAN, yesterday accused the acting Inspector-General of Police, Mr Suleiman Abba of partisanship.
He also stated that it was Jonathan who instigated the IGP to withdraw the security details of the Speaker of the ýHouse of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal.
In a letter to the IGP, Falana said that the police boss, since his appointment by the President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan on July 31, 2014, had been involved in partisan politics to the detriment of law and order in the country.
Also, Human rights lawyer and Executive Director of Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre (PLAC), Mr Clement Nwankwo, has asked the Inspector General of Police, Mr Suleiman Abba, to respect Nigeria’s constitutionally guaranteed principles of separation of powers and avoid enmeshing himself in unprofessional partisan political actions.
Nwankwo said in a statement yesterday in Abuja that it was “bizarre, outrageous and unacceptable for a police officer functioning as part of the executive arm of government to assume the garb of a judicial officer and embark on an unsolicited and ridiculous voyage of pronouncing interpretations to provisions of the Constitution as to declare the seat of an elected member and Speaker of the House of Representatives vacant.”
The defection of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Aminu Tambuwal, from the ruling Peoples Democratic Party to All Progressive Congress, APC, may be a major setback to the passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill and the presentation of the kerosene subsidy report. The subsequent adjournment of sitting of the lower house to December 3 also plays a major role.
The Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Petroleum (Downstream), Mr. Dakuku Peterside, told our source that the kerosene subsidy report had been prepared, and would have been presented this week but for the adjournment.

General Overseer, Omega Power Ministries Worldwide, Apostle Chibuzor Chinyere (middle), with Chief Ifeanyi Uba (right) and Mr Okey Emucha (left), during the 41st birthday cerebration of the OPM’s General Overseer in Port Harcourt, yesterday.