Flashback: What Buhari Told Tambuwal After Dumping PDP In 2014
The saying that “what goes around comes around” may best describe the ordeals befalling the All Progressives Congress (APC) as more and more of its chieftains have continued to drift away from the ruling party.
The massive defection of National Assembly members from the APC to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and other smaller opposition parties had set the tone for other politicians who may no longer consider their political future in the APC to dump the ruling party.
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Only 24 hours after the defection of over 48 Senatorors and House of Representatives members from the APC, Governor Samuel Ortom announced his exit from the ruling party to the PDP.
Just yesterday, Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara State hinted on his plans to dump the APC. Also expected to join the train of APC defectors this week is the former House of Reps Speaker and current Sokoto State Governor, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal.
In the wake of these unfolding events, THE WHISTLER has called back the remarks of President Muhammadu Buhari when Tambuwal defected from the PDP to the APC in 2014 despite threats at the time to Impeach him as Speaker.
Tambuwal had also announced the adjournment of legislature from October 29 till December 3, 2014.
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Reacting to the move, President Buhari had said: “We will like to thank Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal for what he did yesterday. We were overwhelmed,” adding that “and it was only yesterday I admit that I ask what profession is he and I was told he was a lawyer, I say no wonder.”
The President, who was an aspirant at the time, added that “Taking such a remarkable risk and sending everybody on holidays till December is an achievement. By now we will be sounding like a broken record about the objective of the APC. Our intention God willing is to secure this country and to efficiently mend it. So God help us.”
Meanwhile, after announcing the defection of 14 senators from the APC to the PDP on Tuesday, Senate President Dr Bukola Saraki similarly announced that the upper legislative chamber will be embarking on a two-month annual recess, apparently to douse off the tension that trailed the decision of the lawmakers to leave the ruling party.
