Aminu Tambuwal Steps Down As Speaker House Of Reps.

Aminu Tambuwal, speaker of the House of representatives and Sokoto state Governor-elect has reportedly vacated his seat.PUNCH reports that Tambuwal handed over the leadership of the legislature to his Deputy, Mr. Emeka Ihedioha, who will round off the tenure of the House on June 5.


Explaining why he had to bow out early, Tambuwal said, ''My stay here in the House would have effectively come to a end on May 29 after I would have been inaugurated as governor. We have to avoid any possible issues on this, since the constitution is silent on what happens when a sitting speaker has to move to another office''.
''At our executive session, a member came up with an ingenious way of dealing with the matter on hand, which members accepted. He came up with the idea that the portion of the House rules in question should be suspended to enable the deputy speaker to continue to preside over the House instead of electing a new speaker,” Tambiwal added. www.fabmimi.com