Resign Now – PDP To Aminu Tambuwal

Following the defection of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mallam Aminu Tambuwal, to the All Progressives Congress on Tuesday, the national leadership has called on him to resign.

According to Tambuwal, following certain developments in the Sokoto State chapter of the PDP suggested that he could no longer continue to be a PDP member;

“Based on the provision of the 1999 Constitution, and having regard to the development of the PDP in my own state, Sokoto, I hereby announce my membership of the APC.
“Let me register my profound appreciation to all of you my colleagues for the unflinching support you have continued to extend to me for the overall national interest and development of our democracy…May Almighty God continue to guide us all.”

The PDP currently has less than 200 members, and according to the provision of the constitution under Section50(2)(c), for a presiding officer of the National Assembly to be impeached, then a two-third of the members approve it, and that means 240 members out of the 360 members.
Professor of law, Itse Sagay has said, the PDP, has no power to impeach Tambuwal, as long as he defected when his party had division problem;

“The constitution allows you to defect from the party under which you were elected to another one if there is division amongst members of that party, and clearly there was division in the PDP. You will recall that during the PDP congress, a second group was formed and they went into another hall and declared their own leadership in another hall; clearly this is a continuation of that division. So I don’t see the basis on which anyone can impeach him.”

Whereas the PDP National working committee, has come to a conclusion that Tambuwal should do what honourable of him, that is to resign, against the precept of the law – what’s your take???