Only God, Reps can unseat me –Tambuwal

Speaker of the House of Repre­sentatives, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, yes­terday said only God and the members of the House could unseat him.

According to him, there was no way the ruling Peo­ples Democratic Party, PDP, could remove him from of­fice. This is even as General Mohammed Buhari (Rtd), declared that with free and fair election, the All Progres­sives Congress, APC, would record a landslide victory in the forth-coming election.

They both spoke at the North-West Zonal Execu­tive Committee meeting of the party, held in Kaduna, yesterday. Expectedly, the Speaker, who was attending the APC’s zonal meeting for the first time, since his defec­tion, came to Kaduna with­out his security aides.

Speaking to newsmen shortly after the meeting, which was held behind closed doors, Tambuwal de­clared that the PDP could not remove him as Speaker.

He said the majority of the members of the House were behind him and that people could go and verify his claim, urging Nigerians to discard the wrong information being circulated around by agents of distraction regarding his person.

On his court case, Tambu­wal said his counsel, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), had ex­plained everything when he said the status quo referred to the period before his security details were withdrawn and any attempt to alter the court order, would amount to con­tempt.

“Yes, I am here for the first time to attend the zonal meeting of the North-West of APC, my political party. As for my fate in the National Assembly and Speaker of House of Representative, it is in the hands of God and members of the House,” Tambuwwal said.

But he however declined to comment on his rumoured interest in the Sokoto State governorship race.

Among those who attend­ed the closed door meeting were: General Muhammadu Buhari, Deputy Governor of Kano State, Alhaji Abdullahi Ganduje, and APC National Vice Chairman (North- West), Barrister Inuwa Ab­dulkadir, among others.

Also speaking at the party meeting, APC presidential aspirant, General Muham­madu Buhari said the party would record a landslide vic­tory in the 2015 general elec­tions, if the polls were free and fair.