25 November, 2014

Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal

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Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal is currently the Speaker, Federal House of Representatives of Nigeria. He was born on the 10th of January, 1966. That was just five days before the first Nigerian coup. He is a lawyer having studied Law at the Usman Dan Fodio University in Sokoto and called to the Bar in 1992 after having completed the one year additional study period at the Nigerian Law School, Lagos. He has been a member of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Democratic Peoples Party (DPP), ANPP (Second time), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC). In eleven years, the honorable speaker has been a member of four different political parties and a return to one of them at some point. There has been a lot of debate about whether he is still the speaker or not but in Nigerian politics, anything can happen. I will not be surprised to see the Honorable Speaker make a U-turn to the PDP at some point. As things stand right now, the Speaker is in a battle of wits with the Executive and He has picked up a nomination form to contest for the Sokoto state governorship elections instead of the presidential nomination form that he picked earlier. The speaker has been dogged by controversy since he emerged the Speaker in 2011 largely supported by the opposition lawmakers and some disgruntled members of the PDP. Now that the speaker has decided to join the opposition, He has a moral duty to resign so that the party with the majority of members in the House produce the Speaker. In Nigeria, the more you look is the less you see atimes. Tambuwal can still redeem his image and set a good precedence if only He can look beyond his interest. Nigeria is in dire need of men of courage and integrity and sadly Tambuwal who represents a new Nigerian generation is not offering the desired alternative to what is obtainable. A very sure path to sainthood for Honorable Aminu Waziri Tambuwal is to resign and only then can He be a true progressive.