Nigeria: Pro-Tukur Lawmakers Move Against Speaker Tambuwal Over Handling of Baraje-Led PDP Faction's Visit

18 September 2013

House of Representatives members backing Bamanga Tukur as the Peoples Democratic Party chairman, rose against House speaker, Aminu Tambuwal, Wednesday, over his handling of Tuesday's crisis-ridden visit of the party's factional leaders to the House, accusing him of deliberately aiding the violent drama.

The lawmakers said Mr Tambuwal's handling of the visit gave vent to the turmoil that saw members exchange blows, and accused him of jettisoning the senate's option of receiving the visitors, which would have given him greater control of a House already charged by the crisis in the ruling party.

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