I Heard all sides and diverse arguments on the matter of Tambuwal and Co versus the IGP / "the codes of acceptable conduct in soceity",I believe we are yet to address the real matters arising,which are

-some members allowed in and seated and others locked out and what was the intention of those seated?

-we all would agree that whatever ruling those seated while other members where locked out would have been ilegal,but we have seen this happen time and again in Nigeria,with those decisions upheld.

with this thread we may be able to identify in our recent political history cases where minority votes in state house of reps where allowed to stand.

So I'll start by quoting the case of Ekiti State this last week,where 7votes out of 25 was upheld as sufficient to impeach their Speaker of the house with the Present Governor already accepting the outcome of this illegal action

2ndly "the September 6, 2010 impeachment of the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly and suspension of 15 members of the House, including the impeached Speaker, by only nine (9) members of the 26-member House

llegal impeachment of Governor Joshua Dariye on November 6, 2006 by a six-member faction of the 24-member Plateau State House of Assembly

I believe there where more of instances like this in various state House of assembly in Nigeria (I hope nairalanders who remember this incidences can please cite this examples) however the point remains this incidence at National Level is not a new affair in our nation,the reps where wise enough to identify that and I believe whatever actions they took in their resolution of that matter was obviously targetted at proctecting the shards of our fragile democracy.

phineas:


I believe there where more of instances like this in various state House of assembly in Nigeria (I hope nairalanders who remember this incidences can please cite this examples) however the point remains this incidence at National Level is not a new affair in our nation, the reps where wise enough to identify that and I believe whatever actions they took in their resolution of that matter was obviously targetted at proctecting the shards of our fragile democracy.

Watching various release of videos on this saga even that which the Nigeria Police Force, one can conclude that the Lawmakers were provoked beyond elastic (a situation that has started with withdrawal of Security details of the Speaker and Not restoring them after the Court order), then bar from entering the NA, on getting pass, the Security agents rush in to close the second gate against the Speaker (because it was open until Tambuwal got passed the first gate), the Speaker Identified himself all the Police were looking him as who his speaking, he asked for their superior Officer, instead of the Superior Officer to attend to him, the Officer was seen leaving the scene even the junior ones were seen leaving before they are called back to monitor the gate (maybe to receive order from his own superior on the next action)...coming back he open not the gate for Tambuwal while some people struggle to go through the walkthrough gate that was opened after the Officer returns immediately they notice that the lawmakers are making ways for Tambuwal to enter first, the walkthrough was locked again.....all efforts to get their the attention of Police were fruitless, and the last option was to claim over the gate.

While some people are calling them APC thugs (it was evidence that both PDP and APC members climbbed the gate). Some PDP members are already seated in the Chamber before Tambuwal arrival which lead to the closure of the second gate. If Tambuwal do not have gain access in the first gate, the second gate would not has be shut. Sometimes will need to put ourselves in other peoples shoes considering the surrounding circumstances before throwing abusive to to them because if it were many of us, we might have done worst that what these lawmakers did.

Above all, the "intent" behind the actions of these lawmakers were to upheld the last court order on Tambuwal case, fight for the independence of the House against Executive and Police, support their recognised Speaker and possibly their party. In absolute term, the Nigeria Police force activities on Thursday in both National Assembly Complex, Abuja and Ekiti is anti-democracy, they suppose to maintained law and order not to ignite conflict and fight. [/b]

Tomorrow will be another test for the Police in Ekiti if the planned resumption of the 18 APC lawmakers and the substantial Speaker Omirin resume on Monday to the State House of Assembly. For those who agitate that the left there state for Lagos should also note that on Monday when the purported seven PDP lawmakers with un-identified three lawmakers sat, the Speaker and the Deputy were not allowed into the Complex (same plan that failled on Tambuwal), the Speaker has publicly declare how the Governor has been mal-treating his office including the purported sealed off his filling station, power cut off, aids and assistants withdrawal, debarring him from entering legislative house, etc they might have sufficient reasons to seek refuge in a safer place when the it is glaring that the Chief Security Officer of the State has decided to to security their life and property only on the ground that they failed to decamp to his party.

The Ekiti State Governor has actually accepted the unconstitutional decision,it is left for the speaker to take the matter to the court of law and knowing how slow the process ussually is, Knowing it will first be addressed at the court of appeal and later the supreme court.

This scenarios are an abuse of the system,one that became rampant only in our recent history (minority votes overthrowing the majority)seeing how it had not been addressed in the past,no group of persons prosecuted for it,led to its appearance again on the national stage ,well planned,well executed,Police gates ,teargass and all...... What they did not count on/for was the determination of the "other lawmakers" not to allow this evil go unchallenged immediately this time.