Aminu TambuwalSpeaker of the Nigeria House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal has successfully been playing a political game that shows him out as neither in the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on which platform he rose to his position nor in the opposition All Progressive Congress (APC). That is at best. And at worse, he has been presenting a picture of being in the two major political parties at the same time.
These all add up to symbolise the popular magical postulation of ‘the more you look the less you understand.’
While he has been dinning and winning with the leadership of APC, Speaker Tambual has insisted consistently that he is still a member of PDP. This is even when it is clear that he hardly attends PDP public functions lately.
One is actually at a loss as to where to place this kind of political game: is it a case of testing the waters in APC before he takes a final plunge into it or is he afraid that if he announces his defection to APC now, he could be removed from the position of speaker or even as a member of House of Representatives through some kind of subterfuge? Or is it just a wise political calculation?
Not to worry, very soon, the fog will clear and everybody’s position, like the position of President Goodluck Jonathan concerning his running for the 2015 Presidential election, will be in the public domain.
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