Following Thursday’s siege on the National Assembly by security agents, Lagos lawyer, Festus Keyamo, has alleged that there was a plot to impeach the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, and replace him with his deputy, Emeka Ihedioha, by PDP legislators last Thursday.
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Anyway keyamo do talk his own, I just pity for Nigeria my country when lawmakers be like

HOR members did no wrong. The game plan was to impeach Tambuwal.

Cajetanspeaks:
HOR members did no wrong. The game plan was to impeach Tambuwal.

They have no moral status to impeach the humble speaker. PDP has committed many unlawful acts in this country. They invaded APC office because of corrupt PDP in power.

FULL TEXT OF WHAT KEYAMO SAID:


Following Thursday’s siege on the National Assembly by security agents, Lagos lawyer, Festus Keyamo, has alleged that there was a plot to impeach the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, and replace him with his deputy, Emeka Ihedioha, by PDP legislators last Thursday.

The House of Representative members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Speaker, Aminu Tambuwal, who recently defected to the APC, were prevented from entering the National Assembly complex by the Nigerian police last week.

Mr. Keyamo who stated this in a press statement issued said ‎the plot was “unusual in our kind of democratic environment‎”.

“Let us not forget too that there was a real plot (not unusual in our kind of democratic environment) to allow only a handful of PDP legislators into the chambers to “impeach” the Speaker and install the Deputy Speaker as “Speaker”.

“The other lawmakers had no option but to do all that was legal and necessary to stop that illegality which included scaling that fence,” Mr. Keyamo stated.

“It would have been total cowardice on the part of the affected lawmakers for them to fold their arms and do nothing about the situation,” he continued.

He disagreed with those who criticise the lawmakers who scaled the gate of the assembly complex, saying they “are actuated by misinformation, partisan politics, and lack of knowledge of the law or plain bias. I completely disagree with those condemnations”.

‎He said the police action was illegal as there was no court document or legislative order backing their action and the Police should have invited the leadership of the National Assembly to a meeting ‎if they truly had information that thugs would invade the National Assembly

“The Police in this case, engaged in pure illegality by barricading the gates of the National Assembly, even if they did so on the orders of the Inspector-General of Police. The orders of the I.G.P do not
amount to law and he is not a demigod to decide who enters any premises or not,” Mr. Keyamo wrote.

Mr. Keyamo who said he was proud of the “gate-jumping” legislators urged the House of Representatives members to jump more gates to save Nigeria’s democracy.

‎‎”They should keep jumping and jumping and jumping over gates, fences, walls and huddles if that will save our democracy. That is the only way to go,” he said.

Keyamo has just said it the way it is. Many people have derided the reps for jumping over the fence without looking at the bottom line of what really made them to put up such an act.

I agree with keyamo's thought on this. I think the end has justified the means. Imagine what we will be talking about now if the lawmakers were passive and have allowed the speaker to be impeached. I give this one to them.

yeah
why you go lock me out of my office when you never sack me

yeah
why you go lock me out of my office when you never sack me.

The IGP can not just lock the gates of the national assembly without a court order. ..him dey mad ni....

if thiefs are coming to my house ..will the police just come and lock the gate without informing me the owner. ..them dey mad. ..

Security threat or not...

That was d game plan. I guess it was planned for Ekiti and Abuja at the same time but Abuja failed while Ekiti was successful

Impunity in collaboration with IGP

Of course some actions are embarrassingly necessary. The gate-scaling actions of the APC lawmakers was most expedient at the time to checkmate the impending PDP illegality of locking the speaker and APC lawmakers out and conducting a scam impeachment.

Judging by the kind of democracy we practice in Nigeria, if the APC lawmakers did not jump those gates, the speaker would have been impeached in absentia and Tambuwal would have been asked to seek redress in court (by Nigerian standards we all know what that means).

Keyamo is deluded

No wonder Tompolo wanna beat him up

Is Festus Keyamo not a card carrying APC man?

holatin:
yeah
why you go lock me out of my office when you never sack me

This little statement means so much

ayukdaboss:

This little statement means so much

God bless you man

I can support this view because it came from the law's angle.

Otherwise i would have been thinking they came to save the 'FAT' salary and allowee.

They are the reasons 9ja is retarded.

They are the reasons the youths are jobless.

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mikeansy:
Is Festus Keyamo not a card carrying APC man?

does that stop him from saying the truth which your party pdp been the father of lies (asaTAN) has vowed never to condone or say?