Plot against Tambuwal: PDP Reps give conditions to Jonathan

Amid reports that PDP is desirous of reconvening a session of the House of Reps to commence the process of removing Speaker Aminu Tambuwal, federal lawmakers elected on the platform of the party have given stringent conditions to Presient Goodluck Jonathan before they would do so.

But the thrust of the conditions, the minimum of which is the promise of return tickets for them in 2015, might be rejected by both the leadership of the PDP and President Jonathan

It would be recalled that Tambuwal dumped the PDP for the APC last week and immediately adjourned the House till December 3, 2014.

Since the speaker’s defection to the APC, reports have been rife that the Presidency and PDP, which had both asked for Tambuwal to step aside as speaker, was mulling a plot to unseat him.

Tambuwal is already in court to forestall any such move by the PDP.

According to LEADERSHIP, Monday's meeting between PDP national chairman and the lawmakers would centre on the conditions the latter had stipulated in order for them to move for Tambuwal’s scalp.

Apart from the issue of automatic tickets for their 2015 return, other commitments the lawmakers want the PDP leadership to make include a promise to assist those of them who are aspiring to be senators as well as those who have indicated their interest to be governors in their states.

It was gathered that at a preliminary meeting between the PDP caucus in the House and PDP leaders with President Jonathan in attendance, deputy speaker Emeka Ihedioha had an altercation with the Akwa Ibom State governor Godswill Akpabio who had accused PDP members in the House of Reps of playing the second fiddle by allowing the opposition to have a field day.

Ihedioha fired back at Governor Akpabio, reminding him that as chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum, he and his colleagues had done nothing to motivate PDP lawmakers, unlike their APC counterparts.

The meeting is likely to run into more troubled waters as the PDP lawmakers are not smiling.

Tambuwal meets APC Reps caucus in Lagos today
But barring any last minute change of plan, Tambuwal will hold a high-level scheduled meeting with the APC caucus of the House of Reps in Lagos on Monday.

The meeting is expected to deliberate on the next course of action to stave off any and every possible threats to Tambuwal following his defection.