Police May Arrest Tambuwal

According to a new report on Punch, the police may arrest the Speaker
 of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, over Thursday’s
 crisis at the National Assembly in Abuja. Sources told Saturday PUNCH 
on Friday in Abuja that the Inspector- General of Police, Mr. Suleiman Abba,
 had ordered that the Speaker should be “invited” over the crisis.

The Department of State Services was said to have given a similar order asking 
that the Speaker
should be invited by any of its commands. This was sequel to information that 
Tambuwal was sighted in Sokoto State on Thursday evening where had gone to 
pick the All Progressives Congress governorship expression of interest and 
nomination forms for the 2015 governorship election.

But the Force Public Relations Officer, Emmanuel Ojukwu, said, the IGP 
had yet to give an “express order” for the Speaker’s arrest. Ojukwu said the 
officers investigating the crisis would determine those to be arrested for prosecution.

A source at the police headquarters confided in one of Punch's correspondents that
 the signal from the IGP’s office specifically directed the Federal Capital Territory 
and Sokoto State commissioners of police to invite Tambuwal and that if he resists,
 he should be arrested.

“The involvement of Sokoto State Commissioner of Police is likely because

the Speaker was in Sokoto yesterday to pick the APC’s governorship

form to contest the 2015 election,” the source said.

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