The National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressive Congress (APC) Mr Lai Mohammed has said that APC lawmakers should scale the fence again if the police ever repeats the action of stopping them from entering the National Assembly Complex. 'If the police repeats this again, I will encourage them to do exactly the same', he said.
The National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Mr Lai Mohammed has said that APC lawmakers should scale the fence again if the police ever repeats the action of stopping them from entering the National Assembly Complex. Mr. Mohammed said this on national television.
“If the police repeats this again, I will encourage them to do exactly the same”, he said. "...(the lawmakers) outsmarted the police, the PDP and the Presidency, whose game plan was to get the Speaker impeached”.
He said, that the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal put “national interest over that of his personal security” and reconvened the House at the request of President Jonathan to extend the State of Emergerncy in Adamawa, Yobe and Borno States, knowing that “the President and his party want to impeach him.
He defended the action of the lawmakers, maintaining that the act of the lawmakers has “preserved democracy, otherwise what we would have been facing now will be a situation where either the Speaker would have been impeached by now or there will be chaos all over the country”.
Speaking on the reason the police gave for stopping entrance into the Complex, he said, “I did not see any motley crowd neither did I see thugs from the footage”, arguing that the SSS had no reason at all to do such. He said “those policemen who caused the mayhem at the National Assembly that day by preventing the Principal person in the House access into the House” should be charged for treason.