What manner of love: Tambuwal declares to Jonathan, “I am Your Property”

The caucus of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is supposed to be a bland collective of elderly folks brimming with political wisdom, gathering to trash out such issues as the harmonisation of the relationship between the executive and the legislative arms of government and the coordination of their activities and those of the party. But at the meeting on

Tuesday, there was a bit of a mild drama.

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu

Tambuwal has been conspicuously out of the public eye at major federal government-organised events, whereas he has been showing up rather frequently at those organised by the opposition.

So, when President Goodluck Jonathan holding the hand of Tambuwal, asked the Speaker quizzically where he had been all along, Tambuwal laughingly answered: “I am your property Mr. President. I am not hiding.”

Tambuwal had been absent from a meeting the president had with the leadership of the National Assembly and the Secretary to Government of the Federation (SGF), Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, earlier on Tuesday.

In his defence, deputy Senate President, Ike Ekwerenmadu, had rationalised the absence of his boss, David Mark, Tambuwal and other principal officers of the National Assembly by saying that the evening meeting was ‘impromptu.’

In his words, “We have contacted all of them and they are all coming back.”

“You know we are on break and some have travelled. But because of the consultation going on, some are on their way back. The Speaker is on his way back to Abuja, the Senate President ought to have travelled to China, he is also on his way back. He has changed his plans to come back. The Senate Leader is also on his way back from Calabar, the House Leader is also on her way back.”

That should convince Mr. President. No?

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