A former Vice President and presidential candidate on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Atiku Abubakar has described the todays fracas at the National Assembly as highly uncivilized. There was commotion at the National Assembly on Thursday as a plot to stop the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Aminu Tambuwal, from entering the assembly complex failed.Although the general belief was that the security operatives were deployed in the assembly to prevent Tambuwal from presiding over Thursday’s “special plenary,” Angered by the police action, many APC lawmakers in the speaker’s company became agitated and demanded explanations from the police.
Realising it would be a Herculean task, they resorted to scaling the gate to the main complex. Among those who scaled the gate were the Minority Leader, Femi Gbajabiamila; the Deputy Minority Leader, Abdulrahman Kawu; the Chairman, House Committee on Public. Accounts, Solomon Olamilekan ; the Deputy Chairman, House Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Victor Ogene; Bimbo Daramola and Babatunde Adejare.
When the policemen realised that locking the gate yielded no results, they started throwing tear gas canisters at the lawmakers, including Tambuwal.
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