APC Knocks Tambuwal: As Speaker You Did Nothing To Change Nigeria

A former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal has received knocks from the Lagos All Progressives Congress, APC over his recent remark to the effect that Nigeria needs urgent “salvation” from its current challenges.

Tambuwal had while speaking during his 60^th birthday celebrations in Abuja noted that the country is in a perilous situation, that something is “ fundamentally wrong” in the manner the Bola Ahmed Tinubu ruling APC is running the country.

Reacting, in a statement, the Lagos APC spokesman Seye Oladejo accused the former Speaker of suffering from political “amnesia” if he failed to remember that he was part of the leaders who led the country to where it’s currently stands.

According to him, Tambuwal’s outrage is unnecessarily because when he was in power he failed to do something to correct the problem, adding that the challenges facing the country did not start with Tinubu.

Oladejo urged the former Speaker to behave like a statesman instead of grandstanding about the situation in the country, which he and others inadvertently foisted on the country.

‘’We consider this intervention a classic case of misplaced moral outrage by a principal actor who, when entrusted with responsibility, failed to deploy the very “salvation” he now theatrically advertises,” he said.

Adding, ‘’At moments like this, statesmanship demands introspection and restitution-not grandstanding. Nigerians remember the years when Tambuwal occupied strategic positions in government and the dividends of leadership expected at those times. Sadly, rather than offering a candid reckoning with his record or apologising for missed opportunities, he has chosen to sermonise from a pedestal of selective amnesia.

‘’More instructively, his recent 60th birthday colloquial presented a rare lifeline to truly confess, seek forgiveness and embrace restitution from a nation that gave him so much but received next to nothing in return. It was an auspicious occasion that should have lent itself to sober reflection and an honest recap of stewardship. Instead, that opportunity was cleverly sidestepped. Tales of sainthood ring hollow when public service records and recent legal tussles over graft remain unresolved footnotes that were conspicuously omitted.’’

Tambuwal served as the Speaker of the House of Representatives under the APC before he left the party before the 2023 elections.