Aminu Tambuwal
As a fallout from yesterday’s All Progressives Congress, APC’s governorship primary election in Sokoto State that threw up Hon. Aminu Tambuwal as the party’s candidate in the 2015 general elections, Police authorities are set to reinstate his security details, weeks after it was withdrawn in the wake of his defection from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to APC, Sahara reporters, quoting a Police source reports.
According to the report, a source at the Nigeria Police headquarters in Abuja disclosed that the police will hinge its decision on the emergence of Tambuwal as the governorship candidate of APC in the forthcoming general elections.
Tambuwal defeated four other contestants to emerge Sokoto APC governorship flag bearer yesterday and will now slug it out with candidates from other political parties next February at the general elections.
“We still believe the Speaker is not entitled to security based on his decision to defect. The constitution is very clear on that, and we are defending our position well in court.
“However, since Tambuwal is now a candidate of a major political party in Sokoto, convention requires that the Police protect him. The Federal Government takes the security of leading candidates very seriously and as such we will restore security to Tambuwal and at the same time provide same for all the leading candidates in all states of the Federation.
“If the Police feel at any given time that the security of candidates is under threat, we are bound by law to come in and provide security. If you recall really well, the governorship candidate of the then ruling ANPP was murdered in Borno State close to the election, since then we reviewed our internal security arrangements and decided to notch security around candidates a bit higher,” the source stated.
On the number of security details to be attached to Tambuwal, the source said it is only the Police High Command that can determine that.
Reports indicate that the Federal Government has directed all security agencies to ensure zero casualties especially of candidates for the forthcoming elections. The directive is said to be boosted by recent success of government troops in their fight against the insurgency in the North-Eastern part of the country.
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